CMS Version 5.2.4 Release Notes

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Please take a few moments to review the important notes below if you are new to version 5.2.4

To download 5.2.4 now click HERE

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Introduction

Welcome to CMS version 5.2.4. This update includes includes the 2010 shipping rate changes for USPS, UPS and FedEx, all of which are effective Jan 4, 2010.

READ BEFORE INSTALLING 5.2.4
Important points to note before installing to ensure you are prepared to transition to the new version.

Installing - During the installation of version 5.2.4 you will be asked to enter your 5.0 release code. Release codes from previous 5.x versions will still work. You can access your 5.x release code by logging into the Support Downloads section of our web site. Just enter your customer number and zip code to log in.

Important : If you are updating from 4.x, you will need to install the upgrade on the server and the workstations. If you are already on version 5.x, only a server update is required.

When to Install - The shipping rates in CMS will be updated when you install the 5.2.4 update. As such, you should time the installation of your update to coincide with when you want the new rates to be available.

It should be noted that having the current rates in CMS does not impact your ability to ship properly with any of the CMS shipping integrations. In every case, the software that prints the shipping label (e.g. Worldship, Ship Manager, HarveySoft, ShipRush, etc.) determines the proper rate for the shipment and thus how you are billed.

Having the current rates in CMS is often more of a reference. Its greatest impact, though, is in situations where the shipping and handling charge you charge to your customer is based on the carrier's actual rate (instead of a spending table or other formulas.) If this is how you charge your customers for shipping and handling you will want to make sure you have this update installed so you have the proper rates.

Release notes from previous versions can be accessed by clicking HERE. If you are upgrading from a version earlier than 5.2.3 please take the time to review the release notes from previous releases for important and valuable information.

Integrations - All of our supported integrations will continue to work in 5.2.4 as they have previously. This includes Endicia new version of DaZzle 10.1. Be aware that UPS has started to make a beta version of their new Worldship software available to some companies. We have not received a copy of this yet so cannot comment on its compatibility with CMS. If you've been contacted by UPS and would like to participate in the beta, please contact us so we can test it for you before you deploy.


READ BEFORE USING 5.0
Important changes to existing features in CMS that may affect your day to day use of CMS.

This minor release contains no new features beyond what was included in the 5.2.3 release. As such there is no need for pre-install testing or training on new features.

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CMS Version 5.2.4 New Features List:

  1. USPS 2010 rates
  2. UPS 2010 rates
  3. FedEx 2010 rates
  4. Bug Fixes

5.2.4 ENHANCEMENT DETAILS

  1. USPS 2010 rates - USPS has updated rates for Priority Mail including flat rates, and Express Mail. They have also renamed Priority Mail Flat Rate Box to Priority Mail Medium Flat Rate Box. These new rates and this name change are included in this update.

    You can read more about the USPS rate change on their site: http://pe.usps.com/PriceChange/Notice123_jan_2010.pdf


    USPS also announced additional new services and rates for companies shipping in excess of 250,000 parcels via USPS a year, what they refer to as Commercial Plus. We believe this precludes the majority of our users thus we have not added these options to this release. If you qualify for Commercial Plus and are interested in using the related services, please let us know.

  2. UPS 2010 rates - As they have in previous years, UPS has updated all of their rates and surcharges. All supported UPS services and related rates have been updated in CMS.

    CMS also now support the two tier system UPS has in place for surcharges that apply to addresses in remote areas.

    More of the UPS rate update can be read on their site: http://www.ups.com/rates/

  3. FedEx 2010 rates - As they have in previous years, FedEx has updated all of their rates and surcharges. All supported FedEx services and related rates have been updated in CMS.

    CMS also now support the two tier system UPS has in place for surcharges that apply to addresses in remote areas.

    You can read more about the FedEx rate change on their site: http://www.fedex.com/us/services/pdf/Service_Guide_2010.pdf

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    LIST OF FIXED BUGS (versions 5.2.2.108 through 5.2.4.140) – If you've reported a bug or asked for a software change and we provided you with a case number, this number refers to the case number in our Request Tracker (RT) software. RT is the software we use internally to manage our bugs and enhancement requests and replaces our previous solution called TaskTracker. In the list of changes below, you'll often see a number following it and that is the RT number for more current issues or TaskTracker/TT number for older issues:

    5.2.4.140

    Jan 2010 Shipping Rates Update

    5.2.3.139

    Order Entry : editing an order with some fulfilled, some back ordered, when using spending table, if edit made that would
    cause an invoice update (notes, for example), the shipping formulas would look at total of back ordered items as (order qty x price) instead of (sent qty x price),
    resulting in the -1 getting the entire amount of shipping calculation, and subsequent back order fulfillments getting zero. 20454

    5.2.3.138

    Wizard Importer : error 'function sequence error' and failure to import dates > 1/1/09. 19484

    5.2.3.137

    Order Entry : Returns : Exactor values wrong, potentially the result of uninitialized variables. 19292

    Fulfillment : Import Orders : AIM : International Exceptions failed when internal country code (CMS) was one that had zero-padding ('001' = Canada). 19051

    5.2.3.136

    Customer Todos : users experiencing long delays when adding/editing todos. 19150

    5.2.3.135

    Order Entry : Exactor now using Alt ID for tax exemption ID.

    Order Entry : item level proportional values (shipping, service, etc) are now properly updated when editing an order.

    Customer : Maillist : Email : error "Field FILT_CT not found" when trying to send a merge letter. 18850

    5.2.3.134

    Order Entry : Returns : Exactor tax on order was not getting updated.

    5.2.3.133

    Fulfillment : Fulfillment Manager : FS options now mirror BO options. 17977

    Fulfillment : Fulfillment Manager : BO support for Partial Orders, the check for partials only worked if there was zero in stock, as opposed to there being too little in stock.

    Shipping : Shiprush : Resubmit now sets proper staging status.

    Shipping : Shiprush : Void handling improved.

    Fulfillment : Fulfillment Manager : Printing rule for 'Omit Declines' is now recognized in BO/FS lists. 17132

    Order Entry : support for Exactor.

    5.2.3.132

    Order Entry : Tax category on one-time items is now retained across oe sessions. 17602

    5.2.3.131

    Order Entry : Returns : support for Adjustment Reversals added. 12500

    Order Entry : Continuity, non-PGP items, if fulfilling at time of continuity creation, were not being properly allocated. 17962

    5.2.3.130

    Shipping : Shiprush, added support for seperate address validation server. 17457

    Shipping : Shiprush EOD, status messages have been restored to show counts, duplicates. 17457

    Fulfillment : Staging : Shiprush processing, now halts if communications error (or other hard error) is encountered.

    Shipping : correction of Endicia package type information for Express Mail Flat Rate, First Class Flat, First Class Envelope, Priority, Mail Flat Rate Small Box. 17828

    Fulfillment : Fulfillment Manager : FS/BO paid with credit card were finding the first card used, not the last, when fulfilling. 17902

    Printing : Crystal Forms were not recognizing the "# of Copies to Print" setting. 17331

    5.2.3.129

    Fulfillment : Fulfillment Manager : error "qryBOOrders: Cannot perform this operation..." 17936

    5.2.3.128

    Printing : regressive issue with task 'Package - Invoice Number with Package ID #' in that non-invoice usage was causing error "Invalid Typecast". 17888

    5.2.3.127

    General : changes made to attempt handling rollback issue.

    5.2.2.126

    Solo Install Issue

    5.2.2.125

    USPS May 2009 Update

    5.2.2.124

    Order Entry : using the Continuity Wizard, if products were setup with Per-product shipping charges, those charges were not recognized by any shipping formula. 17594

    5.2.2.123

    Order Entry : when manually adding a PGP to an order with a fulfill date in the future, the PGP's components received a fulfillment date equal to the earliest fulfill date on the order. 17503

    Order Entry : when changing the default fulfillment date on the order, the line item fulfillment date would not change if waiting for new item input, so the new item would get the wrong fulfillment date. 17550

    5.2.2.122

    Order Entry : Product Group 'headers' were getting placed into a box even if they were set as Non-Shipping. 17505

    Order Entry : S/H charges on -1 were being calculated w/o regard to whether packages were virtual or not. 17500

    5.2.2.121

    Order Entry : Product Groups were not being added to the order properly when using the Continuity Wizard. 17350

    5.2.2.120

    Reports : updated Product Sales By Volume,includes Start/End dates.

    Fulfillment : Fulfillment Manager : FS/BO fulfillments governed by 'Per Package' shipping formulas were not calculating proper shipping charges. 17119

    Reports : "Physical Inventory" report updated to show 'allocated'. 17065

    Orders : Payments : Apply Payments : message "Although the customer was identified, a match to the Invoice could not be found within the list of open invoices." is incorrectly raised when retrieving Open invoices by customer#. 17050

    Reports : "Customer Duplicate Check" report updated to better determine which address line is primary. Also added customer frequency and spending amounts. 17040

    Setup : eCMS : Options : Global Options, Download Interval was not saving. 16960

    Order Entry : when using the size/color grid for quantity entry, if a BO and a non-BO were entered at the same time, and the BO item has a higher position in the list, then the resulting package would contain both the BO and non-BO items. 16951

    Fulfillment : Staged Fulfillment : Shiprush EOD screen, added "Packages To Print" tab.

    Fulfillment : Fulfillment Manager : The checkboxes used to allow/disallow line item fulfillment are being ignored when user unchecks to disallow. 17197

    Purchasing : when refreshing list of PO's in main Purchasing screen, if sorted by Vendor Sku, produced error messages 17142

    Order Entry : Credit Card processing, when processing POS Module orders w/o a Retail account defined, the system was not defaulting to the MOTO account. 16961

    Fulfillment : Import Orders : Auto Import filter for International orders now looks at XML element 'CountryName', instead of just 'CountryID' (ISO code). 16578

    Order Entry : POS Module orders now use the 'Invoice Printer' setting in Setup : Order Entry : POS Module. 15688

    5.2.2.119

    Fulfillment : Fulfillment Manager : fulfilling BO's was failing to properly decrement inventory. 17071

    Printing : InvoiceTemplate.rpt updated (packing slip,shipping summary,address info). 16442

    5.2.2.118

    Setup : Inventory : Product Tax Categories : added 'Tax Configuration Report'.

    Reports : Sales : added 'Taxable Sales' report.

    Customers : Maillist : Merge/Purge : notes from both customers are now being saved. 12031

    Orders : Apply Payments : payments would get 'unapplied' and generate customer credit under certain circumstances. 15951

    Order Entry : editing an existing order, if editing from Items screen to the point of affecting financials (deleting an item, for example), and then saving directly from the Items screen, the invoice data did not get updated. 16073

    Reports : Staging Components report updated. 16511

    Yahoo : YahooCMS.xsl updated, now contains GiftWrapMessage->GiftNote mapping. 15777

    5.2.2.117

    Order Entry : when setting an existing, taxed order as tax exempt, the Order Summary did not reflect the change. 16585

    Printing : Print task 'Package - Invoice number with package ID' now prints first shippable package, ignoring virtual packages. 16195

    5.2.2.116

    Order Entry : Adding a payment to an order with a multi-distributed payment caused a negative balance. 16393

    Order Entry : Unit price now being handled properly past 2 decimal places, was causing rounding issue which caused split order/invoice columns on money screen. 15995

    5.2.2.115

    Fulfillment : Verify Imports : check for unhandled authorizations made it difficult to close an import verification without saving it. 16192

    Order Entry : Default Price Category was not being triggered. 15698

    Order Entry : Shipping/Billing address compare to Mailing during save now ignores email. 16085

    5.2.2.114

    Shipping : Shiprush processing was not properly requesting email notifications. 16112

    5.2.2.113

    Setup : Fulfillment : Package Weights config was not being properly recognized. 16004

    Order Entry : 'Changeback' amount was not getting reset for subsequent orders. 16244

    5.2.2.112

    Shipping : Best Shipping rule implemented.

    Order Entry : Salesperson combo now shows matching text. 15829

    Shipping : UPS/Fedex views updated for COD amounts. 15855

    Order Entry : Returns : CC masking now working in Returns and Customer Credit/Refunds.

    5.2.2.111

    Orders : Apply Payments : when using Invoice Search, now properly tracks to invoice (if exists), otherwise tracks to first available invoice from order (if exists). 15339

    Fulfillment : Fulfillment Manager : Verify Imports : imported payment amount does not get applied properly to partially fulfillable -1. 15767

    Shipping : missing ship rate data for Parcel Select zones 6-8. 15958

    5.2.2.110

    Order Entry : problems when changing price-triggering Ad Code on existing orders, invoice level re-calculations were not immediate, caused invoice column to display on Money screen even though no delayed items exist. 15722

    Order Entry : price changes to an item only hold when using the 'Enter' key...using the Tab key would allow the prices to get overwritten. 15427

    Fulfillment : Import Orders : Prices on imported orders now considered 'edited' or 'frozen' by default. 15578

    Orders : Payments : Payment Maintenance : credit card masking now active in Payment Problems section. 15601

    Order Entry : Returns : returning a variable kit header item now returns the components as well. 15575

    5.2.2.109

    Order Entry : edits to item customization do not get saved. 15468

    Order Entry : Gift Notes, new warning when trying to set gift note on all recipients. 15195

    Shipping : now filling the 'ToCountry' xml element for Endicia integration. 14926

    Order Entry : deleting a variable kit header item does not remove the components. 15560

    5.2.2.108

    2009 USPS shipping rates added including new method for Priority Mail Small Flat Rate Box. Corresponding support for Endicia integration also added.

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