Support for several weighbridges.
New VAT rate 5.2% in newly created company databases.
The Bank Reconciliation list shows transactions with "Prev Book - Next Stat" and "Prev Stat - Next Book" statuses.
Facility to see how many user licences are simultaneously in use.
Celerity reports are included in standard reports.
POS module: Excel export/import for POS group & product buttons.
POS module: renamed button "On Hold" to "Hold".
POS module: renamed button "New" to "Cancel".
POS module: product prices on POS buttons.
POS module: bigger total amount label.
Added import from Herbst HRM 9.
New Document Item User Fields quick edit utilities for NL Journal, Job Input Transfer, Job Output Transfer, and Location Internal Transfer.

18 December 2006 Herbst HRM 9.0.1.120

The first version for Tax Year 2007 incorporates budget changes coming into effect from 1 January 2007 and provides a way to include taxable portion of Disability Benefit into taxable gross pay.

Budget changes in PAYE:

Higher rate of tax has been changed from 42% to 41%.

New Single Person Tax Credit and Cut-Off Point (used for PAYE on emergency basis):

	Tax Credit	Cut-Off Point
Annual	1800	34000
Weekly	34	654
Monthly	147	2834

Budget changes in PRSI:
- New PRSI employee annual ceiling is 48800.
- The PRSI threshold for employees has increased to 339 per week.
- Threshold for payment of 2% Health Contribution increased to 480 a week.
- An additional 0.5% health contribution has been introduced on earnings exceeding 1925 per week.
Facility to include taxable portion of Disability Benefit into taxable gross pay.
Import of tax credits and cut-off points from HRM 8.
Added fields Pension AVC and Notional Pay to the Payslip Laser Security form.

10 November 2006 Herbst Insight 2.0.45.590

Long-awaited sales and purchase quotations, Tickets module, enhanced Point-of-sale module, and other improvements coming with this update will make your day-to-day activity more efficient:

Sales Quotations (with licence).
Purchase Quotations (with licence).
The Ticket Module instead of the Weighbridge Module.
New columns in views for sale, purchase documents, document items and tickets.
Credit card columns in trader related views.
Credit card columns in Payments views of the Sales and Purchase Ledgers.
New Category field in the Contact record.
New columns "Has Picture" and "Picture Size" in product related views.
Product Picture report.
NL Account code will be shown in an error message if the account is forbidden for posting.
The Location column is available in the User view.
Copy To tool for purchase documents.
Deductions are not supported anymore in SICN, DDRN, PICN, and RDRN.
Excel import/export utilities for Location Internal Transfers.
Command "Clear All" in the shortcut menu of the Create Import Template window.
New facilities are available in report scripts.
Cc and Bcc fields are available in the Reports Send Mail Setup window.
Sorting by name in the Product Status report.
Haulage converters for additional document kinds.
New quick view and actions are available from the pop-up window appearing on incoming calls.
Facility to assign POS button name other than name of the linked product.
Error messages in the Excel export utilities contain information identifying object for which the error occurred.
Wizard for creating pending periodic transaction.
Quick Edit utility for user fields of stock adjustment items.
Discounts and tips in POS.
More fields in Excel import are case-insensitive now.

27 October 2006 Herbst HRM 8.0.4.105

New version of the product introduces the following major improvements:

Payslip emailing. Encryption with password is supported.
Net pay upward rounding to a whole Euro.
Hourly rate fields available to be put on payslip forms.
Redesigned grid view system.
The Analyse button is visible by default on toolbars.

23 October 2006 Herbst Attendance 1.0.7.95

The full list of new features and tools in this version covers the following ones:

New "Summary by Week" & "Summary by Month" views

In the "Summary by Week/Month" views totals like quantity of employee days, quantity of normal hours, presence, late comings, etc. are shown for each week/month in a user selected period.
Possibility to define how to allocate overtime in timesheets.

1. Overtime hours can be transferred from the normal rate to overtime rate, thus decreasing normal rate totals by the quantity of overtime hours. In payroll, the amount of overtime due is one-and-one-half times the employee's normal hourly rate.

2. Overtime hours will be added to one of the normal hourly rates; the other hourly rate (usually an overtime hourly rate) shows adjustment or bonus hours for the overtime. In payroll, you have to pay all hours worked at normal rate and overtime/bonus hours at one-half of the normal hourly rate.
Possibility to synchronise the card reader devices's time with the time of your computer.
Back/Forward buttons are added to views enabling convenient switching between adjacent windows.
New "Error" column in the timesheet views. In case the timesheet for an employee is calculated with an error, the error description will be displayed in this column.
If an Employee Day is calculated with an error, the error description can be seen in the "Activity" section.
"Safety Statements" and "Working Contracts" views are made to be identical with the ones in Herbst HRM/HRM UK.
New "Overtime Rule Quick View" option in the timesheet views.
New facility to add notes when using the Clock In/Clock Out tools.
Quick Start-Up Guide is included into the Installation Package.
Index is displayed within the tabs of the Help window.
Firebird UDF was redesigned for increasing server reliability and

29 September 2006 Herbst Insight 2.0.44.580

The new version offers:

Charts in Reports.
Facility to create crosstab reports.
Quantity based special and special foreign sale/purchase prices.
When you quick enter products, the following information is available to you:

Product code is shown in the window caption together with the customer/supplier part number (if the one exists in the Product Record);
"Purchase Price" is shown for the product in purchase documents;
"Sale Price", "Discount Rate" and "Net Sale Price" are shown for the product in sales documents.
Product description (if the one exists in the Product Record) is shown.
Pick Tool is added in views.
Main Menu preserves customisation when upgrading to a new Herbst Insight 2 version.
Facility to view contact description in a split screen view in Contacts views.
Facility to open a document in the report preview form just after saving it.
If there's only one report available for an object, the Select Report window won't be shown. Instead the programme will automatically select the only available report.
"Export to file", "Export to PDF", "Export to Word", "Export to Excel" and "Send to mail recipient" buttons are added to the toolbar in views which are in the Report mode.
Report Export Options are added. You can choose between exporting current or all of the reports as well as specify a file naming rule.
PDF Security Settings are added.
New "Product Sales (Compare with Last Year)" report (Report Desktop > Sales Reports > By Product).
Customer/supplier part numbers are added to default items names in sale/purchase documents.
New design of the Report/Grid button switching between report and grid modes in views.

22 September 2006 Herbst HRM 8.0.3.104

Many companies will find useful improvements in reports and facility to import job items to Herbst Insight as a whole without breaking down by cost elements which are available in the new version of the programme:

Facility to import job items to Herbst Insight as a whole without breaking down by cost elements.
Salary and Require Net Pay Per Annum figures in the Employee Record window.
Avg Pay Per Year columns are added in the Average Pay report.
Employee's address and contact fields are available in payslip reports.
The number of transactions is shown in the Paypath Payment Details report.
Firebird 1.5.3 Server is included into the installation package.

11 August 2006 Herbst Insight 2.0.42.560

This version boots productivity of your business due to the following features:

Product Posting Model 2.

Point Of Sale.
Customer part numbers in products.
Quick filter in the Products view and the Find Object utility workby product part numbers.
More columns for in-cell editing in multiline documents.This new functionality is available in sale, purchase documents, location internal transfers, journals, and stock adjustments.
In-cell editing in the Contact Persons list of the Trader window.
Support for Microsoft Map & Directions service.
Customer Interest quick edit utility.
User licence is not consumed anymore when the program is locked by
the F12 key.
PPH Prices in purchase document item views.
Brushed-up VIES/INTRASTAT reports.

New report "Product sales (12 periods, Net Quantity)".
New report "Aged Analysis by Sales Manager (12 periods)".
The Your Account field in statement reports.
Verify (High Level) utility: facility to check whether NL account entries within a document are balanced.
Computer telephony integration (CTI) licence.
Quick View sections directly in the Select Product and Select Trader windows.

4 August 2006 Herbst Attendance 1.0.6.90

Due to the following features the new version brings your attendance management to a new level:

New Reports module containing standard Timesheet and Employee Day Status reports is added. Existing reports can be customised and new ones can be created with the help of the Report Designer tool.
Contents and Index is added to the Help menu.
New Employees Calendar view showing employees' list and day information for a month.
New Activity view showing employees' activities for a selected period.
Employee Day Preview feature showing details of a selected employee dayat the bottom of the view. Available in the Status, History and Calendar views.
From now on Employee Days will be created even if there's no shift assigned to this day.
In the Overtime Rule window (All) is shown instead of empty hourly rate limits.
Settings are removed from Attendance Explorer and Bar. All the settings are available on the corresponding Main Menu menu.

31 May 2006 Herbst Insight 2.0.41.550

This version increases the productivity of your work due to the following features:

Improved bank reconciliation.
Integration with Maps and Driving Direction services on the web.
Added the Import from Herbst HRM UK 5 utility. Eliminated Import from Herbst HRM UK 3.
User confirmation of the changes in a document which can cause deletion of the existing relations (allocations) to other documents.
Product Free Stock Quantity is calculated as Actual Stock Quantity minus Outstanding Stock Sale Ordered Quantity.
New columns:

showing foreign product prices are available in the Sales/Purchase Items views. When these columns are chosen to be shown in the views, the Frg. Sale Prices combo-box appears where you can specify a currency to show foreign prices for;
Total Cheques and Total Cards showing the number of lodged transactions are available in the Bank Transactions, Cash Transactions, Bank and Cash Transactions views;
Has Reseller Discounts in the Customers views.
The Select Product window being opened from a document sets the Frg.Price combo-box to a currency of the document.
Quick Edit utilities:

Set Standard Price in the Sales/Purchase Items views;
Set Order Delivery Date for sales/purchase orders in the Sale/Purchase documents/items views;
Set Sale/Purchase Item User Fields quick edit utility in the Sale/Purchase Items views;
Set Item Location quick edit utility for Location Internal Transfers;
Set Reseller Discounts Rates quick edit utility for in trader views;
Facility to export pricing elements (prices, rebates, discounts) for selected products in the Products views.
Facility to define template sets of reseller discount rates.
Separate lists of foreign special (and contract) prices in the Product, Trader and Contract windows.
Facility to specify a list of suppliers for a product with their individual Part Numbers and Lead Times.
New trader fields: Customer Since on the Customer tab and Supplier Since on the Supplier tab of the Trader window.
Facility to add a surcharge item to sale documents with automatic calculation of the surcharge amount according to the specified rate.
Stable Number By Order and the facility to renumber items in multiline document, BOMs, Product Kits and Job Estimations.
Facility to edit Quantity fields directly in item grids on multiline document windows.
Three new fields in weigh documents where the system stores which users were performing gross, tare or net weighings.
Excel export/import utilities:

for product prices in foreign currencies;
for customer reseller discount rates.
Facility to add commands allowing to create new documents, traders, products and other objects on the Main Menu. Besides the Cash Sale command is available.
The behaviour of the Actions commands on the Main Menu may depend on the currently active view.
Icons were designed for most of the Actions commands on the toolbar button menus in views and on the Main Menu.
New Stock Take action on the Actions toolbar button menu in the Products views.
New design of the Report/Grid button switching between report and grid modes in views.
A toolbar is added on the document item lists appearing on pressing the Items toolbar button in document lists.
Quick filter on the toolbar of the Kits views.
Document form reports (Job Costing, Stock, Weigh, Purchases, Sales) shows product's trace fields if assigned.
Changes in layouts of Customer and Supplier Statement reports.
The caption of the Report Options window shows the report's name.
The Items list in bank document views can show lodged documents for several lodgements selected at once.
Error messages concerning stock valuation include numbers of a document and document item affected.
The Description and Reference fields are transferred when a document is cloned.
More comprehensible names of view column categories in the Columns Setup dialoque box.
New utility to merge product locations.
Insight Client is installed for all users (per-computer) by default.
New Firebird 1.5.3 database server is included into the installation package.
Default Firebird connection timeout on creation of a new connection is 30 sec.
A new diagnostic tool to check health of some vital elements of the database.
New 'Monthly Debtors Summary' report.

27 March 2006 Herbst HRM UK 5.0.1.20

The first version for the 2006-07 tax year incorporates the latest statutory requirements, updates the attachment of earnings orders module, and is equipped with Firebird 1.5.3 database server:

New rates and limits for the 2006-07 tax year:

NIC LEL/ET/UEL;
Emergency Tax Code;
SSP Weekly Rate;
SMP/SPP/SAP Standard Rate.
New PAYE bandwidths to be brought into use from 18 May 2006.
Eliminated Tax Credits module.
DEO (Post 2003) calculation according to the new rules.
Support for CTAEO (Post 1998), AEO Fine (2003 Act).
Added Date Of Issue and Date Of Receipt fields in attachments.
Added SPP and SAP fields in Pay Advice forms.
Administrative privileges are checked before installing.
Client is installed for all users (per-computer) by default.
This version deploys Firebird 1.5.3 database server.

16 February 2006 Herbst Insight 2.0.40.540

The following user-friendly tools and features are introduced in this version:

Users can decide for themselves which windows to see on the screen when opening a company.
The new "Actions" category containing commands for quick creating new documents either via the Main Menu or custom toolbars.
Weigh documents, and not only sales and purchase ones, are shown in the "Sales", "Sales Items", "Purchases", and "Purchase Items" Views now.
New useful columns for foreign price classes (e.g. "Frg. Cash Price (VAT Inc)", "Frg. Credit Price", etc.) in "Products" Views.
New "Trace Fields Actual Stock Qty" column in "Sales Items" View.
HRM 8 Import: added support for subpayrolls.
New "User Preferences" window which is aimed at tuning up the programme interface and behaviour of the system on per-user basis.
The "Add Kit" button in the "Cash Sale" window.
The "Add Product" button in the "Stock Take" window.
"Add Product Kit" and "Product Quick Entry" for revaluations in stock adjustments.
The "Save & Allocate" command in document windows to allocate documents within Debtor/Creditor registries.
Smart wizards are used to successfully accomplish Excel export/import.
New commands in the "Utilities" section that start often used programmes from within Herbst Insight 2: Herbst HRM, Herbst HRM UK, Herbst Attendance, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Internet Browser, Mail Client.

16 February 2006 Herbst HRM 8.0.2.102

New security facilities to restrict the user's access to employees, payslip messages, user's diary, support for the recent versions of statutory forms, and improved payroll calculator are available in this version:

User's Diary.
Subpayrolls: a way of restricting user's access to employees.
New Form P45 layout.
New version (1.2) of ROS P30.
New Payslip Message field in timesheets to be printed on payslips. Standard payslip forms are adjusted to show the message.
Payroll calculator: added support for adjustments, the second pension scheme and account deductions.
New employee quick edit utilities for adjustments, benefits in kind and pension contributions.
New fields Company Trade Name, Fax and Email in Settings.

10 January 2006 Herbst Insight 2.0.39.530

Product kits, enhanced Reseller discounts, multi-currency prices, improved Contacts module, new features in grid views and reports - all this is delivered with the recent version of our flagship package:

Product Kits.
Improved customer reseller discounts.
Facility to have several product prices in different currencies within a price class.
Improved Profit analysis tool.
Deliveries, Sales Orders, Receipts, Purchase Orders lists in Product Quick View.
Allocation section in weigh documents.
Field "Contact Position" in Bank Accounts.
Field Notes in Contact Persons.
Added column Kind to the Contact Person List.
One contact list instead of two separate ones for scheduled and completed contacts.
Credit card fields Holder Name, Valid To, Holder Address are available in all sale, purchase and weigh documents.
Added items "Customise View" and "Views" to the grid options menu.
Showing the current view name.
Support for the mouse wheel in the Report Viewer.
Options menu in the Report Viewer.
Quick Find in the grid report mode.
Added [X] button to the caption panel in quick view docked grids.
New customer/supplier single currency statement reports.
Stock Reorder (sales-based) report.

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2006

29 December 2006 Herbst Insight 2.0.46.600