What's in Our Newest General Release?

General Usability & Performance

Faster Screen Performance: Screens now load faster and with less flicker, especially in cloud and remote environments. This helps your team move through busy work with fewer pauses.

Extended Session Stability: System performance now holds up better over long sessions, helping reduce the gradual slowdown users can feel over the course of a full day.

High-Resolution Display Support: The interface now handles standard and high-DPI displays more cleanly. Text, controls, and layouts look more consistent on modern monitors.

Training Mode Indicator: Training mode is easier to spot at a glance with a clearer visual cue. This helps users avoid doing test work in the wrong environment.

Tab Navigation: You can now right-click tabbed areas to jump directly to the page you need. This saves time when working through larger screens.

Point of Sale (POS)

New Station Numbering: New POS stations now start from the current highest transaction number instead of resetting to 1. This keeps transaction reporting in step across all stations.

Quick Sale Scanning: Barcode scanning on the Quick Sale touch screen is more reliable. This helps cashiers move faster and reduces missed scans.

Dual Scanner Support: You can now use two serial barcode scanners on one station, such as a flatbed and a handheld. This gives counter staff more flexibility at checkout.

Smarter Barcode Priority: Barcode scanning can now prioritize parts or gift cards depending on the screen you are using. This helps avoid conflicts when barcode ranges overlap.

Inventory & Purchase Orders

Inventory Part Flags: You can now define up to 10 visual flags for inventory items, such as discontinued or non-returnable. This makes key item status easier to spot and manage.

Special Order Notifications: Sales staff can now be notified when their special-order items arrive. This helps your team follow up with customers sooner.

Purchase Order Context: Purchase orders and receiving documents can now show more special-order detail, including linked customer and invoice information. This gives staff better context while ordering and receiving.

Smarter PO Printing: The system now chooses the right purchase order print layout based on the form being used. This helps prevent printing problems with forms that do not support consolidated lines.

Part Find Label Printing: You can now print labels directly from Part Find. This makes quick labeling easier for warehouse and counter staff.

Specific Inventory Images On Labels: Labels can now use a chosen inventory image when an item has more than one. This gives you better control over how labeled items appear.

Reporting & Data Management

Promotion Reporting: A new promotion report makes it easier to see sales tied to specific promotions. This gives you a clearer view of what your promotions are actually delivering.

Stock History Totals: Stock and transaction reports now apply date ranges more consistently to totals. This makes period-based reporting easier to trust.

Purchase Analysis Options: Purchase reporting can now separate billed and unbilled activity. This gives you a clearer picture of purchasing status.

Separate Statement Attachments: A/R statements can now generate attached invoices as separate PDF files. This gives you more flexibility in how statement emails are prepared.

Maintenance Timeout Controls: You can now set timeout behavior for integrity and rebuild processes. This gives you more control when running longer maintenance routines.

Invoicing & Payments

Required Mobile Field: You can now require a mobile number when creating customers. This helps keep customer records more complete for texting and follow-up.

Faster Bill Loading: New Bill processing can now limit purchase orders by minimum book month by default. This speeds up loading when you have a large history of purchasing data.

Updated EFT Export Support: EFT export for supported banks has been updated to match current banking specifications. This helps payment exports stay compatible.

Integrations

Flexible Tax Import Handling: Imported orders can now keep System Five’s own calculated tax values without forced adjustments when configured that way. This gives you more control over imported tax handling.

Web Order Account Protection: Web ordering can now avoid overwriting your normal account assignment rules. This helps protect your existing customer numbering process.

Per-Integration Import Settings: Ecommerce staging can now be configured separately for each deployed integration. This makes mixed integration environments easier to manage.

General Usability & Performance

Long-Term Performance: Multiple fixes address memory and resource leaks that could build up over time. Users should notice steadier performance during long days of use.

Grid Refreshing: Grids now refresh more reliably and with fewer unnecessary redraws. This makes changing selections and updated lists easier to follow.

Dark Theme Reliability: A wide range of dark theme display problems have been corrected, including missing or incorrect grid colors. This makes themed screens easier to read across the system.

Shutdown Stability: Issues affecting application shutdown and form closing have been corrected. This reduces the chance of the program hanging or staying open in memory after exit.

Login Search: Login search now works correctly beyond a single character. This makes it easier to find the right login quickly.

Point of Sale (POS)

End-Of-Day Accuracy: Unposted invoices now appear correctly on end-of-day reports. This gives managers a more complete closeout view.

Batch Error Reporting: POS batch reports now show errors more clearly and avoid misleading totals when something goes wrong. This makes troubleshooting easier.

Deposit Worksheet History: Deposit worksheets now retain their posted ledger link more reliably. This makes completed deposits easier to review later.

Invoicing & Payments

Invoice Totals And Taxes: Several invoice calculation issues were corrected, including totals, taxes, hidden print lines, and select-lot descriptions. This helps invoices stay accurate after edits and reloads.

Work Order And Layaway Conversion: Work orders and layaways now convert to accounts receivable more reliably when special-order or lot-tracked items are involved. This reduces interruptions at completion time.

Payment Return Accuracy: Credit card return handling has been corrected so prior payment fees do not distort the recorded tender amount. This improves return accuracy in your records.

EBT Handling: EBT food stamp and debit transactions now behave more accurately, including returned tender handling and manual entry support on supported pin pads. This makes assisted payment processing more dependable.

Invoice Entry Stability: Rare errors while adding items, saving invoices, or exiting after tendering have been corrected. This helps invoice entry feel more solid during busy periods.

Rental Billing Accuracy: Rental dates, overdue recalculations, and saving invoices with outstanding rentals now behave correctly. This helps rental billing stay accurate.

Inventory & Purchase Orders

Purchase Order Quantities: Ordered quantities, department changes, and reserved stock behavior on purchase orders have been corrected. This helps purchasing staff rely on what they see on screen.

Receiving Workflow: Receiving screens now respect user selections more reliably and refresh special-order details correctly. This reduces confusion while receiving stock.

Special Order Handling: Multiple special-order issues were fixed, including expected dates, removal from records, barcode receiving behavior, and conversion errors. This makes special-order processing more consistent from start to finish.

Stock History Accuracy: Stock history totals, dates, and related reporting issues have been corrected. This gives you more confidence in inventory reporting and review work.

Transfer Costing: Department transfers now calculate landed cost more accurately when more than one stock record is involved. This gives you truer transfer totals.

Floor Plan Checks: Floor planning reports no longer incorrectly flag already-paid parts as unpaid. This reduces false follow-up work.

Promotion Reliability: Several promotion-related database and update errors have been corrected. This improves reliability when working with promotional pricing.

Reporting & Data Management

Report Accuracy: A wide range of reports now display the correct totals, dates, users, and status details. This means less second-guessing when reviewing reports.

Customer And Supplier Reporting: Customer and supplier reports now handle some discount and cached values more cleanly. This improves consistency in printed and designed reports.

Form Designer Stability: A critical issue that could create duplicate items while editing forms in some databases has been corrected. This makes form design safer and more predictable.

Custom Ledger Cleanup: Customized ledger reports now clean up problem records during editing. This reduces duplicate warnings and makes future edits smoother.

Visual & Theme-Related Corrections

Theme Cleanup Across The System: Numerous light and dark theme issues were corrected across reports, setup screens, opportunity screens, timesheets, invoice reports, and other areas. The result is a cleaner, more readable experience throughout the system.

Device Management

Signature Capture: Topaz signature capture was updated to remove an older dependency. This helps supported signature devices work more reliably.

Gift Card Issuing: Gift card issuing was corrected for supported pin pad models. This improves dependability at the counter.

Data Import/Export

Email Sending: Email sending through Outlook or MAPI now correctly fills in recipients in non-SaaS environments. This prevents attachments from failing to send.

Integration Transfers: Fixes were made for Orgill passive mode, SideKick invoice locking, AVB downloads, and imported order consistency. This helps connected systems exchange data more reliably.

XML Tools: XML testing and export routines were corrected and cleaned up. This improves reliability for customers using those utilities.

Export Dialog Handling: A Windows security dialog conflict during some export operations has been addressed. This reduces interruptions during export workflows.

Miscellaneous

Customer And Part Find Corrections: Recent-customer selection, part search, and displayed part details now behave more reliably in several situations. This makes everyday lookups smoother.

Update Checker: Training mode issues affecting the update checker have been corrected. This helps training environments behave more predictably.

Health Billing Accuracy: Health billing totals and unusual edge-case errors have been corrected. This improves confidence in billing when values hit uncommon limits.