HI-TECH Smart Systems, Inc.
Updates
to RentPlus version 1.8
New Features, Enhancements, and
Corrections
The following table describes the changes to RentPlus that have been made since RentPlus v1.8 was released in January 2003.
| Date | Title | Description | Action | Type | Category |
| 2006.01.16 | Refunds reduced by Add a Charge | Correct the selection of the general ledger account to use when you are adding a charge to reduce the refund a customer is due after move-out. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2006.01.13 | Customer Letter Wizard | You can now send a copy of a collection letter to the alternate on demand. Use Customer Properties | Favorites | Send Letters. Select the letter, then click Next. Check the box marked Send to Alternate and click Finish. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2006.01.13 | Auction Wizard | Add option to include Auction Date details in collection letters using the same tags used in the publication notice. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.12.30 | Move-In | Added setting in Options (User Interface) to always require operator to login before starting a Move-In. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.12.21 | Map Customer Addresses | The button next to customer addresses has been changed to use MSN Maps instead of Expedia Maps | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.12.16 | Access Control Interface Download | A permission setting is now in place that will allow or disallow an operator to disable security in the event of a miscommunication error. | Install Update | Enhancement | Access Control Interface |
| 2005.12.15 | Rental Invoice | Include the contract number on letters based on the Rental Invoice template. | Install Update | Enhancement | Letters |
| 2005.12.05 | Access Control Interface - Setup | PTI Falcon - Allow the mux and channel numbers to be erased. | Install Update | Enhancement | Access Control Interface |
| 2005.11.25 | Funds Transfer Wizard | New wizard to facilitate funds transfer transactions. May be setup with rules and added to automatic scheduling. Use Bank Accounts report to view the Funds Transfer form. | Install Update | New Feature | Accounting |
| 2005.11.22 | Reservation Wizard and Move-In | If a user does a move-in from a reservation and changes the unit, prompt the user to choose to apply the reservation to the new unit or not. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.11.22 | Sales Order Wizard | Save a copy of the sales order for reprint. | Install Update | Enhancement | Inventory Management |
| 2005.11.22 | Banking | Correctly account for concurrent credit card fees for payment types that use the direct deposit method and ensure they are not included in the bank deposit wizard after being reversed. | Install Update | Correction | Accounting |
| 2005.11.10 | Collection Wizard | Correct problem where the summary report showed the information prior to the new charges instead of after the new charges. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2005.11.01 | Receivables / Prepayment report | Add an option to include only past due and prepaid accounts, excluding current accounts. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.11.01 | Payment Coupons | Correct problem of showing incorrect due dates when there is no late charge at all on an account and a rent increase affects the rates. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.10.31 | Customer Properties / Contract Details | Added a permission setting that allows a user to be allowed only to edit the statement tab of the customer contract properties. To do this, set the permission for User may change the Statement contract data to TRUE and set the permission for Edit the terms of the Contract to FALSE. | Install Update | New Feature | Customer Management |
| 2005.10.22 | Transfer Unit | Added option to set text to be printed at the bottom of the unit transfer printout. Added a permission setting to control access to the text change. | Install Update | New Feature | Customer Management |
| 2005.10.19 | Sales Order printout | Do not show payment detail labels if no payment; remove the lines from around the areas in the sales order footer. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.10.14 | Prospect Properties | If setting to not allow edit/delete of customer notes is set, then apply that rule to Prospect notes as well. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.10.13 | General Ledger Reports | Properly handle the display of large numbers; when the largest number in the report exceeds 10 million, the decimal numbers will be hidden to make room for the larger numbers. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.10.11 | Control Panel | Change background color from white to light blue when in Practice Mode. | Install Update | Enhancement | Control Panel |
| 2005.10.07 | Business Summary / Unit Occupancy | Adds detail that includes actual rent, discount and variance information. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.09.19 | Customer Selection | Save the previously-used setting for the 'Include Inactive' filter as the default. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.08.22 | Business Summary / Refunds Paid | Correct problem that reported an incorrect total when certain concurrent credit card fees are included. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2005.08.17 | Audit Wizard | Correct problem that could cause the Customer Notes to erroneously come up empty. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.08.15 | Export / Open External applications | Adds support for a custom setting for the location of programs to open RTF, XLS, or HTML files if the registry entry cannot be found automatically. Requires assistant from technical support. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.08.07 | Rental Plans / Move-Ins | You can now use different custom rental contract printouts for different rental plans - for example, a self-storage contract, parking contract, office space contract, etc.). Contact HI-TECH for details. | Install Update | New Feature | Custom Contract |
| 2005.08.07 | Customer Properties | Send Letters | Correct problem that could cause the financial details not to print in on-demand customer insurance cancellation or pre-cancellation letters. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.08.07 | Auction Wizard | New feature that assists in the management of auctions. Start from Tools | Collection Wizard - then click Auction Setup Wizard. Setup auction and publication dates, print publication notice, link customers to auction dates. | Install Update | New Feature | Customer Management |
| 2005.08.06 | Customer Post Code Report | Add an option to include only active customers in the report. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.07.21 | Insurance Setup Wizard | Allow selection of any general ledger account for the debit and credit entries for insurance charges. | Install Update | Enhancement | Accounting |
| 2005.07.21 | Customer Name Entries | Allow the use of the tilde (~) character in names (effected the collection reports) | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.07.11 | Customer Properties Security History | Correct problem in displaying Falcon security history in Customer Properties and Security System Actiity report that could occur in some instances if there was no middle initial. | Install Update | Correction | Access Control Interface |
| 2005.06.20 | Business Summary report | Include payouts and other adjustments in Bank Deposit section of report. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2005.06.20 | Automatic Payment Processing | Add support for HI-TECH PayCenter Server processing, as alternative to other automatic payment processing options. | Install Update | New Feature | Customer Management |
| 2005.06.14 | Rent Increase Wizard - Listing | Add columns to include the unit number and the contract number in the rent increase account listing. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.06.13 | Move-In Wizard | Do not allow partial payment to be taken when a prepayment discount has been selected, and the setting to require full payment at move-in is not turned on. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.06.10 | Charges Added report | In the Daily by Category report, correct problem in naming and display of column data when the number of income categories exceeds twenty. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2005.05.19 | Customer Properties | Correct possible problem where the balance shown on the general tab did not match the customer's detail ledger. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.05.19 | Close Accounting Period | Add Permission setting to grant permission to re-open an accounting period to selected user groups. | Install Update | Enhancement | Accounting |
| 2005.05.19 | Prepayment Discount accounting | Correct possible problem posting discounts to the prepayment account if general ledger tracking of prepayments is active. | Install Update | Correction | Accounting |
| 2005.05.17 | Sales Order Return Wizard | Correct problem that could occur in some instances to properly split the base amount and tax when creating the credit for the return. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.05.13 | Future Move-Ins | On the day of move-in, correctly update the status for all of the units in a contract that was entered with a future move-in date. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.05.09 | Tax Report | Correctly include all possible general ledger tax accounts when running the report for multiple accounts (affects only tax rates that include multiple tax jurisdictions). | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2005.05.09 | Bank Deposit History report | Correct problem that could cause incorrect report totals in cases where a user had multiple user accounts. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2005.05.09 | Security History - Falcon Interface | Correct problem retrieving security history for customers with names longer than 20 characters. | Install Update | Correction | Access Control Interface |
| 2005.05.09 | Vacant Unit reports | Added setting to Options to include or exclude a chart on the report that shows the prorated rent amounts (to the first of the month) for each size. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.05.06 | Transfer Unit Wizard | Correct problem with calculation of credits in some cases where multiple transfers were done within the same rental period. Correct error that could occur in calculations when discounts were given for future periods. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.05.02 | General Ledger Financial reports | If the worktable for this report is empty, rebuild the worktable before allowing the user to run the report. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2005.05.02 | Statements and Invoices | Reduce space between lines in the statement and invoice detail areas. | Install Update | Enhancement | Letters |
| 2005.04.28 | Customer Credit Card Authorization form. | Add additional space for name and address so long (4-line) addresses are shown completely. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.04.28 | Options | Add setting to set a custom path for images. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.04.28 | Receivables / Prepayments (Interactive) report | From the details list, you can now right-click on a customer's name to select an option to view and/or edit the customers notes. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.04.26 | Falcon Easy-Link and Falcon Universal | Add option to export the mux and channel number data to a file (alarm.alm). | Install Update | Enhancement | Access Control Interface |
| 2005.04.26 | Unit Properties | Add text on the Rates tab to better explain Scheduled vs. Actual rental rates. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.04.21 | Falcon Easy-Link | Added new access control interface for the PTI Falcon Easy-Link; this newer link is designed to replace the PTI Falcon Universal interface. | Install Update | New Feature | Access Control Interface |
| 2005.04.21 | Setup Taxes | Add printout of tax settings. | Install Update | Enhancement | Setup |
| 2005.04.20 | Vacant Report | The reserved units list was not including units that were reserved and then rented with a future move-in date. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.04.16 | Reverse Payment Wizard | Add text to better define what the reverse payment wizard is doing and when to use various options. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.04.16 | Movein Wizard | Marketing page: if information is required, make sure that Market Reason is included, and display missing information in the correct order. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.04.15 | Setup Lists | Add Market Reason tab so users may add/edit/delete their own market reasons. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.04.12 | Access Control Interface | Filter customer names when downloading units to ensure that the name field does not contain multiple lines of data. | Install Update | Correction | Access Control Interface |
| 2005.04.11 | Charges Added report | Correction to possible calculation error of some moveout credits. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2005.04.02 | Customer Properties | Widen the unit number column on the "General" tab | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.03.31 | Customer Properties - Images | Images will be stored in the Multimedia folder in the folder where the data is stored, rather than in off the RentPlus folder. Affects multi-user systems only. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.03.31 | Discount Plan setup | Properly save the number of prepaid periods when creating discounts for weekly or multiple-weekly rental periods. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.03.17 | Security System Activity report | Change default date period from month-to-date to today only and include progress bar as report data is being retrieved. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.03.12 | New: Product and Services Catalog | New report can include detailed descriptions and photos of the products and services offered for inclusion on a report. Add photos and descriptions using the Product and Services Properties sheet. The Catalog can be found on the Reports list. | Install Update | New Feature | Reports |
| 2005.03.11 | Expenses (Interactive) report | Revise column widths for better readability and correct column sort problem. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.03.02 | Transfer Unit Wizard | Correct possible calculation errors of future charges and credits. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.02.27 | Customer Properties | Mask the data in the identification fields so that only the last few digits are shown. A setting to turn this feature on or off is in Options. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.02.17 | Report Wizard | Added fields Contents, Contents Value, and Market Reason to the list of fields available. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.02.15 | Moveout Wizard | Correct calculation of credits error that could occur in some instances of rent refund rules. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.02.10 | Customer Properties | Correct problem of displaying the salutation twice in the customer name (e.g., Dr. Dr. John Smith). | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.02.10 | Audit Wizard | Correctly display audit notes in correct column on report. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2005.02.07 | Transfer Unit Wizard | Correct display of rent amount for rents over $999.99 in the list of units to transfer to. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.02.04 | Bank Deposit Report | Include entries that were entered and reversed in the bank deposit details. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.02.04 | Journal Export - Yardi | Correct the currency format of the output file to prevent an import error. | Install Update | Correction | Accounting |
| 2005.02.03 | Payments Received report | Correct problem where the report headings were not in the correct order - could occur when running the report automatically using the task scheduler. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2005.02.02 | Moveout Wizard | If a payment is required, add option to select a previously used credit card for the payment. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2005.02.01 | Refund Wizard | Add payout option of 'other withdrawal' for non-check type refunds such as credit cards, automatic debits, etc. | Install Update | Enhancement | Refunds |
| 2005.01.31 | Credit Card Receipts | Added optional setting to mask the card expiration date on receipts (required in some jurisdictions). Set in Options - Other Settings. | Install Update | Enhancement | Receipts |
| 2005.01.31 | ICVerify and X-Charge Payment Processing | Option to suppress the duplicate copy of the request file. Setting this option is recommended to enhance security and protect your customers' privacy. | Install Update | Enhancement | Automatic Payment Processing |
| 2005.01.29 | Reverse Payment Wizard | Correct accounting problems related to reversed payments relating to future payments with discounts, and relating to moveout calculations after a payment reversal. | Install Update | Correction | Accounting |
| 2005.01.29 | X-Charge Payment Processing | Automatically allow multiple same amount charges for the same customer during automatic processing (if set in Automatica Payment Properties) | Install Update | Enhancement | Automatic Payment Processing |
| 2005.01.29 | Automatic Reports | Added Payments Received by Category to list of reports that can be scheduled for automatic running. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2005.01.17 | Customer Properties | Correct intermittent problem of not properly inserting the date, time and initials into customer notes when the button to do so was clicked. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.01.17 | Scheduled Rate Change Wizard | Add option to select from all general ledger accounts for rate account settings to better support cash accounting settings. | Install Update | Correction | Accounting |
| 2005.01.12 | Transfer Unit Wizard | Correct problem in calculating prorata amounts that could occur in accounts with multiple transfer units in the history of that contract. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2005.01.12 | Moveout Wizard | Correctly apply the right proration rules to any insurance portion of a moveout calculation. | Install Update | Correction | Insurance |
| 2005.01.06 | Rent Increase Wizard | Correct problem of cursor not advancing to the next row consistently when changing rates; improve and speed up form navigation. | Install Update | Correction | Rent Increase |
| 2005.01.03 | Marketing Data Entry | Add Permission settings to determine which levels of users are allowed to add new marketing sources, reasons, occupations, phone types, salutations, and inventory types. | Install Update | Enhancement | Permissions |
| 2004.12.29 | Sales Order Returns | Correct improper calculation of the cost of sales entry on the return of items that could occur in some instances. | Install Update | Correction | Inventory Management |
| 2004.12.27 | Security Settings Printout | Include security active setting and default access hours in printed report. | Install Update | Enhancement | Access Control Interface |
| 2004.12.20 | Tax Calculation | Correct problem with five-cent rounding when tax is included. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.12.20 | Move-out Notice Cancellation | Correct problem of incorrectly calculated penalty for failure for to provide notice when a move-out notice calculation was cancelled. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.12.20 | Tax Calculation | Correct rounded amount of tax when multiple taxes are in use that occurred in some instances. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.12.16 | Payments - credit card swiped data | Properly present all swiped payments as swiped transactions. Previously, some transcations were not presented for approval as swiped transactions, even though the cards had been swiped. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.12.14 | Cash Drawer Count History | Add the note created when counted to the list and report of cash drawer count history. | Install Update | Enhancement | Cash Drawer |
| 2004.12.11 | Reservation Properties | Include phone number on the screen that is first displayed. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reservations |
| 2004.12.11 | Customer Properties | Include the salutation in the display of the customer name and address. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.12.11 | Rental Plan Properties | Correct problem that occurred when changing the settings for additional recipients of the late notices in the Rental Plan. | Install Update | Correction | Rental Plans |
| 2004.12.11 | Receivables/Prepayments (Interactive) Details printout. | Allow the expansion of space for unit numbers on the report. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2004.12.11 | Check Refund Wizard | Allow the user to set the check date when the option 'check has already been written' is selected. | Install Update | Enhancement | Refunds |
| 2004.12.11 | Letters - Remittance form and BPAY Remittance form. | Suppress the printing of the remittance or BPAY form on all pages except the last page. | Install Update | Enhancement | Letters |
| 2004.12.11 | Letters - Notices and Payment Receipt | Add setting (Letter Properties) for user to select the font settings for the line displaying unit numbers. | Install Update | Enhancement | Letters |
| 2004.12.11 | Access Control Interface settings printout | All of the settings for the access control interface are now included on the printout. | Install Update | Enhancement | Access Control Interface |
| 2004.12.11 | Customer Letters Wizard | When sending notices, statements, and invoices from Customer Letter Wizard, options have been added to (1) choose 'all transactions' as an option to a starting date and (2) allow the notice to include future charges through a selected cutoff date. | Install Update | Enhancement | Letters |
| 2004.12.11 | Vacant List by Size report | Do not include reserved units in the main body of the report (reserved units are shown at the end of the report). | Install Update | Enhancement | Reservations |
| 2004.12.08 | Movein and Moveout Receipts | Add option for user to choose their own word to use instead of 'contract' on the movein and moveout receipts (for example, 'agreement'). Set in Regional Settings tab of Options. | Install Update | Enhancement | Receipts |
| 2004.12.08 | Rent Roll report | Correct error in rent roll report that occurred in some instances where 4-week rentals are used. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.11.24 | Business Summary | Correct error in prepayment calculations that could occur in some instances. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.11.24 | Translation of Letters and Receipts | Correct recently introduced problem of translations not occuring for some parts of the letters. | Install Update | Correction | International Features |
| 2004.11.22 | Sales Order | Correct problem of 'no payment' warning message appearing when a payment has been made. | Install Update | Correction | Inventory Management |
| 2004.11.17 | Insurance Report (Details) | Correct a problem that could occur in the amount shown for cancellation credits. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.11.14 | [NEW] Overnight processing. | An option to run automatic processing overnight has been added. After activation in Options, when End of Day is run, an option to leave RentPlus running is available. The processing is then run automatically just after midnight. | Install Update | Enhancement | Automatic Payment Processing |
| 2004.11.12 | RentPlus Startup | Added transaction data integrity check to startup process. | Install Update | Enhancement | Other |
| 2004.11.11 | Rent Charge Forecast report | Correct error in report that could occur with customers with prior charges due. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.11.09 | Rent Increase Wizard | Add option to filter by customer type (individual or organization). | Install Update | Enhancement | Rent Increase |
| 2004.11.08 | Charges Added report and Business Summary report | Correct problem that could potentially filter from the report some miscellaneous charges that were created during move-out, in reference to not refunding rent that would otherwise be due to the customer. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.11.06 | Phone Number Formatting | Added function to clean up the display of phone numbers by formatting them in preset formats. Function PhoneFormat must be called from the command window, so it requires assistance from technical support. Can be called with one of these options: "n"=no formatting "-" = nnn-nnn-nnnn "(" = (nnn)nnn--nnnn "( " = (nnn) nnn-nnnn | Install Update and contact technical support | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.11.06 | Payouts Report | Correctly display the operator initials (was incorrectly showing initials in wrong order). | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.11.06 | Security System - Download All | Optimized the code to download all units to improve download speed. | Install Update | Enhancement | Access Control Interface |
| 2004.11.06 | Security System - Digi700 | Added setting (in Security Setup) to allow user to choose to do a minimal download of information to the Digi system - skipping details such as address, phone, rate, etc. | Install Update | Enhancement | Access Control Interface |
| 2004.11.06 | Security System Download All - Digitech 700 | Main Security Setup screen has now been given a Download All button, so users do not need permission to access Security Setup in order to a download of all units on demand. | Install Update | Enhancement | Access Control Interface |
| 2004.11.06 | New Report: Rent Charge Forecast | Report will project incoming rent based on rents that are coming due but have not yet been paid. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2004.11.06 | Change Login or Password | Do not allow login or passwords greater than 10 characters in length. Previously, this could result in a cut off of the new login name. | Install Update | Correction | Login |
| 2004.11.06 | Market Reason | Add question during move-in (also new Prospect Wizard and Customer Setup): why did the customer choose this facility. Also can be maintained in Contract Properties and Prospect Properties. Report added called Customer Market Reason, and the top reasons are included in the Customer Demographics report. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.11.06 | Control Panel - Customer Accounts | Support the phone number search in the Find feature for the Customer Accounts called from Control Panel | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.11.06 | Credit Card Authorization | Prompt user to enter the card identification number (CID,CVV,CVC) for credit card payments before requesting authorization. A setting in the Automatic Payment Processing setup will turn this feature on or off. Currently supported for X-Charge and ICVerify. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.11.02 | Control Panel - Customer Accounts | Now includes a link to the Find button that will allow you to search for a customer using the same criteria as the search in the Explorer Customers folder. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.11.01 | Rent Increase Wizard | Add options to round increases to the nearest $10, or to the nearest $5 or $10. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.11.01 | Late Letters | Add setting in options to hide future charges on late notices. | Install Update | Enhancement | Letters |
| 2004.11.01 | Bank Deposit Wizard | Correctly hide cash payouts that have been voided. | Install Update | Correction | Payouts / Banking |
| 2004.10.28 | Practice Mode | Show "Practice Mode" in the title bar and change the background color of the forms to blue in practice mode in the Bank Deposit Wizard, Customer Properties, Payment Wizard, End of Day (Backup), Move-In Wizard, Move-Out Wizard. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.10.28 | Transfer Unit | Correct problem with list of units with unit numbers that contain a comma. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.10.27 | Reverse Payment | When reversing a payment for future charges, undo and hide all the future charges and their reversals. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.10.22 | Payment and Move-in Receipts | If a salutation exists for the customer (Mr., Mrs., Ms., etc.) then include that salutation on the receipt. | Install Update | Enhancement | Receipts |
| 2004.10.22 | Logout | Added user option to blank the screen upon logout and require login to return. Setup in Tools, Users and Group Permissions. | Install Update | Enhancement | User Interface |
| 2004.10.22 | Suspend Units | Correct problem occuring in some cases where the balance due was for current or future charges that were partially paid | Install Update | Correction | Access Control Interface / Overlock Listing |
| 2004.10.22 | Late Charges | Added option to base late charge minimum due amount on user's choice of either all charges due or only rent charges due. Options, User Interface, Page 3 | Install Update | Enhancement | Rental Plans |
| 2004.10.22 | Suspend / Unsuspend Units | Added option to base suspension of access to unit minimum due amount on user's choice of either all charges due or only rent charges due. Plan Properties / Lockout | Install Update | Enhancement | Rental Plans |
| 2004.10.19 | Terminal Services Edition | Support for user preferences for the command bar style | Install Update | Enhancement | User Interface |
| 2004.10.18 | Terminal Services Edition | Support for Practice Mode in RentPlus Terminal Services Edition | Install Update | Enhancement | Practice |
| 2004.10.18 | Setup Existing Customers | Include gate access code when using customer information that has been imported. | Install Update | Enhancement | Setup |
| 2004.10.18 | General Ledger Details by Customer report | On the details tab, correctly show balances for accounts with balance forward. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.10.14 | Rent Roll report | Add columns for last or next increase date and the number of days to or from that date. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2004.10.14 | Sales Order Wizard | Add a warning if no payment has been entered before allowing user to move to final page. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.10.14 | Customer Length of Stay report | Add option to filter the report for a selected date range. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2004.10.13 | Check printing | Correct error in translation of amount wording when language is not Spanish or English (United States). | Install Update | Correction | Accounting |
| 2004.10.13 | General Ledger Journal report | Do not hide duplicate names when displaying each journal entry. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2004.10.12 | Reservation Receipt | Show user-defined names on the receipt for deposit and administrative fee charged for a reservation. | Install Update | Correction | Reservations |
| 2004.10.12 | Doorking Access Control Interface | Support for Doorking security system integration. | Install Update | Enhancement | Access Control Interface |
| 2004.10.09 | Customer Properties | Display a message on the Customer Properties page if the customer has a pending moveout. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.10.09 | Reports | Add Bank Deposit History to list of reports (previously, it was only available throgh the Bank Deposit Wizard program). | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2004.10.09 | RentPlus Map | Show pending moveouts in a different color on the map. | Install Update | Enhancement | Map |
| 2004.10.09 | Unit Properties | In Unit History tab, show the name of the user who places a unit in or out of service. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.10.09 | Address data entry | Provide automatic capitalization for common post office initials: P.O., PO, APO, FPO, GPO, etc. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.10.09 | Report Wizard | Add Alert as an available field for custom reports. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2004.10.05 | Payments Received report | If payments are applied to both insurance and unit, be sure to show unit-number and not insurance plan number | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.09.27 | Remittance Forms | Added an option in Letter Properties to set the height of the remittance form if used in a letter. This feature can be used to match the RentPlus letters to pre-perforated paper. The setting is made in the letter that includes it, not the remittance form. | Install Update | Enhancement | Letters |
| 2004.09.27 | BPAY Remittance form | The BPAY option for letters is now a fully supported remittance form, which means it may be included on letters and that various options may be edited from the Letters folder. | Install Update | Enhancement | Letters |
| 2004.09.19 | Login History | Correct problem of login history events being written showing users logging out when they did not do so. | Install Update | Correction | Other |
| 2004.09.19 | Product and Services Properties | Correct problem of the price showing the incorrect number of decimals during editing that occurred occasionally. | Install Update | Correction | Inventory Management |
| 2004.09.19 | Audit Wizard | Correct problem of incorrect display in the details of some discount events. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.09.18 | General Ledger Financial Reports | A new report option in the list of financial reports is Journal Details for Month. This report allows you to see details for any or all accounts, providing detailed backup to the Balance Sheet and Profit (Loss) reports. | Install Update | New Feature | Reports |
| 2004.09.18 | New report: Customer Demographics Summary | Added new report that summarizes a variety of key customer demographic data. | Install Update | New Feature | Reports |
| 2004.09.18 | Reprint Tax Invoices | A utility program to reprint Tax Invoices (by selecting a range of dates or a range of invoice numbers) has been added. To run the utility, select the Tax Invoice letter from the Letter folder in the Explorer. | Install Update | New Feature | Accounting |
| 2004.09.18 | Inventory Reports | A column for the current Quantity on Hand has been added to the Inventory Sales and Costs Analysis, Inventory Sales To Date and Sales and Purchases Activity reports. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2004.09.16 | Reports | New menu and toolbar option: Output to Notepad. In addition to export to Word and Excel, there is now an option to export the contents of a report directly to Notepad. | Install Update | New Feature | Reports |
| 2004.09.16 | Party Properties | Correct error that possibly caused the printout to fail when printing the detailed properties of a vacated customer. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.09.14 | Reservations | Added support for including discounts, insurance and other charges in move-ins that have a reservation deposit applied. | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.09.14 | Charges Added report | New Report - Charges Added - Daily by Category - added to Charges Added report. Also added additional column to the Charges Added Summary report to include percentages. | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2004.09.14 | Business Summary - Charges Added | Correct problem of charges added reporting net sales (after cost of sales) instead of gross sales. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.09.04 | Customer Properties - Send Letter | Correct problem where if a letter had been deleted it was possible that the list of letters would come up empty. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.09.03 | Vacant List by Size | Add setting in Options to allow user to choose whether or not to default to include or exclude future move-ins from the report (if included, then they are flagged). | Install Update | Enhancement | Reports |
| 2004.09.03 | Unit Transfer | Correct an error in the calculation of proration days usually occurring when a customer has had multiple transfers. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.09.03 | Journal Export | Modified Navision export to include column for ClientID | Install Update | Enhancement | Accounting |
| 2004.08.26 | Payment Wizard | Correct problem of not correctly using the user's settings for the number of copies of the receipt. Now allows Preview AND Print instead of Preview OR Print receipts. | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.08.25 | Explorer - Find by BPAY Reference | Correct error in BPay Reference search | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.08.24 | Refund Checks | If refund checks remain after printing or posting, ask user if they wish to do another instead of automatically closing | Install Update | Enhancement | Customer Management |
| 2004.08.24 | Journal Export | Add export to Yardi Property Management for journal entries. Note: it requires setting a Property value that can vary with every site: SetupWrite("YardiPROP", "UI", "X") where X is the PROP setting. To know what this setting is, export journal entries to a file - the PROP setting will be in the export file. Contact support for assistance with this setting. | Install Update | Enhancement | Accounting |
| 2004.08.24 | Access Control Interface | Correct problem of blank lines in control file that occurred in some cases while adding and/or removing access codes | Install Update | Correction | Access Control Interface |
| 2004.08.22 | Prepayment Reports | Correct problem where the prepayment numbers for previous periods are different from previous requests for the same period. Occurred in some instances of credits generated by move-outs. Note: back-dating entries (move-ins, move-outs, payments, transfers, etc.) will continue to cause differences in reports for the same period run at different times. | Install Update | Correction | Reports |
| 2004.08.16 | Unit Transfer | Correct error in calculation of balance in some cases where a unit transfer had taken place and there is also an automatic credit card payment or insurance charge | Install Update | Correction | Customer Management |
| 2004.08.14 | Rent Roll report | Correct error in calculation of balance in some cases where a unit transfer had taken place |