November 2024
19th November
Accountancy Software: MYOB Acumatica - Locations
Accounts can now make use of the Locations feature from MYOB Acumatica within Lightyear.
Head over to your Accountancy Software Settings and click Accountancy Software Settings. Here, you'll see a new option for Do you use Locations? If you set this to Yes, you'll have the ability to select your Default Location.
You can enable this with the Branches and Subaccounts features, which will continue to allow you to set these against each line on a document, whereas Locations are set against the Company and cannot be changed on an invoice to invoice basis.
If you are seeing issues after this release, please disconnect and reconnect your Lightyear account to MYOB Advanced.
12th November
Expenses - Expense Reports in Archive
You can now search the Archive for Expense Report data, where previously this was limited to Expense information only.
With Expense Reports in Archive, you can search by the Submitter of the report, as well as Report Date, Report Name, Amounts, etc.
To find this, select Expense Report in the Doc Type dropdown within Archive.
For more information on the Expense Reports in Archive, click here.
Purchase Orders - Auto Approve
We have split out the Auto Approve setting within Company Settings to allow Lightyear companies to have a separate option for both Bill and Purchase Order Auto Approve.
If you had Auto Approve enabled previously, both Bill and PO will set to Yes, and you will need to go to Company Settings to adjust accordingly.
Bug Fix: Expenses - User Cannot Download Expense Report PDF in Panel 3 in My Tasks
If a user did not have an Expense permission, e.g. Task Approver, and was sent an Approval Task for an Expense Report, if they tried to download the Report PDF via Panel 3 they were presented with an error message forbidding them from doing so.
These types of users can now download the PDF without issue.
Bug Fix: Exports Stuck with No Error Message
Some users have seen issues where their Exports get stuck in Signed Off with no snackbar or activity error message in the status of 'Export in Progress'. When this happens, the exports will now clear from this status and return to an exportable state.
7th November
Manager Approval Not Mandatory for All Users
Since the release of Manager Approval, all users needed to have a Manager assigned to them in order to send an Approval Task to them. We have added an option to each user, when Manager Approval is enabled, that allows them to set Not Required.
When Not Required is set, the user can be sent an Approval Task without needing a Manager assigned to them.
To assign as Not Assigned, head to the User > Edit and scroll down to the Manager section. Here, in the dropdown, you can select Not Assigned.
Bug Fix: Inventory - Credit Notes
If a Credit Note - Service document was in Approvals, users could click the Add to Inventory button, which would give them an error snackbar message.
Now, this button has been greyed out, and users cannot click it.
4th November
Bug Fix: Purchase Orders - Auto Order/Conditional Approvals Not Compatible
When a company had Auto Order and Conditional Approvals with Auto Approve enabled, an error was appearing when trying to approve the final Conditional Approval Task they would get an error preventing the PO from being approved.
This has now been resolved.
1st November
First Time Use Experience
We have updated out First Time Use experience for New Companies/Users. It should now be clearer to users which actions should be taken when first creating a Lightyear account and entering the Processing tab.
When in the First Time Use flow, refreshing the page will return users to the normal view.
Email Signatures and Logos
We have updated the resolution size for email attachements that are accepted into Lightyear.
This is now set to 500x500 which should limit the number of Email Signatures and Logo attachments that are received into Lightyear.
Bug Fix: Blank Company Time Zone
We fixed an issue that caused Company Time Zone to be unset in Company Details.
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