Software Updates via the Internet

  Please remember that Critical and Required updates should be downloaded and installed as soon as is practical after its announcement, as continued use of the application without the update will cause program failure or data corruption.

2006.4.4 - November, 2006 - Supplementary Update

Employee Management System.

• Termination Pay Entry has been amended to show the correct amount of annual leave payment for NSW clients where pay is for WorkChoices employees.

• For Non NSW Clients - code has been added to Timesheet Translation and Pay Details Entry to ensure that Part Time employees do not accrue leave hours weekly - a special entry has been added to the File Maintenance Sub-menu "WorkChoices - Amend Part Time Leave" to correct any erroneous items.

• Leave Entitlement Register - created during Produce Pays run - has been amended to show the correct amount of Annual and Personal Leave for Work Choices employees.

Liquor Stock System.

• An error in Goods Inwards Entry interfacing to Accounts Payable where a second voucher caused a duplicate record error has been corrected.

2006.4.3 - November, 2006

Note: This version requires the use of a NEW password.

Employee Management System.

• Support has been added for Work Choices Legislation.

2006.3.0 - July, 2006

Note: This version requires the use of a NEW password.

New Payroll PAYG Tax Rates.

• The new PAYG tax rates effective from 01/07/2006 are now available. They MUST NOT be downloaded until all payroll processing for the end of year has been completed. When ready they can be accessed by selecting "New Payroll Tax Rates File (post 01/07/2006)" and updating your system in the normal manner.

Employee Management System.

• Pay Envelopes have been altered to show the full pay period - ie Period 11/06/06 to 17/06/06.

• A new value has been added to "Print Leave on Envelopes" in system options. It is now possible to print Annual Leave only on pay envelopes by selecting "X Annual"

Poker Machine System.

• A change has been made to "End of Period" application - compression default date for Queensland clients is now 12 months to comply with new QOGR minimum guidelines.

• Form 61 - monthly variances - is no longer an interim report. Start financial year date has been added to systems options so a full report can be produced. Queensland clients should ensure that their start financial year date is entered into system options after the update is complete.

• Carded Rate report has been altered to print "Actual Profit %".

Liquor Stock System.

• Corrected an error in Goods Inwards processing for Non A/cs Payable sites. Under the old version it sometimes would not print edit lists. Print Preview option has now been disabled for this posting function.

• Additional error checking has been added to the Goods Inwards Edit List / Posting Register. It will no longer allow posting if a Voucher Total error is encountered.

2005.4.0 - November, 2005

For Golf Competition Clients : A CD of the previous version (2005.3.0) was sent to these clients. As the CD contained a special update it must be installed before this update is performed. If not, communications with Golflink will not work.

Employee Management System.

• The system has been altered to enable employer superannuation payments of more than $1,000 per pay. A conversion of the Pay History file will take place. As this is a very large file it could take some time to complete.

• Detailed Employee report in cost centre order has been changed to print the full cost centre code.

• Pay envelopes have been altered to change the last line "Pay ending" to "Week ending", "F/N ending" or Month ending".

• The superannuation calculation for North Queensland clients has been altered to remove the special code to restrict casuals to a maximum of 30 hours super payment.

Cashbook System.

• The Bank Reconciliation interface for Suncorp/Metway Bank has to altered to support the new input file format.

Cash Register Link.

• For clients using CLINK for register communications, the create/update application has been altered. If a register is set as a barcode type it will no longer send the full barcode price table if the register type starts with a 6 or 7 - it will only send the linked EAN table. This is to overcome a problem with sharp 700 type registers.

Poker Machine System.

• Club Data Export file format changed to report calculated profit taking into consideration link payments.

• New Analysis report added - Carded Rate - This report will show the actual and expected profit for machines excluding any manual or automatic link payments.

Asset Register System.

• An error has been identified and corrected in the depreciation calculation when partially disposing of an asset when diminishing value method is used.

Liquor Stock System.

• A potential duplicate voucher number problem in Goods Inwards has been rectified in this release. The error was only possible when multiple workstations were processing vouchers.

2005.3.0 - July, 2005

Note: This version requires the use of a NEW password. Initially this will be forwarded by letter to all Payroll clients. A new CD of this version will be sent to all Golf Competition clients.

Employee Management System.

• The calculation of tax has been altered to round to the nearest $1 in accordance with ATO guidelines.

• Rounding of cents from net pay into tax has been removed for all but Cash (Money) payments.

• Clients do not have to install the new Tax Rates again as all changes are contained within the Employee Management download.

Cashbook System.

• Corrected an error in Bank Reconciliation report that caused EFTPOS type receipts to be included in the Deposits total.

Cash Register Link.

• For clients using CLINK for register communications the register backup application has been altered. It will no longer update the PLU configuration file in Pulse. This will ensure that if an incorrectly configured register is backed up, the PLU configuration file cannot be altered.

Poker Machine System.

• The Machine Payout Interface application for Computa-Game has been altered to only accept payment type for CCP, Short Pays and Refills. All others will be rejected.

2005.2.3 - Supplementary Release - July, 2005

• Payroll - Updated timeclock interface to include pay code, changed LSL calculation to calculate accrual correctly if actual is 0.

• Poker Machines - added support for IndoPacific CCS 1.5 and PMCS 2.0 devices, Bounty Gaming interface, Upload to CMS for all states

• Stock System - Print stock labels

• Cash Register Link - New ZC option for sales download

2005.2.0 - April, 2005

Cashbook System.

• Corrected a printing error in Trial Balance when 'No' is selected for Print CBD Subtotals and data is out of date order.

Poker Machine System.

• Added expected net % to the interface file to CMS Monitor

• An extra line has been added to the NSW LAB draft report to ensure all new tax levels are printed.

Accounts Payable System.

• The Vendor Enquiry has been altered to list items in paid date / cheque number order. This change requires a conversion to be run to recreate the file indexes.

• Security options have been changed to include "Print Cheques/Remittance Advices" and "Prepare Direct Banking File" applications as posting type modules instead of data entry modules.

Accounts Receivable System.

• Payment type "EFT" has been added to the list of special "Thank You" lines in print customer statements.

• Spurious characters being printed in the subtotal line of print driver adjustment/credit notes have been removed.

Liquor Stock System.

• An error in the automatic calculation of the due date in Good Inwards entry has been corrected

Cash Register Link System.

• The "Zed" command for Clink registers has been changed from "ZR" to "ZRIC" to also clear Clerks/Cashiers Totals.

Employee Management System.

• An error which was printing a line of invalid data at the top of the first page when reprinting pay envelopes using A4 single type has been corrected.

• Added count of employees to Hours Analysis by Cost centre Report

• Added special General Rebate code of "Z" to system to calculate NO tax and do not round net.

• Changed weekly roster report to correctly display start time between midday to 1:00pm

• Added employee count to end of Employee Costing Report.

• A4 single security payslips printing has been altered to move the body of the printing down 1 line.

• Added "employment type" to line 4 of payslips - as per industrial relations department schedule.

• Added zero hours worked exception to external timeclock interface.

Club Membership System.

• An additional selection has been added to cash receipting options in relation to suspended members. There are now 3 options - No / Warn / Reject. If reject is selected and a suspended member is attempting to renew the operator will be advised of the suspension details and receipting of this member cannot proceed.

Core Components.

• For applications that use email facilities ( remittance advices/payslips) smptmail.log is now written to the TEMP folder not "c:\". This is to overcome a problem encountered with sites running terminal services whereby "c drive" on the server is not normally shared.

• Code has been added to journal type maintenance module "maint_mts" to check for posting permissions if the posting button is selected.

2004.4.0 - October, 2004

Cashbook System.

• Westpac and Suncorp have been added to the list of institutions available in the new Bank Reconciliation Interface. Please contact Pulse Sales for full details of this feature.

• Added support for external interface from Pulse Secure Safe System to cashbook/general ledger.

Poker Machine System.

• Added support for NuWeigh Scales Interface.

Club Membership System.

• Altered Pulse Workspace interface to reject record with a zero member number..

Employee Management System.

• Included new external interface in timesheet subsystem for input from AMS TimeMinder System.

2004.3.2 - Supplementary Release - August, 2004

Cashbook System.

• A new application has been added to Cashbook - Bank Reconciliation Interface. This allows automatic matching of cheques and deposits from Online Banking Software packages used by various banks. It also has the capability to create debit and/or credit journals for miscellaneous items such as bank fees, interest etc. Currently only Commonwealth Bank Diamond Services has been fully tested, however formats for ANZ and National have been included, but are yet to be implemented. Interfaces for Westpac and Suncorp will be added as soon as documentation is available from these banks. Please contact Pulse Sales for full details.

Golf Competition System.

• A printing problem which occurred during full registration using the summary scorecard with a print driver printer has been corrected.

2004.3.0 - July, 2004

New Payroll PAYG Tax Rates.

• The new PAYG tax rates effective from 01/07/2004 are now available. They MUST NOT be downloaded until all payroll processing for the end of year has been completed. When ready they can be accessed by selecting "New Payroll Tax Rates File (post 01/07/2004)" and updating your system in the normal manner.

Employee Management System.

• Support has been added for A4 laser single "peel and stick" security pay envelopes.

• Added ACT minimum threshold level for employer superannuation of $280 per month.

• Changed Super Costing Report to correctly account for staff earning less than the award minimum ($450/$280).

• A new combination of "Print Leave on Envelopes" has been added - "A Annual,Sick". This can be selected in System Options Maintenance - General tab.

Poker Machine Management System.

• Added "setdig" to download for use by NSW clients when processing initial meter setup for CMS connection.

• ACT Schedule C has been amended to report manual link payments in the former "jackpot" column.

Cashbook System.

• Code has been added to cash receipting for media type "EFTPOS". When this type has been enabled and is used in this application, the debit for the receipt will not be made to the bank a/c, but will be coded to the POS A/c and CBD defined in systems options. Contact Pulse support for more information.

Liquor Stock System.

• In Goods Inwards entry and editing if when the voucher is created it is not an invoice or credit note the operator will be advised and must select a valid voucher type before the transaction can be completed.

Club Membership System.

• A change has been made to the membership conversion program "dbmemconv" to enable it to convert "ceased" member records.

2004.2.0 - April, 2004

Golf Competition System.

• A new field has been added to Maintain System Options - "Golflink Log". If this option is set to Yes - a detailed log file will be maintained in "c:\temp\golflink.log". It is intended that this will only be necessary if Golflink communications errors are being experienced and Golflink has requested a copy of the logfile. When logging is complete this field should be reset to No. The default setting for this field is No.

Employee Management System.

• Support has been added for Lump Sum "E" payments. This amount has to be manually entered via the special "ytdemp" program. Contact support for extra details.

• Accrual of Part Time leave for non NSW clients has been amended to include accrual on long service leave.

• ACT LTU award parameters have been amended. Split shift break of hours has been changed from 4 hours to 1 hour.

Poker Machine Management System.

• A new program "setmtr" has been created for use by NSW clients when processing initial meter setup for CMS connection.

Accounts Receivable System.

• Invoice posting has been amended to only create 1 debtors control record per invoice in the G/L Distribution Report instead of 1 record per item per invoice.

Cash Register System.

• The method of saving/restoring register backups for Clink type registers has changed to ensure file is not corrupted for new register types.

Club Membership System.

• A change has been made to the interface program from new Pulse Workspace Membership to ensure that overseas postcodes are converted correctly to '0001'.

2004.1.5 - January, 2004

Golf Competition System.

• Handicap updates from Golflink will now only use golflink number to access the membership data base. This will solve a problem when golflink sends lapsed handicap status updates (normally at the beginning of January ) for golfers who are no longer on file finding member records for existing members.

Employee Management System.

• On pay envelopes YTD Gross field has been moved 2 characters to the right.

• Print Group Certificate application has been changed to allow ETP statements to be printed when end of year run is set to No.

Poker Machine Management System.

• For NSW clients a new option has been added to the Meter Edit List. It is now possible to select "Use Theoretical Hoppers for Edit List". This will utilise the calculated hopper variance using cashin and cashout meters.

Accounts Payable System.

• A conversion program will run the first time accounts payable is entered. This will ensure that the new EFT flag for the cheque register is set the correct values.

• Apply Vendor Credit Note application has been altered to produce a report of applied vouchers and credit notes.

• Vendor Master File listing has been changed to ensure that all vendors are checked when alpha sort order is selected.

• In Cancelled Cheque entry and editing it is no longer possible to change the dissection away from "Creditors Control" account if vendor is not '000000' (cash vendor). This will ensure that GST calculations are maintained correctly. The correct procedure for cancelling a prepaid type invoice is to cancel the cheque back to trade creditors then if necessary post a credit note against the original expense.

• Corrected a GST error with posting credit notes with minus expense distribution amounts. GST amount is now posted to the correct side of the G/L Distribution report.

• In Invoice Entry and Editing when cancelled cheque is selected the cheque number entered is now checked to see if it has been presented and if necessary rejected with an appropriate error message.

• It is no longer possible to enter a zero date in the Due Date / Paid field in Invoice Entry and Editing.

Cashbook System.

• When cancelling a cheque an extra check is now made to see if the cheque has been presented. If so, an appropriate error message is displayed.

Liquor Stock System / Cash Register System.

• In Goods Inwards Entry and Editing ensure that only Invoice or Credit Note can be selected.

• A correction has been made to the Vendor Selection (F5) routines in Stock Maintenance and Stock Reorder Report to ensure that when a vendor is selected the details are reflected in the appropriate display fields.

• The Barcode Reader Interface program has been modified to accept more that 999 items in one download.

• Support has been added for new 771 registers using MWS protocol.

• Goods Inwards Entry and Editing has been amended to display the correct calculation of the automatic stock value if GST method is "Excluded".

2004.1.0 - December, 2003

Golf Competition System.

• Start of Day procedure has been changed to ensure last start of day date is only updated with valid date and time. This will prevent a potential error occurring during the next start of day.

• A display error has been fixed in the 'Handicap Enquiry' application when showing visitors playing handicap.

• Handicap Enquiry application has been changed so when connecting to golflink to obtain visitor's details the white golflink communications screen is not shown.

• A new systems option has been added to "configuration 1" tab - 'Visitor Dialout During Registration'. If this option is set to yes - if a golflink visitor swipes their card in player registration a connection will be made to golflink to obtain their current details. This process takes up to 20 seconds. The default for this option is "No".

Employee Management System.

• An automatic file conversion is required for the implementation of the following changes.

• Entry of a code in the Super Contributions Report application is now automatically uppercased.

• Super Costing report has been altered to give clients a selection of 2 calculation methods. The current method Master File Cost Centres or Actual Cost Centres Worked. The new method splits superannuation based on the hours in each cost centre where the employee actually worked.

• A new report has been added to the Payroll Analysis menu - 'Period Ordinary Times Earnings". This report shows employee's ordinary times earnings, compulsory superannuation rates and amount for the selected period. The new fields will be zero for all pays prior to the introduction of this software version as new file updates for these fields are now performed.

• An "invalid subscript" error when reading in allowance/deduction records at the start of 'Print Group Certificates' application has been fixed.

Poker Machine Management System.

• For NSW/ACT Link Progressive Payment entry processing a change has been made to ensure that link number cannot be zero.

Accounts Payable System.

• The Cheque / EFT payment system has been tightened to eliminate operator or procedural errors. Once a cheque/direct banking run has commenced - no changes are allowed to selected vouchers. If vouchers are selected as cheques they cannot be run as direct banking and vice versa. The total at the bottom of the 'payments for approval' report indicates what type of run is being processed. If both cheque and direct banking vouchers have been selected in the one run a warning will be given when the 'payments for approval' report is run - it will be impossible to progress any further without correcting those in error.

• It is now possible to process direct debit / billpay type payments via the direct banking application. In 'Maintain Vendor Details' - 'Extra Details' tab. a new field has been added - 'Pay by Debit/Billpay'. During a direct banking run if this field is set to 'yes' for a vendor this will be processed as a direct debit instead of a direct credit, ie an individual special sequentially numbered record will be created for bank reconciliation purposes and no record will be placed in the bank transfer file. Note: this will not automatically do the direct debit / billpay for you - this will still have to be done as normal via the internet, telephone, etc. For further details of the processing procedure in Pulse please contact support.

• Invoice Entry and Editing has been upgraded so that when the "reference" is entered the system checks for previously posted invoices for that vendor to see if that reference exists. If a match is found, a warning message is displayed advising the operator of the number, date and amount of the posted voucher.

All Financial Systems.

• It is now possible to export the fields of each transaction in the G/L Distribution reports in A/cs Receivable and A/cs Payable and the Trial Balance reports in Cashbook and General Ledger to a TAB delimited file. The new option is located in the "Report Style" selection list.

• A new feature has been added to the G/L Distribution reports in A/cs Receivable and A/cs Payable and the Trial Balance report in Cashbook. If period '0' is entered for the period number it is possible to change the start and end dates to those required - ie. it is possible to enter 10/12/2003 as the start date and 15/12/2003 as the end date and only transactions dated in that range will be printed. This may be useful when tracking down errors in a specified small date range.

Liquor Stock System.

• In Goods Inwards Entry and Editing a warning message is now displayed if an invoice date is entered which is before the batch header start of period date.

2003.4.3 - November, 2003

Golf Competition System.

• Start of Day procedure changed to ensure last start of day date is only updated with valid date and time. This will prevent a potential error occurring during the next start of day.

2003.4.0 - September, 2003

Employee Management System.

• On Employee payslips, Year to Date Gross and Paid Date have been swapped around to ensure that YTD Gross is not visible when printing security type stationary.

• A new field has been added to Systems Options Maintenance - General Tab - "Print YTD Gross" If set to Yes - YTD Gross is printed on payslips - this is the default value. Set this field to No if YTD Gross is not to be printed. This will allow those clients with non-standard security payslips to control whether YTD Gross is printed.

• The Super Contributions Report has been altered to ask the operator to select whether the report is printed in Numeric or Alphabetic order. The default is Numeric.

• A change has been made to the format for email payslips to ensure that all recipients can view the contents correctly.

• A conversion of files is necessary to implement the above changes. This will run the first time that payroll is entered after this update has been installed

Poker Machine Management System.

• Queensland Statutory report Form 42 has been amended to include "QOGR Form 42" as part of the heading.

Accounts Payable System.

• An amendment has been made to the application "Select Individual Vouchers". Previously if only "Enter" was pressed on the voucher number field all vouvhers would be automatically selected. In this version, if only "Enter" is pressed, a message has been added warning that all vouchers will be selected if the operator continues.

Liquor Stock System.

• A "divide by zero" error in the Bar Code Reader application has been fixed.

2003.3.6 - July, 2003 - Supplementary Update

Employee Management System.

• On Employee payslips, Year to Date Gross has been moved from line 4 to line 10 to ensure that it is not visible when printing security type stationary.

Poker Machine Management System.

• The Club Data Online Export application has been modified to include the name of the link if the group code starts with 'LP'.

2003.3.5 - July, 2003

This update contains conversions in both Employee Management and Liquor Stock. A full backup should be done before downloading and installing these updates.

Employee Management System.

• To implement the following changes a conversion will be prompted for the first time Employee Management is run.

• On employee payslips, details of the Superannuation Company Name and Employee's Membership Number are now printed. These, together with the month to date superannuation amount, complies with the new Superannuation Guarantee reporting requirements. A new 'Super Company File Maintenance' has been added to store the details. Please read the implementation document carefully.
• Year to Date Gross amount has been added to payslip.
• For clients with internet and email capabilities it is now possible to email payslips to employees. If you wish to implement this feature please call Pulse for a quotation on installation and setup.

Liquor Stock / Cash Register Link Systems.

• To implement the following changes a conversion will be prompted for the first time Liquor Stock is run.

• A new maintenance, ECR Menu Table Maintenance, has been added to the system. This will allow entry and editing of PLU Menu and Condiment Tables records stored within the Pulse system. These tables can then be downloaded to ERA770 type registers via CLink software. The ability to download PLU items containing kitchen printer terminal numbers has also been added. If you want to implement this feature please read the implementation document carefully.

2003.3.0 - July, 2003

Golf Competition System.

• This update provides the new Golflink Communications Module that can utilise an internet connection instead of a dial-up modem method. A Conversion Program will run the first time Golf Competitions is started to install the new comms module and change the golflink.ini file. To allow easy cutover to use the internet a new option has been added to the 1st tab in Maintain System Options - "Internet Connection - No/Yes ". To changeover to internet communications with golflink - set this option to "Yes". Before doing any interaction with golflink ensure that your internet connection is active. For networked systems it is advisable to reboot the server before downloading the updates.
• Away Game Entry and Editing has been changed to allow the entry of "plus" handicaps

Poker Machine Management System.

• Support has been added for new format of Turbo Bonus meter input file. This now contains "Money In" meter.
• A new option has been added to Performance Reports - "Club Data Online Export". This new application can produce an export file in the correct format to send to Club Data Online.

Club Membership System.

• New document tags have been added for 2 digit financial year - <FY_2DIGIT> and special tags for interfacing direct to Turbo Bonus from cash receipting.
• A "Channel Not Opened" error reported in printing renewal documents has been corrected.

Employee Management System.

• On employee payslips, if pays are direct credited to a bank account the "Date Paid" is now printed next to the Employer's ABN.
• For NSW clients - special changes have been made to handle Part Time employees pay rate changes who were Casual's before 1999 and converted to Part Time. Please read the implementation document carefully.

Liquor Stock / Cash Register Link Systems.

• A new register type has been added - "DIALUP CLINK". This will handle remote Clink cash registers that use modem dialup to communicate.

Accounts Receivable System.

• A printing problem for Invoices and Statements when using "Print Driver" printers has been fixed. The format now utilises all the printable area of the document.

Cashbook System.

• A new application has been added - "External Interface". This will interface transactions from Pulse Workspace Member Accounts into Cashbook and/or General Ledger.

Previous Releases

2003.2.0 - April, 2003

Golf Competition System.

• A new option has been added to the Competition Edit List to enable entry of the number of places required to be printed. This may be of use when printing edit lists to determine major prize or ball comp winners.
• A new field has been added to system options - "Score Entry Warning if Not Registered". If this option is set to "Yes" - during score entry, if a golfer's number is entered that has not previously been registered - a warning message to this effect will be displayed. This may be overridden and score entry completed if required.
• A new application has been added - "Delete History Records" - which will allow records from the Pulse handicap history file to be deleted, based on date, round type, round number, score type and golflink competition ID. Caution: This application will remove records from Pulse only. It will not delete records from history kept at Golflink. It should be used with extreme caution and normally after advice from Pulse Support Staff.

Employee Management System.

• An extra print line has been added to the Detailed Employee Listing to print No. of Sundays and Employer Extra Super master file fields.
• For New South Wales clients - Sick Leave accrual has been removed from the automatic calculation in Termination Details Entry.
• Support has been added for the Federal Hospitality Award.

Accounts Payable System.

• An error has been fixed in Prompt Payment Entry. A warning is now given if the cheque date entered is before the start of the current batch period.
• A change has been made to the ACT Liquor Purchases Register. It will no longer print vendors with zero purchases during the selected period.

Poker Machine Management System.

• For ACT clients, the monthly gaming transfer diskette applications has been updated to the new format. This format reports all meter readings as 10 digits.

2003.1.0 - December, 2002

This update contains conversions for Accounts Payable and Employee Management and a complete backup of Pulse should be made before installation.

Liquor Stock / Cash Register Link Systems.

• A new report has been added to print barcodes from the PLU configuration file.
• Closing Stock Edit List can now be selected to print in "Input" or "Location/Stock No." order.
• Display errors have been fixed when scrolling multiple screens in Barcodes File Maintenance, Stock Levels Maintenance and ECR Key Configurations applications.
• For clients with a/cs payable interface - Goods Inwards entry has been altered to correctly handle the automatic calculation of the dissection amount for all GST combinations.
• Closing Stock Edit List now indicates whether the item was entered manually (*MAN*) or was transferred via a handheld device(*PDE*). This may be useful after running an automatic stocktake (Calculate Closing Stock) and then interfacing from the handheld device, to highlight missed items or transfers.
• Added "Key Type" field to PLU configuration records. This field can be set to "Preset", "Open", "Open & Preset" or "Inhibit". The default value is "Preset" as this is the most common key type. It is used when sending price changes to the registers.
• For clients with "CLink" register interface - a feature in release 2002.2.0 was a new application "CLink PLU Create/Update". This caused a problem for registers that had kitchen printers attached or used condiment tables, as these were deleted by a price update. This new price update feature must not be used for these special registers. To assist with this a new field has been added to ECR Locations Maintenance - "CLink Create/Update" for which the default is "Yes". For any of these special registers it should be set to "No" and the CLink PLU Create/Update feature will be disabled for that register. Price changes for these special registers must be done via the "Daily Interface & Update" application.
• Support for 4 "real" price levels added to CLink for 770 type registers.
• Support for Liquor Purchases Register data entry has been re-installed. This is enabled by setting the "Liquor Purchases Register" options to "Yes" in Accounts Payable Systems Options.

Club Membership System.

• A new document tag has been added for mail suburb - <POST_SUBURB>
• Code has been added to "print documents" to allow production of annual reminder notices with instalment options for non balance forward clients

General Ledger System.

• An error was reported whereby if outputting financial reports to a CSV file, if any one column was zero the complete line would be bypassed and not appear in the file. This has now been corrected.

Accounts Payable System.

• A CONVERSION program will run the first time either general ledger or accounts payable is entered after the update. This is to covert direct banking account numbers from decimal to alpha formats. Clients using direct banking should check their own number in system options - "User's Trace Account Number" and also verify that the account numbers in vendor "Extra Details" are correct. Clubs with multiple clients using a single general ledger should contact support before loading this update as special procedures will be required.
• The change of format for direct banking account numbers now allows for leading zeroes to entered. This was necessary for some of the new banks that have recently emerged.
• A change has been made to the application "Select Individual Vouchers". If a client has the direct banking option set to "Yes", a pop-up message will be displayed asking whether this will be for a direct payment run. If "Yes" is chosen, all vendors selected must have a BSB and account number. This is to ensure that no "non direct banking" vendors can reach the "Prepare Direct Banking File" application.
• New tag <FAX> has been added for remittance advice printing to enable printing of clients fax number.
• Support for Liquor Purchases Register has been re-installed. This is enabled by setting the "Liquor Purchases Register" options to "Yes" in Accounts Payable Systems Options. This feature is only applicable if your site is also running Pulse Liquor Stock system.

Accounts Receivable System.

• An calculation error has been fixed in printing "balance forward" type invoices. This error only occurred when printing the balance forward amount on second and subsequent invoices for the one customer in the one batch.
• Added new tag <CONTACT> for use in print driver invoice and statements.

Poker Machine System.

• Support has now been added for the new EBS note/coin counter file interface for clearances/hoppers.
• Code has been added to handle new format of NSW Computagame which contains Money In meter for "Hyperlink" type machines.
• New South Wales hyperlink machines can now have a link payment of up to $3000 automatically transferred to the credit meter. To cater for this ALL hyperlink levels now have the ability for both manual and automatic payments.
• New South Wales LPJS edit list and L.A.B report have had print fields increased for number of link payments.
• Code has been added to handle new format of Sentinel NSW which contains Money In meter for "Hyperlink" type machines.

Employee Management System.

• A new field has been added to the allowance/deduction record - "Include with Leave" - No/Yes. Set to "Yes" it will include this allowance/deduction multiple times, if being paid for multiple weeks. A CONVERSION program will run the first time Employee Management is entered after the update. This will automatically set this flag to "No" for allowances and "Yes" for all deductions.
• Superannuation calculations for ACT part time staff have been upgraded to pay on public holidays at full rate.
• Support has been added for SFSS (Student Loan Supplement Scheme - similar to HECS). The employee master file maintenance screen has been altered to allow the selection of "None, HECS, SFSS or BOTH" for HECS / SFSS Levy?. For details of the rates maintenance screen see the HECS and SFSS rates link.

Golf Competition System.

• Entry of "swingers" in a team competition has been altered so that the swinger may be the first player registered on 1 team. However they cannot be the first player registered on a second team. This restriction means that the team captain's golflink number is unique within that competition.
• Entry of away game data has been changed to ensure more accurate results are sent to golflink. A "reasonableness" check is now made on CCR and PAR to ensure they are within AGU allowable values. The date for the away game is also checked and if more that 30 days ago a warning message is displayed advising the operator of a potential incorrect date.

2002.2.0 April, 2002

Employee Management System.

• A conversion of the payroll systems options file is required to implement a new field for Envelope Hrs Type. This will be performed the first time Employee Management is entered after loading this update.
• Envelope Hrs Type has been added to 2nd Tab of Systems Options to print 38 hour equivalent values on payslips if required.
• Support has been added for QLD Hotels (excluding SEQ) award.
• Queensland Awards calculation for minimum hours on a Public Holiday changed to pay both normal AND penalty rate on minimum hours.
• Employee type of 'Casual' can now be selected in Long Service Leave entry screen.
• Reprint of Payroll Journal to a File has been changed so that two files are produced if both ordinary pays and termination pays exist.
• Pay Envelopes have been changed to print Month to Date superannuation contributions. This was necessary so that the correct amount was shown if the employee's monthly earnings were below the superannuation guarantee threshold.
• Superannuation Costing Report has been altered to take into consideration employees who have reduced or no actual contributions paid by the employer.

Golf Competition System.

• Visitors report has been changed to print "Gross/Result" in heading to remove any uncertainty when stroke round is being reported.

Poker Machine System.

• Meter Analysis report has been altered. "Jackpot" reporting has been removed and replaced with "Profit" reporting.
• New South Wales "LAB" report has been changed to conform to new board standard. The "Old" format will be produced if "Draft" is selected. The "New" format will be printed if "Final" is selected. New input fields have been added to allow entry of State Wide Link Payment and Contribution amounts. These figures will be supplied by the monitoring company.
• An error in the Management Summary has been fixed by ensuring all group levels of linked payments are reported correctly.
• A new format, "Turbo Bonus 3", has been added to handle a new format for Turbo Bonus meters interface.

Membership System.

• IGT/EDT external data interface has been altered to better handle various home address line combinations.
• Disk format file tag processing has been modified to allow records to be up to 500 characters in length.

Stock Control System.

• Barcode reader interface application has been changed so that stocktake downloads also check barcodes in the PLU Configuration file.
• A new item "Update NEW Sales Prices" has been added to the Calculate Sales Prices menu. This application will update NEW sales prices into CURRENT prices after prices changes have been made. This feature is for the use of clients without sharp cash registers.

Cash Register Link System.

• A new item, "CLink PLU Create/Update" has been added to the menu. For CLink systems only, this new feature means that the Pulse system is now the master when dealing with PLU items in the register. Thecreate option will create a file containing a record for each PLU in the Pulse Configuration file. This file will then be sent to the register/s and overwrite all existing PLU records in the register/s. The update option will create a file containing a record for each PLU that has had a price change. This file will then be sent to the register and will update the PLU records.

2001.4.3

Employee Management System.

• During printing of continuation pay slips the club's ABN was overwriting the deduction name column on the first pay slip. This has been corrected.

Golf Competition System.

• Golf Handicap Enquiry now displays full details even if handicap status is Lapsed.

2001.4.2

Employee Management System.

• To facilitate some of the following changes, a conversion is necessary. This will run the first time Employee Management is started after the update is complete. When the conversion is complete, you should "Display Control Totals" and check the amounts shown.
• A new field has been added to employee master file for "Additional Employer Super". This is an extra percentage of super that the employer is paying above the normal SGL rate.
• Club Plus report - Added birthdate for each employee and removed the 3% minimum for State (excluding South East Qld) award.
• Program changes have been made to include a new NSW Restaurant & Caterers Award.

• Employer Name and ABN is now printed at the bottom of payslips. Also Employer name and ABN are printed on all payroll reports. This is in accordance with new NSW industrial relations regulation. It has been applied by Pulse regardless of state.
• Bereavement leave in NSW now defaults to 3 days.
• An optional 9 character reference is now included in employee bank details. This was introduced to allow child support number to be entered which will appear as part of the reference on the recipients bank statement.
• Corrected an error in the "rounding" routine for net pay and tax. Rounding only went as far as 0.10 cents even if 0.05 cents was selected.
• Removed reference to employer group number in "Produce Declaration Report".
• Added the ability to use page up/page down to scroll through standard shift selection list when in edit weekly rosters.
• Roster Summary Report has been modified to allow employee range selection.
• Modified Queensland part-time and casual employees long service leave calculations to bring into line with new regulations. For full details and implementation instructions see Queensland LSL Implementation.
• Implemented accrual calculation for NSW casual employees long service leave. For full details and implementation instructions see NSW Casual LSL Implementation.
• A new Payroll Analysis Report - Normal Hours by Employee - has been added. This report gives the normal hours worked by an employee between two dates and the maximum award hours for the same period. To enable this report to function, a new field has been added to Awards File Maintenance called Maximum 4 Weekly Hours. This new field must be completed for each award and employee type required to be printed. i.e. If only part-time employees need to be reported, then only enter number of hours into the part-time column for Maximum 4 Weekly Hours in the appropriate award/s.

Golf Competitions System.

• Away game entry changed so that course rating and course par cannot be zero.

General Ledger System.

• Added prior year and budget sales ratio % to financial reports. A conversion program is automatically run on the report definition file for new column fields.
• In Maintain Budget Details - Budget tab now has a total field which contains the sum of debits and credits for period 1 to 13.
• When exporting financial reports to a CSV file, if report definition print zero lines = "NO" - file will no longer have zero lines printed.

Accounts Payable System.

• A "Test" button has been added to Systems Options - Emailing Details tab. This will enable Email Setup to be tested without having to process a payment.

Poker Machine Management System.

• Corrected an error in Summary version of Net Performance which always reported the current month regardless of the dates requested.
• Added GMID (Gaming Machine Identifier) to NSW machine file maintenance. Added Device GMID to allowable sort sequences for NSW reports.
• Added new meter type for Wide Area Jackpots and changed form 41 to include new column for grand jackpots.
• Support has been added to Clearance Interfaces for Sprintquip Note counter diskette type

Club Membership System.

• Lucky Member Draw has been modified to include an option for a 4 minute timer to be used. When a number is drawn the 4 minute timer will start. If the timer is stopped before the 4 minutes has elapsed the member will be added to the winners list. If the timer is not stopped before 4 minutes it will display "Expired" and another draw will have to be made.

Thank you,

The Pulse Club Management System Development Team.

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