New Simon Revision
Version 4.0
Available

FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM
VERSION 3--
DO THIS ONE FILE ONLY
SimonUpg324.exe



FOR THOSE ALREADY AT
VERSION 4--
DO THIS ONE FILE ONLY
s4_00_03.exe 		Simon Logo

Simon Version 4

The following changes and improvements have been made:

Revision 4.00.03 Changes:

1) Help article adjustments.
Naturally, with any upgrade such as this, there will be some adjustment to Help articles to instruct on the way the new tools work and to adjust for new tool behavior. Also, we added the ability to consult our web site, bnl.com, for further information on certain topics in both html and pdf format. When you have a help article opened within Simon, there will be a PDF and a web file button. If more help is available on our web site on the topic you are reviewing, one or both of these buttons will be enabled.
More information [Click here]

2) Email connectivity work.
Adding the ability to send emails from within Simon. New email connectivity preferences have been added and certain operations will be able to use email to notify clients, etc. You will need to set email connectivity options in the General Preferences area. After you have set these preferences, you can email package notices to clients and email rent due and past due notices to clients.
More information [Click here]

3) Mailbox Rental Store Preference.
Rebuilt box addressing to address limitations. Sure, the DMM requires the use of PMB or # either above or adjacent to the street address. But, it appears, Postmasters do not always follow these rules. So box addressing (or how your boxholders will use the address at your business to receive mail) has been changed to be a lot more flexible.
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4) Closed Box Report.
Fixed the closed box report to only show boxes closed within the date rate shown on the introductory form.
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5) Added the restricted mail information to the Mail Recipient (full) Listings.

6) Email Package Notices (Test).
Added the ability to email package notices to clients.
More information [Click here]

7) Email Rent Due and Past Due Notice.
Added the ability to email rent due and past due notices to clients.
More information [Click here]

8) Made some adjustments to the Rent Due and Past Due Notice Form. Seemed a bit quirky. I think I have addressed all of its issues.

9) Added a title table for the rental agreement so that the user can change the title if they choose to do so. Also added alternative endings to the rental agreement (this table can be added to in the future if anyone has alternative endings that they want included in Simon).
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10) Fixed problem with 'Select All' and "Deselect All' buttons on 1583 generator form.

11) Added error trapping on 'Make Rental Payments' form so that you will not be able to rent a box for a zero month rental. No point and it causes problems for Simon when closing, etc.

12) Default to the Store owner City/State Address.
Added fields to tblSO for DefCountry, DefState, DefCity. This would help streamline the process of adding new clients as mailbox people by allowing the store owners to have a default city, state and country in the client address and business address areas of the add a new boxholder form.
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13) Added a field to tblSO to curtail these ID requirements for anyone who sets it to off.

14) Added a short (max 3 digits) prefix to the invoice numbering system so that it would be easier for users to distinguish Simon invoice numbers from other invoice numbers used in a business?

15) Added a new field to history to deal with user deletions of history that inevitably cause problems for users. A simple integer set to 1 for automatically set history, 2 for manually set history and 99 for deleted history.

16) Added a 'close' field to history to note which history lines were added when a box was closed. By adding this boolean field, we can now move appropriate history back to active from archive.

17) Added a new tool to Maintenance in the Simon Helper. This tool will help you to reopen closed boxes.

18) Enhanced the Daily Work Product form so that even non-invoiced work will be added to it.

19) Added a way to eliminate old archived records.
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20) IMPORTANT.
Simon Rent Due & Past Due Notices. Full detail on how Simon handles Rent Due & Past Due Notices
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