Version 2.1 of Business Aviator introduces a myriad of useful features. Some of these features can only be found in extremely cost-prohibitive inventory software!

For information regarding features found in the previous version 2.0 update, click here.

Feature Additions in Business Aviator v2.01 - 2.06 

• Added the ability to lookup customer sales & sales orders using the context sensitive reporting from sales & credit forms.
• Added Screen-Locking to Sales Orders, Credit Orders and Purchase Orders. The screen-locking will prevent more than one user from accessing the same order at the same time.
• Added an "Unlock" that can be used to clear all screens locked by a users login. This may be necessary if the user end-tasks Business Aviator or some non-properly-disposed method is used while an order is still open.
• Added additional information to the items received by date report including Sales Order Number (if applicable) and Qty Committed (if applicable).
• Added a total field to the receiving ( PO) screen so the total is quickly accessible.
• Updated the multi-location sales form to automatically save when an item is removed that had initiated a reservation.
• Added the ability to access & open an associated sales order by right-clicking an invoice or sales receipt in the sales search screen.
• Added an order number lookup feature if the invoice or sales receipt number is known, accessible from the Tasks -> Sales menu.
• Added configuration options to Credit Order to block taxable box, set a default ship date and prompt when the ship date is set to today.
• Added the ability to email any report if the SMTP service is installed on the computer trying to send the email (All Windows XP professional computers have the ability to install this service). Just Right-Click on the report to use this feature.
• Changed locked lines (billed/invoiced/etc) to dark blue so they're more distinguishable on all monitors than the prior Slate-Gray color.
• Added the ability to sort by any column on the inventory transfer and transfer receiving screens.
• Added the ability to apply package pricing to a sales order via the Options menu. The items that are part of the package should be left "checked" and the package price should be input. Click "calculate" to calculate the package pricing and then "Apply" to commit the changes.
• Updated the sales order and credit order shipping reports so they do not show items that have already been invoiced. Items should not be invoiced until delivered if you're using the sales order or credit order shipping reports.
• Added a configuration option that when enabled prompts the user asking if a line removed from sales order should have a committed PO quantity uncommitted. Previously this was mandatory when pulling the line off and this option enables provision of a choice.

Feature Additions in Business Aviator v2.06 - 2.07 include

• Added lookup (QuickFind) ability to the customer screen.
• Provided a means to search for inactive customers from the customer screen & allow them to be opened from there so they can be re-activated.
• Implemented the import of QuickBooks® date-driven terms when Business Aviator is integrated with QuickBooks® so they can be assigned in Business Aviator. The terms are not used beyond assignment for import into QuickBooks®.
• Added a "Global Note Item" item type. This can be created from Tasks -> Items -> New Global Note Item
• Global Note Item's write back to all sales orders when added to a purchase order that has items committed from sales order(s).
• Automated the creation of backorders updating lines committed from sales orders to the new backorder. Previously the committed lines remained linked to the old PO even though the items may have been added to backorder on a new PO.
• Added the ability to view Sales Orders committed to a purchase order from the purchase order via the Options menu. Just open a purchase order and access the options menu to utilize this feature.
• Updated the purchase order creation from sales orders so PO's aren't generated for items that have been committed to an existing purchase order already.
• Added initial data classes for buying clubs.
• Added storage of assigned vendor cost of an item to "line_baserate" when saving a purchase order. This will provide a mechanism to display whether a discount was taken on purchase order reports.
• Added "Smart" combobox to the sales order, credit order and purchase order screens. This combobox that has look-forward capability as the user types.
• Updated all sales order, credit order and purchase order forms to prevent the customer or vendor from being changed after the initial save. This is to prevent changing a customer or vendor after the document has been saved using that customer or vendors pricing & tax-applicable.
• Implemented the ability to apply "Markup's" to a unit of measure in the Cost & Pricing Advanced screen.
• Implement a custom sales order form (Sales Order Distribution UoM) that includes Unit of Measure assignable on the line items.
• Added loading of only the units of measure applicable to the item selected into the UoM combobox.
• The price is re-calculated based on the factor reduction (or increase) from stock unit and any markup assigned when a unit of measure is chosen from the dropdown box.
• Added "Buying Club’s" for use in conjunction with unit of measure and the new Sales Order Distribution UoM form (assignable in location setup). Members of a buying club can get "Stock Unit" pricing (avoiding Markup's) when the buying club purchases at-least 1 Stock-Unit within the number of days specified for the Buying Club.
• The Unit-of-Measure sales order will calculate buying club purchases and automatically apply discounts upon loading the sales order.
• Added support for unit of measure to credit forms.
• Added support for "Edit Line Extended" by right-clicking items on credit forms.
• Added logical support for invoicing units of measure writing back to the sales order.
• Added the ability to apply detail-line information on credit orders & have it display on the credit form report.
• An "Expiration Date" can now be added when receiving items quantities or costs. This expiration date can be used for reporting purposes to find out if any items on-hand may be expiring.
• Updated received items by date report so it's more readable, includes customer name and sorts by PO.
• Added a "Received Items Expiring" report that shows items that are set to expire, along with the received quantity and the sold quantity.
• Updated "Purchase Receipts" report to make it more readable (follows the same format as the expiration report).
• Added three "Vendor Serial Number List" reports that are PO-Date-Sensitive reports showing serial numbers purchased, serial numbers purchased that have been sold, and serial numbers purchased that have not been sold.
• Updated the customer serial number list to include additional information.
• Added the "Serial Number List" report to the context-senstive reports available on the customer screen (when F6 is pressed).
• Added a Nutrition Module application that can be used to edit item nutrition information. This is a separate module not available from within Business Aviator.
• Updated sales orders, sales receipts and invoices so that when a purchase order quantity is committed for a special order item, the cost on the purchase order is used when the transaction is saved.
• Note: this does not currently automatically update when the cost on the purchase order is changed. The update occurs when the sales transaction is saved.
• Added the ability to attach to incoming purchase orders from any sales order form. Just right-click a line item on any sales order and choose "View Open PO’s"; to get a list of Purchase Orders Open for the specified item.
• Added search-criteria to the credit search screen so it can now be used in a similar fashion to the sales search screen.
• Special Order Items can now be added to sales quotes.
• Item category prices can now be defined in the Item Cost & Pricing screen under the price Advanced section! Just select from the available categories, assign your formula and click save; rinse-and-repeat for each category that you want to define the item's price.
• Purchase Order Labels can now be printed from within the purchase order in the options menu.
• Added a generic bar-code report accessible from the options menu in the item screen.

Feature Additions in Business Aviator v2.08 include

• Added the ability to modify almost ANY report. Just save the report as a template (keeping the default name given to it) by Right-Clicking on the report and choosing "Save Template As..." and make sure to save the report to a directory named "reports" within the Business Aviator Inventory program directory.
• Added an "Inventory BarCode Report" to the inventory list reports accessible by right-clicking on an item list (like the Item Search Screen list). The report can be customized (using the method described above) to use any Bar Code format available.
• Added an "Accounting Synchronization Exceptions" report that can be run from the reports menu to view synchronization-issues report by any accounting-integration module. This report provides the same information we use to determine what caused an exception.
• Updated UoM sales order to automatically set UoM display to the stock unit of measure.
• Updated Item Category Pricing so it no longer requires the user to "Check" the checkboxes of items that will be "Included" in the pricing group. This is now done automatically based on whether or not the item has a special pricing formula assigned in the group.
• Updated Promotion Pricing to work like the Category Pricing does now; automatically checking the checkbox to include items with a formula in the group.
• Added a "Buying Club Members" report accessible from the options menu in the Buying Club screen.
• Added the ability to define whether or not an item is taxable based on the state. For this feature to be used, the item must be defined as non-taxable, and then the state-specific-taxation can be defined as taxable (checked) or non-taxable (unchecked).
• Updated sales saving process to set cost to last-landed cost for sales order line items. This will at least provide some information about margins (albeit not entirely accurate until the order is invoiced) on sales orders.
• Many updates were performed to the route picking interface:
• Updated route picking to allow all open orders on a route to be displayed for picking.
• Updated route picking report to provide a sort filter so it can be sorted.
• Updated route picking list to allow sorting by any column for easier picking as-well.
• Updated route picking and route definition forms to prevent them from being opened multiple times from the tasks menu.
• Added a Customer Inquiry screen accessible from the tasks menu or by pressing Ctrl+U.
• Added customer information, notes, sales orders open & sales history to the screen. The sales documents can also be accessed from this screen.
• Added a transportation tab to the screen that will be used to display customer transportation-specific information (this should be actively displayed in the next update).
• Added full support for Reports module execution from within Business Aviator. Custom reports modules (like commissions) can now be executed from within Business Aviator.
• Added a "Credits" and "Credit Orders Open" report to the context-sensitive item specific reports.
• Added a "Damaged Inventory" report that shows items that have been marked as damaged at the current logged-in location.
• Customers that currently have an open sales order will now display as highlighted in RED on a sales order document. This will provide a quick way during creation of a new sales order to see if a customer already has a sales order open in the system.
• Vendors that currently have open purchase orders will also now display as highlighted in RED on the purchase order.
• Updated the help file to include more How-to information about the latest features!

Feature Additions in Business Aviator v2.09 include

• Added a Customer Transportation screen accessible in the customer screen from the options menu.
• Customer transportation screen provides the ability to save more detailed information about a specific customer stop on route. The screen will also provide customer route history and open route information.
• Added linking of the route to the line item, so when an item is marked as picked in route picking the line will also be tagged with the route number so we know which route a specific line item is/was on.
• Added routes open list along with ability to access the route and sales order from the list.
• Added routes closed list with same menu access abilities.
• Added "Customer Inquiry" to the options menu in the customer screen.
• Added routes open & closed lists to the customer inquiry screen.
• Added the ability to use loc_name field on item labels.
• Added database table to support zip codes with latitude and longitude so location-oriented reports can be written.
• Added "Closest to Zip Code" reports in the customer screen. This can be used to list the closes route-stops to a customer, closest buying clubs seeking members and closest buying clubs allowing sub-drops.
• The route screen was updated to make the pick shift, printed, and route closes "day's" instead of "dates".
• The invoiced and loaded day were added to the route screen.

Feature Additions in Business Aviator v2.10 include

• Added the ability to apply an "Applicable Unit of Measure" to items in the item advanced screen. Once applicable units of measure have been assigned to an item, only those and the stock unit will be available to select from during sales, etc.
• Updated the reservations screen so it resets the item selected when a new location is selected.
• Updated Multi Location Sales Order so the total on the sales order is displayed when un-invoiced deposit items are present on the order.
• Revised formatting on the sales order deposits report and added an extra field that shows when the money was taken.
• Added a "Sales Orders Open Deposits Report" that shows deposits taken on currently-open sales orders between a date range.
• Added a "Freight Received" report that runs over a date range to show a total of each freight item type received on purchase order (Freight-IN)
• Updated unit-of-measure retrieval to only utilize units of measure defined as "available" when any have been defined.

This is the summary version of the update notes for Business Aviator version 2.1. The complete notes can be accessed by current Business Aviator users by clicking here and logging in.