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Release Notes - BUSY 17

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Release Notes – BUSY 17

Release 5.5 (23-11-2017) .............................................................................................................. 4


Release 5.4 (01-11-2017) .............................................................................................................. 8
Release 5.3 (18-10-2017) ............................................................................................................ 11
Release 5.2 (12-10-2017) ............................................................................................................ 12
Release 5.1 (21-09-2017) ............................................................................................................ 16
Release 5.0 (19-09-2017) ............................................................................................................ 17
Release 4.7 (07-09-2017) ............................................................................................................ 20
Release 4.6 (02-09-2017) ............................................................................................................ 21
Release 4.5 (28-08-2017) ............................................................................................................ 22
Release 4.4 (23-08-2017) ............................................................................................................ 23
Release 4.3 (17-08-2017) ............................................................................................................ 25
Release 4.2 (12-08-2017) ............................................................................................................ 26
Release 4.1 (10-08-2017) ............................................................................................................ 27
Release 4.0 (08-08-2017) ............................................................................................................ 28
Release 3.2 (27-07-2017) ............................................................................................................ 31
Release 3.1 (24-07-2017) ............................................................................................................ 32
Release 3.0 (21-07-2017) ............................................................................................................ 33
Release 2.7 (14-07-2017) ............................................................................................................ 36
Release 2.6 (12-07-2017) ............................................................................................................ 37
Release 2.5 (11-07-2017) ............................................................................................................ 38
Release 2.4 (08-07-2017) ............................................................................................................ 39
Release 2.3 (05-07-2017) ............................................................................................................ 40
Release 2.2 (30-06-2017) ............................................................................................................ 42
Release 2.1 (27-06-2017) ............................................................................................................ 43
Release 2.0 (21-06-2017) ............................................................................................................ 45
Release 1.8 (31-05-2017) ............................................................................................................ 50
Release 1.7 (15-05-2017) ............................................................................................................ 51

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Release 1.6 (24-04-2017) ............................................................................................................ 54
Release 1.5 (12-04-2017) ............................................................................................................ 57
Release 1.4 (28-03-2017) ............................................................................................................ 60
Release 1.3 (15-03-2017) ............................................................................................................ 63
Release 1.2 (04-03-2017) ............................................................................................................ 66
Release 1.1 (28-02-2017) ............................................................................................................ 67
Release 1.0 (20-02-2017) ............................................................................................................ 69

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Release 5.5 (23-11-2017)

Minor Changes

 Creating/Modifying Tax Category in GST; provision made to specify VAT rate along with GST rates. No
need to switch to VAT to specify VAT rate.

 Access mode, it was not possible to backup data of company if some other user was working in company.
Now it is possible and backup can be taken even if some other user is working the company.

 Warning for negative stock was being shown at the time of saving voucher. Now it will be shown during
data entry only.

 Item master data entry screen; order of data fields reshuffled and important fields like HSN Code & Tax
Category put first in order.

 Item master; new fields ‘Tax Inclusive Sales Price’ & ‘Tax Inclusive Purchase Price’ provided. If these fields
are enabled then during voucher feeding price of the Item will split automatically as per Item’s tax
category and basic price will be shown.

 User Activity Log was not being maintained for Super User. Now provision made for the same (can be
configured in Super User configuration).

 Consolidated RCM Payable voucher, for RCM nature ‘Compulsory Reg. Dealer’ check has been provided
that Party should have GSTIN. Till now it was possible to use this RCM nature with unregistered Parties
also.

 Invoice configuration, new field <PARTY_COUNTRY> provided.

 New fields related to GST% provided in Item’s label configuration.

 Invoice field <COMPOUND_DISCOUNT_WITHOUT_ZERO> was showing zero discount components which


were used in between, like 10+0+2. Now zero components will be removed from in between compound
discount also.

 Sales/Purchase data entry, voucher no. field being small in size was not displaying long voucher nos.
properly. Now a label below voucher no. field will be shown in small font which will show complete
voucher no.

 Accounting voucher GST Nature ‘Debit Note Issued to customer’ & ‘Credit Note Issued to Customer’ will
be not be available in case of Composition Dealer as same was creating problem in GST reporting. User
can use Sales Return or Purchase Return in such cases.

 Size of Bill-by-bill details window increased to show more data at one glance.

 GST advance receipt reference window, a label has been put specifying that GST on advance is applicable
for services only.

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 Item batch-wise stock report, name of party from whom the batch was purchased will also be shown.

 Creating new Sales voucher with POS enabled; initial form showing list of Voucher Series was showing
series in random order. Now it will be shown alphabetically.

 Parameter-stock ledger report; size of field to capture parameter value was 10 characters. Now increased
to 20 characters.

 Bulk creation of Accounts; by default country was being set to ‘—Others—‘. Now country as specified in
company will be set by default.

 Bulk Updation of Item Tax Category for All/Group/Selected Items, provision made to specify HSN also for
which Tax Category is to be updated. Required when Tax Category for a particular HSN is changed and
user want to change Tax Category of all the Items under a specific HSN. Available as AdministrationBulk
UpdationUpdate Item Tax Category / HSN.

Bugs Removed

 Multi-currency voucher with non-impact Bill Sundry, posting in alternate currency was not proper. Now
problem rectified.

 User Activity Log was not showing correct date for Nepal country. Now problem rectified.

 Target Variance report was not working properly in Nepali Date. Now problem rectified.

 Material Received after Jobwork; if BOM existed for Items being received then pending quantity of raw
materials was being shown as zero in in Job reference window. Now problem rectified.

 Sales voucher feeding with Item-wise tax and surcharge enabled in configuration; surcharge columns
were being shown disabled in case of VAT. Now problem rectified.

 While creating Standard Narration for Sales/Purchase voucher, an error was being generated. Now
problem rectified.

 Sometimes softlock was getting registered properly on a computer but at the time of validation it was not
getting validated with error ‘Service Not Available’. Now problem rectified.

 Creating new invoice format and using ALT+D to load default format; nothing was being loaded if Excise
feature was enabled in company. Now problem rectified.

 Stock Status report with value; sometimes total amount of individual Items was not matching with grand
total shown in report. Now problem rectified.

 Date-wise tax rate specified in Tax Category; if during data entry any Item was modified using ALT+M then
tax rate as per current date was not being picked properly. Now problem rectified.

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 Specifying date-wise tax rates in Tax Category; if Cess & Add. Cess was enabled initially and then disabled
from a specified date, Add. Cess was being picked after that date during data entry. Now problem
rectified.

 Multi-currency voucher with non-impact Bill Sundry, tax summary was not being updated properly. Now
problem rectified.

 Pressing F10 to open calculator without opening company, an error was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

 POS data entry; totals were getting merged with Item grid. Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry; if Sale Type was changed from Item-wise Local to Central or vice versa, tax rates in Item
grid were not getting changed as per new Sale Type. Now problem rectified.

 Generating Invoice from Orders using F11 with option to consolidate Item enabled; alt. quantity from
orders was not being picked properly. Now problem rectified.

 Brokerage was enabled only for Sales; while posting brokerage from brokerage report using F4 key, wrong
values were being posted. Now problem rectified.

 Using custom columns in bill-wise statement report; sometimes an error ‘Invalid Voucher Series Code’
was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Update Sales price from Purchase Price utility, Sales price updated back in Item master were not being
picked during data entry. Now problem rectified.

 Trade-wise default configuration set in company without enabling VAT/GST; during POS configuration, an
error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Rewriting Books with VAT enabled; posting of GST in Item-wise tax related vouchers was getting
disturbed. Now problem rectified.

 Default discount specified in Item master was not being picked if BCN was scanned directly at Item grid.
Now problem rectified.

 Generating Sales Quotation for a Party with option ‘Auto Generate Quotation References’ set to false; if
any Sales Order was pending for that Party, Quotation reference window was not being shown at the time
of saving. Now problem rectified.

 Company created with country other than India and type of taxation being GST; while feeding Sales
voucher, an error ‘Composition dealer can feed exempt sales only’ was being shown. Now problem
rectified.
 Stock ledger; closing quantity on any date going zero, non-zero stock value was being shown. Now
problem rectified.

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 Importing voucher from Excel with BCN; BCN with length greater than 15 were not getting imported.
Now problem rectified.

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Release 5.4 (01-11-2017)

Minor Changes

 Journal Voucher with GST Nature as ‘GST Tax Adjustment’; provision made to feed ITC Reversal/Reclaim
entries also.

 ‘Calculate Sale Price from Purchase Price’ data entry form (which is shown after saving the Purchase
Voucher); Item’s MRP will also be shown along with other data like List Price, Discount etc.

 Account Ledger, provision made to skip Opening Balance. Required in certain industries where accounts
are settled verbally till a date and ledger is required from next date assuming opening balance as zero.

 New fields added in invoice configuration; <REVERSER_CHARGE>, <ITC_ELIGIBILITY_TYPE> &


<COMPANY_GST>.

 Account master data entry screen; order of data fields reshuffled and important fields put first in order.

 Account master; while specifying GSTIN of Party, a button provided ‘Search on GST Portal’. On Clicking
this button user will be routed to GSTIN search page on GST portal.

 Busy main screen side panel, a new button ‘GST Portal’ provided. On clicking this button user will be
routed to GST portal login page.

 Bill Sundry configuration with mode of calculation as ‘Selective’; option to include Add. Cess was not
available. Now made available.

 Generating eReturn(s); size of text box to specify file path was 40 characters only. Now length increased
to 256 characters.

 Purchase voucher; field ‘Input Type’ was being asked in countries other than India also. Now it will not be
asked in other countries as same is not required.

 Creating new company; by default taxation type was being set to GST. Now GST will be set for country
India only and for other countries VAT will be set by default.

 ‘Calculate Item’s Sizing Info from Description’ feature; length of field for specifying formula was 40
characters. Now increased to 80 characters.

Bugs Removed

 ‘GST Nature’ in accounting vouchers; while browsing through the drop down list, description for
‘Composition Expense’ was not being shown. Now problem rectified.

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 Data Export/Import in XML mode; sometimes Party State as specified in ‘Billing/Shipping Details’ window
was not being imported. Now problem rectified.

 GST Advance Receipt window, sometime wrong warning for unadjusted amount was being shown. Now
problem rectified.

 ‘Separate Billing/Shipping Details’ enabled for Cash only and invoice generated for a non Cash Party;
check for Party region (Local/Central) was not being applied. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Regenerate Masters Help File’ utility, if run for All Master; focus was getting shifted to ‘Sale/Purchase
Type Only’ creating confusion. Now problem rectified.

 Sale/Purchase Analysis reports, Party TIN was being shown instead of Party GSTIN. Now problem
rectified.

 Printing invoice with Item images; in case of large no. of Items, images were not being printed. Now
problem rectified.

 Pending Orders report with Voucher Optional fields as custom column; value for orders belonging to last
year was not being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Tracking No. report; in case of large no. of Tracking Nos., an error was being generated while specifying
Tracking No. in report options. Now problem rectified.

 Option ‘Show End of List in Dropdown List’ enabled; on pressing F2 while selecting Party, an error was
being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Columnar Sales/Purchase register, totals for some GST related fields were not being shown. Now
problem rectified.

 Sub ledger used for Party while feeding Debit/Credit Note; while printing Debit/Credit Note, main Party
details were being printed instead of sub ledger details. Now problem rectified.

 Free Qty. enabled and quantity decimal places set to zero; while feeding vouchers if qty. was typed as 1.2
then although qty. was picked as 1 but amount was being calculated on the basis of 1.2. Now problem
rectified.

 Rounding Off enabled upto 5 Rupees, 100.5 was being rounded to 101 instead of 100. Now problem
rectified.

 Printing Tax Summary in Advance Receipt voucher; zero% tax entries were not being printed properly.
Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry and discount enabled with BCN; while scanning BCN directly, discount specified in
Purchase voucher was being picked in Sales voucher also. Now problem rectified.

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 BCN discount specified starting form a specific date; same was not being picked during data entry. Now
problem rectified.

 Tax Category master, if Cess was changed from some specific date then during data entry Cess was being
shown disabled in Item-wise tax details window. Now problem rectified.

 Updating ‘Purchase Bill No. & Date’ from Misc. Utilities, same were not being reflected in GST reports.
Now problem rectified.

 VAT with surcharge enabled in company configuration, user was not able to specify default surcharge in
Tax Category master. Now problem rectified.

 Invoice printing; sometimes an additional page was being printed without any body data (only header &
footer were being printed). Now problem rectified.

 ‘Separate Billing/Shipping Details’ option enabled; sometimes warning for Local/Central transaction
differing with Party state was misbehaving. Now problem rectified.

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Release 5.3 (18-10-2017)

Minor Changes

 ‘Query on HSN Code’ will be available through shortcut key <ALT+Q>.

Bugs Removed

 ‘Tracking No. Item-wise Summary’ report was generating error. Now problem rectified.

 Item BCN-wise data entry; BCN current stock was not being shown in drop down list. Now problem
rectified.

 Printing Payment Advice for vouchers having multiple parties in single voucher; wrong copy title (Original,
Duplicate etc.) was being printed. Now problem rectified.

 Voucher numbering configuration, ‘0’ as padding character in numeric part was not being accepted. Now
problem rectified.

 Creating new ‘Item-wise taxable’ Sale/Purchase Type, same was not being saved with some error
message. Now problem rectified.

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Release 5.2 (12-10-2017)

Minor Changes

 Dr Note/Cr Note fed with Sub Ledger; in GST reports Main Ledger was being shown. Now GST reports will
show Sub Ledger as in case of Sales/Purchase.

 Following warnings provided during data entry:


a. Bill Sundry master, if nature of Bill Sundry is GST and corresponding Account being posted is not
GST, warning will be shown.
b. ST/PT Master with Item-wise GST, if GST Accounts are not GST, warning will be shown.
c. Voucher No. will be validated as per GST guidelines.

 GST Advance Receipt; it was not possible to create 0% tax reference. Now it is possible as the same is
required in case of advance received against export.

 GST Advance Receipt adjustment in Sale voucher, if any tax % was used in Sales voucher and advance
reference for the same tax% was not available, a warning was being shown for unadjusted amount. Now
this warning will not be shown in such cases.

 Feeding expenses through accounting vouchers, new GST Nature ‘Composition Expense’ provided to feed
inward transactions through composition dealers.

 Creating/Modifying Expense account; Reverse Charge Nature for Compulsory Reg. Dealer & Compulsory
Unreg. Dealer was being asked separately. Now both have been merged and only Compulsory will be
asked and on the basis of Party in transaction, Compulsory Reg. Dealer or Compulsory Unreg. Dealer will
be decided.

 Cess/Add. Cess based on Quantity was being calculated on free quantity also. Now it will be calculated on
billed quantity only.

 Provision made to invoke Training/Help Videos from main form. Till now this option was available in
Company menu only.

 Demo period restricted to one month as earlier.

 Creating Item Tax Category, provision made to leave Cess/Add. Cess as zero so that user can specify the
same during data entry.

 Provision made to print Tax Summary in Quotation/Order/Challan vouchers also.

 Separate Billing/Shipping Details window; in case of Export invoice it was being shown that input credit
will be available on this invoice. Now it will not be shown.

 Invoice standard format designing with self-configured body; size of individual column could be set to 1
which was creating problem during printing. Now minimum size for any column restricted to 2.

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 Dr Note/Cr Note feeding, while showing drop down list for ‘Reason’ field; Sales Return was being shown in
case of Purchase Return creating confusion. Now instead of Sales Return, Sales/Purchase Return will be
shown.

 Daily RCM Liability voucher created for a date; modifying any ‘RCM/Unreg. Purchase’ accounting voucher
in that date, a warning was being shown saying RCM Liability voucher has already been created. Now this
warning will be shown only if any account/value is changed during voucher modification.

 Same account being debited and credited with same amount in Journal voucher, bill-by-bill details
window was not being shown for that account. Now it will be shown.

 Till now RCM invoice for Compulsory Registered Dealer was not being printed. Now it has been made
optional.

 GST Payment/Adjustment voucher feeding, ‘Period Ending’ field was being asked in the last and was
mostly was being skipped by user. Now this field will be asked in beginning.

 Query System, new report ‘Query on HSN Code’ provided to check Items falling under a specific HSN
Code.

 HSN Code-wise Stock report, till now only amount was being shown. Now quantity will also be shown.

 ‘Update HSN/SAC Code Description’ utility, by default blank description rows will be shown on top so that
user can update them easily.

 Invoice designing, new field <TOTAL_ADV_AMT_ADJUSTED_IN_INVOICE> provided to show the amount of


advance adjusted.

 Regularise PDC utility, new option ‘Retain Voucher Date’ provided. If enabled, voucher date as specified
in voucher will be retained otherwise PDC date will be set as voucher date.

 ‘Check BUSY Updates’ option; default download folder was C:\BusyWin. Now default download folder will
be Desktop.

 Tax Summary printing in Invoice bottom, size of Add. Cess column increased to take care of bigger values.

Bugs Removed

 Sales/Purchase Analysis reports Item-wise; option to show Item’s Basic amount was not excluding Items
tax amount. Now problem rectified.

 Sales/Purchase Analysis reports; Add. Cess was not being considered while calculating tax amount. Now
problem rectified.

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 HO/BO enabled; if Items were imported from Excel at HO, same were not being synchronised to BO. Now
problem rectified.

 Account Register printing with option to show GSTIN enabled; GSTIN was not being printed. Now
problem rectified.

 Voucher export/import in XML format; ‘GST Report Basis’ field was not being exchanged. Now problem
rectified.

 Multi-Currency enabled; while viewing Dash Board and pressing <ENTER> on Cash/Bank Balance, incorrect
values were being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Sales voucher feeding with Item-wise tax; if Sale Type was changed from Local to Central or vice versa
after feeding the Items, Item-wise tax percent in existing data was not getting initialised as per the new
Sale Type. Now problem rectified.

 Global Query on masters, Item’s HSN Code was not being searched. Now problem rectified.

 BOM master created with blank space before BOM name; while using that BOM during Production
voucher feeding, an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Sales Register on screen with option ‘Print Mobile No.’ enabled, sometimes irrelevant values were being
shown. Now problem rectified.

 Party/Item-wise pricing maintained with option to update back price from voucher enabled; price for
packaging unit was not being updated properly. Now problem rectified.

 While creating new company while another instance of Busy was running, an error was being generated.
Now problem rectified.

 Invoice fields <SALE_DISCOUNT_STRUCT_NAME> & <AMOUNT_BEFORE_TAX>, if used in custom columns,


an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 If date-wise Item pricing was enabled, fields related to Item category-wise pricing were showing wrong
values when used as custom columns. Now problem rectified.

 Invoice configuration; fields related to taxable amount were printing wrong values for vouchers where
advance was adjusted. Now problem rectified.

 Invoice printing with a lot Items with separate HSN Codes, HSN-wise Summary in bottom was not getting
printed completely. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Pending Job References-Item-wise’ report, on pressing <ENTER> nothing was being shown. Now problem
rectified.

 Creating tax Payment voucher from GST Summary using F4 key, voucher series(s) for Journal voucher
were being shown instead of Payment voucher. Now problem rectified.

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 Generating Invoice from Orders using F11 key with option to consolidate Items enabled; Alt. Quantity of
Items was not getting consolidated. Now problem rectified.

 If Add. Cess was enabled; batch printing of Invoices was generating error. Now problem rectified.

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Release 5.1 (21-09-2017)

Minor Changes

 GSTING being specified in Billing/Shipping Details window, lower case was being accepted which was
creating problem later on. Now GSTIN will be converted to upper case automatically.

 If any unregistered Purchase/Expense voucher is added/modified/deleted on a date for which RCM


liability has been generated, a warning will be shown for the same asking user whether to continue or not.

 Option ‘Don’t Allow’ in Warning Alarms was always being treated as ‘Warning Only’ in case of Super User.
Now it has been made configurable.

Bugs Removed

 After upgrading to 5.0, in a few cases sometimes an error was being shown during data entry. Now
problem rectified.

 Importing Items from Excel and ‘Packaging Unit’ feature enabled; sometimes an error was being
generated during import process. Now problem rectified.

 Custom column added in ‘Bills Receivable’ report, sometimes an error was being generated. Now
problem rectified.

 Payment/Journal voucher saved with GST Nature as ‘Not Applicable’; while changing GST Nature as ‘GST
Payment/Adjustment’ during modification, an error was being generated while saving the voucher. Now
problem rectified.

 Creating new company; if Cess was enabled, Add. Cess was also getting enabled automatically. Now
problem rectified.

 If GST/VAT was disabled, an error was being generated while printing 3” Slip format invoice. Now
problem rectified.

 Sales Register, if option ‘Show Party GSTIN also’ was enabled; only un-approved vouchers were being
shown (if approval feature was enabled). Now problem rectified.

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Release 5.0 (19-09-2017)

Major Changes

 Provision made for Add. Cess on GST.

 Cess on GST was available in % only. Now provision made to specify Cess per quantity also.

Minor Changes

 Provision made to download full setup of BUSY from ‘Check BUSY Update’ menu. Till now only Product
Update & Stat Update was available.

 Provision made to check/update all Expense Accounts with GST details on a single screen. Available as
AdministrationMastersBulk UpdationCheck/Update Expense GST Details.

 Bulk Updation of masters, provision made to filter loaded data on the basis of any value in existing fields.
For example all Items are shown on screen and user wants to see only those Items with blank HSN Code.

 While creating/modifying State master, ‘State Code’ field can’t be left blank.

 While upgrading data to new version, a message will be shown asking user to take backup of data before
proceeding with upgrade and user will redirected to backup screen if required.

 GSTIN in Account master was being accepted in lower case which was creating problem later on. Now it
will be converted in upper case automatically during data feeding.

 While creating account master, State’ was being accepted as ‘Others’ also. Now it has been restricted as
it was creating problem in GST reports. Now if ‘Country’ is India then it will be necessary to specify proper
‘State’.

 While feeding ‘Registered Expense (B2B)’, Expense Account will also be captured in GST details window.

 Payment Reminder letter, provision made to print Party GSTIN also.

 Creating new company and with country as ‘Kenya’, be default tax type was being chosen as GST. Now by
default tax type will be VAT.

 Warning Alarm restrict Sales Price below Min. Sales Price; option provided to treat Purchase Price as Min.
Sale Price. Required when user wants to restrict Sales Price below Purchase Price.

 ‘Remote control software’ menu in Company menu, provision made to download and save ‘TeamViewer
9’ client in BUSY folder. Once ‘TeamViewer 9’ is saved in BUSY folder, it can be invoked automatically next
time without downloading.

 Knowledge Documents will not be shipped with setup and will be downloaded online if required by user.

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 Feeding accounting voucher related to GST; if any Non-GST Account was used, user was not able to save
that voucher. Now if any GST Expense Account has been specified then user can use another Non-GST
Account with in same voucher.

 Till now RCM tax accounts were being created under regular tax type (CGST/SGST/IGST) in Account
master. Now for RCM, new tax types provided to distinguish between RCM and regular tax.

 Carrying F.Y to next year with option ‘Carry Masters Static Info. also’ enabled; if static information was
blank in last year then it was being overwritten in current year. Now if static information is not blank in
previous year, only then it will be updated in current year.

 Country other than India, Party TIN was being validated for numeric characters. Now this check has been
removed as other countries may have alpha numeric TIN.

 POS voucher series configuration, option was provided whether to show Tax Summary on screen or not.
Now this option will be asked in all voucher series.

 E-way Bill no. will be asked during central Purchase for U.P. State. Report will be provided later on.

 Invoice designing; field <GST_PERCENT> was showing 9+9 in case of local transactions and 18 in case of
central transactions for Items having 18% GST. Now this field will show 18 in both local & central
transactions.

 Invoice designing; fields related to ‘Packaging Unit & Price’ and ‘Parameter-wise Discount & Markup’
provided.

 Printing any report directly from grid, company GSTIN will also be printed.

 Item label printing fields added related to category-wise Discount & Markup.

 Bulk printing of RCM invoices provided through ‘Print Utilities’.

 Dr Note/Cr Note received from supplier, only Expense/Purchase accounts were allowed in data entry.
Now all revenue accounts will be allowed.

 Helpline nos. on main screen was showing old nos. Now new nos. will be shown.

 Inventory voucher feeding; Tax Summary in left bottom was not being shown for multi-currency vouchers.
Now it will be shown.

Bugs Removed

 Unit master, Unit name as per Excise was being asked even if Excise was not enabled. Now problem
rectified.

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 List of companies being shown along with ‘Financial Years’ and ‘Company Size’ information, companies
not valid for current computers HDD were also being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Importing data from Excel, sometime numeric fields in decimals were not getting imported properly. Now
problem rectified.

 Item pricing mode applied to both ‘Price & Discount’ and only Discount specified in pricing mode
configuration, same was not being picked during data entry. Now problem rectified.

 Specifying HSN Code/Tax Category with Item Group and updating in child Items from there only, Item’s
Op. Stock was being removed. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Pending Job Work’ details report, option to show Parameterised details was not being asked. Now
problem rectified.

 GST reports not enabled; while creating Item, a warning ‘HSN Code not specified’ was being shown which
was irrelevant as GST was disabled. Now problem rectified.

 Single voucher XML copy/paste, sometimes an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry; scanning Batch No. Barcode directly, sometimes Batch Sales price was not being picked
properly. Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry; scanning BCN directly, BCN price in Alt. Unit was not being picked properly. Now problem
rectified.

 Sometimes IGST tax columns were not being printed in standard invoice. Now problem rectified.

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Release 4.7 (07-09-2017)

Minor Changes

 ‘Update Voucher GST Summary’ was available in House Keeping section which was not traceable easily.
Now this menu has been provided in TransactionsGST Misc. Utilities also.

 Changes in ‘Update HSN Description and UQC’ utility:


a. Utility renamed to ‘Update HSN Description’.
b. Now only HSN description can be specified here (Unit-wise).
c. Provision made to specify multiple entries for same HSN Code with different Units.
d. A button provided in this utility to load all existing HSN Codes & Units in grid so that user can
specify description accordingly.

 UQC code as required in GSTR reports was being specified in HSN-wise Description utility. Now it will be
asked in Unit master and same HSN with different unit will be shown separately in HSN-wise summary in
GST reports.

 Sales/Purchase Register with tax amounts, total of tax (CSGT+SGST+IGST) will be shown in a label in
bottom to reconcile total tax liability.

 Items created with ‘None’ Tax Category and vouchers fed with same; later on while changing Item’s Tax
Category to ‘Exempt’ or ‘Zero Rated’, existing vouchers were not getting updated with ‘Update GST
Summary’ utility. Now it will be done.

 New report provided ‘Query on GSTIN’ in Query Analysis section and GST Misc. Utilities section. Required
when a GSTIN is rejected from portal and user need to find Party/Invoice where this GSTIN has been
specified.

 Shipping Bill No. & Date window (required in Export Sale) was being shown in ‘Sale to SEZ’ also. Now it
will not be shown.

Bugs Removed

 While changing FY and carrying balances for all masters; an error was being generated if Accounts/Items
were greater than 32000. Now problem rectified.

 While trying to apply multiple schemes in same voucher, first scheme was being applied and second was
not. Now problem rectified.

 Running ‘Update Voucher GST Summary’ utilities was sometimes not posting tax summary of a single
voucher. Now problem rectified.

 Renumbering vouchers, new voucher numbers were not being updated in GST related reports. Now
problem rectified.

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Release 4.6 (02-09-2017)

Minor Changes

 ‘Update Transport Details’ utility, size of columns was small. Now size of columns increased in case of
wide screen.

Bugs Removed

 Payment voucher listing for a selected series, an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Columnar Sales register configured with GST tax rate related fields was not showing any data. Now
problem rectified.

 ‘Reconcile Item Gross Profit’ report; on pressing <ENTER> an error was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

 Adjusting GST Advance reference at the time of Sales, sometimes even if amount adjusted was equal to
amount to be adjusted, an error was being shown. Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry; current stock was not being shown properly. Now problem rectified.

 While creating new company for ‘Composition Dealer’, an error was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

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Release 4.5 (28-08-2017)

Minor Changes

 Accounting vouchers, a new GST Nature ‘Tax Paid Expense (B2C)’ added to take care of expense where we
have GST paid invoice but nature is B2C (like F&B invoice from Restaurants).

 GST Nature ‘Registered Expense’ renamed to ‘Registered Expense (B2B)’.

 ‘State’ of company will be shown in bottom along with GSTIN No. Required to avoid GST related data
entry mistakes.

 If any ST/PT Master was being used by mistake in both VAT & GST dates, same was creating problem in
reporting. Now at the time of running ‘Update Voucher VAT/GST Summary’ option, such ST/PT Master
will be notified to user so that he can correct the data.

 Utility ‘Update Item HSN/SAC Description & UQC’ was available in AdministrationMisc. Data Entry which
was not visible to most of the users. Now it has been made available in TransactionsGST Misc. Utilities
menu also.

 Printing RCM invoice, transactions with RCM nature as ‘Compulsory Reg. Dealer’ were not being printed
as the same was not required. But it was creating confusion at user’s end. Now a message will be shown
mentioning the same while printing RCM invoice.

Bugs Removed

 Import vouchers from Excel, formats configured for Sales Return& Purchase Return vouchers were not
being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Clicking on ‘Reindex Databases’ from Company menu was generating error. Now problem rectified.

 Auto Round- off Bill Sundry was sometimes not being applied properly (whether to be added or
subtracted). Now problem rectified.

 Sales Register was generating error if Cess on GST was enabled in configuration. Now problem rectified.

 Generating Invoice from Order using F11, ‘State’ as specified in ‘Billing Details’ in Order was not being
picked. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Scheme Used in Vouchers’ report; sometimes an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

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Release 4.4 (23-08-2017)

Minor Changes

 Account master new field ‘GST Type’ added with options GST Applicable / GST Not applicable / Non-GST.
If ‘GST Type’ is chosen as GST Applicable then user can specify other GST related details like Tax Category,
HSN/SAC Code etc. User can enable GST in all Expense/Fixed Asset accounts to record GST related
transactions through accounting vouchers.

 Accounting vouchers, a new GST Nature added ‘Exempt Expense’ to record GST Exempt expenses.

 Accounting vouchers feeding; while specifying ‘GST Nature’ from drop down list, description of current
selected ‘GST Nature’ will be shown in side to make it more clear.

 Accounting vouchers can now be used to record GST related Fixed Assets transactions (Registered / RCM)
also.

 Changes in Standard Invoice printing configuration:


a. Item Body, new field provided ‘Alt. Qty. Price’.
b. Provision made to specify Bank Details.
c. If total quantity in an invoice is zero then quantity totals will not be printed (even if enabled).

 Minor changes Billing/Shipping Details window:


a. On pressing F7 on Party Name, last Party Name from Billing Details window will be picked.
b. After specifying the Party Nam, last address from Billing Details for this Party Name will be
repeated.

 New RCM Nature ‘Compulsory (Unreg.)’ provided in list of RCM Natures while creating Expense account.

 Tax Rates on the basis of Item price; in case of Tax Inclusive price, tax rate was picked on the basis of tax
inclusive price. Now it will be picked on the basis of price before tax.

 Account vouchers listing/registers, provision made to show/filter ‘GST Nature’ field.

 While generating RCM Invoice No. in ‘Consolidated RCM Payable’ voucher, there was no check for
duplicate no. Now this check has been applied.

 Voucher Configuration, new field ‘GST Report Basis’ provided where user can fix it to either As per Party
Details or Billing/Shipping Details or Ask in Voucher.

 ‘Bulk Updation of Account GSTIN/State’ utility; now Country & Type of Dealer will also be shown along
with GSTIN & State.

 Sale/Purchase voucher data entry; Tax Summary in left bottom, totals of taxable and tax amounts will also
be shown.

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 <ITC_ELIGIBILITY> field treatment changes for Composition Dealers. Now ‘Input will not be available’ will
be shown.

 PDC regularisation utility, option ‘Save Cheque Received Date in Narration’ was not being saved. Now it
will be saved.

 Sale/Purchase Type masters, new option ‘Non GST’ provided.

 Import vouchers from Excel, few fields related to GST details in Billing/Shipping Details window were not
available. Now made available.

 Import vouchers from Excel, a new option ‘GST Report Basis’ will be asked upfront if any field related to
‘Billing/Shipping Details’ if configured and ‘GST Report Basis’ field is not configured in import.

 While creating new company; Purchase Type Import was being created as ‘Exempt’. Now it will be
created as ‘Taxable’.

Bugs Removed

 While blocking any master, in list of master types two items ‘Misc. Masters’ & ‘Bulk Updation’ was being
shown by mistake. Now problem rectified.

 Modifying an Order and deleting an Item from grid, an error was being generated while saving the
voucher. Now problem rectified.

 Configuring Haryana VAT registers; sometimes an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Item master, option to change Alt. Unit / Packaging Unit after transactions have been fed was enabled by
mistake (as per design it cannot be changed). Now problem rectified.

 Adjusting multiple GST Advance references in Sales voucher; incorrect pending Advance amount was
being shown in bottom. Now problem rectified.

 Standard Invoice configuration; option ‘Print Party Details’ if set to ‘N’ was not being saved in background.
Now problem rectified.

 Upgrading BUSY to any Dual Mode model using upgrade file, Dual Mode model was not being shown in
upgrade screen. Now problem rectified.

 Modifying Dr Note/Cr Note voucher; sometimes an error ‘Overflow’ was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

 ‘Call Day Book’ report was generating error. Now problem rectified.

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Release 4.3 (17-08-2017)

Minor Changes

 Creating new company, Tax Category ‘Services 5%’ will be created automatically.

Bugs Removed

 More than 100 Material Centres tagged with a Branch, same were not being considered in inventory
reports. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Regenerate Voucher VAT/GST Summary’ option was sometimes generating error ‘Invalid Cursor’. Now
problem rectified.

 POS data entry; scanning BCN directly, sales price was not being picked. Now problem rectified.

 Accounting voucher with GST Nature as ‘Unreg/RCM’, warning messages were not proper. Now problem
rectified.

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Release 4.2 (12-08-2017)

Minor Changes

 Billing/Shipping Details window; in case of Composition Dealer, ‘Input will be Available’ was being shown.
Now ‘Composition – Input will not be available’ will be shown.

 ‘GST Help Contents’ on main form will now be routed to a web page where all the GST related help
contents have been hosted. This page can be accessed directly also using
www.busywin.com\gsthelcontents.aspx.

 Creating new Account; till now company’s State was being shown as default State for Account being
created. It was creating problem if no State master was found matching company’s State. Now in such
scenario, State ‘Others’ will be shown as default in Account master being created.

 Pressing F4 key on ‘RCM Summary’ report, nothing was happening. Now a message will be shown to drill
down to specific date to post RCM voucher using F4 key.

 GST details in accounting vouchers; Party’s location (Local/Central) was being judged from State name
specified in Party master which was creating confusion in some cases. Now State’s TIN Digit will be
checked to judge Local/Central type.

Bugs Removed

 Barcode printing for Sales/Purchase Return voucher was generating error. Now problem rectified.

 Monthly/Quarterly Sales/Purchase analysis report was generating error. Now problem rectified.

 Object history of any voucher was sometimes shown double entry for voucher creation. Now problem
rectified.

 ‘Registered Expense’ vouchers; State for the Party as specified in data entry window was not being picked
as POS. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Registered Expense’ with IGST, a warning was being shown ‘SGST not specified’. Now problem rectified.

 Standard Invoice in Landscape mode, caption of ‘Declaration’ section was not being printed properly.
Now problem rectified.

 In some cases while feeding Sales invoice, Qty/Price was being skipped automatically. This problem
started with version 4.1. Now problem rectified.

 In some cases, an error ‘Duplicate Key’ was being generated during upgrade. Now problem rectified.

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Release 4.1 (10-08-2017)

Minor Changes

 GST Summary printing was not available. Now made available.

 Changing of ‘State’ in Account master was not allowed after feeding the transactions. Now this check has
been removed.

Bugs Removed

 Single Entry Payment voucher, warning for RCM nature in expense account was being shown even if GST
Nature was not ‘Unreg/RCM Expense’. Now problem rectified.

 Single Entry Payment voucher with GST Nature as ‘Registered Expense’; window for tracking GSTR-2
details was not being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Separate Billing/Shipping Details window, on pressing F2 directly of GST Report Basis field, an error was
being generated.

 Separate Billing/Shipping Details window; if GST Report Basis was changed from Party to Billing Details or
vice versa, impact of the same was not being reflected in bottom where GST Report Basis details were
being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Settlement Summary report for Sales/Purchase Return vouchers; Voucher Series was being shown
disabled. Now problem rectified.

 Data Import through XML, sometimes data was not being imported with reason ‘Configuration does not
match’ even if there was no mismatch in configuration. Now problem rectified.

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Release 4.0 (08-08-2017)

Major Changes

 Provision made to feed expenses from registered dealers (on which input as available) through accounting
vouchers:
a. Specify Tax Category in Account masters.
b. At the time of feeding Journal/Payment voucher, pick GST Nature as ‘Registered Expense’. While
saving voucher a window will pop up where GST related details can be specified which will be
reflected in GSTR2 as registered purchase.

 A new predefined unit ‘N.A’ provided which can be used for service Items. If this unit is used in Item
master then stock of that Item will not be maintained and Qty./Price will be skipped automatically during
data entry.

 Till now GST reporting details for Sales voucher was always Party details and separate Billing/Shipping
details were being used for printing purpose only. Now provision made to specify GST Reporting basis
which could be either Party details or separate Billing/Shipping details.

Minor Changes

 Changes in Standard Invoice/Document printing:


a. Landscape mode, total body characters were limited to 132. Now increased to 158.
b. Provision made to print Tax Summary in line format also (old format).
c. Both Item Name & Item Print Name could not be printed together. Now it can be printed.
d. Printing Sales Return document as Credit Note, Document No. & Date fields were being shown as
‘No.’ & ‘Date’. Now it will be shown as ‘Credit Note No.’ & ‘Credit Note Date’.
e. Sales/Purchase Return document, ‘Org. Inv. No.’ & ‘Org. Inv. Date’ will be printed automatically.
f. Sometimes header lines were getting duplicated. Now rectified.
g. In case of Export invoice, destination Country will be shown in ‘Place of Supply’ field.

 Minor changes in Dr Note/Cr Note/Receipt printing with Tax Summary.

 Provision made to specify ‘Country’ in Account master.

 Sale Type master, new option provided ‘Reverse Charge’ in Taxation Type section. By enabling this option
user can generate invoice on which ‘Reverse Charge’ is applicable for recipient.

 RCM Nature ‘Compulsory’ changed to ‘Compulsory (Reg. Dealer)’ to make it more clear.

 GST Nature ‘Dr Note Received’ & ‘Cr Note Received’ were not available in Journal voucher. Now made
available.

 Item barcode printing, new field <HSN Code> provided.

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 Printing Account Ledger for multiple accounts, continuous Page Nos. were being maintained for all Parties
which was not acceptable if Ledger print-outs were to be given to individual parties. Now option provided
to print independent Page No. for each Ledger.

 Posting Consolidated RCM voucher, accounts to be debited were being asked first and accounts to be
credited were being asked after that. Now it will be reversed which is more logical.

 Item-wise tax details window, Item’s tax rate as specified in master will be shown in a label for error free
data entry.

 In order to modify State/Country master; only option was to use <ALT+M> while specifying State/Country
in Account master. Now menu for State & Country masters as AdministrationMasterMisc.
MastersState/Country.

 Item Batch-wise data entry, Sales price as specified during Purchase voucher was not changeable at the
time of Sales or repeat Purchase. Now it is changeable.

 Warning for ‘Blank HSN Code in Item master’ provided through Warning Alarms.

 Purchase Return voucher, ‘Org. Bill No.’ field was getting validated from Purchase voucher No. and not
from ‘Purchase Bill No.’. Now it will be validated as per ‘Purchase Bill No.’ as specified in Purchase
voucher.

 Creating default voucher for RCM or Advance GST while viewing report; if voucher already existed then
user was being asked to modify existing voucher or create new voucher. Now in such scenario, existing
voucher will be modified and option to create new voucher will not be asked.

 Creating Item masters in continuation, ‘HSN Code’ & ‘Tax Category’ fields were getting initialised after
saving of master. Now it won’t be initialised and can be used in next master.

 Minor changes in case of Composition Dealer:


a. During Data entry no check on tax rate as per Item’s Tax Category.
b. Only Exempt Sale Type can be chosen.

Bugs Removed

 Bulk Invoice generation from Challan utility was not working properly in GST. Now problem rectified.

 Voucher splitting utility was not working properly for GST. Now problem rectified.

 Item Tax Summary in tabular form was sometimes not getting clubbed properly on the basis of HSN Code.
Now problem rectified.

 Accounting voucher in Alt. Currency, negative Cash warning was always being shown even if Cash was not
negative. Now problem rectified.

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 ‘Dash Board’ report, on pressing <ENTER> an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Serial No. XXXX8000 was being shown as C.A. edition where as C.A. edition numbering starts from
XXXX8001. Now problem rectified.

 While emailing Standard invoice in landscape mode, it was being emailed in portrait mode only. Now
problem rectified.

 Scheme on the basis of clubbed Items was not being applied properly in voucher. Now problem rectified.

 Invoice configuration advanced format, picking default format in Landscape mode; an error ‘Invalid Font’
was being shown at the time of saving. Now problem rectified.

 Printing Consumption/Generation Analysis was generating error. Now problem rectified.

 Item’s Serial No.-wise stock being maintained; sometimes while Carrying F.Y. an error was being
generated if no. of pending Serial Nos. for a single Item were quite large. Now problem rectified.

 Account master; field ‘RCM Nature’ was not visible properly if ‘Bill-by-bill’ field was also enabled. Now
problem rectified.

 POS data entry; scanning BCN directly, BCN price was not being picked from BCN date-wise pricing
structure. Now problem rectified.

 If any Item with dual tax rate (on the basis of value) was used with different tax rate in a single invoice, tax
summary for that invoice was not showing proper values. Now problem rectified.

 Importing Items from Excel with multiple Aliases; an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Item-wise discount report was not showing correct results. Now problem rectified.

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Release 3.2 (27-07-2017)

Minor Changes

 ‘Tax Rate-wise Stock Details’ report was being shown in GST which was actually not required. Now it has
been removed.

 GST Surcharge on Item; three calculation modes were available that is Item Amount, Tax Amount & Item +
Tax Amount. Now only one mode, Item Amount has been provided as required by GST.

Bugs Removed

 Regularise PDC utility was generating error. Now problem rectified.

 After feeding any VAT Payment voucher; other voucher fed in continuation were also being treated as
VAT payment. Now problem rectified.

 RCM utility was not considering account heads which were not directly under Expense Group. Now
problem rectified.

 Sometimes ST/PT belonging to VAT was being shown in GST, creating problem in VAT reports. Now
problem rectified.

 Currency decimal places more than 5; an error was being generated while printing invoice. Now problem
rectified.

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Release 3.1 (24-07-2017)

Minor Changes

 Item body configuration in Standard invoice format; user could pick both Item Name & Item Print Name
which was creating confusion later on. Now user can choose either Item Name or Item Print Name.

 Creating new company; if default tax rates were not specified, ST/PT for 18% & 12% were being created.
Now ST/PT for 5%, 12%, 18% & 28% will be created.

 Printing tax summary in bottom of Dr/Cr Note, captions ‘Org. Vch No.’ & ‘Org. Vch Date’ were being used.
Now ‘Org. Inv. No.’ & ‘Org. Inv. Date’ will be used.

 Tax Summary in accounting vouchers was being printed in normal font. Now it will be printed in
condense mode.

 New fields provided in invoice configuration:


a. <ACC_LAST_SALE_VCH_NO>
b. <ACC_LAST_PURCHASE_VCH_NO>
c. <ACC_LAST_RECEIPT_VCH_NO>
d. <ACC_LAST_PAYMENT_VCH_NO>

Bugs Removed

 Starting from version 3.0, Contra vouchers were not being saved with message ’Invalid GST Nature for this
Voucher Type’. Now problem rectified.

 Import vouchers from Excel without amount column (amount being recalculated on the basis of quantity
& price), reverse GST was not being calculated properly. Now problem rectified.

 Saving company configuration and pressing <ESC> immediately, an error was being generated. Now
problem rectified.

 Minor corrections in Standard invoice printing;


a. If Item Name was chosen instead of Item Print Name, sometimes invoice was not being printed
properly. Now rectified.
b. Landscape mode with Alt. Unit was not printing properly. Now rectified.
c. DOS mode printing, header was not proper. Now rectified.

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Release 3.0 (21-07-2017)

Major Changes

 General provisions for GST:


a. New field GST Nature provided in accounting vouchers required to handle GST aspect within that
voucher (RCM, Advance, Dr Note, Cr Note etc.). On the basis GST nature, separate window will
popup to capture GST related details.
b. Till now ‘Input Tax Eligibility’ was being asked in Purchase Type. Now it has been removed from
Purchase Type and will be asked in Purchase voucher itself.
c. Purchase Type master, option ‘Un reg.’ Will be shown as ‘Un Reg. / RCM’ as this purchase type
will be used to track Purchase vouchers on which RCM will be applicable.
d. Party master, GSTIN field renamed to GSTIN/UIN.
e. While creating new company for GST, two tax rates will be asked and ST/PT masters will be
created for those two rates only. Right now ST/PT masters were being created for all tax rates
making list of ST/PT very long.
f. New menu TransactionsMisc. GST Utilities provided to take care of RCM & Tax on Advance
reporting and posting.
g. Changes in Voucher Type names:
i. Sales Return will be shown as ‘Sup. Out’ Return / Cr. Note.
ii. Purchase Return will be shown as ‘Sup. In’ Return / Dr. Note
iii. Debit Note will shown as Dr. Note (w/o Items)
iv. Credit Note will be shown as Cr. Note (w/o Items)
h. Party master, ‘Type of Dealer’ as per GST regime will be asked to decide nature of transaction
(B2B or B2C). Following options are available:
i. Reg. Dealer
ii. Unreg. Dealer
iii. UIN Holder
iv. Composition Dealer

 Provision for Reverse Charge Mechanism (RCM):


a. Now user can specify in expense accounts whether RCM is applicable or not and if applicable,
details related to RCM (RCM Nature, Tax Category, Input Type) can be specified in account. Once
these details are specified in expense accounts, user can feed normal data related to these
expenses through Payment/Journal voucher.
b. User can also feed ‘Unreg./RCM’ Purchase through Purchase voucher and can specify RCM
nature within that voucher.
c. On the basis of expense vouchers fed in accounts or Unreg. Purchase vouchers, ‘Consolidated
RCM Payable’ report will be generated at day end with option to post accounting voucher for the
same. ‘Consolidated RCM Payable’ report/posting is available as TransactionsGST Misc.
UtilitiesCheck/Post Consolidated RCM Payable.

 Provision for GST in Advance Receipt voucher:

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a. While feeding receipt voucher user can specify GST Nature as ‘Advance Receipt’ and can create
advance references along with GST details.
b. While printing Receipt, GST details will be printed on it.
c. While feeding Sales Invoice, user can adjust the advance reference.
d. In case of refund, user can use payment voucher with GST nature as ‘Refund against Advance
Receipt’ and can adjust advance reference.
e. Two report, ‘Tax Payable on Advance Receipt’ and ‘Tax Adjustable against Tax on Advance’ are
provided. First report will show the tax liability arising out of Advance Receipt where invoice is
not raised in current tax period. Second report will show the invoices which have been adjusted
against Advance Receipt in previous tax period. Available as Transactions—GST Misc. Utilities-
>Check/Post Tax on Advance Receipt & Check/Post Tax Adjustable against Advance.

 Provision for separate tax rate on the basis of price as required in footwear and garment industry. We
can specify different rate of tax on the basis of price in Tax Category master and same will be applied at
the time of voucher saving.

 Provision for Composition Dealer. Can be configured through GST configuration window. In case of
composition dealer certain checks and controls provided as user will be able to create Exempt invoice only
and won’t be able to get Input credit in purchase.

 Provisions in Standard Invoice printing:


a. Provision made to print in Landscape mode.
b. Provision made to print Party Aadhar No. also.
c. Size of fields ‘Header’ was of 50 characters. Now increased to 80.

 Till now Sales/Purchase Account could be specified either with Sale/Purchase Type or with Items. Now
mixed mode can used where account can be specified both with Sales/Purchase type and Item level. At
the time of saving, Items with their own Sales/Purchase account will be posted in their respective
accounts and other Items will be posted as per Sales/Purchase Type. Required when both Goods &
Services/Expenses are being used in a single invoice and user can tag separate Service/Expense account
with respective Items.

Minor Changes

 Provision made to specify default Tax Category & HSN Code with Item Group master which will be picked
automatically during new Item creation. Also provision made in Item group to update Tax Category &
HSN Code in all Items under that group with a single click.

 Configuring SMS with API, an option was being asked ‘Remove Line Feed’. Now this option will not be
asked as it is no longer required.

 New field ‘Port Code’ added in ‘Shipping Details’ window for Export Supply.

 Voucher feeding with Item-wise tax; if final amount was changed after specifying the tax; basic amount &
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Items with zero quantity (service items). Now in such cases on changing the final amount, tax will be
calculated over and above the final amount.

Bugs Removed

 Item HSN code field chosen in Item’s drop down window was not showing GST HSN Code. Instead it was
showing VAT Comm. Code. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Regenerate Help File’ utility for ‘All Masters’ was not working. Now problem rectified.

 Invoice configuration, total CGST/SGST/IGST fields were not working if tax was applied through Bill
Sundry. No problem rectified.

 Creating a new company with VAT and then using ‘Create Default Masters’ button in GST configuration,
existing Purchase Types for VAT were getting deleted. Now problem rectified.

 Item multiple price list being maintained; if during data entry Item’s price category was changed, MRP for
new category was not being picked. Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry for Purchase Return voucher; scanning BCN directly, purchase price was not being picked
automatically. Now problem rectified.

 Sometimes HSN-wise summary in invoice was skipping a few entries. Now problem rectified.

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Release 2.7 (14-07-2017)

Minor Changes


st th
GST starting date was being considered as 1 July but in J&K GST was implemented from 8 July. Now for
th
J&K GST implementation date will be considered as 8 July.

Bugs Removed

 Some minor issues related to HO/BO data synchronisation resolved:

a. If at one place configuration was VAT and at other GST, synch we not getting started. Now it can
be done.
b. Both VAT & GST vouchers were not getting synchronised in one go. Now it can be done
c. If option to update Account Op. Balance was disabled at HO then while receiving Account from
BO, Account’s Op. Ref. was getting deleted at HO. Now problem rectified.

 Registering softlock, sometimes error ‘Service Not available’ was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

 Item-wise GST vouchers were not being imported from Excel. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Create Default Masters’ button in GST configuration was not creating Cess related Accounts (if enabled).
Now problem rectified.

 ‘Signatory Details’ form in GST configuration section was showing weird data fields. Now problem
rectified.

 Tax Summary in tabular format in invoice; in case of Cess exceeding 100%, *** was being printed. Now
problem rectified.

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Release 2.6 (12-07-2017)

Minor Changes

 New invoice format for 3” & 4” were being created on pressing ‘Create Default Masters’ button in GST
configuration. Now it will be created automatically while opening company.

Bugs Removed

 Sometimes an error was being generated on clicking ‘Voucher Configuration’ menu. Now problem
rectified.

 Invoice standard format; if logo was enabled, GSTIN caption was being printed as GST. Now problem
rectified.

 ‘Rewrite Books’ was generating error. Now problem rectified.

 Multi Rate GST voucher, sometimes Tax Summary was showing difference in tax amount in a few paisa.
Now problem rectified.

 While registering softlock, sometimes an error ‘Service Not Available’ was being shown even if everything
was ok. Now problem rectified.

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Release 2.5 (11-07-2017)

Minor Changes

 Changes in invoice printing:

a. Tax Summary in invoice bottom will be printed in Tabular format.


b. New slip formats for 4” & 3” stationary provided. For existing users these formats will be
available by pressing ‘Create Default Masters’ button in GST configuration screen.
c. Provision made to print Party state separately in Standard format.
d. ‘ITC Eligibility’ field was not printing anything in invoice in GST mode. Now it will print whether
Input will be available on not in this invoice on the basis whether GSTIN is specified in Party
master or not.
e. Tax summary/Item Body Captions in invoice were showing ‘SGST’ in case of Union Territory also.
Now ‘UTGST’ will be shown.
f. ‘Place of Supply’ field will always pick state from Party master and not from
Separate Billing/Shipping Details window.


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Data entry in VAT after 1 July and vice versa was restricted. Now this restriction has been made
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configurable (warning alarms) as in a few cases VAT entry is required after 1 July.

 Creating new company, Cash account was being created without any State being mentioned in it. Now by
default company’s State will be set in Cash account as the same is required for GST reporting.

 Separate Billing/Shipping Details window, a frame will be shown in bottom specifying whether this
transaction is B2B or B2C and other details which will be reflected in GST reports. Any transaction where
GSTIN is specified in Party in voucher will be treated as B2B otherwise it will be treated as B2C even if
GSTIN is specified in Billing Details window.

 Sales/Purchase voucher feeding; if State is not found in Party, a warning message will be shown. Till now
this message was being shown in central transactions only.

 Creating new company; till now single GST account was being created for both Input tax & Output tax.
Now separate accounts will be created for Input & Output.

Bugs Removed

 Item Serial No.-wise stock maintained, zero balance serial nos. was being carried over to next FY. Now
problem rectified.

 Sales Register with option ‘Show Party GSTIN also’ was showing error. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Import vouchers from Excel’; no formats were being shown for import. Now problem rectified.

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Release 2.4 (08-07-2017)

Minor Changes

 Bulk Modification of Tax Categories, VAT rate column was not being shown along with GST rate column
creating confusion. Now VAT rate column and GST rate column will be shown together.

 Minor changes in invoice printing:

a. ‘Place of Supply’ field was picking state from ‘Separate Billing/Shipping Details’ window. Now if
Party has GSTIN (B2B) then state will be picked from Party master otherwise state will be picked
from Billing Details window.
b. ‘Place of Supply’ was being printed in all voucher types. Now it will be printed in Sales only.
c. Sometimes some blank space was being printed in the right portion of invoice. Now problem
rectified.

 Creating default masters, separate Purchase Types were being created for ‘Input-Goods’ & ‘Input-None’.
Now no caption related to Input type will be added to Purchase Type name. Also during this process,
extra Purchase Types created earlier and not being used will be deleted automatically.

Bugs Removed

 Sale Register standard format with option ‘Show Bifurcation of Amount’ enabled, incorrect GST amounts
were being shown. Now problem rectified.

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Release 2.3 (05-07-2017)

Minor Changes

 Minor refinement in Masters Bulk Creation/Modification screens.

 Minor changes in invoice/documents printing for GST:

a. ‘Purchase Invoice’ standard configuration, till now invoice heading was fixed and was to be
specified in configuration. Now option for auto heading provided and on the basis of tax charged
in invoice, heading will be decided (as in Sales Invoice).
b. Purchase Invoice standard format; caption ‘Party Details’ changed to ‘Supplier Detail’.
c. ‘Reverse Charge’ field will be printed in Sales/Purchase Invoice standard format with value as ‘N’.
d. Sales Return/Purchase Return standard document configuration, default title was being shown as
‘Sales Return Invoice’ & ‘Purchase Return Invoice’. Now default title would be shown as ‘Credit
Note’ & ‘Debit Note’.
e. Sales Invoice standard format, by default ‘Print Billing/Shipping Details Separately’ will be set to
‘Y’.
f. If ‘Print Separate Billing/Shipping Details’ option is enabled, invoice will always be printed in this
mode even if ‘Separate Billing/Shipping Details’ option is disabled in voucher series.
g. New field <GST_INVOICE_TYPE> provided in invoice configuration which will decide the invoice
heading (‘Tax Invoice’ or ‘Bill of Supply’) to be printed on invoice.
h. New field <REVERSE_CHARGE_APPLICABLE> provided in invoice configuration. As of now it will
print ‘N’ but later on it will print actual value when we provided ‘Reverse Charge Mechanism’ in
Purchase voucher.
i. GST Rate field in Item body was working only in case of Item-wise tax invoice. Now it will work in
all the cases and tax rate will be picked from Item master.

 Changes related to migration process:

a. Using ‘Create Default Masters’ option through configuration, provision made to create new
voucher series(s) for GST automatically.
b. While updating GST rates in existing tax categories, provision made to create new Tax Category
where user can specify both VAT rate & GST rate simultaneously. Required when Items of a
single VAT rate are migrated to multiple GST rates.

 Option to show ‘Sales/Purchase’ as ‘Supply Outward/Supply Inward’ was disabled by default. Now it will
be enabled by default and user can disable it in GST configuration.

 Switching to GST from VAT, sometimes list of ST/PT masters was not showing complete list of masters.
Now user can use ‘Create Default Masters’ button in GST configuration and all masters will be visible.

 Option to switch between VAT & GST using F12 key was not available for users not having rights on
configuration. Now this restriction has been removed and any user can switch between VAT & GST using
F12 key.

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 ST/PT types, option ‘Lump-sum Dealer’ changed to ‘Composition Dealer’ and ‘Unreg. Dealer’ changed to
‘Unreg. (Without RCM)’.

 Creating new company for India, till now default tax type was being shown as VAT. Now it will be shown
as GST.

 While feeding an inventory voucher; if voucher is fed in VAT configuration with date greater than 1st July
or vice versa, voucher will not be saved with warning message.

 While creating default masters for GST, separate Purchase Types were being created for ‘Input-None’ and
‘Input-Goods’ which was increasing the no. of Purchase Types. Now only one Purchase Type will be
created without mentioning the Input Type.

 Busy Express data will be converted automatically in regular version. Till now it could be done with the
help of a utility.

Bugs Removed

 Quantity of Sales/Purchase voucher was not being reflected properly in GST reports. Now problem
rectified. User will have to run ‘Update Voucher GST Summary’ option from House Keeping menu to
correct existing data.

 Problems resolved in Standard invoice printing:

a. Sometimes an additional vertical line was being printed in header section. Now problem
rectified.
b. ‘Party Name’ was being printed instead of ’Party Print Name’. Now problem rectified.
c. If Trading Excise invoice printing was enabled in landscape mode, invoice in GST was also being
printed in landscape mode. Now problem rectified.

 Material Issue and Stock Transfer printing in standard format, title as specified in configuration was not
being printed. Instead ‘Bill of Supply’ was being printed. Now problem rectified.

 While converting data from Access to SQL mode, sometimes an error was being generated after the
conversion process. Now problem rectified.

 While switching between users, custom menus were getting removed. Now problem rectified.

 Sometimes button ‘Steps for Migration to GST’ was being shown on main form even if no company was
open. Now problem rectified.

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Release 2.2 (30-06-2017)

Minor Changes


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Demo period extended to 31 July and data will also be upgraded in demo mode.

 Separate standard format for Stock Transfer printing for VAT & GST available now.

Bugs Removed

 Item multiple price lists being maintained date-wise, sometimes wrong price was being picked during data
entry. Now problem rectified.

 While changing FY, sometimes some strange values in P&L account were being carried over. It was
happening if Sub Ledgers were maintained for revenue accounts. Now problem rectified.

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Release 2.1 (27-06-2017)

Minor Changes

 Warning Alarms; warning for ‘Tax/Retail Invoice’ was being shown in GST also but actually it was not
required. Now these warning removed for GST.

 Stock Transfer document printing in standard format was same for VAT & GST. Now different formats will
be used.

 Stock Transfer/Material Issue document printing, heading of document was as per VAT. Now heading ‘Bill
of Supply’ will be printed as per GST.

 Option to change Tax Type with F12 key was being shown in FY other than 2017 also. Now it will not be
shown in other FY.

 Tax Type changed with F12 key was being saved back in configuration creating confusion for other users.
Now this change will be applicable for current session only and will not be updated back in company
configuration.

 Bulk Tax Category updation utility; while updating GST rates, existing VAT rates will be shown in grid for
reference.

 ‘Migration to GST’ button on main form; provision made to hide the same and if required again can be
invoked through Help menu.

 While creating default masters for GST, a new Purchase Type ‘L/GST 18% (Expense)’ will be created which
can be used to book taxable expenses. In this Purchase Type, expense account will be asked in voucher
itself.

 Provision made to show ‘Sale/Purchase’ voucher type captions as ‘Supply Outward/Supply Inward’ as
required in GST. Can be configured in Features/OptionsVAT/GST tab.

 Enabling Sales Tax reporting in an existing company, till now a default Sale Type was being asked to
update in existing voucher. Now an Exempt Sale Type will be created automatically and will be set in
existing vouchers.

Bugs Removed

 GST invoice, tax summary was showing sale value instead of taxable value. Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry with Item-wise discount enabled; if list price was changed to zero, nett price was not
getting reset to zero. Now problem rectified.

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 Selecting Standard Narration with F4; in case no narration was available, program was getting hanged.
Now problem rectified.

 Bulk Account/Item Addition utility was not working. Now problem rectified.

 Default ST/PT defined with Party belonging to VAT regime was being picked in GST also creating
confusion. Now it will not be picked in GST.

 ‘List of Logged-In User’ report; while trying to disconnect a user, an error was being generated. Now
problem rectified.

 Changing FY, sometimes an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 BCN enabled and Sales price not being maintained with BCN; if BCN was scanned directly during POS data
entry, BCN price was not being picked from default mode. Now problem rectified.

 Repeating last voucher number incremented using Alt+F7 key was not working properly in case of last
voucher number with suffix or prefix. Now in such cases number will not be incremented and will be
repeated as it is.

 Sales voucher feeding; list of Sale Types was being shown blank in case of country being other than India.
Now problem rectified.

 Voucher feeding; if voucher series was changed from auto numbering to manual numbering, an error
‘Auto Number cannot be changed’ was being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Master Series Group filtering was not working for ST/PT Masters. Now problem rectified.

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Release 2.0 (21-06-2017)

Major Changes

 Changes related to migration to GST India:


a. Button provided on main screen ‘Steps for Migration to GST’. On clicking this button steps
required for migration will be shown and user can follow these steps to become GST ready.
b. As part of migration o GST, new options provided as below:
i. MastersBulk UpdationCheck & Update Party GSTIN & State.
ii. MastersBulk Updation->Check & Update Item Tax Category & HSN Code.
iii. MastersBulk Updation->Check & Update Item GST Rates in Tax Categories.
c. Tax Category master, user can feed both VAT & GST details in a single tax category as per the
company configuration. For existing Tax Categories created for VAT, user can switch to GST in
company configuration and modify existing Tax Categories to specify GST rates for the same.
d. ST/PT Masters will be separate for VAT & GST. Existing ST/PT Masters will be tagged for VAT and
new ST/PT masters will be created while enabling GST. During data entry, ST/PT masters as per
the company configuration will be shown in the list.
e. Separate Standard Invoice format will be used for VAT & GST. Existing format will be used for
VAT and user will be able to create new format for GST after enabling GST in configuration.
f. Current configured Tax Type (VAT/GST) will be shown in side panel and user will be able to
change it by pressing F12 key (on main form only).
g. Vouchers fed in VAT, if opened in GST will not be modifiable. User will have to switch to VAT to
modify the same.

 Other changes for GST India:


a. Provision made to track ‘Sales Through eCommerce Portal’ as same has been asked in GST
reporting. Can be specified in Sale Type master.
b. New option ‘ITC Eligibility’ added in Purchase Type Master.
c. New utility ‘Update HSN Codes Description’ provided in AdministrationMisc. Data Entry section
to update description and unit for HSN Codes.
d. AdministrationBulk Updation section; provision made to update Item HSN code for
All/Group/Selected Items in one go.
e. In case of Sales Type being Export/Sale to SEZ Unit/Deemed Export, new fields ‘Shipping Bill No.’
& ‘Date’ will be asked during voucher feeding.
f. New report ‘Input Available on Existing Stock’ provided in GST reports section.

 Changes Item Parameter/BCN-wise module:


a. Provision made to specify Parameter/BCN wise discount/markup during data entry
(configurable).
b. Provision made to feed predefined BCN database along with date-wise price and
discount/markup. Available as AdministrationConfigurationUpdate BCN Details/Pricing.
c. Till now BCN was being generated as continuous no. only. Now BCN can be generated on the
basis of Item Master and Parameters values. Can be configured both at company level and Item
group level.

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 While changing F.Y, following provisions made:
a. Option provided to carry Account/Item’s static information like Address, Description etc. Also to
next year. Till now only master’s balances were being carried over to next year and static
information (Address, Description etc.) was being carried over to next year only at the time of
creation of new F.Y.
b. Option provided to carry masters pricing information (Party-Item price, Parameter-wise price
etc.) to next year. Available as AdministrationChange F.Y.Carry Item’s Pricing Info to F.Y. DD-MM-
YY.

Minor Changes

 Standard Invoice format, following provisions made:


a. Print Separate Billing & Shipping Details.
b. Print Party Mobile No.
c. Print Party Email ID.

 Till now addition/modification of multiple masters on single screen was available under
AdministrationBulk Updation. Now new link provided as to AdministrationMastersBulk Updation.

 New reports ‘Party Cash Summary’ and ‘Cash against Invoices’ provided in Accounts Summary sections as
the same is required by IT department.

 TDS Module; provision made to create zero TDS references as required in case of transporters.

 Feeding Payment/Receipt voucher, Cash/Bank name will be picked automatically from last voucher.

 Sale Type/Purchase Type master name length increased from 20 to 30.

 Regenerate Master Help File Utility, provision made to regenerate only ST/PT Mast as the same would be
required in VAT/GST dual mode.

 Sending email to Party from voucher; if mail was copied to Broker also, email-id for Broker was being
picked from the Broker specified in Party master. Now if Broker has been specified in voucher itself, email
for that Broker will be picked else email from Party master Broker will be picked.

 User Configuration, new option ‘Restrict Deletion of Row in Sale Voucher’ provided. If enabled user will
not be able to delete any Item row during Sales voucher feeding with the help of F9 key. Nor he would be
able to quit without saving the voucher.

 Balance Sheet on screen; amount figures for sub groups were not formatted with coma. Now it will be
formatted. Also the columns of reports were not resizable. Now it can be resized.

 ‘Bill Reference Adjustment’ wizard, size of columns in data entry grid increased to improve the readability.

 ‘Separate Billing Details’ option changed to ‘Separate Billing/Shipping Details’.

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 Utility to feed ‘Billing/Shipping Details’ separately, provision made to feed ‘Cash Tendered Details’ also.

 Softlock registration; till now for Server OS softlock was being registered on the basis of computer’s
Machine ID and for non Server OS softlock was being registered on the basis of computer’s HDD Serial No.
Now it has been made optional and user can choose whether softlock is to be bound with Machine ID or
HDD Serial No.

 Speed of ‘Tracking No.’ related reports optimised.

 Item Serial No. wise stock maintenance; negative stock of Serial Nos. was not being carried over to next
year. Now it has been made optional and user can configure to carry negative stock to next year.

 Item-wise Sales/Purchase Analysis reports, provision made to show details in Packaging Unit also.

 Item/Party-wise Sales/Purchase Analysis for one Item/Party on screen; till now entry level details were
being shown. Now initially summary will be shown and details will be shown on pressing <ENTER>.

 Barcode labels if emailed were not getting printed properly after receiving the mail. Now option to email
barcode labels has been removed and user can only print them on printer.

 HO/BO data synchronisation; if auto data sync option was enabled, data sync form was being shown
directly at specified interval. Now a message box will be shown asking for the same.

 Invoice configuration, new fields <PURCHASE_BILL_NO>, <PURCHASE_BILL_DATE>, <GST_PERCENT> &


<GST_AMOUNT> provided in Item body.

 Date-wise Item pricing window, till now no. of rows shown were 128. Now increased to 400 as required
by users whose Item rates changes on daily basis.

Bugs Removed

 Masters drop down list during data entry; if ‘Show End of List’ feature was enabled and some
additional information was also configured to be shown along with masters in drop down list, additional
information was not being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Orders imported from Excel with Order No. field greater than 25 characters; while generating Invoice
against Order using F11 key, all Items from were not being picked. Now problem rectified.

 While feeding Master/Voucher notes, calculator was not being invoked with the help of F10 key. Now
problem rectified.

 Converting data from Access to SQL, ‘Job Work Finished Goods’ references were not being converted.
Now problem rectified.

 Item-wise Discount report was not showing correct results in case of compound discount. Now problem
rectified.

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 Sub Account Ledger report generated for multiple FY; sometimes an error was being generated. Now
problem rectified.

 In case cross loop of groups created by mistake, errors were being generated while changing F.Y. or saving
vouchers. Now problem rectified.

 Party-Item price structure; if first element in Item/Item Group grid was specified with zero value, same
was not getting printed properly. Now problem rectified.

 Screen report summarised on some column with sub details being shown; on pressing <ENTER> on some
sub detail entry, wrong details were being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Order-wise Statement; progress bar was not working properly. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Global Query on Masters’ was not searching data in master’s optional fields. Now problem rectified.

 HO/BO data synchronisation enabled; if ‘Transport Details’ or ‘Purchase Bill Details’ were updated using
‘Misc. Data Entry’ utility at BO, same was not being synchronised to HO. Now problem rectified.

 Sales/Purchase Analysis reports for multiple F.Y., incorrect average price was being shown. Now problem
rectified.

 Item MRP-wise stock maintained; sometimes Sales Price corresponding to MRP was not being picked
properly during Sales voucher feeding. Now problem rectified.

 Importing ‘Trading Excise Opening References’; an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Physical Stock voucher, Item’s parameter-wise details were not being shown as per the configuration
defined in Item Group master. Now problem rectified.

 Scheme based on Item Group was not being applied in Material Issue/Receipt voucher. Now problem
rectified.

 Importing Material Receipt vouchers Excel; while using fields from imported vouchers as custom columns
in screen report, proper value was not being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Picking pending Job Work Receivable references using F11 key during Material Receipt voucher; incorrect
date was being shown with Job Reference No. in pending references window. Now problem rectified.

 Generating Invoice from pending Orders using F11 key; Order Nos. were not being shown sorted date-
wise. Now problem rectified.

 Custom column for Item Description being used in pending order report; in case of opening reference, no
value was being shown. Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry; if Item Serial No. was scanned directly, Item’s warranty months were not being saved in
voucher. Now problem rectified.

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 Balance Sheet printed directly from screen with option ‘Remove Profit for Period’ enabled; Balance Sheet
Annexures were not being printed properly. Now problem rectified.

 Few fields in configurable invoice were not working properly. Now problem rectified.

 Batch-wise stock enabled; if Expiry Date was enabled in configuration and disabled for an Item, warning
for expiry was being shown at the time of voucher saving. Now problem rectified.

 Scheme applied during data entry and scheme discount to be appended to exiting discount, same was not
working properly during voucher modification. Now problem rectified.

 Purchase Billing Details window, check for duplicate bill no. was not working on the basis of Party. Now
problem rectified.

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Release 1.8 (31-05-2017)

Minor Changes

 Configuration option ‘Update Prices in Item Master’ renamed to ‘Update Item Prices from Vouchers’ to
make it more clear.

 Creating default AMC references during Sales; in case of ‘Sales against Challan’, Item’s Serial No. as
specified in challan were not being picked automatically in AMC references. Now it will be picked.

 New fields <PARTY_STATE> & <PARTY_STATE_CODE> provided in configurable letters like ‘Confirmation of
A/c’, ‘Confirmation of VAT’ etc.

 New field <COMM_CODE> provided while importing Items from Excel. This field will import Item’s
Commodity Code as per VAT.

 Bill-by-bill details window during data entry; in case of Party having thousands of pending references,
window opening was taking a lot of time. Now speed improved.

 Configuring PF Deduction master for Salary calculation; zero value was not being accepted for sub
components of PF. Now zero value will be accepted as required under certain circumstances.

Bugs Removed

 Cost Centre Summary; on pressing <ENTER> no details were being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Account Register columnar printing; printing of only odd or even pages was not working. Now problem
rectified.

 Regenerate Product Vouchers utility was generating error if any cancelled Production voucher was found.
Now problem rectified.

 Material Received after Jobwork, specifying Items Consumed details; if ‘Load Default’ button was pressed,
an error was being generated while saving the voucher. Now problem rectified.

 GST invoice in standard format, Item HSN code was not being printed. Now problem rectified.

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Release 1.7 (15-05-2017)

Minor Changes

 Balance Sheet printing, till now values till 99 Crore were getting printed properly. Now provision made for
values till 9900 Crore.

 Changes done as per Nepal VAT department:


a. Minor changes in Nepal ‘Materialised View’ report.
b. In case of Nepal country with SQL mode, a trigger will be created automatically in database to
avoid direct data manipulation in database.
c. While exporting Nepal VAT reports, option for pdf will only be shown and other options (Excel,
HTML and Text) will not be shown.
d. While printing Invoice, during first time printing no Copy Title will be printed and from second
printing onward Copy of Original 1 onward will be printed.

 Stock Status report generated in Alt. Unit, stock of Items having only Main Unit was being shown as zero
creating confusion. Now for such Items stock in Main Unit will be shown as stock in Alt. Unit.

 Call Register; full details related to opening calls (pertaining to last FY) were not being shown. Now it will
be shown.

 Order Processing enabled; opening a voucher for modification for Parties having lot of pending orders was
taking long time. Now speed improved.

 User tagged with a branch; while picking pending Orders from F11, pending Orders for all the branches
were being shown. Now Orders for user’s branch only will be shown.

 Bill-by-bill adjustment data entry; for partially adjusted references carried over from last FY, ‘Org. Ref.
Amt.’ was being shown same as the partial amount carried over to this year. Now actual ‘Org. Ref. Amt.’,
as specified in last year will be shown.

 Account register columnar, some of the fields optimised for speed.

 Input Service Tax details window, assessable value was not being shown. Now it will be shown.

 Provision made to show ‘ End of List ’ in masters drop down list during data entry (optional). Can be
configured through AdministrationFeatures/OptionsGeneral Tab.

 Menu CompanyBUSY Training / Help Videos renamed as CompanyTraining / Help Videos.

 Minor changes in Payroll PF & TDS default configuration as per new guidelines.

 Configuring columnar account registers and picking data fields; fields which are not optimised for speed
will be shown marked with ‘*’. It will help user to avoid those fields, if possible.

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 Item Serial No.-wise data entry in Sales vouchers; if any partial Serial No. was specified, all matching Serial
Nos. were getting selected. Now a message will be shown telling about multiple matching Serial Nos. and
user will be able to either proceed or skip.

 Generating Invoice from Order pertaining to last year; Billing Details from last year’s Order were not being
picked. Now it will be picked.

Bugs Removed

 Voucher Approval utility; if a voucher was modified and resaved, sometimes the voucher entries were
getting duplicated in background. Now problem rectified.

 Voucher feeding; updating discount of all Items in one go, compound discount was not getting updated in
Items. Now problem rectified.

 Item batch-wise data entry; in the batch(s) drop down window, batch expiry status was being shown but
in case of expiry not being maintained, ‘Batch has been expired’ was being shown. Now problem
rectified.

 Item parameter-wise data entry; if transaction price was specified as zero in parameter window and
discount was specified in Item grid, effective price for that parameter combination was being shown in
negative. Now problem rectified

 Item barcode printing from stock status; if Alt. Unit of Items feature was enabled, barcode for Items
having Main Unit only were not being printed. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Multi Currency Revaluation’ utility for closing balance was not working properly. Now problem rectified.

 Pending Order report with parameter-wise details; sometimes wrong parameter details were being
shown. Now problem rectified.

 ‘On Account Entries’, sometimes an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Clear Order References’ utility was generating an error if date separator was set to ‘.’. Now problem
rectified.

 ‘Party-Item Last Pricing’ mode enabled; if no Party-Item transaction was found in current year and Party
did not exist in last year, some random price was being picked. Now problem rectified.

 Scheme master; discount could not be specified more than 999 which was ok in case of % but not in case
of absolute discount. Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry and Settlement Details disabled; Settlement Details were always being printed in Standard
Invoice. Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry, Alt. Qty. Total was not being shown properly below Item grid. Now problem rectified.

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 Columnar Account Register with Sales/Purchase Return included and voucher having more than one Item,
(-) sign was not being shown from second entry onward and wrong totals were being shown. Now
problem rectified.

 Columnar Account Register for Sales/Purchase Return, ‘Cost of Goods’ field was showing incorrect values.
Now problem rectified.

 Settlement configuration in POS configuration; while specifying the Invoice format to be used during
Settlement from Misc. Data Entry, formats list was being shown blank. Now problem rectified.

 Production voucher, if unit of any Item in Raw Material grid was changed, Item’s price was not being
changed as per new unit. Now problem rectified.

 Printing ‘Cost Centre Summary-Vertical’ for all cost centres, an error was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

 While opening Call Explorer sometimes an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Item parameter-wise data entry; if any entry was changed in grid, MRP corresponding to new entry was
not getting updated. Now problem rectified.

 Scanning BCN in parameter-wise data entry; if default quantity of BCN was changed after scanning, MRP
was setting to zero. Now problem rectified.

 Screen report; custom column(s) being used for Item fields, sometimes additional Item rows were being
shown in report. Now problem rectified.

 Pending Sales Order report with parameter details; while generating Purchase Order for pending quantity
using F4 key, wrong Item quantity was being pushed in voucher. Now problem rectified.

 Party-Item pricing configuration; if configuration was saved for All Items and then resaved for One Item,
existing entries for All Items were getting deleted. Now problem rectified.

 Item-wise GP Reconciliation report, sometimes mismatch was being shown for a few vouchers where
actually there was no mismatch. Now problem rectified.

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Release 1.6 (24-04-2017)

Minor Changes

 Access 2 SQL data conversion was not possible on 64 bit SQL server. Now it can be done.

 Master Optional field size increased from 20 to 30 characters.

 Item Master, HSN code for GST will always be asked even if GST is not enabled in configuration. It has
been done so that user can start feeding the HSN codes for smoother transition to GST.

 Sale/Purchase Type master, caption ‘Tax Type’ will be shown on top of the form indicating whether the
master being created/modified is for VAT or GST. Will be required when both VAT and GST will be
applicable in a single FY.

 Item Parameter-wise details feeding with predefined parameter values; in order to create a new
predefined parameter value, user had to go to configuration menu. Now provision made to create new
parameter value using F3 key during data feeding.

 Material Issue for Job-work using F4 key; finished goods receivable reference was not being generated
automatically if Job-id was being maintained at Item level. Now in this case also finished goods reference
will be created automatically if a single Job-id is specified for all items.

 Screen reports, provision made to export data in CSV format also. Required when user has any free/open
source Office Suite installed in his computer instead of MS Office. This CSV file can be opened directly in
any Office Suite and does not necessarily requires MS Office.

 Call Register, provision made to show Items details specified in Call Receipt voucher.

 Creating custom columns in Call Management related reports; if any Item related column was used then
only first Item from Call Receipt voucher was being shown. Now all Items from Call Receipt vouchers will
be shown.

 Provision made for warning when Cash transactions from a single Account exceed a specified limit in
single day. Can be enabled through AdministrationConfigurationWarning Alarms.

 BCN enabled and Purchase being fed by two different users from two different computers. While feeding
voucher, same BCN was being allocated and shown on screen for both users and at the time of saving,
allocated BCN was being saved for first user and second would get the message ‘Duplicate BCN’ and he
had to manually press ‘Regenerate BCN’ button for all Items to regenerate new BCN. Now in this
scenario, new BCN for second user will be generated automatically in the background during voucher
saving.

Bugs Removed

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 Order generated with zero Item price but with some non zero markup; while generating Invoice from
Order, Item price was not being picked properly. Now problem rectified.

 Party-Item ledger was showing double entries for vouchers where any Bill Sundry was applied in voucher
and accounting was enabled for Material Issue/Receipt vouchers. Now problem rectified.

 Importing Item Parameter-wise opening details for multiple Material Centres, sometimes an error was
being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Bulk emailing of Invoices through ‘Print Utilities’; instead of individual email to respective parties, each
Invoice was being emailed to all Parties. Now problem rectified.

 Item multiple price categories being maintained and only discount was specified category-wise; while
changing price category during data entry, discount from new category was not being updated in existing
data. Now problem rectified.

 Invoice data fed directly in Alt. Unit of Item; during ‘Rewrite Books’ Item’s Main Qty. was getting set to
zero. Now problem rectified and user will have to run ‘Rewrite Books’ again to get proper value of Main
Qty in existing vouchers.

 BOM created in Alt. unit of Items; while using BOM in Material Issue voucher to issue Raw Material,
wrong Raw Material quantity was being picked. Now problem rectified.

 Multi-branch feature enabled in a company and branch-wise balances maintained in some Accounts and
later on Multi-branch feature disabled; while carrying balance to next FY, bill references of a few Accounts
were not getting carried over to next FY. Now problem rectified.

 Configurable Account registers, if any field related to Item’s sub details (Batch, Parameter, Sr. No.) was
chosen, only one line for sub details was being shown with each Item even if multiple line sub detail had
been specified with Item. Now problem rectified.

 Bills Receivable printing for multiple Accounts along with Ledger Balance; incorrect Ledger Balance was
being printed. Now problem rectified.

 Warning for negative Item parameter-wise stock during data entry was not working. Now problem
rectified.

 Job work data entry for Items consumed; if Alt. Unit was disabled for an Item, sometimes default Alt. Qty.
to be consumed (which should have been equal to Main Qty. in this case) was not being shown correctly.
Now problem rectified.

 Importing vouchers from Excel and Item being picked from Multiple Alias, sometimes an error was being
generated. Now problem rectified.

 Printing Item barcodes for Item Alias field; if Item multiple Alias feature was enabled, an error was being
generated during barcode printing. Now problem rectified.

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 Saving any general image (Other than Account/Item/User) in database, an error was being generated.
Now problem rectified.

 Printing pending orders for multiple Parties; detail for Parties having only opening order references were
not being printed. Now problem rectified.

 Stock valuation method FIFO/LIFO was not showing correct Item value during data entry. Now problem
rectified.

 MRP-wise Item stock being carried over to next year, value of Items was not being carried over properly.
Now problem rectified.

 POS data entry; while feeding settlement details from ‘Misc. Utilities’, option ‘Post Settlement Over &
Above’ was not being considered. Now problem rectified.

 Branch-wise balances being maintained; while changing FY with option to carry balances for ‘New &
Changed’ masters only, branch-wise P&L was not being carried over properly. Now problem rectified.

 Printing Bills Receivable for multiple Accounts with option ‘Print On Account Entries’ enabled; sometimes
Parties with no pending bill(s) were also being printed. Now problem rectified.

 While generating Pending Challan report filtered for a Broker, an error was being generated. Now
problem rectified.

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Release 1.5 (12-04-2017)

Minor Changes

 Account master, till now TIN was being asked if VAT was enabled and GSTIN was being asked if GST was
enabled. Now both will be asked.

 Bills Receivable/Payable report, ‘On Account’ amount was being shown in a label. Now ‘On Account’
entries will be shown entry-wise.

 ‘On Account Entries’ report, provision made to Include/Exclude PDC entries. Till now PDC entries were
always been included.

 Cheque printing configuration, provision made to specify cheque image to be shown in preview during
designing so that cheque can designed more conveniently.

 New field <ITEM_GRP_WISE_SUM_CONTINUOS> provided in Sales Invoice configuration. This field will
print group-wise summary of Items. Details to be printed can be configured from
AdministrationConfigurationReference/Group Summary Printing Configuration.

 Bank reconciliation; clearing multiple entries in one go, provision made to clear all selected entries at their
voucher date or at the specified date. Till now all selected entries were getting cleared at the specified
date only.

 MRP-wise stock status; Sales Price of Item was not being shown. Now it will be shown.

 Generation of invoice from order using F11 was very slow in case of heavy data in access mode. Now
speed improved.

 Pending Orders report with option to include un-approved entries; un-approved rejected entries were
also being shown. Now un-approved rejected entries will not be shown.

 Balance Sheet/Profit & Loss A/c; figures more than 99 Crore were being shown without currency
separator. Now it will be shown with currency separator.

Bugs Removed

 Following corrections in HO/BO data synchronisation:


a. Branches for which Item prices were not mentioned in HO, price from some other branch were
being sent instead of HO prices. Now problem rectified.
b. Sometimes ‘Sales against Challan’ voucher were not being saved with error message ‘Quantity
not fully adjusted’. Now problem rectified.

 Item Quantity-wise pricing mode was not working properly if date-wise pricing was maintained. Now
problem rectified.

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 Account Ledger printing directly from screen report, sometimes the date range in printing report options
would mismatch from screen report. Now problem rectified.

 Pending Orders reference details report, quantity adjusted and quantity cleared were being shown in
single column. Now problem rectified.

 Pending Orders for due orders only was not showing any data. Now problem rectified.

 Stock Status with Pending Orders; on pressing <ENTER> on pending Sales Order, nothing was being
shown. Now problem rectified.

 Production Planning; if Multi Godown feature was disabled, current stock of Items was being shown as
zero. Now problem rectified.

 Pending Orders report generated for a branch was showing error. Now problem rectified.

 In case of Bill sundry being applied over & above; narration specified along with Bill Sundry during data
entry was not being saved properly in accounting entries. Now problem rectified.

 Tracking No. enabled, sometimes deleting any voucher in which no Tracking No. was specified was taking
a long time. Now problem rectified.

 While scanning composite barcode having Item parameter details, Item’s price was not being picked from
Item parameter-wise pricing mode. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Update Transport Details’ utility; if user was tagged with a specific Voucher Series Group, an error was
being generated while saving. Now problem rectified.

 Change F.Y. for ‘New & Changed’ masters, bank accounts were always being carried over to next year
even if there was no change in current year. Now problem rectified.

 Screen report sorted on some column; on pressing <ENTER> on any row, details of some other row was
being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Bank reconciliation with Nepali Date; while clearing any entry in Nepali Date, same was being reflected as
Roman Date on screen. Now problem rectified.

 Bank reconciliation; while clearing multiple opening entries, an error was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

 Vendor-wise stock details report, sometimes an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Sales/Purchase columnar register, sometimes an error was being generated if some numeric column was
configured. Now problem rectified.

 Changing F.Y. with a user tagged with some state/branch, an error was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

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 Scheme master configured for one Party was getting applied to all Parties. Now problem rectified.

 User configuration; option ‘Allow Customisation of Reports’ was being shown in Enterprise Edition only
and not in Standard Edition. Now problem rectified.

 Sending ‘ST Form Reminder Letter’ for one Party by email, an error was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

 Full master type Voucher Optional Field was not being accepted during data entry if size of Optional Field
master being specified was more than 20 characters. Now problem rectified.

 ‘Purchase Bill No. & Date’ fields were not working properly as custom columns. Now problem rectified.

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Release 1.4 (28-03-2017)

Minor Changes

 Viewing Party Ledger/Stock Ledger during voucher feeding, current voucher’s Party Name/Selected Item
Name will be shown by default in report options so that user does not need to specify them again.

 Speed of Sales/Purchase configurable columnar registers improved.

 Speed of Item Serial No. related fields improved when used as custom columns.

 Width of Debit/Credit amount field increased in accounting vouchers.

 Speed of data entry in data(s) having large no. of transactions for a single Item was slow. Now speed
improved.

 Sales Tax reporting window was being shown for local sales for states ‘Telangana’ & ‘Chhattisgarh’ but the
same was not required. Now same has been disabled.

 Credit Limit Variance report speed improved for heavy data in Access mode.

 Batch-wise stock report speed improved for heavy data in Access mode.

 Budget Variance report for ‘Crossing Heads’, option provided to show ‘Annual Budget’ also.

 Material Issue/Receipt voucher for challan reversal, provision made to pick pending challans for Party
using F11 key.

 Pressing <CTRL+A> for monthly summary, option was being asked to show summary for Account or
Account Group. Now this option will not be asked and directly Account monthly summary will shown as
most of the time Account monthly summary is required. Group monthly summary can be seen from
menu DisplayAccount SummariesMonthly Summary.

 New report ‘Comm. Code-wise Stock Status’ report provided as the same is required by tax department.
Available as Display/PrintStock StatusComm. Code-wise Stock Status.

 Features/OptionsAccounts section, an option was being asked ‘Double Entry System for
Payment/Receipt’. Now this option has been changed to ‘Single Entry System for Payment/Receipt’ as
Double Entry System is the preferred choice and user can switch to Single Entry System if required.

 No. of entries in masters drop down list during data entry was 15. Now reduced to 9 to improve time
taken in showing the list.

 Sales Tax / VAT reporting details window; default value for field ‘Item Description’ was being picked
automatically from last voucher. Now default value will not be picked automatically and user will be able
to repeat the last value using F7 key.

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 South Asia edition, restriction on country in company configuration has been removed and user can
choose any country (even outside of South Asian region). Till now only South Asian countries were
allowed in South Asia edition.

Bugs Removed

 Specifying Credit Limit/Budget for any Account having Name more than 35 characters, sometimes
program would stop responding to mouse click after saving the account. Now problem rectified.

 Auto posting of accounting voucher through Target Variance report using F4 key, an error was being
generated. Now problem rectified.

 Custom columns for Item body fields were not working properly in reports having single row for one
voucher (Account Sales Register, Account Ledger etc.). Now problem rectified.

 BOM Product Utilisation report, status bar was not working. Now problem rectified.

 Batch-wise stock report was not working properly in case of ‘Separate Stock Updation Date’ feature was
enabled. Now problem rectified.

 Country Nepal and date type Nepali, all reports were showing Roman date instead of Nepali date. Now
problem rectified.

 After upgrading from Busy 16, Party-Item pricing mode stopped working and user had to resave the
configuration to start it again. Now problem rectified.

 Invoice designing, header fields using #L tag were not working for second line onward. Now problem
rectified.

 Voucher Audit report generated for a single voucher type was showing result for all voucher types. Now
problem rectified.

 Account/Item label printing configuration, tag #BC (to print barcode of any field) was not working. Now
problem rectified.

 Changing F.Y., an error was being generated if ‘Item Multiple Price List’ feature was enabled. Now
problem rectified.

 ‘Item Free Quantity’ report was not working while pressing <ENTER> on menu item. Now problem
rectified.

 Branch-wise Balance Sheet; while printing directly from screen report, an error was being generated.
Now problem rectified.

 Pending Sales Order report; while viewing reference adjustment details for any reference, sometimes
adjustment quantity was not being shown. Now problem rectified.

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Release 1.3 (15-03-2017)

Minor Changes

 Enquiry management; while creating Contact master, provision made to create connected Account
automatically (configurable).

 Pressing F5 from data entry, list of vouchers was being shown for full year which was time consuming.
Now on pressing F5, report options form will be shown where user can specify the date range and other
parameters for which list is to be shown.

 Selling any Item at a price greater than MRP, a warning message was being shown. Now this warning
message has been made optional through ‘Warning Alarms’.

 List of countries, new country ‘South Africa’ added.

 Cash/Credit Sales Summary; on pressing <ENTER>, option will be asked to show Cash Only or Credit Only
or All transactions. Till now All Transactions were being shown.

 Sales/Purchase Analysis reports generated for selected vouchers; list of voucher for selection was taking
long time in loading. Now speed improved.

 Speed of pending Order/Challan reports improved in Access mode.

 Speed of Item/Item Group-wise Sales/Purchase analysis reports improved in Access mode.

 Custom column field <ITEM_SERIAL_NO> was not optimised for speed. Now optimised.

 Reports which were being generated for a date range (Ledger, Day Book etc.), till now by default Start
Date was being shown as F.Y. beginning date. Now if any such report is generated for a single date only
(same Start Date & End Date) then next time by default Start Date will be shown same as End Date so that
single date report can be generated easily.

Bugs Removed

 Option ‘Show Last Transactions during Data Entry’ enabled; while feeding data at fast speed sometimes
program was getting hanged. Now problem rectified.

 Account ledger printing, if some filter was applied for printing then an error was being generated while
printing. Now problem rectified.

 Selective Data Freezing, an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Printing Item’s image in Barcode, if name of image file was on the basis of Item Alias then the image was
not being printed in Barcode. Now problem rectified.

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 Invoice printing in standard format with self configured Item body columns; if total character for body
were 80 then currency symbol was not being printed in body header. Now problem rectified.

 Auto adjustment of Bill references for a group having large no. of accounts (more than 32000), an error
was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Generating invoice from orders using F11 key; if feature ‘Pick Orders Till Voucher Date’ was enabled then
an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Picking orders from F11 during Invoice generation, Order narration was not being picked. Now problem
rectified.

 Item Batch-wise data entry; while selecting any batch from drop down list by typing the batch no., batch
details were not getting picked properly. Now problem rectified.

 Party Abstract report, on pressing <ENTER> no details were being shown. Now problem rectified.

 Voucher splitting utility; if splitting was done once on the basis of voucher optional field, an error was
being generated while running the utility second time. No problem rectified.

 Printing screen report directly from grid; in case of report having exact 100 entries, an error was being
generated. Now problem rectified.

 Tagging Bill Sundry with vouchers; while specifying Bill Sundries, if any key was pressed directly on grid,
that key was being ignored while searching in drop down list. Now problem rectified.

 Item Serial No.-wise details configuration; description with Serial Nos. could not be enabled. Now
problem rectified.

 Selecting ‘State’ while creating company, sometimes ‘State’ was not being picked properly on the basis of
keys pressed. Now problem rectified.

 In a few screen reports; while hiding any entry using F9 key and pressing <ENTER> on next row, wrong
voucher was being shown for modification. Now problem rectified.

 Bill-by-bill data entry window with multiple reference adjustment, reference once adjusted was being
shown again in drop down list. Now problem rectified.

 Posting interest voucher directly from report, sometimes wrong entry (Debit & Credit reversed) was being
posted. Now problem rectified.

 Scheme applied on Items clubbed for a group, sometimes the scheme was not being applied properly.
Now problem rectified.

 HO/BO configuration at HO; if any branch had more than 200 voucher series, an error was being
generated during configuration. Now problem rectified and voucher series limit increased to 500.

 Regularising PDC, an error was being generated in SQL mode. Now problem rectified.

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 FTP backup was not working for some FTP sites. Now problem rectified.

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Release 1.2 (04-03-2017)

Minor Changes

 Introduction of Busy Product Updates. Till now for every new release of Busy, user had to download full
installer of Busy for new release. Now Busy Product Update for new release will also be made available
which is much smaller in size (around 16 MB) and can be installed over an existing installation of Busy.
This Product Update can be downloaded from Busy itself like Statutory Updates. Available through menu
CompanyCheck BUSY Updates.

 GST Summary, provision made to post GST Cross Adjustment Voucher & GST Payment voucher from
report itself using F4 key.

 Speed of Party-wise Sales/Purchase Analysis reports with heavy data in access mode improved.

 Speed of picking of pending Challans/Orders from F11 in heavy data with access mode improved.

 Bulk Updation of Item Price/Discount, provision made for selected Items also.

 Provision made to specify edit/delete password with SQL queries.

 Minor changes in Mahajani Interest calculation reports related to calculation of average days.

 Call Explorer columns made configurable. Till now fixed columns were being shown.

 While feeding Call Report from Call Explorer, provision made to specify ‘Action Taken’ also.

 Bill Sundry master, provision made to calculate on the basis of Item’s Packing Unit also.

 Specifying TIN/GSTIN/Aadhar No. in Account Master; if same no. is found to be specified in any other
master, a warning will be shown for the same.

 Cash/Credit Summary report was not available in printing. Now made available.

Bugs Removed

 Alt. unit details modification restricted during data entry, while pressing <ENTER> on Qty. field a message
was being shown which was not required. Now problem rectified.

 Item Multiple Price Categories enabled; while changing Party during data entry, prices were not getting
updated as per the new Party category. Now problem rectified.

 Bill Sundries tagged with Voucher Type + Sale Type; sometimes on selecting Sale Type during data entry,
tagged Bill Sundries were not getting loaded. Now problem rectified.

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Release 1.1 (28-02-2017)

Minor Changes

 Speed of Balance Sheet with option to show Pending Challans was slow. Now speed improved.

 New reports Cash/Credit Sales Summary and Cash/Credit Purchase Summary provided in Accounts
Summaries section. These reports will show Date/Month/Quarter wise summary of Cash & Credit
transactions.

 Speed of custom column field <AMOUNT_BEFORE_TAX> improved.

 Tax Category master for GST, three tax components are being defined (CGST, SGST & IGST). Now a label
has been put against all the components mentioning whether they will be used in Local transactions or
Inter-state transactions.

 While copying accounting vouchers data from Excel and & pasting in voucher data entry screen, user had
to press ENTER on all the fields manually on order to save the voucher. Now it is not required and
voucher can be saved directly after pasting.

Bugs Removed

 Global Query on Transactions; sometimes an error ‘overflow’ was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

 Parameterised Stock Ledger, sometimes an error ‘invalid use of null’ was being generated. Now problem
rectified.

 While showing last transactions during data entry, Item quantity was showing blank value if free quantity
feature was enabled. Now problem rectified.

 Screen reports with graph and auto filter applied; if regenerated, an error was being raised. Now problem
rectified.

 Registering softlock with systems information for some other computer, softlock was getting registered
for current computer only. Now problem rectified.

 While starting BUSY, if internet was not available a message for the same was being shown. Now problem
rectified.

 Trade specific configuration for FMCG-Retail; while disabling any feature, an error was being generated.
Now problem rectified.

 While reregistering softlock and providing new email id, same was not being reflected back in installation
details of user. Now problem rectified.

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 POS data entry, items were not getting consolidated (if configured) at the time of saving. Now problem
rectified.

 If Multi-Godown feature was disabled then during printing of Stock Status Grouped report, user was not
able to come out of report options. Now problem rectified.

 Barcode printing, option to print barcode for BCN was not working. Now problem rectified.

 While posting brokerage from report using F4, brokerage bill reference was not being created properly.
Now problem rectified.

 Sales/Purchase Analysis for selected Parties/Items, an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.

 Pending Orders report, sometimes orders with zero balance (fully cleared) were also being shown. Now
problem rectified.

 Day Book printing with Cash balances; wrong Cash balances were being printed. Now problem rectified.

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Release 1.0 (20-02-2017)

Major Changes

 Provision for Indian GST:


a. While creating a new company; GST related Accounts, Bill Sundries, ST/PT Masts & Tax
Categories will be created automatically.
b. Sale/Purchase Type master, we can configure the default percentage for all three components.
c. Tax Category Master we can define all the three components rates.
d. Item master we can define HSN/SAC Code.
e. Party State master, a new field ‘State Code’ added.
f. Feature/OptionsVAT/GST section, button provided to create default masters for GST in existing
companies.
g. Standard Invoice format, provision made to configure GST tax rate and amounts columns.
h. New field ‘State’ will be asked in Separate Billing Details window.
i. GST Summary available in GST reports section.

 Provision made for TCS:


a. Enable in Feature/OptionTDS/TCS section.
b. Specify in Parties if TCS is applicable or not.
c. Use in Sale voucher through Bill Sundry.
d. Payment of TCS through Payment voucher.
e. Reports in reporting section.

 Provision made to input implementation notes in BUSY company data. Executives can feed
implementation notes with in BUSY data so that it can be referred by other executives later on. Available
through <Ctrl + Alt + Shift + N>.

 Provision made to export/email XML of a single voucher and import that XML in another company.
Required where seller and buyer are both using Busy and seller’s Sales Invoice can be imported as buyer’s
Purchase Invoice.
a. XML can be exported while printing Invoice.
b. XML can be exported and emailed while emailing Invoice.
c. XML can be imported while adding a new voucher using ALT + F12 key.
d. During import if masters are not found then a form will pop asking either to create the master
automatically or map them with some existing master. This mapping can also be done through
configuration using AdministrationConfigurationMapping of Masters.

 Country configured as Nepal, user had to specify the date type (Nepali or Roman) and data entry was
restricted to that date type only. Now while data feeding user can feed date in any format (Nepali or
Roman) and the same will converted automatically to the configured date type. Also a label below the
date field will show the other date type also.

 Provision made for Packaging Unit of Items (Box & Pcs.):


a. Enable in Features/OptionsInventory section.
b. Once enabled, packaging unit and conversion factor will be asked in Item Master.

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c. User will be able to feed data either in Main Unit or Packaging Unit.
d. While viewing reports, option will be asked to show stock on the basis of packaging unit.

 Speed of reports using Custom Columns increased. Till now using even a single custom column was
reducing the speed of report drastically. Now 90% of the fields have been optimised and will not slow
down the report. 10% fields which will slow down the report will be marked in grey colour while defining
the custom columns.

 Provision made for Trade-wise default Configuration in Features/Options. Can be invoked using
<CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+T> key on Features/Options main screen.

 Item multiple aliases option; provision made to specify different MRP/Sales Price with each alias or
different Qty./Unit/Price with each alias. Required in FMCG retail for faster billing.

 Now for changes in statutory reports (VAT/GST/Excise/TDS/TCS), no need to release new BUSY version.
Only a single file related to statutory reports will be available for download and user will be able to
download the same within BUSY. Available as HelpCheck for Statutory Update.

 Sales price along with Item MRP in MRP-wise stock maintenance, till now one Sales price could be
specified with MRP. Now if Item’s multiple price categories are being maintained, user can specify price
of category ‘A’ also along with MRP. Required when two different prices are required (different price for
different party) with one MRP.

 POS and few other data entry screens will use more space in wide screen monitors and user will get more
space in grid columns.

 Introduction of separate South Asia edition and Global edition. Till BUSY 16 only Global edition was
available which could be used anywhere in the world. Now South Asia edition will be usable only in South
Asian countries and Global edition will be usable anywhere in the world.

 No. of users in MS Access mode working through Windows Terminal Services / Thin Clients restricted to
10.

Minor Changes

 Changes in Item’s Pricing mode:


a. While specifying pricing structure in Item’s pricing mode; till now we had the option to specify
Price + Discount or Discount only. Now option provided to specify Price or Discount or Price +
Discount.
b. While specifying discount in any of the pricing mode, user had the option to specify discount in %
and discount per unit where as normally only one mode is required. Now user will specify only
one discount and that will be applicable as per the discount configuration (% or per unit).

 Changes in Party-Item pricing mode:

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a. Provision made to specify mode of feeding price/discount structure like Party-Item-wise, Party
Group-Item-wise and so on. Till now user had the option to feed data in all the four possible
modes which was creating confusion later on during data feeding
b. Provision made to update back price/discount from voucher (if changed).

 Option to change Item-wise discount for All/Group of Items during voucher feeding, interface changed to
show the current discount allowed with each Item and discount for All/Group of Items can be changed in
one go.

 Changes in ‘Update Sale Price from Purchase Price’ feature:


a. Till now there were two options for Purchase Price to consider List Price & Price after Discount.
Now two more option provided, Effective Cost (taking into effect all Bill Sundry affecting cost of
goods) and All Incl. Price taking into effect all Bill Sundries irrespective of whether same is
affecting cost of goods or not.
b. Till now the Sales Price was being updated in Item master in background during Purchase
voucher feeding. Now provision made to show final Sales price at the time of saving Purchase
voucher before updating them in masters (optional).

 Option to Pick Item Sizing Information from Item Description; in case of multiple lines were being used,
values specified in multiple lines were getting added to get the final value. Now user can specify the
formula to get the final value from multiple lines.

 Job work module:


a. Provision made to capture Item parameter-wise details of Items consumed during job work.
b. Provision made to calculate wastage % on either the pending quantity or quantity consumed. Till
now it was being calculated on consumed quantity only.
c. Provision made to pick Items receivable after Jobwork on the basis of references created while
sending material for Jobwork using F11 key.

 Configuring data export/import from Excel, available data fields was being shown in a list box and user
had to search manually the desired field. Now a textbox has been provided where user can type the field
name (full or partial) and the list of field will be filtered making it easy to search the desired field.

 Master drop down list being filtered on some value, there was no indication that the list is being filtered
which was creating confusion sometimes. Now in case of filtered list, the color of the list elements will
change and the Tool Tip of list box will show the value on which the list is being filtered.

 While enabling/disabling features, provision made to view the help video of that feature (hosted on
YouTube). User can click on the button provided there and he will be connected to the relevant help
video on YouTube.

 BUSY Training Videos and GST eLearning videos made available at YouTube and link provided through
BUSY. Training videos are useful in training a new person who does not have operational knowledge of

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BUSY. GST eLearning videos are meant to give an overview of GST and its impact on businesses. Available
as HelpBUSY Training/Help Videos.

 Standard Invoice configuration, provision made to configure captions of ‘Declaration’ & ‘Terms &
Conditions’.

 Item Serial No.-wise Sales voucher feeding, the Serial No. specified was being searched fully and if found
then the Serial No. was being picked. This was creating problem in lengthy Serial Nos. Now partial Serial
No. will also be searched and matching entries will be shown.

 Item master, default unit for Sales/Purchase will be asked. Till now main unit was being used as default
unit in all the transactions.

 Bill-wise details feeding, it was not possible to Adjust to an existing cleared reference. Now it is possible.

 Regularising PDC, provision made to retain cheque receiving date (voucher date) in narration.

 Scheme Master, if scheme was applied on time also then the interpretation of Date & Time was of
scheme was confusion. It was being applied from Start Date and Start Time to End Date and End Time.
Now it will be applicable from Start Date to End Date and with-in that from Start Time to End Time.

 Parameterised Stock enabled; till now stock was being grouped on the basis of parameter combination +
MRP + Sales Price. Now grouping of stock on the basis of Sales Price made optional.

 Bulk Invoice printing, provision made to print for One/Group/Selected/All Parties or Items.

 Balance Sheet / P&L Account were not using full screen space in case of wide screens. Now full space will
be used.

 Provision made to input ‘Aadhar No.’ in Account Master.

 Bulk Tax Category addition/modification, provision made to use for a Branch/Date also.

 While adjusting Order/Challan in Invoice, till now it was possible to adjust Order/Challan issued after the
Invoice date. Now we can restrict the adjustment of Order/Challan issued after the date of Invoice
(configurable).

 ‘Input Settlement Details’ utility, provision made to filter unsettled invoices for one Party also.

 Production Planning data entry form, Item name was being asked first and then the BOM name was being
asked. Now BOM name was being asked first and Item name will be shown automatically.

 Production Planning report for multiple level BOM, semi finished goods already available in stock were
not being considered. Now it will be considered.

 Party/Item-wise VAT summaries, provision made to show for One Party/Item also. Till now it was
available for All/Group of masters.

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 Party-wise Item code option, provision made to export/import the same in XML format. Required where
same Party-wise Item codes are being used in multiple branches.

 BOM Master & Scheme Master, provision made for tagging of Master Series Group.

 HO/BO data synchronisation, date and time when sync was done from branch will be maintained and a
report will be available in HO to check the same.

 ‘Stock Status Alphabetical’ report, provision made to show Item’s Tariff Heading also. Required to
reconcile Excise reports which are generated on the basis of Tariff Heading.

 Call Explorer, provision made to filter on ‘Source’ field. Also provision made to search a call by Call No.
using <Ctrl + Alt +S> on grid.

 Payment voucher, ‘Loan & Advance Scheduling’ option was not being shown for Sub Ledgers. Now it will
be shown.

 List of Items, provision made to show Tax Category and filter on a Tax Category.

 Creating new company, a message box was being prompted to copy Master, Configurations and Users
from existing company. Now this option will be shown in bottom of company creation form and user will
be able to choose from there.

 ‘Regenerate Master Help File’ utility, provision made to run for All Masters / Only Items / Only Accounts.
Till now it was being run for all masters.

 Binding data with HDD Serial No., a button provided to read current HDD Serial No. and append it to text
box where HDD Serial No. is to be specified.

 Specifying Original Sales/Purchase Invoice details during Sales/Purchase Return, Surcharge Amount of
original invoice was not being asked. Now it will be asked.

 Option to import data from Busy DOS version removed as it is no longer required.

 Importing vouchers from Excel, multi currency vouchers were not allowed for import. Now it has been
allowed.

 Data Import in XML format; Voucher Series(s) were not being created automatically in target data (if not
found) and user had to create them manually to start the import process. Now Voucher Series(s) will be
created automatically.

 Sale/Purchase Type name length increased from 15 to 20.

 Length of master based Master/Voucher optional fields was 20 characters. Now increased to 30
characters.

 Party-Item price structure feeding, following changes done:

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a. Provision made to feed data for selected Items also. Till now price/discount was being specified
for All/Group/One Item.
b. We can check the date-wise pricing of any item from this form.
c. While printing price structure, provision made to print prices for all the dates in one go for which
prices have been specified.

 Customer support management, while creating Invoice for AMC for any Party, pending AMC references
were being shown for that party and user was able to pick the existing references to be cleared and create
a new reference. Now a message box will be shown asking user if pending references are to be shown or
directly create new AMC reference.

 Statement of A/c & Confirmation of A/c reports, provision made to print Party’s TIN also.

 Account master, length of Email & Mobile No. fields increased from 40 to 80.

 While saving Physical Stock voucher, if due to any reason Stock Journal could not be saved, no message
was being shown. Now a message will be shown specifying the reason for the same.

 Sales/Purchase register in standard format, provision made to show/print Party TIN also.

 Bill-by-bill details window, font of the drop down list was very small. Now font size increased. Also in the
bottom of drop down list, additional details like Ref. Original Amount, Broker name etc. will be shown.

 Global Query, provision to check in Purchase Indent was not there. Now provision made.

Bugs Removed

 Item parameter-wise data entry; if parameter combination was specified manually instead of picking from
drop down list, Sales Price of parameter combination was not being picked properly in background
resulting discrepancy in reports. Now problem rectified.

 While updating back Item’s Sale/Purchase price from voucher, the change was not being reflected in
Item’s drop-down list additional information (if configured). Now problem rectified.

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