Hello, the update 2.57 is now available in the Downloads section. Please unzip it as usual.
What’s New?
Fixes since the last update
- There has been some fixes on the credit card options for small problems that have occurred due to changes implemented by banks to their credit card batch file process.
- There was a problem with publication extras being carried forward on the subagent run sheet that has now been fixed.
New items – Own Details
Alternate emailing option. Some agents have not been able to email home customer invoices due to their Windows program not allowing the MrNews program to access their email client (MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express etc). If this is the case the agents email account details can be inserted in the fields provided and the email invoices are sent direct and bypass the email client program.The disadvantage with this option is that no copies of the sent emails can be viewed. Any reply emails are received in to your “Inbox” as normal.
New Items – Reports
The “Stolen Publications” report now shows the cost of the stolen publications. This has been provided for agents that wish to claim Sunday Times and Fairfax stolen publications as a tax deduction. A report can be generated for the financial year that will give you a total retail value of all items stolen for the year.
A new report has been created in the Publishers section called “Other Sales & Return Report”. This report can be used to generate return reports for other products such as regional newspapers.
New Items – Invoicing
You now have the option to reverse credit card payments. Payments can be reversed for either a single customer or groups of customers depending on the fields selected.
Subagent and Customer Invoices extra text. You can now save multiple preset text messages to be added to invoices. Type in the required message and press the 
button to save the message. Messages no longer required can be deleted by pressing the 
button.
Delivery Fee capping. An additional parameter has been created to set a cap on the delivery fees charged for The Kalgoorlie Miner similar to that available for the West Australian. Please contact us if you need to have this parameter added to your program.
Stop/Start dates are also now shown on emailed home customer invoices.
New items – Home Customers
We have now included an additional TAB called “Options” on to the customer page next to the “Fwd Balance” tab.
To clear up the customer page some options that are used less frequently have now been moved to the options area. Some of these are listed below.
- Subagent WAN account details
- No delivery on public holidays
- Overdue fee
- WAN Incentive date
This was done to free up room on the main page for new fields if required and to make it a little less cluttered. As the program has evolved more information has been added to the customer page and some of this is rarely used again after it has been entered.
Recording of home customer ID codes. Part of the new options tab is a field to record publishers customer ID numbers.
Stops/Starts. Home customer stop/starts list can now be printed or sent to a file. The file can then be attached to an email and sent to another location.
New items - Sub-agent deliveries run sheet
The width of the publication drop down box has been increased to show more characters in the publications name.
The supply/return history on the daily runsheet has been expanded and is now unlimited. History can be viewed in blocks of 5 weeks 1-5, 6-10, 11-15 etc by clicking the right and left scroll buttons at the top.
Subagents can now be put into separate run groups and a separate runsheet printed for each group. This will assist agents with large numbers of subagents that can be split into different groups for delivery. When printing a runsheet for a subagent rungroup only the subagent supplies are shown. The supplies for home customers will only be shown on the combined runsheet that includes all subagent groups i.e. group field left blank.
New items - Run book
An addition has been made to the run book to help those agents that deliver invoices with the paper. The symbol to indicate that a customer has an invoice is in the form of a.gif file selected by the user. The symbol is then included with the publications on the run book display. In the example below I have used a red square box to indicate which customers (numbers 42 and 34) have a printed invoice to be delivered.
To set up this option you need to select a gif file and copy it into your “run book” folder within the “MrNews” directory. I have a red box and a coloured ball gif files available if anyone wants a copy. Any agent that has any other gif files that could be more suitable may be able to offer them around. An additional field will be required to be added to your run book “parameters”. Add the field “InvoiceDrop” and the name of the gif file you have put into your run book folder. Note-Customers receiving printed invoices must have the D (Drop) invoice option active.
When you download your run book for the day you intend to deliver your invoices in addition to selecting the date and run group now add the invoice date as shown below.
Note – The invoice drop date is only required to be entered on the days when you are delivering invoices. For normal run book operation leave this field blank.