See what’s changed in Navigator, including new features, improvements and resolved defects. Each release includes supporting detail and a demo where available.
This software release contains general bug fixes.
Vehicle Locator in the Navigator App allows easy location management of vehicle stock in the palm of your hand.
It is now possible to set credit limits against supplier accounts
It is now possible to amend the customer on a workshop job.
General notes can now be printed out on the Workshop Job Card, meaning any notes added within General Notes within the Notes tab, can be printed on the job card.
The variable that needs to be added is generalNotes
Navigator can now utiliise the Autotrader Price Check data when valuing a Part Exchange within a Sales Enquiry.
Reporting on a Marketing Campaign can now report on the current mileage and it's date.
In a customer record, a customer can be marked as VAT free for both Parts and Service - this is designed to support Navigator Customers who solely provide Mobility Products
Navigator now supports the new Autotrader Price Check tool when advertising a vehicle to accurately price vehicles.
Scanning or storing of PDF images of purchase invoices is now enabled for all Navigator users when posting a purchase invoice (previously required barcode scanning option)
It is now possible to bulk import purchase invoice information from a CSV style file. The file needs to have the following columns :- Account_No, Invoice_ Date, Invoice_ no, Net_ Amount, Vat, Gross_ Amount, Nominal_ Code, Text.
The Gross or Net Amount are needed but not both. The Account No is the Navigator Account No- eg 0001 and the nominal code is the Navigator Nominal Code in the form n.n.nn.nnn eg 1.10.40.100
This can be imported using the new import function from the Purchase Ledger - select the nominal posting date and browse to find the CSV file in this format to post invoices.
It is possible to post an invoice to multiple nominal codes, by repeating lines with the same account no and invoice no but differing values and nominal codes. The value on each line will be posted to each nominal expense code and the lines totalled to post the invoice to the Purchase Ledger
The technicians app now allows a technician to take and upload images for a job. This is useful for diagnostic sheets, images of the car or other items that may have previously been attached to the physical job card.
Many email providers have recently changed the way they score spam - which means that many emails sent by Navigator were dropping into spam email boxes. We have implemented new guidelines from google which many email providers are following and improves delivery to mailboxes. Note though, that this doesn't guarantee email delivery as spam is scored on a number of levels - such as subject line, content and attachments as well as some of the more technical aspects of the email.
The Printout of the Quotation for the Navigator VHC as available from within the workshop job has been relaid out and improved. Previously, there were limits on the number of parts and job lines that could be displayed on the quotatiion
Where dealers have multiple MOT bays, the screen display of the bays was awkward - this has been improved to make the display easier to read
If certain characters were used in the description of a vehicle advert (mainly £ signs, and certain accented letters) these were not being transferred correctly to the Autotrader advert. This has been corrected.
Autotrader has it's own description for a vehicle which is automatically set. This is normally ok for advertising, but if needed the description can now be updated on the Advertising Tab of a vehicle stock record.
