MYOB Business release notes

Features - changes to the way things look or work

Prepare electronic payments

When I'm creating a bank file, I want to know straight away if any of my bank account information is missing so I can add it and create the bank file successfully.

Quickly identify and add missing account details when creating bank (ABA) files.

When you create a bank file, you'll see an indicator confirming if the bank details are complete in the account you're paying from.

More help setting up

See where you've gone wrong

See what's missing so you can fix it

The chosen account is checked for missing details

Prepare Electronic Payments - UX changes made to the missing bank details alert.

UX changes have been made on the alert the pops over when account selected has missing details. The change makes it easier to understand/action

Prepare Electronic Payments - Link to Chart of Accounts details page so the user can remediate missing bank details. 

While preparing Electronic Payments; when an account is selected that contains missing bank details then show a clickable popup that shows the errors & contains a hyperlink to the account edit screen. 

Prepare Electronic Payments - when showing red cross display bank account missing details for ABA files in hover. 

On the Prepare electronic payment screen when an account is chosen and it shows a red cross, a hover is now displayed with the missing details (similar to the invoice screen).  

Prepare Electronic Payments - Show green tick or red cross when bank account is ready/not ready for ABA files. 

On the Prepare electronic payment screen when an account is chosen it now shows a green tick if all mandatory banking details are present.

Invoicing

Invoicing - Allow invoices to be emailed or duplicated before a lock date where no changes have been made.

Now gives the user the ability to email or duplicate an invoice that is before the lock date so that they can save time from manually entering the details

Invoicing - Attach invoice as PDF when emailing the invoice to customer

Invoices are now automatically attached as a PDF document, when you click on the “email invoice” button.

Invoicing - Remember GST inclusive or exclusive in invoice creation screen

“Tax inc/exc” setting is remembered based on its value in the last invoice/quote that users emailed.

Invoicing - Remember the option for 'email me a copy' in Email Invoice/Quote screen

Field invoice “Type” was previously removed from the filter list in the invoices screen, this has now been added back.

Reports

Reports - “Payment” or “Refund” added to the GST Return report to ensure it’s clearer whether customers are receiving a GST return or are required to make a payment.

The word “Payment” or “Refund” is included directly under the amount in MYOB Business, to reflect Old EA

Reports - Receivables with Tax and Payables with Tax reports have been enhanced to include outstanding invoices & bills which make up the Total Amount Outstanding and the Ageing Period.

Receivables and Payables with Tax reports improved to include outstanding invoices & bills which make up the Total Amount Outstanding and the ageing period.

Reports - General Ledger: Tax amount column now in the expandable list and in summary view.

General Ledger updated with the ‘Tax amount’ column now available in the summary and is set as default for both summary and expanded views, brining it in line with Old Essentials.

Error messages

Error message - (Product-wide) - Update default error message

Update made to our default error message. When an error occurs and we haven’t defined what the error is, this message is displayed: "Something went wrong. Please try again or refresh the browser."

Error message (Deployment downtime) - Improved customer experience during deployment downtime.

When a user encounters a deployment downtime related error (ECONNRESET or ECONNREFUSED), they will receive the following error message: "We are currently performing a system upgrade and should be back online in about 15 minutes. We apologise for the inconvenience."

Bug fixes

Reports - The cash mode drill-down modal for the Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Cash Movement reports showed the wrong transaction records in certain scenarios.

Bug Fix! The cash drill-down modal for the Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Cash Movement reports showed the wrong transaction records when a customer or supplier return is applied to a sale or purchase. This has been resolved.

Reports - Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Movement reports in cash mode have incorrect beginning and ending Balances in the transaction drill down modal.

Bug Fix! When a user drills into cash transactions from the Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Movement, the beginning and ending balances that appear at the top of the transaction modal were inaccurate as they report on accrual mode instead of cash mode. This has now been resolved.

Reports - GST Report (browser) Consolidated tax codes are not displayed correctly. 

Bug Fix! The tax codes which make up the consolidated tax codes are now shown separately on the GST Report, aligning with ARL desktop and ensuring BAS compliance, as customers need to report on each tax code separately (eg. GST and WET).

 Reports - Payables with tax report the report shows the payable record as expected when the supplier balance is Zero.

Bug Fix! Even though the total supplier balance is NIL, the report now shows all the unpaid bills on the Payables with tax report when users run the report before the payment date of bills. VHNP-375: [Payables with tax report] the report doesn't show the payable record as expected when the supplier balance is Zero

Reports - Balance Sheet: GST Clearing Account included in the balance sheet in Cash & Accrual Mode

Bug Fix! GST balance account account now display under liabilities in the Balance Sheet in Cash & Accrual mode VHNP-390: GST Clearing Account is missing from balance sheet in Cash & Accrual Mode

Migrations Old to New Essentials -Transaction set as Read-Only when GST Override used in Old Essentials and migrated to MYOB Business.

Bug Fix! Old Essentials and ARL both allow overriding of tax amounts on transactions. If Tax override was used in Old EA or ARL; and the transaction is opened in New EA, the Tax component was displayed incorrectly in the UI (the underlying data and reports were OK, this was a UI issue only). The fix is, if there is an overridden tax amount then the transaction is marked as read only.