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Every release to Biztimize — new features, improvements, fixes, and breaking changes — documented here, for everyone. No marketing gloss.

3.24.0

Configurable Document Numbering

August 15, 2026
Production

Document numbers are now yours to define — prefixes, sequences, resets and per-variant series — without a code change, and without disturbing any number already issued.

Improvement

Per-Variant Number Series

One document type can carry several series — by company, branch, or any variant you distinguish — so each stream of documents keeps its own running number.

A variant that could never fire is refused at configuration time rather than discovered later as a gap in the sequence.

System Global
New Feature

Configurable Document Numbering

Every document type — orders, invoices, receipts, notes, vouchers — can now be given its own numbering rule: prefix and suffix, sequence width, and how and when the counter resets.

  • Maintained as data, per company and per document type
  • A document type you have not configured numbers exactly as it did before — adopting the feature is a decision you make one type at a time
  • Numbers already issued are never renumbered
System Global
3.24.1

BOM Engineering Change Management

August 15, 2026
Production

A released bill of materials is changed by a change order with a date, an approval and an impact assessment — never by editing the structure underneath the orders already planned against it.

New Feature

Impact Analysis, Change Register and BOM Change History

Before a change is released you can see what it touches: which orders are already open against the affected lines, and a decision recorded per order about what should happen to it.

  • Change register with search and filters, plus a detail view of everything a change proposes
  • Change history on the BOM itself — what changed, when it took effect, and under which change order
Production Global
New Feature

Engineering Change Orders for Bills of Materials

Once a BOM is released, production orders, purchase orders and budgets have been planned against it. Editing it in place changes what those documents were costed on, silently. A released structure is now changed only through an Engineering Change Order.

  • Draft, submit, approve, reject or cancel a change, and raise a counter change that stages the exact inverse
  • Release either by line effectivity (end-date the old line, start the new one) or as a new version of the structure
  • Every change carries a category and an effective-from date, so which BOM applies on a given day is a single, unambiguous answer
  • If somebody moved a field underneath the change while it was in flight, the release is refused and the field named — it is never silently merged
  • There is deliberately no un-release: a release has a date, and work has been planned against it
Production Global
Security Update

Bills of Materials Are Now Permission-Gated

The BOM endpoints previously required only a signed-in user, so any user of the tenant could create, edit or delete any BOM at any plant. They now require explicit BOM permissions, and two focused roles ship with the feature: BOM Engineer (authors and raises changes) and Engineering Change Approver (approves, releases and decides impact).

Administrators: review role assignments as part of this upgrade so the BOM screens stay available to the people who need them.

Production Global
3.21.8

Customer Payment Enhancements

August 14, 2026
Production

Refinements to the Customer Payment screen for faster, clearer receipt entry.

Improvement

Customer Payment Screen Refinements

Usability and presentation improvements across the Customer Payment screen so a receipt can be captured and checked against the customer’s open items in fewer steps.

Finance Global
3.23.0

Post Dated Cheque Management

August 14, 2026
Production

Cheques dated for a future day are now held, tracked and presented as their own instrument instead of being treated as money already in the bank.

New Feature

Post Dated Cheque Management

A post dated cheque is a promise for a future date, not a receipt today. Post Dated Cheque Management records the instrument when it is taken, holds it until its due date, and carries it through presentation, clearing, dishonour and return — with the accounting following the cheque rather than the calendar.

  • Register cheques received and cheques issued, with their instrument dates and banks
  • Track each cheque through its lifecycle to clearance or dishonour
  • See what is maturing, and what remains on hand
Finance Global
3.21.4

Product Specification Access, and a Correct Payment Reversal

August 13, 2026
Production

Product Specification rights can finally be granted to a role, and a reversed vendor payment stops standing in the payables sub-ledger as if it were still live.

Bug Fix

A Reversed Vendor Payment No Longer Doubles the Payable

The payables sub-ledger knew about cancelled payments but not about reversed ones, so both halves of a reversal landed as debits — the original kept its full debit and the reversal document posted a second one. The payable was relieved twice instead of netting to zero, and the Vendor Ledger screen disagreed with the General Ledger, which was never wrong.

A reversal now posts as a credit under its own transaction type, and the pair nets to nil.

Finance Global
Security Update

Product Specification Permissions Are Grantable and Enforced

The Product Specifications screen has always hidden its buttons behind permissions, but those permissions did not exist — so no role could hold them and the actions were drawn for tenant administrators only. A user holding the whole Materials Manager role saw the page read-only, with nothing on screen able to explain why.

  • Nine specification and document permissions are now assignable from Role Management, and are picked up by the Materials Manager role on re-seed
  • The specification and document endpoints enforce them server-side, so the screen gate is no longer cosmetic
Procurement Global
3.21.2

HR Setup Commands Target the Right Tenant

August 13, 2026
Production

The HR performance and recruitment setup commands now resolve the named tenant to its own database.

Bug Fix

Tenant Resolution in the HR Setup Commands

The performance and recruitment setup and check commands did not resolve the tenant passed to them to that tenant’s database, so seeding could act against the wrong one. They now resolve it explicitly.

Human Resources Global
3.21.1

BoM Beta — Style Intent Enhancements

August 13, 2026
Production

The style intent workspace gained stronger validation and a clearer queue, so an intent that cannot be projected per size says so.

Improvement

Style Intent Validation and Queue

The BoM Beta style intent pane was reworked: intents are validated as they are built, the queue shows what is ready and what is blocked, and an intent that cannot be projected per size is reported with the reason instead of producing a plausible-looking wrong bill of materials.

Production Global
Improvement

Style BoM Wizard Generation

Generation from a style intent was reworked so component and consumption derivation is consistent between the wizard and the generated bill of materials.

Production Global
3.21.3

Resume Extraction, and Cost Center on Purchase Requisitions

August 13, 2026
Production

Candidate records can be created from a resume, and purchase requisitions are raised against a cost center instead of a department.

Improvement

Cost Center Replaces Department on Purchase Requisitions

A purchase requisition is now raised against a cost center rather than a department, so the requirement carries the dimension the spend will actually be reported under. Existing requisitions keep their value under the new field.

Procurement Global
New Feature

AI Candidate Resume Extraction

Upload a resume — or a batch of them — and the details are extracted for review: name, contact, current employer and designation, notice period, skills and education. Correct anything that needs correcting, then create the candidate record in one step.

  • Skills and education map to your existing masters by exact match; nothing is auto-created, so the master does not fill with near-duplicates
  • Every field shows whether it came from the resume or from you
  • A field the resume did not state is left empty, never defaulted to zero — “did not say” and “none” are different answers
  • Duplicate and rehire checks are shown, and neither blocks
  • On creation the resume moves to the candidate record, so no second copy of a person’s data is left behind
  • A batch of 40 is 40 independent rows — one unreadable file never fails the rest

Extraction only. No score, no fit percentage, no ranking and no ordering of candidates is produced, and protected characteristics are never extracted — shortlisting stays a decision a person takes.

Human Resources Global
3.17.4

Human Resources — Lifecycle, Recruitment, Performance and Analytics

August 12, 2026
Production

An exit now has a reason, employment attributes have a history, and recruitment, appraisals and training compliance become part of the product — reported on a new HR dashboard.

Bug Fix

Date Filters on Data Grids

Date column filters on the data grids were not matching correctly. Fixed across the application — Sales Orders, Journal Entries, Direct Invoices, Audit Log, Service Tickets, Repair Jobs, Customer Assets, Incidents, Plant Maintenance plans and schedules, Breakdown Reports, Emergency Work Orders, Equipment Health, Support Desk, Tasks, Cut Plans and the Sales Order reports.

System Global
New Feature

Separation, Exit Interview and Rehire Eligibility

An employee used to leave by somebody editing the employment end date — recording no reason, no approver and no rehire eligibility. A separation is now its own record, with a typed reason, an approval, a clearance checklist and a rehire decision.

  • The clearance checklist reports outstanding items; it can never trap somebody’s last working day in a validation error
  • Exit interviews sit behind their own permission — a line manager sees that an exit happened, not what the departing employee said about them
  • Whether an exit was regretted is recorded when a person assesses it, and “not assessed” is never counted as “not regretted”
  • The final settlement reads the separation, so every settlement raised before this keeps working
Human Resources Global
New Feature

Point-in-Time Employment History

The employee record kept one row, so a transfer overwrote the department and headcount as at any past date could not be reconstructed. Employment assignments are now kept as dated history alongside the master.

Records created at go-live are flagged as such, and every point-in-time answer says so — history is honest about starting on deployment day rather than inventing what came before it.

Human Resources Global
New Feature

Recruitment — Requisition to Employee

A full recruitment pipeline: job requisition and approval, candidates, applications through configurable stages, interview feedback, offer, and conversion to an employee record.

  • Every transition timestamp is owned by the system, so time-to-fill is an outcome rather than something a recruiter can type
  • Blind panel feedback — a panellist sees other assessments only after submitting their own, and a submitted assessment is locked
  • A requisition against an already-filled position is refused, so vacancy and open requisitions reconcile
  • Rehire history is shown with its reason and never blocks; nothing auto-links a candidate to a former employee
  • Declines, expiries and no-shows are kept as three different things, each with its own reason
  • Compensation is gated like payroll data — an interviewer never reaches it
  • Candidate data retention reports before it acts, and anonymises in place so the hiring funnel history survives
Human Resources Global
New Feature

Performance Appraisals and Training Compliance

Appraisal cycles with a defined rating scale, and training compliance measured against a requirement rather than a course count.

  • The rating scale is frozen onto the cycle when it opens, so relabelling a rating later can never rewrite appraisals already given
  • “Not rated” is a real answer with a structured reason — never redistributed, never silently completed at the bottom of the scale, and always shown with the coverage beside it
  • Compliance is measured only over the employees a requirement actually reaches; certificates carry the expiry stamped when they were issued
  • Ratings are visible to the employee, the appraising manager and HR; reporting access grants distributions, not named individuals
Human Resources Global
New Feature

HR Analytics Dashboard

A new HR dashboard covering overview, workforce, organization, time & absence and cost, with drill-through to the underlying worklists.

Small populations are suppressed so an individual cannot be identified from an average, and a panel that cannot be built says why rather than showing an empty chart.

Analytics Global
New Feature

Work Schedule Defaults

Working days and hours now resolve through a configured ladder — company, payroll area, employee type, tenant default. Where none is configured the system asks you to configure one rather than assuming a 22-day month, which understates absence for shift workers and overstates it for part-timers.

Human Resources Global
3.17.5

Help Documentation for the New HR Modules

August 12, 2026
Production

Help articles covering HR foundation, recruitment, performance and the HR dashboard.

New Feature

HR Help Articles

The Help Documentation centre gained articles for the HR foundation (separations, employment history, work schedules), Recruitment, Performance & Learning, and the HR analytics dashboard — including the configuration each module needs before it will work.

Human Resources Global

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