Release Notes - Overview

Attaché Catapult releases overview

This list gives an overview of functionality changes that have been made to Attaché Catapult since its release in 2000.

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MAJOR FEATURES
A

Ability to fax and email quotations

ABN Customer Masterfile and Supplier Masterfile

Ability to carry comment lines from requisitions to purchase orders
Ability to delete payment summary details for the current year (Australia only)

Accessing Attaché Contacts from maintenance and enquiry screens

Account descriptions in General Ledger Financial Reporter

Addition of fourth address line (Country field) for Customers

Addition of fourth address line (Country field) for Suppliers

Additional information field on Products and Services

Additional form codes in Supplier master file

Alternative products and services in customer transactions

ANZ Diskpay file format (PNG only)

Attaché Alex

Attaché Alex: Choice of sender names for Customer documents

Attaché Alex: Choice of sender names for Supplier documents

Attaché Alex: Confidential document deliveries

Attaché Alex: Document inclusions

Attaché Alex: Email/Fax delivery option at time of printing

Attaché Alex: Enhanced fax quality

Attaché Alex: Find facility in document delivery address manager

Attaché Alex: Individual document addressing

Attaché Alex: Print/resend option

Attaché Alex: Sending documents with text layouts

Attaché Alex: Statements

Attaché Archive
Australian Business Number field available in Company Option

Australian tax scales

B

BAS Allocation Report

BAS Allocation Report enhanced

BAS Allocations Report selection criteria added

BAS Allocations - New descriptions

BAS Annual Returns

BAS Audit Report

BAS Audit Report Purge program

BAS Calculation worksheet for imports updated

BAS file export

BAS Funds Allocation enhancements

BAS Manual Update for Payroll and Other Amounts Withheld

BAS Update and BAS reporting function

BAS Update Warning Message during Customer/Supplier EOP

BPAY fields for customers (Australia only)

C

CashRegister dockets - tax descriptions

CashRegister dockets show item prices according to Decimals in Price field

Cash Required List - enhanced

Changes to Customer master file

Changes to Inactive, Allow Alternatives and Superseded By fields

Changes to Product and Service master files

Changes to Supplier master file

Choice of print layout when entering customer transactions

Choice of which copy to display in Forms Designer

Combine pro-rata and entitlement on the body of a pay advice

Common cost centres

Confirmation of customer orders

Customer discounts - prevent discounts on products and services

Customer End of Period enhanced

Customer End of Period - default setting for End of Period changed

Customer Aged Trial Balance report options enhanced

Customer End of period - Default settings for End of Period changed

Customer enquiry transaction limit removed

Customer invoice screens and documents - additional fields
Customer Orders printing fully B/Ordered lines
Customers - Password on exceeding customer credit limit
Customer Returns Report
Customer Screen Designer extra fields
Customer Special Maintenance - Fields Added
Customer statements: Contact Name field now available in header and footer
Customer statements: new footer fields and new sample layout with footer
Customer statements: specifying a Category range
Customer Tax Report enhanced
Customer Tax Report selection criteria added
Customer website launch from master file
Customers: Permit required for customer sales
Customers: Consolidate multiple orders into one invoice, and delete backorders
Customer Tax Report enhanced
Customer Tax Report selection criteria added
Customer website launch from master file
Customers: Permit required for customer sales
Customers: Consolidate multiple orders into one invoice, and delete backorders
Customers: Customer product codes

Customers: Utility to remove unallocated transactions

Customers: Private comment line in customer orders
Customers: Date-driven customer ageing
Customers: Customer Payments Due list
Customers: Product Location range and sequence on Customer Aged Trial Balance
Customers: Import of more customer transaction types
Customers: Read quotations into orders, and read quotations and orders into invoices
Customisable forms on dot-matrix printers under Windows NT, 2000 and XP
Customisation of statement layout
Credit card payments for Suppliers
D

Date-driven General Ledger postings

Date-driven GST postings (Australia and NZ only)
Default tender typed in CashRegister
E

Electronically upload BAS to ATO website

Employee Details report enhanced

Employee Enquiry screen

Enhancements to G/L Other Modules Posting menu, Customer EOP and Product Maintenance relating to the Cash Register Module

Enhancements to payment summaries and Magentic Media file (Australia only)
Escape key no longer closed Attaché Catapult
Excluding service items from sales reports
F

File Integrity Check - Print facility enhanced

Flexible remittance advice numbering (Suppliers)

Foreign currency changes for local suppliers

Foreign Currency Tax Calculation

Forms Designer fields for quotations
FormsPort functionality - outsource the printing and distribution of customer statements
G

General Ledger Trial Balance report shows larger amounts

General Ledger reports updated Details field

GST Calculation worksheet

GST enhancements
GST fields in Screens and Forms Designer
GST functions and BAS Reporting
GST functions further enhanced
GST Reporting enhancements
I

Importing multiple kits

Improved - Copy Data Files includes all screen and print layouts

Improved display of suppliers' tax codes

Improved - Forms Designer Layouts report includes all print layouts

Improved - Using BPAY to pay suppliers (Australia only)

Inactive products and services

Inclusion of postal barcode font

"Include zero value orders" field on Outstanding Orders report

Independent series of remittance advice numbers
K

Keystroke import begins less quickly

Kit pricing

Kits, pro formas, preferred products lists and standing order
L
Launch Alex address managers during customer and supplier transactions
Links to the CBP Members and Attaché Alex websites

Long printer names

M

Magnetic Media File 2001

Multiple Customer document designs - invoices and credit adjustment notes
N

National Superannuation Fund report

Net Unit Selling Price fields in Screen Designer

New fields in Special Maintenance

New labelling of document output options

New module - Quotations

New reports on barcodes and alternative, superseded and inactive products and services

New Payroll Taxscales added - SFSS

New Zealand's payroll amendments to comply with current EMS (Employer Monthly Schedule) requirements

"No print" and Sub Total lines in Customer and Supplier documents

NPF Report for PNG Payroll

NPF report heading now reads "National Superannuation Fund Limited" (Papua New Guinea only)

O

Option to not send statements

Option to prevent duplicate invoice numbers

" Other/EFT" field on Customer Payments screen

Outstanding Orders report - summmary option
Override of unit cost for service items in customer orders

Overriding the export tax code for GST reporting

P

Papua New Guinea: National Provident Fund Report

Password on exceeding customer credit limit

Payment line on Customer invoices

Payroll options - Annual Leave Warning option

Payslip requirements in NSW

Pay Summary Report for Payroll

Pay Summary Overflow Report for Payroll

Pay Summary Report enhancements

PAYG Reconciliation Report

Payment line on customer invoices (text invoices)

Payment Summaries for Payroll

Payment Summaries enhancements

Payroll: ATO Magnetic Media version 7.4

Payroll: Australian tax scales 2002/2003

Payroll: Customisable pay advice forms

Payroll: Delivering pay advices by email or fax

Payroll: Employee other accounts (NZ only)

Payroll: Additional pay advice totals

Payroll: General enhancements

Payroll: NASFund Contributors Savings and Loan (NCSL) report (for Papua New Guinea)

Payroll: NZ Pay History

Payroll: New allowance and deduction types (NZ only)

Payroll: New fields in Employee Maintenance (NZ only)

Payroll: Pacific Islands bank file format – Westpac (Quickpay)

Payroll: PNG Statement of earnings

Payroll: Summary options for payment summaries has moved (Australia only)

Payroll: Superannuation for casuals under 18

Payroll: Tax scales (Australia) added combining HECS and SFSS scales

Payroll: Tax scales (Australia) added - new HECS and SFSS scales

Payroll: Tax scales (Australia) added - CDEP (Changes to tax calculation)

Payroll: Tax report enhancements

Permit tracking for customer sales

PNG NASFund and NCSL report update (Papua New Guinea only)

Postal barcoding for Customers

Postal barcoding for Suppliers

Postal barcoding on pay advices
Postcode field provides Find on transaction screens
Postcode range added to Postcode details report
Postcodes file updated
Pricing on Invoices
Printing cheque numbers on the Bank Deposit List
Print Copy Now option in document entry
Product pricing during Supplier Invoices/Goods Received entry screen and the automation of On Costs function
Product Receipts enhanced - transactions with or without GST
Prompt payment/refund for Supplier Invoice/Credit Notes
Protection against deleting General Ledger Postings file

Purchase Orders - modified reprinting

Q
Quotations: Sales Rep ranges on quotation reports
Quotations: Managing quotations
R

Remittance advices via Attache Alex

Remittance advices offer Reprint option, customisation and other improvements

Removal of "Copy to send" limitation

Repeating Product/Service Code in Suppliers

Reports can include or exclude inactive, superseded and standard products and services

Reprinting documents requires range(s)

Reprinting pay advices

Retain Discount option (Customers)

Rebuild renamed to Compress Database
Rounding on GST
S

Sales Analysis reports enhanced

Sample/Template Screens and Forms Layout modified to accommodate the added features in Suppliers

Sample Forms revised - Tax Inc/Tax Exc

Save Date Range checkbox in BAS/GST Return Update (Australia and New Zealand only)

Screen Designer fields for quotations

Screen & Forms Designer layouts enhanced

Screen and print master layouts automatically copied

Selection of copy number at time of printing

Selection of form code at time of printing

Selection of remittance advice form code

Selection of statements to be printed/sent

Sending payment summaries by email or fax (Australia only)

Standard Financial Report Layouts

Superannuation Guarantee reporting (Australia only)

Superseded products and services

Supplementary barcodes

Supplier & Customer Tax Report enhanced

Supplier Aged Trial Balance Report enhanced

Suppliers: Buying groups for suppliers

Superannuation Guarantee - record payment details with the superannuation amounts (Australia only)

Supplier Ageing report (date-driven)

Supplier Ageing report – future transactions

Supplier Cash Required List enhanced

Supplier Credit Adjustment Note for payments with Settlement Discount

Supplier End of Period process enhanced

Supplier End of Period process update

Supplier End of period - Default settings for End of Period changed

Supplier functions enhanced

Suppliers General Ledger Postings Report

Supplier invoice screens and documents - additional fields

Supplier Manual Payments to cater for the New Tax System (GST)

Supplier Manual Payments update

Supplier Master File screen in relation to the Withholding fields
Supplier Pay Selection enhanced to automatically generate a transaction
Supplier Payments Withheld Report enhanced
Supplier Remittance Advices enhanced
Supplier Screen Designer extra fields
Supplier Special Maintenance
Supplier Tax Report enhanced
Supplier transactions changes
Supplier website launch from master file
Suppliers enhancements
Suppliers: Pacific Islands bank file format - Westpac (Quickpay)
U

Unit Discount field in customer Forms Designer

Unit Cost field displays current cost

Use Higher Family Threshold tick-box (Australia only)

W

Wholesales Tax (WST) to GST conversion

Withholding Payment function

Withholding Payments Report

Y
YearOne PowerLink