What's new?

Contents of the patches (updates within the version)

Welcome to the innovations of DATAflor BUSINESS Version 2021.
In the following we have briefly and compactly listed the program changes and additions for you. The detailed functionality is described in the individual chapters of the program help. The innovations listed here refer to the entire program. Some functions are license-dependent and are not available to all users.

• The new print management
  • ... is a completely new development of the part of the program for printing offers, order confirmations, all types of invoices including batch printing and credit notes.
    
  • We have the highlights and important settings in Film put together for you.
    
    
  • The above printouts use the print variants of the new form group Print out business transactions (Fast), no longer the print variants of the form group 'Print business transactions (Crystal)'. When upgrading from BUSINESS 2020 on BUSINESS In 2021, your existing print versions of the form group 'Print out business transactions (Crystal)' will be automatically converted and will therefore continue to be available to you for printouts as usual.
    
    
  • The selection of available printers has been changed. Only the printers that are stored in the form manager are available for selection. After upgrading from BUSINESS 2020 on BUSINESS In 2021, this will initially only be the standard printer set in your Windows operating system on network workstations. In single workstation installations, all printers installed in Windows are automatically created. If you want to use other printers, define them in the form manager before using them for the first time Printer and slot assignment. In connection with this, you then have additional options for individual pre-assignment of the printer.
    
    
  • The new print management extends the output of the above printouts by the following functions:
    • Output on paper, files (PDF format), email and invoices in structured form (ZUGFeRD)
    • all settings in direct connection with the preview
    • compact favorites page for the most important form settings
    • Store e-mail addresses for receiving invoices at the customer address
    • Send invoices in batch printing by email
    • Specify a different billing address in the client data
    • Comfort functions in the position selection for printing
    • Edit position texts during the preview
    • Images in offers and invoices
    • Convenient work is possible thanks to the precise configuration of the presets
      • Fixed paper chutes for printers and printouts
      • Predefine print settings in print profiles
        (e.g. a printout + an email + a file for the construction file)
      • Predefine form settings in form profiles
        (e.g. partial invoices with short text and quantities from quantity, final invoices with long text and quantities from mass list)
      • Possibility to deposit form and print profiles at the client's addresses
        ((e.g. customer X always receives the offer in duplicate by post)
      • Possibility to deposit form and print profiles in the business areas
        (e.g. for the business area Care always the pressure profile Company B pre-fill with stored letterhead)
      • Possibility of storing form and print profiles on the individual printouts
        (e.g. offers are with the pressure profile Output printer pre-assigned, advance invoices with the print profile e-mail)
    • Design options in the printout using form variants, such as the invoice amount in bold, colored or similar.
    • Invoice overview with invoice sums in batch printing
      
      
  • The detailed description of all functions can be found on the Wiki page The print management.

• A new module for DATAflor BUSINESS.
• Management of different incoming mail channels (e.g. e-mail, scanner, files, ...)
• Automated processing steps OCR (if necessary) and field recognition
• Recognition of different document types (invoice, other)
• Storage of workflows for automated processing and / or document checking for every type of document
• Preparation of the entry of incoming invoices
• Automated inclusion in the construction file
• Available as a subscription. OCR and field recognition are billed according to the effort (number of pages).
• For a 30 day demo BUSINESS start, switch to the cloud manager and click on the Online services activate the demo

• Copy LV - Extension for copying frame LV in the format ÖNORM
  • For copying frame LV in the format ÖNORM For the electronic data exchange in Austria, the positions in the new LV can optionally all open To offer, all on Not to offer or the settings in the output LV are adopted.

• The new TEAM
  • A new app for every employee
  • On which construction site am I planned for today, tomorrow, the next 7 days?
    (Display of the planning from the construction site manager)
  • How is my vacation account.
    (Display of the data from the personal manager)
  • Display of the absences of all employees
    (Display of the data from the personal manager)
  • Display of the hours booked for me in the post calculation
    (for the current, but also past months)
  • News from the office to the employees
    (e.g. about an upcoming party or the company holidays, etc.)
  • Interface in DATAflor BUSINESS to enter the news
  • Display of the small devices from the geoCapture beacon management
    (Where is the Wacker 45 vibrating plate?)
  • The app can be personalized for each company with a logo, team picture and company color

• Construction site result - Additional method for calculating the result
  • For the post calculation evaluation Construction site result stands for LV that uses the calculation method Surcharge calculation 1 have been calculated, a further method for calculating results is available, analogous to construction site monitoring. In addition to determining the result after "deducting fixed costs in% of sales" or after "deducting the target DB", the calculation method is now also after "Deduction of the AGK from the surcharge rates for the work area" available when for hiring the Surcharges off a work area is selected.

• Encryption of the construction file
  • 256-bit encryption of files in accordance with the technical guidelines of the BSI (Federal Office for Information Security)
  • No access to the documents via the file system = full access protection within the meaning of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Automatic decryption when accessing the construction file and when exporting (e.g. using drag & drop or "sending by e-mail")
  • Consideration of the existing versioning = ensuring the immutability in terms of the GoBD

• Finance manager
  • For your evaluations of the outgoing invoices issued on the tab Invoices The following new columns are available with the information on the payment conditions granted: Discount1 date, discount1 rate, discount2 date, discount2 rate, payment condition.

• New technology for data selection and processing for wage interfaces
  • Before each transfer, an overview of the data to be transferred is displayed.
  • The dates can be selected on a monthly basis or according to an individual period.
  • For each data record, it is saved whether it has already been output. It is thus possible to restrict the selection of the data records to be transferred so that only data that have not yet been transferred are output. = It is possible to transfer wage data several times per month without duplicating data that has already been transferred.
  • The archive logs when the data was output.
  • The data shown in the overview can be printed out as a list.
  • The new technology stands for the new wage interfaces Say HR Suite, Addison wages and DATEV LODAS is available for storage, management and analysis.

• New wage interfaces
  • Say HR Suite - New output format for the new product line from Sage. An upgrade license is required for those switching from Sage or Exact.
  • Addison wages - New output format for ADDISON's new payroll accounting
  • DATEV LODAS - Program extension for the output type Calendar (LODAS-Windows)

• Possibility to update a plan for the following year
• new printouts for printing the cost overview and the device costs
• Various adjustments and optimizations:
  • Distribution of employees and distribution of devices: The data records in the table are sorted according to employee type or Device type displayed grouped.
  • Recording of construction site overheads and general business costs: The data records are sorted by account number by default.
  • Distribution of construction site overheads and general business costs: The sorting of the data records in the table can be changed individually by clicking on a column header.
  • Planning overview: In the 'General business costs - AGK' group, the entry "Administration levy (excluding wages and equipment)" has been renamed to "Administration levy" and added to the display of the individual values ​​that make up the "Administration levy".
  • Cost overview: In the 'Wage and salary costs' group, the entry 'AGK wages' has been supplemented by the individual values ​​for productive and non-productive employees. In the groups 'AGK' and 'BGK' the values ​​of the individual cost element groups are displayed in alphabetical order in ascending order.

• Expansion of the connection to geoCapture
  • Access in BUSINESS-Device master on the geoCapture beacons for small device management
  • Assignment of beacons to BUSINESS-Devices
  • Display of the last located position and the possibly logged track