What's new in Amberdms Billing System 2.0.0

Jun 11, 2013
  • Core Functionality:
  • New XHTML/CSS to PDF generator and templates using the webkit engine for better quality & more flexible invoices.
  • Fully themable application and selectable per-user.
  • Numerious usability improvements, including search fields built into dropdowns
  • Numerious bug fixes.
  • Supports IPv6 for the web application. (however not for usage billing)
  • Customers & Vendors:
  • Multiple contacts functionality
  • Customer attributes page to track values in a more defined structure than the journal.
  • New orders functionality, allows item and setup charges to be added to a customer to be invoiced automatically with their next service bill.
  • New customer page display and filtering abilities.
  • Accounting & Invoicing:
  • Full credit note support, with option for automatically applying customer credits to generated invoices.
  • Bulk payment user interface.
  • Bank statement import functionality. (prototype stage)
  • Ability to quickly issue payment reminders to customers for overdue invoices.
  • Products:
  • Dropped "manual tax" functionality.
  • Standardised tax to match same structure and UI as customers & vendors.
  • Key SOAP API changes to support new setup.
  • Service Billing:
  • VoIP billing - Various importable rate tables. - Regional number import abilities. - Call usage charging. - Automatic emailing of CDR records along with customer invoice.
  • Service Bundles, allowing multiple services grouped under one fee.
  • New telcoperiod and telcomonth billing modes, for billing plan in advance and usage in arrears.
  • Developers:
  • Customer Portal SOAP API calls.
  • Prototype live translation user interface.
  • New repair scripts for carefully manipulating billing runs and data.
  • Cleaned up PHP errors in codebase.

New in Amberdms Billing System 1.3.0 (Oct 14, 2009)

  • This release provides ACID compliance, improved user interface, numerous bugfixes, more PDF export options, a database backup utility, and much more.

New in Amberdms Billing System 1.2.0 (Apr 8, 2009)

  • Bug Fix - (UI tweak) Missing label for quote_convert_financials form section
  • Bug Fix - (UI tweak) Missing label for service_options_licenses form section
  • Bug Fix - (UI tweak) Removed internal-only UI display of id_projects field
  • Bug Fix - Sending emails from web-interface of billing system has ' quoted as /'
  • Bug Fix - Removed unusable order-by option from GL dropdown.
  • Bug Fix - Date field not allowing updates from form on balance sheet report.
  • Bug Fix - Account ledger filter options failed to work correctly.
  • Bug Fix - Corrected broken max 24-hour check on booked time
  • Bug Fix - Error/Notification messages not correctly styled on vendor's invoices page.
  • New Feature - Improved tax reports cash mode to report partial payments
  • New Feature - Implemented product/customer/vendor discounting
  • New Feature - Added ability to have labels appear after standard form input fields
  • New Feature - Improved money/currency formatting
  • New Feature - Improved float input verification to accept either floats or ints
  • New Feature - Debugging now counts number of SQL queries made