Argos Vault Release Notes V5.138.15

Argos Vault Release Notes V5.138.15

Argos Vault Release Notes V5.138.15

Release Completion Date: 12 July 2021                          

Please disregard the release notes for the modules you do not use.

Unless otherwise indicated, more detail about any change will be included in the relevant dialog [Help] button.  Other documents referred to in the release notes can be found in the ArgosApps\Documents folder once the software is installed. 

These release notes document changes which have been made to the stated software version only. You should review all previous release notes for changes between your current version and this one. Previous release notes can be found on the Argos Knowledge Base.

Accounts

AD-I164
The finance calculator report has been updated to include the payment frequency.
AD-I570
The Direct Debit Report dialog has been enhanced to include an option to export information for Funder Reporting. When selecting this option your can only export the Direct Debit data. New information displaying is the Net Amount, GST Amount, Fees Incl GST and Ineligibles. This does not affect the running of the report for non Bailment users.
Bailment
AD-I53
An issue has been corrected on a Bailment Account, when editing you can no longer remove the Security Make and Description. These are mandatory fields, if removed an error will display
AD-I430
When a VIN/HIN or Engine Number is altered on a Bailment Asset a new Trust Receipt is created and stored in the Documents Tab on the Bailment Account.
AD-I448
Help document has been linked to the Create Overdue Letters Process
AD-I431
An issue where a PPFC was not created correctly when two bailment accounts were created at the same time has been resolved
AD-I436
Default Interest was not being calculated on a Bailment account after the termination date if a Default Interest Profile (non zero rate) was applied.  This has been fixed.  Post Asset Sale Fee is accrued from the date of Termination to the date the default interest profile is applied.  Default Interest is then accrued from the date of application of the default interest profile to today's date (or asset paid date) whichever is earlier.
AD-I475
Inactive Bailment Dealers are now no longer displaying on the Distributor Website.
 AD-I488
 An issue resulting in invoices remaining on the Invoices Due Report and Cash Allocation dialog following termination reversal has been resolved. 
AD-I502
Performance of the Invoices Due Report has been enhanced to increase speed and reduce memory usage. 
AD-I506
Permanent Limit Expiry functionality has been corrected.  An expiry date may now be entered and the Permanent Limit still edited up until the date of expiry.  Once the expiry date has passed the Permanent Limit will be set to zero, and the facility may become over utilised.  Once expired, the Permanent Limit may not be edited.  If a Permanent Limit is to be expired at any time up to an expiry date (even if there is no expiry date, the [Revoke Limit] functionality should be used.
AD-I572
The Bailment Credit Facility Report now includes additional information for Funder Reporting. New information displaying is the Last Audit Date, Audit Cycle, Next Audit Date, Next Auditor, Dealer Group, Extended Sales and Notes.
AD-I571
The Bailment Account Browse Export Report (individual or selected accounts) now includes additional information for Funder Reporting. New information displaying is the New Net Amount, Distributor Interest Rate, Dealer Interest Rate, Delinquent Reason and the Dealer Group.
AD-I529
Performance enhancements to the web API with a flow-on effect on Web Portal performance
AD-I573
A new check box has been added to the Credit Facility Report dialog - Distributor Credit.  If checked on the only report option available is to export the report.   

Detail exported is limited to:
  1. Bailment Dealer Code
  2. Bailment Dealer Description
  3. Bailment Dealer Credit Status Credit Risk Code (same value as per the Notes in section above) 
  4. Credit Limit Type (Permanent or Temporary)
  5. Credit Limit Amount – for each credit limit type for the selected distributor
  6. Credit Limit Utilised – amount of credit utilised for the selected distributor
  7. Available Credit – amount of credit available to be utilised
The following calculation rules are applied when calculating Available Credit:
  1. Where there is a Permanent Limit only the values for Credit Limit Amount, Utilised and Available are taken from the Credit Facility details for the selected distributor.
Where is both a permanent and temporary limit specified:
  1. If the utilised credit is less than the credit limit, the above rule applies.
  2. If the utilised credit is greater than the credit limit, then the ultilised credit against the permanent limit will be the credit limit.  The difference between the permanent limit and utilised credit will be shown as the utilised credit against the temporary limit.  
AD-I593
The Accrued Interest option has been removed from the Credit Facility Report dialog.

Bailment Web

AD-I560
The ability to login as a staff member to Bailment Web has been removed. You must now be set up as an external user on an individual Dealer or Distributor to gain access.
AD-I592
The code for Distributor Web has been optimised to improve the Distributor Web Login Performance.
AD-I582
The code for Bailment Web has been optimised to improve the Bailment Web Login Performance. A Batch Process has also been  implemented to update the cached interest on non closed Bailment Accounts to improve the Bailment Web Login Performance.
AD-I526
An issue resulting in an application crash when a Bailment Dealer terminates assets in the Web Portal has been resolved. 
AD-I525
An issue resulting in the application crashing when the [Logout] button was used from the Direct Debit page in the Dealer Portal has been resolved

Batch Processing

AD-I504
Direct Debit Processing can now be run as a Batch Process. The following process have been converted:
  1. Create Bailment Dealer Direct Debits
  2. Print Direct Debit Report
  3. Post Direct Debits
AD-I513
A configuration issue resulting in Batch Processing crashes has been corrected. If the crash has been occurring, a script will also need to be run to complete the fix.
AD-I582
A new process has been implemented to update the cached interest on non closed Bailment Accounts to improve the Bailment Web Login Performance. This process can be run manually daily or can be set to run prior to business hours via Windows Schedular.

Cashbook

AD-I404
An issue has been corrected in the Cashbook when adding entries to a batch was causing a mismatch in the bank balance held in Vault

Client

AD-I443
The Client Tag Export now includes a lot more account relevant information such as Arrears Days, Next Instalment/Interest Date, Next Payment Amount, Original Loan Amount etc.  Running the export will show all the new columns appended to the end of the previous export format.
AD-I520
The Client Tag Export now includes a Report Run Date. This enables you to re-run the report for a past date to gain accurate information as at that date.  
  1. The export will exclude accounts with an open date entered after the Report Run date. 
  2. The export will exclude accounts with termination date entered before the Report Run date. 
AD-I580
The Client Tag Export now includes columns displaying Category details on the tag that has been created.
AD-I561
An issue resulting in the incorrect splitting of interest for joint investments for IRD filing purposes resolved. 
AD-I601
A new column has been added to the Client Tag Export headed LoanLimit.  The values in this column are the Facility Limit on a Variable Loan Account.

Fixed Loan

AD-I444
The Fixed Cashflow report export has been enhanced to export a number of new columns including Frequency is the Loan Instalment Frequency - Instalment Frequency, Interest Rate, Maturity Date,  Outstanding Balance

Lease

AD-I596
The Lease Earned Interest Report has been modified to include lease accounts which have been terminated during the month and closed in the same month.  Closing the account stopped it from showing on the report and including in the earned interest calculation.
AD-I595
The Lease Earned Interest Report has been modified to exclude accounts that were on extended rental incorrectly showing on the report.

Motor Web API

AD-I600
An issue has been fixed where searching for a Petrol Hybrid vehicle in Motor Web the system was not recognising the fuel type.

Variable Loan

AD-I445
The Variable Cashflow report export has been enhanced to export a number of new columns including Frequency is the Loan Instalment Frequency - Instalment Frequency, Interest Rate, Maturity Date,  Outstanding Balance