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

Tax Credit

Cut-Off Point

Annual 1830 35400

Weekly 36 681

Monthly 153 2950
Budget changes in PRSI:
New PRSI employee annual ceiling is 50700.
The PRSI threshold for employees has increased to 352 per week.
Threshold for payment of 2% Health Contribution increased to 500 a week.

14 December 2007 Herbst HRM 9.0.5.160

Benefit from new features of HRM:

Support for Medical Insurance Benefit In Kind in the P35L report.
Before generating P35L you are to specify which BIKs represent Medical Insurance paid by employer on behalf of the employee (Settings -> Payroll -> Benefits).
In addition, there is a new field "Medical Insurance BIK" in the Midyear section of the Employee record, where you can enter the total figure from timesheets which are not in HRM database.
Note: Where an employer pays medical insurance on behalf of the employee and the employee reimburses part of the cost to the employer, the notional pay figure for BIK purposes is the total cost to the employer minus the amount made good by the employee.
The Timesheet Hours Export/Import utility now has Wizard interface.

6 December 2007 Herbst Insight 2.0.54.680

The enhancements included in the new version:

Job Items.
Activation date for pop-up notes.
Automatic recalculation of BOM assembly cost (via stock adjustment) according to active stock valuation methods.
Individual fence dates for every document kind or their groups.
Floating document fence (plus or minus several days) in user privileges.
Delivery dockets in Insight Interchange.
Cost categories are available in the Product Quick Entry window.
Improved job cost category combo-boxes.
The Popup Notes window appears when user is working in the Product Quick Entry window.
Default customer and supplier payment terms on the company level.
The Order Delivery Date field is on the Main tab in the Sales/Purchase Order windows now.
Import/Export utility for product customer part numbers.
New quick edit utility: Set Stock Adjustment BOM Assembly.
Working Date is assigned to the Customer/Supplier Since fields on creation of a new trader.
Product status filter (Active/Inactive) in the Product Quick Entry window.
The Price field of stock adjustment item is stored now in database.
Product Quick Entry: Trace Fields appear only if their names are specified in the product record.
Facility to forbid empty Supplier Date in purchase documents.
Supplier Date and Due Date in the Debit/Credit control sections of the Customer/Supplier Quick Views.
New document converter: Sale/Purchase Document to Stock Adjustment.
New button "Save & Reverse" in the NL Journal window.
Improved import of purchases from Herbst Cattle 3.
Import of sales from Herbst Cattle 3.
Report Send Mail Wizard.
Tip label is shown when the Pick Tool is active.
Options Ignore, Ignore All, Cancel on error in the Send SMS and Send Email tools.
Changed columns names in the Security Log views.
View Log item on the shortcut menu of the Server Manager.
Import from Herbst HRM UK 4, 5 is eliminated.

8 November 2007 Herbst HRM 9.0.4.150

Benefit from the following improvements:

Facility to specify individual bank account for every employee's deduction.
Five more loan/savings accounts are added (in total we have 10 now).
Job categories to classify costs by criteria specific for each job.
Facility to calculate a timesheet right in the Timesheet window and see payslip on a special tab.

New term "Taxable Pay" and redefined term "Gross Pay".

Gross Pay =
+
+
+

Salary
Hourly Rates
Holiday Pay
Pre-Tax Additions

Taxable Pay =
-
-
-
+
+

Gross Pay
Pre-Tax Deductions
Pension EE Contributions
Pension AVC Contributions
Notional Pay
Taxable Disability Benefit.

Payment methods Transfer and Paypath are merged and replaced by a common one called Bank Transfer.
Note that reports "Transfer Payment Details" and "Paypath Payment Details" are replaced by "Bank Transfer (PayPath) Details".
Facility to choose type of ROS P35L: Original, Amended or Supplementary.
New ROS P35L form version number 4.
Employee, Timesheet and other object windows are modeless now.
Improved Payroll History tab in the Employee window.
Adjustment kind "Payment" is renamed to "Addition".
Terms "Pre-Tax" and "Post-Tax" are used instead of "Taxable" and "Nontaxable" in adjustment settings.
Multiple connection options.
Field "Manual Calculated" was replaced by field "Imported Results" in timesheets.
Messages confirming successful timesheet calculation in the payroll lists are removed.
Improved Excel export/import utilities allowing to place fields on several sheets.
Facility to export/import Holiday periods in timesheets.
Facility to export/import a list of Midyear PRSI classes of employees.
Columns Earnings and NonBIKGrossPay are removed.
Server Manager: log files are kept on server instead of client computers.
Server Manager: a service pack can be applied to several databases at once.
Server Manager: new item "View Log" was added to the shortcut menu of the company list.
Server Manager: records about successful actions are added to log files.
User name and password are no longer required to run Server Manager utilities. Windows user privileges are taken into consideration instead.
More columns were added to various views.
New functions in the Report Designer: RoundAmount and CheckResult.
Link to oasis.gov.ie was changed to www.citizensinformation.ie in the Help menu -> Useful Links.

30 October 2007 Herbst Cattle 3.0.6.17

Here are the new features:

Cattle 3 Help file is included into the installation package.
Startup panel, Previous/Next buttons are added.
The set of columns available in Weighings view is considerably expanded.
Server Manager: possibility to view log of the selected company with the help of shortcut menu item "View log".
User name and password are no longer required to run Server Manager utilities. Windows user privileges are taken into consideration instead.
Server Manager: records about successful actions are added to log files.
Server Manager: log files are kept on server instead of client computers.
Server Manager: a service pack can be applied to several databases at once.
Converting from Herbst Cattle 2 is removed.
Defined connection options.
Possibility to save several sets of connection settings to different servers.
Scanner Options are available in Settings -> Options -> Scanner Options.
Recently entered movement details are kept in Add New Animal wizard while entering several animals one by one.
New animals have a default kind: bullock for males, heifer for females.
In-cell quick editor for movements.
Totals are displayed in Status Bar in all Animal views.
Pick Tool.

17 October 2007 Herbst Insight 2.0.53.670

The latest enhancements include:

Job categories to classify costs by criteria specific for each job.
Facility to set up special job charge rates for products.
New field Supplier Date in purchase invoices and purchase invoice credit notes.
Improved payment terms in sales and purchase invoices: facility to calculate Due Date as the number of days after the end of invoice month.
Aged Analysis by Due Date is available in Customers and Suppliers views and in relevant views for documents.
Import from Herbst HRM 9: support for job item cost category fields (which are available from version 9.0.4.150).
Import from Herbst HRM 9: support for bank transfers of deductions to specified bank accounts (which are available from version 9.0.4.150).
Import of purchases from Herbst Cattle 3.
More columns are available for in-cell editing in the Stock Adjustment window: Price, Amount, Cost Auto Calc.
Security Log: The Quick View button on the toolbar now opens the Security Log Entry window.
Object quick view is still available from the toolbar drop-down menu of the Quick View button or from the Security Log Entry window.
New column "Deleted" in the Security Log.
New functions in the Report Designer: RoundAmount and CheckResult.

01 October 2007 Herbst Backup Scheduler 1.0.9.100

The enhancements of the version are as follows:

Support for Firebird 2 and higher that allows to shutdown databases located on your PC before making backup and restart them afterwards.
On shutting down a database all user connections to the database close and new connections are rejected until the database restarts.
Firebird databases verification.
User notification about databases verification.
Facility to run a programme before/after a backup task.
Choose a programme/script that you want to run before or/and after backing up. Note that the backup will start only after the programme has finished.

26 September 2007 Herbst Insight 2.0.52.660

Enjoy the numerous improvements:

Remote Assistance tool.
Insight Interchange (with licence).
The Light Activation Licence permits to create 1024 documents of one kind per month.
New Firebird 2.0.2 (Revision 1 of the installation package) or 2.0.3 (Revision 2 of the installation package) database server is included.
User name and password are no longer required to run Server Manager utilities. Windows user privileges are taken into consideration instead.
Server Manager: Facility to shut down and restart databases.
On shutting down a database (Server Manager -> Utilities -> Shutdown) all user connections to the database close and new connections are rejected until the database restarts (Server Manager -> Utilities -> Restart).
Server Manager: records about successful actions are added to log files.
Server Manager: log files are kept on server instead of client computers.
Server Manager: a service pack can be applied to several databases at once.
The Reminder, Notes and Popup Notes fields are editable even if document fence is set.
New columns in the Security Log: Client Version, Client Windows User Name, Subclient Type and Subclient Version.
"Set Security Level" tool in the Report Desktop works on a selection of reports.
Credit Limit window is shown after choosing a customer in the Customers view or by typing customer code in the Customer field in documents.
Popup Notes.
This field is added to the Notes tab of Quick Views for all objects. These notes pop up when you highlight an object in views or type their codes in proper fields of documents.
The Save button in the Contact window has two new options: Save and Print, Save and Preview.
"Update prices" check box in Periodical Document rule for sale and purchase documents.
This makes the system take up-to-date prices on creation of a periodic document. Otherwise, prices from the original document are used.
Quick way to check that user's privileges have been set up correctly.
While granting privileges and limiting rights of a user this facility allows to open another Herbst Insight 2 copy automatically with this user logged in to check that rights and limits for the user are set up correctly. To make use of this facility open user's Quick View, press the Tool button and choose "Apply and Test".
Automatic uninstalling an existing version of Herbst Insight 2 while upgrading to a newer one.
A set of new fields is added showing allocated and unallocated quantities and amounts in the Orders, Tickets and Receipts tabs of the Job Quick View.
System-wide events are registered in the Security Log.
The list of such events:
- Create Company,
- Convert Company,
- Apply Service Pack,
- Shift Fiscal Year,
- Change Base Currency,
- Switch To Product Posting Model 2.
The Set VAT Quick Edit for tickets.
Facility to show only those prices which are active on the specified date in the Sale/Purchase Pricing tabs of the Trader and Product Quick Views.
Default recipient address is shown in the Reports Send Mail Setup window while sending e-mails.
The length of message is shown when making SMS contact.
CTI phone number recognition is improved.
Two new reports: "Location Stock Status (12 periods, Act. St. Qty)" and "Location Stock Status (12 periods, Act. St. Value)".
Facility to choose Active, Inactive or All Products in the Product Scope field in the Report Options window for some reports.
The following reports are affected:
- Customer Price List,
- Price List,
- Price List (Landscape),
- Price List (Selected Price Class, VAT)
- Stock Status,
- Location Stock Status,
- Location Stock Status (12 periods, Act. St. Qty),
- Location Stock Status (12 periods, Act. St. Value).
The Set Post Date Quick Edit.
Different images are used to display grid and report views in Favorites.
The Code field is not mandatory any longer in Excel import/export templates for Product Kit and Product BOM.
New print form "Issue Cheque (allocation details by document)".

7 August 2007 Herbst Insight 2.0.51.650

The list of enhancements is enlarged with:

Support for Relevant Contracts Tax (RCT).
The Favorites window.
Mail Merge in Microsoft Word.
Default Job Cost Code field in the Product record.
New values are available in Sales Invoice Direct Print Pattern.
Facility to print a list of licences.
Confirmation on deleting special prices in Products/Customer/Supplier Quick Views.
Trader details in the Tracing History section of the Product Quick View.
Column name filter in the Customise View Columns dialogue. Choose (Filter) in the pick list under the list of available columns.

15 June 2007 Herbst Cattle 3.0.3.14

The list of enhancements includes:

The new Movements view is added.
Animal weigh gain analysis is improved.
The new Weigings view is added.
Weigh Wizard is added.
Facility to run report (only for All Animals report kind) on selected animals from Animals views is introduced.

25 May 2007 Herbst Insight 2.0.50.640

The following features were introduced into this version:

Retail Mode in sales documents.
VAT cash accounting for the UK.
Facility to specify individual ticket printing forms for every product.
Option to save reports sent by email as contacts.
The Manager field in the Contact window is optional now.
The Find In Notes utility was merged with the Find Object utility.
Stock Reorder Utility.
Quick filter in the Contacts views instead of the Find Contact utility.
New columns in sales document views: "MGM Cost Of Sales", "MGM Gross Profit", "MGM Margin Of Gross Profit", "MGM Mark-up Of Gross Profit".
Facility to specify not only fixed date, but dates relative to the current Working Date in filters for date fields of views (Working Date, Yesterday, This Period, etc).
New columns "Last Bank Statement End Date", "Number" and "End Balance" in the Banks views.
Quick Edit utilities for prices of sales and purchase documents.
Quick Edit utilities for price parameters of sales and purchase documents.
"Customer Name" column is available in direct print patterns.
Grouping by document (instead of item) in the NL Verification report.
New columns "Job Charge Rate (Selected Currency)" and "Job Charge Amount (Selected Currency)" in ticket views.
"Job Cost Code" and "Job Charge Rate" fields are available in ticket views.
"Job Charge Rate", "Job Charge Amount" fields in job-related documents will not contain zeros but will be empty for non-Time and Materials jobs.

17 May 2007 Herbst Attendance 1.0.8.103

Benefit from new features of Attendance:

ZK F4 Biometric/Fingerprint Reader is supported.
Add Employee Day Notes Quick Edit: Quick Edit which allows to Add Notes to Employee Day is available in Calendar tab of Employee window, Status, Calendar and Activity views.
Calendar view in Hide Left Employees mode hides employees with Leaving Date earlier than the view's From Date.

27 March 2007 Herbst Cattle 3.0.2.10

The latest improvements include:

The possibility to clone Remedy in Remedies tab of Animal Quick View.
Animal Sex Quick Edit and Animal Kind Quick Edit are added.
The column Deleted is available in Animals Views.
The possibility to add Attachments to Animal Record.
The possibility to load a photo of an animal.
AIM Herd Profile Compare Wizard is created that allows to compare the list of animals received from Department Of Agriculture and Food web site with the list of animals stored in the database.
Animal Passport report is added.
The export/import of Remedies and Weighings to Excel is provided.
New fields are available in Animals In Herd view.
Firebird 1.5.4 Server is included into the installation package.

23 March 2007 Herbst HRM UK 6.0.1.30

The first version for the 2007-08 tax year deploys Firebird 1.5.4 database server and reflects the latest changes in the legislation:

New NIC earnings limits and rates from 6 April 2007.
New PAYE emergency code 522L from 6 April 2007.
New income tax bandwidths to be brought into use from 18 May 2007.
New rules and rates for SSP, SMP, SPP, SAP from 1 April 2007.
New CTAEO deduction tables from 1 April 2007.

20 March 2007 Herbst Attendance 1.0.8.102

In the new version everything is designed to contribute to your efficient work:

Import from HRM 9.
New columns are added in Clockings, Status, History and Activity views.
Filter Row command was added to the Customise Layout menu.
New Quick Edits are available in Employee, Status, Timesheets, Summary and Clockings views.
Employee Day hint was added in the Calendar view.
New standard layouts replenished History, Clockings and Employees views.
Firebird 1.5.4 Server is included into the installation package.

2 March 2007 Herbst Insight 2.0.48.620

The enhancements of the version are as follows:

Special Costs Plus mark-up rate in Job Input documents.
Simple-to-use Hire Module.
Haulage Charge feature.
New field "Weight As Quantity" in the Product record.
New ticket converters "Ticket Out to Ticket In" and "Ticket In To Ticket Out".
Facility to use different colours for odd and even rows in views.
Excel import/export for Contra transactions.
More fields (job attributes) are available in Job Quick View grids.
POS module: current customer is used by default in documents.
POS module: Tips NL Account can be specified in the User record.
Profit Analysis tab is added to Sales Quotations.
Products with Forbid New Document flag are displayed in grey in views, and actions to create documents on toolbar Action menus are disabled for them.
New report "Aged Analysis (12 periods, Chart)" demonstrating charts features.
Firebird 1.5.4 Server is included into the installation package.

2 February 2007 Herbst Insight 2.0.47.611