Past Release Notes
Ver. Q1 2008 5.8
Ver. Q3 2007 5.7
Ver. Q1 2007 5.6
Ver. Q4 2006 5.5
Ver. Q3 2006 5.4
Ver. 5.3.0.4
Ver. 5.2.0.4
Ver. 5.1.0.0 - 5.2.0.2
Ver. 5.1.0.17
Ver. 5.1.0.16
Ver. 5.1.0.15
Ver. 5.1.0.14
Ver. 5.1.0.13
Ver. 5.1.0.12
Ver. 5.1.0.11
Ver. 5.1.0.10 |
CFM5 Update Information
Crown Freight Manager
Quarter 1 2008 Release Version 5.8
Release Notes
03/31/2008
Following is a list of features added to current version Crown Freight Manager 5 in the update to Quarter 1 2008 Version 5.8. Included with the list of new features is a brief description of each:
- Increased the Customer Contact field to accept more characters.
- Changes have been made to Door to Door shipments and completion. If you have a Door to Door shipment and enter POD information for the delivery. The shipment will complete even if the pickup side is not complete.
- You can now send a shipment to MDU through right click on the dispatch screen.
- Adding a billing phone number and fax number to the customer file.
- You can now record the CDS-Connect usernames and passwords that are assigned to a user. This can be placed in the notes box on the comm/imaging tab.
- You can now E-Mail or print 26 pieces of backing scanned paperwork with the invoice.
- Your uncompleted line hauls will now show on the uncompleted shipments report. If the line haul does not have a POD entered on it. The report will show it as uncompleted.
- Added a search ability to search out shipments to be added to a manifest. The search works off of the sort order set.
- If you enter a POD on a Door to Door shipment. The shipment will complete and allow to be invoiced. The pickup side information will not be required to invoice the shipment.
- You can now choose your sort order on the Billing Verification Report.
- Added a brief "Collections Notes" field to the invoice properties screen. Click the "…" option next to the invoice information to pull up collection notes. Full collections history should still be store in Credit Notes or Invoice Notes.
- Added the External Invoice id to show on the billing screen from the invoice properties screen.
- We have added some enhancements to the driver setup. You can now setup fuel surcharge percentages on the tariff for the driver pay.
- The ability has been added to the EDI Alerts screen to change the customer and move type before accepting the shipment.
- The display missing completion requirements button has been added to the search screen.
- The search screen has been altered to show one line for Door to Door and Pickup/Delivery shipments. When you search you will just see one line instead both the pickup and delivery.
- You can now search by pieces and weight along with other criteria if needed.
- The speed of the search screen has been increased 14x. If you are searching for a date range of shipments the speed to return the results will be significantly faster, as well as reduce Switch To / Retry message when performing a lengthy search.
Note: You will no longer be able to search for a pickup driver on a Door to Door or Pickup/Delivery shipment. This was necessary in order to increase the speed of the search as well as readability of the results.
- Expanded the ability to allow for the scanning of 26 documents. When printing bar code cover sheets or labels just check the documents you are scanning as before.
Following is a list of reports that have been added or expanded in the current version of Crown Freight Manager 5 in the update to Quarter 1 2008 Version 5.8:
- Added the description of goods from a shipment on the pickup card.
- You can now print out line haul tariffs. Your choices on print or the tariff you are looking at or all tariffs in report.
- Added a grand total to the credit journal report.
- When you print dunning notices you can now have different text on the notice for several customers.
- The Customer List report in excel format will include the shipment screen message.
- We now have an "Average Days to Pay" report in the billing reports gallery. This report will show your customers average days to pay an invoice from the date it was printed.
- We have added an option to the collections report to allow a selection for one customer instead of all customers.
- The income analysis report will not break out Fuel and Special charges.
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