Release Notes BUSY 21
Release Notes BUSY 21
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Release Notes – BUSY 21
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Release 3.1 (05-04-2021)
Minor Changes
Changing F.Y., option ‘Don’t Carry Pending ITC Tagging entries’ was disabled by default and ITC tagging
entries were being carried over which was taking time. Now this option will be enabled by default and
pending ITC tagging entries will not be carried over. Also if user is not using this utility and above option is
enabled then user will be prompted to disable this option.
Bugs Removed
Sales invoice feeding through Sub-ledger, sometimes ‘Credit Limit Crossed’ message was being shown
even if credit limit was not crossed. Now problem rectified.
Change F.Y., sometimes an error ‘Invalid use of null’ was being shown. Now problem rectified.
Item BCN-wise details enabled, sometimes ‘Maintain BCN’ option in Item master was getting disabled
automatically. Now problem rectified.
POS data entry, change in font size of captions in Item grid was not working properly. Now problem
rectified.
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Release 3.0 (30-03-2021)
Major Changes
As per the latest MCA guidelines, ‘Date Check List’ renamed as ‘Audit Trail’ and it will always be
maintained for Pvt. Ltd. & Public Ltd. Companies in Enterprise edition. Whether it is a Pvt. Ltd. Or Public
Ltd. Company will be checked from GSTIN of the Company. For Proprietary & Partnership firms, Audit
Trail will be optional (as it is working now).
Minor Changes
Bills Receivable/Payable printing in slip format, provision made to print On Account Amount & Ledger Bal.
also.
While cancelling any voucher (using ALT+X key), provision made to cancel the corresponding E-Way Bill/E-
Invoice also within BUSY. No need to go to portal to cancel E-Way Bill/E-Invoice.
Transport Details; if ‘Separate Dispatch Details’ option was enabled, Check Distance option was taking
source pin code from company details instead of Dispatch Details. Now it will take source pin code from
Dispatch Details.
Configurable GST Summary printing in Invoice footer; a new field ‘Total Amt.’ provided which will print
Taxable + Tax amount for the specified row.
Change F.Y., a new checkbox ‘Don’t Carry Pending ITC Entries for Tagging’ provided. If enabled, pending
entries for ITC tagging will not be carried over to next year. Required when a user is not using this feature
and carrying ITC entries take a lot of time.
Bugs Removed
Stock Transfer voucher in POS data entry mode, Master Control for Party was misbehaving. Now problem
rectified.
Changing F.Y., sometimes an error ‘Overflow’ was being generated. Now problem rectified.
Bills Receivable/Payable printing in slip format, sometimes data was being printed to next page whereas
space was available in right pane. Now problem rectified.
Updating Sales Price from Purchase Price during data feeding, sometimes ‘Enable BCN’ option was getting
disabled in Item master. Now problem rectified.
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Release 2.3 (23-03-2021)
Minor Changes
Provision made to print B2C QR Code in invoices for users having E-Invoicing enabled:
a. Enable B2C QR Code printing in GST/E-Invoice configuration and specify details related to B2C QR
Code.
b. Enable printing of B2C QR Code in standard invoice configuration.
c. In configurable format, field <EINVOICE_QRCODE> will print E-Invoice QR Code for B2B invoices
and B2C QR Code for B2C invoices.
Document designing, a new tag ’#ncf’ provided for use with numeric fields. If specified then the value of
numeric field will not be formatted with currency separator during printing. NCF stands for No Currency
Formatting.
E-Invoice configuration, new option ‘Restrict sub-user to change E-Invoice Applicability’ provided. If
enabled, sub-user won’t be able to change E-Invoice applicability (like E-Way Bill).
Bugs Removed
Importing voucher from Excel, if no. of Bill Sundries being imported was more than 50, an error was being
generated. Now problem rectified.
Trial Balance on screen, sorting on Opening or Closing Balance columns (showing values with Dr/CR) was
not working. Now problem rectified.
Stock Status Grouped with option to show ‘Book Stock’ only; during drill down, details for wrong date
range was being shown. Now problem rectified.
Bills Receivable/Payable report printed Party-wise and sorted Group-wise, parties with no pending bill
were also getting printed. Now problem rectified.
Credit Limit enabled; while modifying any voucher, sometimes error for credit limit getting crossed was
being shown even if credit limit was not getting crossed. Now problem rectified.
Configurable list of accounts, fields <STATION> & <TRANSPORTER> were not showing full value as
specified in account master. Now problem rectified.
RCM Register Monthly, while generating consolidated RCM voucher, wrong data was being posted for
vouchers having ‘ITC Eligibility’ as None. Now problem rectified.
Day Book with single line details, amount for Sales voucher was being shown on wrong side. Now
problem rectified.
Auto generation of Invoice from Challan, sometimes there was a rounding off issue resulting in slight
mismatch between challan and invoice value. Now problem rectified.
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Stock Transfer in POS mode, master controls for source Material Centre was not working properly. Now
problem rectified.
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Release 2.2 (13-03-2021)
Minor Changes
Trial Balance-Grouped, provision made to show comparative data with last years (like Trial Balance-
Alpha).
Provision made to specify minimum no. of digits for HSN Codes. Can be specified in GST configuration. If
any value is specified here (like 4 or 6 or 8), it will be validated while specifying HSN Code in during data
entry.
Account label printing configuration; new field added ‘Paper Type’ where user can specify either A4 or
Envelope. Required while Account label needs to be printed on Envelope.
Sales/Purchase Challan for Export/Import transaction type, provision made to input ‘Shipping Details’
along with ‘Port code’. Required to generate E-Way Bill.
Accounting enabled for Material Issue & Receipt vouchers through Bill Sundries; it was working for plain
Material Issue & Receipt vouchers and not for Sales/Purchase Challans. Now it will work for all Material
Issue & Receipt vouchers.
Consignment vouchers feeding with blank voucher no., sometimes an error was being generated. Now
consignment voucher will not be allowed with blank voucher number.
Provision made for new TCS rates w.e.f. 1St April (.1 % for Parties with PAN & 1% for Parties w/o PAN).
Sales/Purchase Register, till now ‘MC Name’ was always being shown. Now it has been made optional.
‘Profit & Loss Detailed Monthly’ report, till now second level details with all groups were being shown.
Now provision made to show either second level details or account level details.
Creating new company for country Nigeria, default tax rate was being shown as 5%. Now changed to
7.5%.
Auto creation of Party references enabled in Sale/Purchase vouchers; during data feeding, bill reference
window for other accounts having bill-by-bill enabled was not being shown. Now window for other
accounts will be shown and Party reference will be created automatically.
Warning for TCS was being shown for Export transactions and Stock Transfer (to our own branch having
same PAN). Now in both of these case TCS warning will not be shown as TCS is not applicable in these
cases.
Nepal country, provision made to test the online upload facility using test user as per guidelines of Nepal
IRD.
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Credit Limit enabled and invoicing not allowed after crossing of Credit Limit, same was not working during
voucher replication. Now in such scenario voucher will not be replicated.
Provision made for bulk cancellation of vouchers using <ALT+X> key through screen reports. User can
select multiple rows and then can use <ALT+X> key to cancel all the selected vouchers.
Sales Challan/Sales Invoice printing with Separate Billing Details option enabled, caption for
Challan/Invoice date was being shown as ‘Date of Invoice’ which was creating confusion in case of Sales
Challan. Now it will be shown as ‘Dated’.
Bugs Removed
Item-wise tax enabled, wrong tax was being calculated in case of negative quantity (Sales Return in Sales).
Now problem rectified.
POS data entry in Stock Transfer; scanning Item Serial No. barcode directly, Serial No.’s Sales Price was
being picked instead of cost price. Now problem rectified.
Letter Text Configuration, node for ‘Confirmation of GST’ was not being shown. Now problem rectified.
Importing accounting vouchers from Excel; while checking voucher history, source was being shown as
‘Feeded’ instead of ‘Excel Import’. Now problem rectified.
On clicking ‘User Signature’ in user profile, a message ‘This feature is not enabled’ was being shown even
if same was enabled. Now problem rectified.
POS configuration; Batch No. reading from barcode, if enabled, was not working. Now problem rectified.
Bills Receivable/Payable printing in slip format, sometimes parties were not being printed in alphabetical
order. Now problem rectified.
Stock Status Alphabetical being seen with Item MRP; in case of branch user, HO MRP was being shown
instead of branch MRP. Now problem rectified.
Party-Item price structure feeding, while trying to search an Item using <CTRL+ALT+S>, some irrelevant
text was being shown. Now problem rectified.
De-activate masters utility, while trying to deactivate Sale Type, sometimes an error was being generated.
Now problem rectified.
Print report header configured in second language was not printing data in second language. Now
problem rectified.
Multiple MRP being maintained with BCN, if during data entry Item Qty. was changed in Item grid; same
was not getting changed automatically in parameter details window. Now problem rectified.
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Account Ledger generated without short narration and then date was changed using F2 key, short
narration column was being. Now problem rectified.
Call Receipt voucher; SMS could not be sent using <ALT+S> through printing report options form. Now
problem rectified.
If Round Off (-) Bill sundry was used in a voucher, wrong voucher amount was being shown in Day Book
(Single Account). Now problem rectified.
Pending Indent report generated for selected MC was generating error. Now problem rectified.
Indent-wise Statement report was not getting filtered for selected MC. Now problem rectified.
‘Purchase/Sale without Order’ report was sometimes showing zero value entries. Now problem rectified.
Production Variance voucher-wise report was sometimes not showing correct data if some manual entries
were done in Production voucher after picking data on the basis of BOM. Now problem rectified.
Cost Centre Ledger was not getting filtered branch-wise. Now problem rectified.
BCN-wise ageing report was sometimes generating error. Now problem rectified.
Account Sub-Ledger on screen generated for all Sub Ledgers under a General Ledger was sometimes
generating an error. Now problem rectified.
AMC/Warranty Details Report; while clearing some opening references, all opening references were
getting cleared. Now problem rectified.
Parametrised Stock Status Columnar report was sometimes generating error. Now problem rectified.
Purchase Indent entries were being shown as incomplete in ‘Check Incomplete Vouchers’ utility. Now
problem rectified.
‘On Account Parameter entries’ report was sometimes generating ‘Overflow’ error. Now problem
rectified.
Standard invoice printing in landscape mode, second language details were not getting printed. Now
problem rectified.
Amount Receivable/Payable report for a branch with option ‘Include PDC’ enabled, incorrect balance was
being shown. Now problem rectified.
Bill-by-bill details window, sometimes a message was being shown ‘Amount not fully adjusted’ even if
amount was fully adjusted. Now problem rectified.
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Release 2.1 (20-02-2021)
Bugs Removed
Item-wise tax calculation during data feeding was misbehaving in a few cases. Now problem rectified.
Sub-ledger report on screen for all Accounts was generating error. Now problem rectified.
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Release 2.0 (17-02-2021)
Major Changes
Provision made to use official WhatsApp API to send messages to WhatsApp through BUSY. Official
WhatsApp API requires WhatsApp desktop version to be installed in computer and this desktop version
pops up every time a message is sent to it. Sending messages in bulk in background is not possible. More
details in help document/video.
Minor Changes
Provision made to generate E-Way Bill within E-Invoice. Can be specified in Transport Details form during
voucher feeding. If this option is used, E-Way Bill gets generated along with E-Invoice and need not be
generated separately.
While specifying Transport Details in Sales voucher, provision made to specify Dispatch Party & Address
also as required in E-Invoice generation where Billing Details and Dispatch Details are different.
‘Receipts Eligible for TCS’ report, it was possible to specify start date before 01-10-2020 (from when the
TCS on Receipt was introduced) creating confusion in report. Now it has been restricted and start date
cannot be before 01-10.2020.
Provision made to skip TDS reference creation (like TCS) in vouchers. Required when user wants to
maintain TDS ledgers only and not references (required for return filing). Can be enabled in TDS
configuration.
GST ‘Monthly ITC Tagging’ utility, provision made to tag Import transactions also. Till now only B2B &
CDNR were allowed.
Trial Balance–Alphabetical; provision made to show balances of upto last three years along with current
year balances.
Dr/Cr Note feeding; in GST Details window, If ‘Nature of Transaction’ was left blank, no warning was being
shown creating confusion in reporting. Now blank ‘Nature of Transaction’ will not be allowed.
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Invoice/Documents printing standard configuration, provision made to print User’s Signature Image.
Invoice printing standard configuration; provision made to print E-Invoice details (IRN, Ack. No. & Ack.
Date).
Dr/Cr Note printing standard configuration, provision made to print TCS Amount.
Advanced Invoice configuration; picking default configuration using ALT+D, field for E-Invoice QR Code was
not being picked. Now it will be picked if the same was enabled in standard configuration.
While sending pending Alerts, same were being sent on LIFO basis. Now it will be sent on FIFO basis.
‘Account Monthly Summary (Horizontal)’ was not getting filtered on Master Series Group (if enabled for
user). Now it will be filtered.
‘Regenerate Production Vouchers’ utility; if any voucher could not be saved due to RM going negative or
due to any other reason, no message was being shown that voucher could not be regenerated. Now
message will be shown in case voucher could not be regenerated.
Specifying E-Invoice credentials in BUSY and those being different from E-Way Bill credentials, a warning
message will be shown to match the same as currently different credentials for E-Invoice & E-Way Bill are
not working.
Item multiple alias data feeding; while scanning alias(s) from barcode, sometimes wrong characters were
being picked as this form was not accepting data from barcodes properly. Now a check box has been
provided in the form to enable alias reading from barcode.
‘Missing Voucher Nos.’ report options; after specifying the Voucher series, ‘Suffix & Prefix’ were not
getting updated automatically in a few cases. Now it will be picked automatically in all cases.
Item-wise tax applied on Item level or through Bill Sundry at voucher level, sometimes there was a gap of
1 paisa in tax calculation between these two methods. Now tax will be same in both the methods.
Invoice field <TOTAL_TDS_ACC_AMT> was showing TDS ledger amount involved in a voucher. Now it is
renamed as <TOTAL_TDS/TCS_ACC_AMT> and it will show total TDS/TCS ledger amount involved in a
voucher.
Comparing current year closing with last year closing balances to check for any mismatch; till now type of
ledger (General/Sub) was not being compared which was creating confusion. Now it will also be
compared along with balances.
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‘Bulk Generation of Invoice from Challan’ utility; Station & Pin Code as specified in Party master was not
being picked if the same was not specified in Transport Details in challan. Now in such cases it will be
picked from Party master.
TDS/TCS payment voucher, till now Bank’s BSR Code was being picked from the alias field of Bank account
master. Now it will be asked during payment voucher feeding (default will be picked from alias of Bank
account master).
Items having Item-wise discount on absolute basis were not being considered for consolidation at the
time of saving even if there was no discount and only absolute mode was enabled in voucher series. Now
if some discount has been specified with Item only then it will be skipped out of consolidation.
‘Block Masters’ utility; in master’s dropdown list, additional information along with master’s name was
not being shown. Now it will be shown.
TDS/TCS reference window, after adjustment of full amount, cursor was moving to next row instead of
moving to OK button. Now in such scenario cursor will move to OK button.
While sorting any screen report after summarising the same, wrong totals were being displayed. Now
sorting or reports after summarising has been restricted.
SQL mode; while sending any report as Email attachment, in name of PDF file, company code was being
embedded instead of company short name. Now company short name will be embedded instead of
company code.
Sales Acc. or Purchase Acc. input in Sales/Purchase voucher, caption for these data fields was changeable
but it was not taking effect during data entry. Now change of caption for these fields has been restricted.
Account Monthly Summary; graph was not being shown if comparison was being done with previous
years(s). Now if the comparison is being done with last one year, graph will be shown and if done with
more than one year, graph will not be shown.
TransactionMisc. GST Utilities menu; separate menus for ‘E-Way Bill Management’ & ‘E-Invoice
Management’ was provided. Now a single menu (along with sub menus) provided with caption ‘E-Way
Bill & E-Invoice Management’.
Barcode label printing; if <SQL_QUERY_NUM> field was used, two text boxes were being shown without
any caption creating confusion. Now these text boxes will not be visible.
Re-downloading of GSTR-1/2B/3B for previous months has been restricted as these returns cannot be
changed once filed and re-downloading does not server any purpose.
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Bugs Removed
Account having some closing balance in current year, if deleted and balances carried forward for ‘New
and Changed Masters’ only, the impact of deleted master was not being shown in next year. Now
problem rectified.
Billing/Shipping Details window, caption for ‘DL No.’ was not visible fully. Now problem rectified.
Payment/Receipt voucher; if checklist details were enabled, Cur. Bal. was not being shown fully. Now
problem rectified.
Batch-wise Stock report was not taking effect of Master Series Group tagging on Material Centres. Now
problem rectified.
Parameterised Columnar report was not getting generated if any prefix space was specified in report
format name. Now problem rectified.
<GR_DATE> field used as custom column was generating error. Now problem rectified.
User Dash-board, option ‘Include Sales return’ was not working for Daily Sales section. Now problem
rectified.
Importing Account masters from Excel, if size of ‘Default Sale/Purchase Type’ field was more than 20
characters, same was not getting saved in Account master. Now problem rectified.
Balance Sheet generated for a specific date; while printing Trading Account, Closing Stock was not getting
printed. Now problem rectified.
Dr/Cr Note Register, sometimes GST related fields as custom column were generating error. Now
problem rectified.
Voucher template tagging enabled; sometimes while loading data from template, some value in Bill
Sundry was being shown. Now problem rectified.
‘Purchase/Expense-wise ITC’ report was not showing Fixed Assets accounts entry fed through Dr/Cr Notes.
Now problem rectified but user will have to resave the existing Dr/Cr Notes with Fixed Assets accounts.
Brokerage Calculation report if generated for both Sales & Purchase, Sales/Purchase Challans were also
being included. Now problem rectified.
Downloading GSTR-2A/2B JSON file, an error was being shown if State was ‘Dadar and Nagar Haveli and
Daman & Diu’. Now problem rectified.
‘Allow Sales Return in Sales’ option was sometimes not working properly if Compound Discount was
enabled. Now problem rectified.
Price change disallowed for a user for a specific voucher type, user was not able to change price for other
voucher types also in item parameter details window. Now problem rectified.
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Data exchange through BDEP; if Party already existed in target data, Address & other details for the same
was getting modified during data exchange. Now problem rectified.
Sending Payment Reminders through SMS/BNS and option ‘Skip blank Mobile Nos.’ enabled, sometimes
an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.
Multi-company Trial Balance Grouped, wrong totals were being shown. Now problem rectified.
GST ‘Monthly ITC Tagging’ utility, sometimes wrong Party name was being shown. Now problem rectified.
Trial Balance Detailed; if any row was deleted using F9 key, decimal places in totals were getting
disturbed. Now problem rectified.
Sales Analysis Voucher-wise generated for a sub user; in list of voucher series, no series was being shown.
Now problem rectified.
Stock Journal created through Physical Stock voucher with Item Batch details; cost price of Batch was
being shown as zero in ‘Batch Details’ report. Now problem rectified.
Item-wise Discount report, effective discount was being shown in case of compound discount even if
nature of discounts(s) was different. Now problem rectified.
BCN-wise Profitability report was considering tax inclusive prices in case of tax inclusive transactions.
Now problem rectified.
Item Mast MRP field used as custom column in reports was not showing correct value if multi-branch was
enabled and branch-wise MRP was specified. Now problem rectified.
Multiple Columns Cash/Bank Book configuration; if more than one row was left blank, an error message
for duplicate entry was being shown. Now problem rectified.
Deactivating any MC, same was being shown during Item-wise MC data entry if option ‘Do Not Show Zero
Stock MC’ enabled. Now problem rectified.
Item parameter-wise data entry with Alt. Unit enabled; sometimes while saving voucher, an error was
being shown for parameter stock going negative even if stock was there. Now problem rectified.
Receipt feeding in multi-currency; while printing Receipt, ‘Rs.’ was being printed instead of currency
specified in voucher. Now problem rectified.
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Challan-wise Statement; after refreshing the report, Total Entries field was getting doubled. Now problem
rectified.
E-Invoice generated for a Sales voucher; during modification if voucher type was changed using F6 key, E-
Invoice Ack. No. & Date was getting retained in modified voucher. Now problem rectified.
Printing Item barcodes from voucher, field <PCKG_UNIT> was not printing any value. Now problem
rectified.
Printing accounting voucher; instead of currency decimal places as specified in configuration, 2 decimal
places were being used to print numeric figures. Now problem rectified.
Settlement enabled and complete amount settled for Sales voucher; amount of Sales voucher was not
being included in Gross Sales amount for Party in order check TCS applicability. Now problem rectified.
Provision made to search any field caption using F3 key on standard invoice configuration form.
Modifying a voucher and saving after making some changes; ‘Round Off’ Bill Sundry was being applied
again without removing the original ‘Round Off’ Bill sundry applied during voucher creation. Now
problem rectified.
Call Allocation voucher date being same as Call Receipt voucher date; in case of Nepali Date, Call
Allocation voucher could not be saved. Now problem rectified.
Generating GST Summary using short cut key (ALT+G) and then switching between connected reporting
using shortcut keys or side panel, sometimes an error was being generated. Now problem rectified.
Sales voucher feeding with Item-wise tax, if amount of an Item was changed using calculator,
corresponding tax amount was not being recalculated as per new amount. Now problem rectified.
Item Parameter-wise data entry in Alt. Unit and transaction price being specified at parameter level,
sometimes the parameter-wise nett amount in reports was showing difference of a few rupees as
compared to the amount specified in parameter row. Now problem rectified.
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Release 1.2 (21-01-2021)
Minor Changes
‘Bulk Payments’ utility; in case of consignment, it is renamed as ‘Bulk Payments for Consignment’.
‘Bulk Payments for Consignment’ utility, TCS & Discount will be pushed in voucher narration while
generating Payment vouchers. Same is required to be printed in documents & reports.
Invoice field <TOTAL_TDC_ACC_AMT> was showing TDS amount on the basis of TDS ledger in an invoice.
Now this field renamed to <TOTAL_TDS/TCS_ACC_AMT> and it will show either TDS or TCS ledger amount
whichever is involved in voucher.
TCS data entry, caption for TCS Category changed to TDS Section and TCS Sub Category changed to TCS
Collection Code.
Downloading GSTR-2B, Dr/Cr Notes were not being saved. Now it will be saved.
Bugs Removed
Import vouchers from Excel, while specifying default % for Bill Sundries, if value was more than 9 then
same was getting converted into ****. Now problem rectified.
Job Work transaction; if finished goods references picked through F11, parameter details in references
were not getting picked. Now problem rectified.
If any Party was used in a non-impact Bill Sundry in any Sales voucher and TCS was also charged,
sometimes the Party specified in Bill Sundry was being shown in TCS reports instead of main Party. Now
problem rectified.
Download and saving GSTR-2B in SQL mode, sometimes an error was being generated. Now problem
rectified.
Columnar Sales Register, totals for field <SETTLEMENT_PARTY_AMT> was not being shown. Now problem
rectified.
Stock Valuation method ‘Last Purchase’ was not picking ‘Purchase against Challan’ vouchers. Now
problem rectified.
Importing data in Mobile App in SQL mode, an error was being generated if no. of entries were more than
100 in any Account Ledger. Now problem rectified.
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Release 1.1 (07-01-2021)
Minor Changes
Basic Edition, provision made for GSTIN & HSN validation within BUSY. Will be available with an active
BLS.
If Account Op. Bal. was frozen in ‘Data Freezing’ utility, user was able to change Op. Bal. Bill-by bill
references. Now opening references will also be frozen in this scenario.
Sales voucher feeding with Item-wise discount on Absolute basis and Item consolidation also enabled;
Items were not getting consolidated properly and Item amount was getting disturbed. Now Items with
Absolute discount basis will not be considered for consolidation and a message will be shown for the
same.
Branch user login; while creating new Account and specifying some Op. Bal., same was being considered
as full Op. Bal. for that Account instead of Op. Bal. for that branch. Now if branch-wise Op. Bals. are being
maintained in other Accounts, this Op. Bal. will also be treated as branch Op. Bal. instead of full Op. Bal.
Journal Voucher, width of label showing total for Debit Amount increased slightly to take care of big
figures.
BNS notification sent in offline mode; while sending those offline notifications, connected details for
Broker/Party were not being sent and user was not able to connect with Broker/Party using BNS App.
Now connected details will be sent in offline notifications also.
While registering BUSY, it was possible to leave address as blank. Now address cannot be left as blank.
Pending alerts for a user were not being sent in background through other user login. Now it will always
be sent irrespective of user login.
Generating any statutory report, value specified in field ‘Special Characters to Remove’ was not getting
saved in background. Now it will be saved and shown next time when report is generated.
While generating E-Way Bill, sometimes the same could not be generated due to mismatch in distance
being specified between pin codes. Now provision made to leave the distance as 0 and E-Way Bill API will
automatically calculate the distance for E-Way Bill.
Bugs Removed
IBP addon was not working in Standard/Enterprise edition while barcodes were being printed through
vouchers. Now problem rectified.
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Scheme applied in a voucher; after application of scheme if any other Item was added or existing Item
was modified, scheme was getting applied again. Now problem rectified.
Sometimes QR Code for E-Invoice was not being printed on Windows Server OS. Now problem rectified.
Access2SQL data conversion; GST Reconciliation related data was not getting converted. Now problem
rectified.
What’s New in Help menu was showing release note for BUSY 18. Now problem rectified.
Printing Sales/Purchase Register with GST details, Totals b/d section was not printing value of SGST. Now
problem rectified.
‘Multi Company Trial Balance Grouped’; on pressing <ENTER>, no details were being shown. Now
problem rectified.
While saving Email/SMS configuration, sometimes an error ‘Please specify a valid Mobile No.’ was being
shown without any relevance. Now problem rectified.
Minor corrections in Account Ledger when non-impact Bill Sundry was used in voucher.
Cheque printing for PDC, same was not being shown as printed in Cheque printing utility. Now problem
rectified.
Printing Bills Receivable Party-wise, even if there was no data, label Totals was getting printed. Now
problem rectified.
Setting Masters Controls for Material Issue voucher, specified Sale Type was not getting saved. Now
problem rectified.
‘Account Monthly Summary’, graph was not being shown in bottom. Now problem rectified.
While drilling down ‘Pending Sales/Purchase Orders’ report, an error was being generated. Now problem
rectified.
Sending notification to BNS App, Party’s WhatsApp No. as specified in master was not being sent. Instead
Mobile No. was being sent as WhatsApp No. Now problem rectified.
Multiuser environment and vouchers being saved concurrently; sometimes Ref. Nos. of TCS references
were getting disturbed. Now problem rectified.
Configuring composite barcode structure, 10th field specified in structure was not getting saved. Now
problem rectified.
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Release 1.0 (30-12-2020)
Major Changes
Provision made to bind Softlock with computer’s Static IP also. Till now softlock could be bound with HDD
No. / Machine ID only. Required for hosted servers where HDD No. / Machine ID keeps on changing.
Expense vouchers through accounting vouchers, provision made to specify Party details in GST window
itself (like Separate Billing/Shipping Details in Sales vouchers). No need to create ledger accounts for all
parties from whom some GST expense has been booked.
South Asia edition sold in India will not work outside India.
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Item Barcode printing AddOn will now be part of Standard & Enterprise model. No need to buy IBP
AddOn.
Provision made for feeding of Bulk Receipts (Same like Bulk Payments). Available as Administration->Bulk
UpdationBulk Receipts.
Minor Changes
BusyBNS App (2.0), provision made to directly call the connected Party/Broker or forward the received
message (along with pdf) to connected Party/Broker through SMS/WhatsApp/Email.
Expense feeding through accounting vouchers; in case of Composition Dealer, warning messages related
to tax were being shown which was not required. Now these messages removed in case of Composition
Dealers.
TDS reporting enabled for country Ghana. Caption for TDS will be WHT.
EWay Bill/E-Invoice generation, provision made to skip the same for Un-Approved vouchers. Can be
configured in GST Configuration.
Provision made to input/modify E-Invoice IRN during data feeding. Available in Transport Details window.
Provision made to capture company’s WhatsApp No., TIN & PAN in BDEP configuration. To be used in
BusyApp & BNS App.
Provision made to post Consolidated RCM Liability on monthly basis instead of daily basis. Till now it was
available on daily basis only. Now user can choose between daily / monthly basis depending upon his
requirement. Available as TransactionsGST Misc. UtilityCheck/Post RCM Payable.
‘Account/Group Monthly Summary’, provision made to show data of upto last 3 years along with current
year data for comparison purpose.
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Transport Details window, Vehicle No. will always be captured in capital letters.
While creating new company, two new TDS Categories will be created for section 194-JA & 194-JB.
Minimum Sales Price as specified in Item master was sometimes being treated as Tax Inclusive and
sometimes as Tax Exclusive depending upon which Sales Type was being used. Now in all conditions MSP
as specified in Item master will be treated as Tax Exclusive for comparison purposes.
Voucher Replication on ‘Call Receipt’ voucher; no voucher was being replicated. Actually replication for
‘Call Receipt’ was not available. Now ‘Call Receipt’ has been removed from list of vouchers.
‘Query on Item Parameter’ report, provision made to include zero stock item combinations also.
E-Way Bill configuration, option Restrict User to change E-Way Bill Applicability was available with sub
user also. Now it will be available to Super User only.
GST Configuration, if E-Way Bill / E-Invoice was enabled and Transport Details in Local Sales/Purchase was
disabled, E-Way Bill/E-Invoice could not be generated. Now provision made that if either of these
features are enabled, Transport Details in Local Sales/Purchase cannot be disabled.
While validating GSTIN and writing back data to Account master, Type of Dealer was not getting written
back. Now it will be written back.
GSTIN Validation utility in bulk; till now all GSTINs (Validated, Not Validated, and Invalid) were being
shown in same colour. Now row colour will be changed as per the status of GSTIN.
List of Accounts with Op. Balances, if user was connected with a branch, branch balance was not being
shown. Instead full balance was being shown. Now branch balance will be shown.
Sending SMS/Notification through voucher modification, option for Digital Signature was not being asked.
Now it will be asked.
List of States being shown in TDS/TCS configuration, ‘Telangana’ was not being shown. Now it will be
shown.
Sending notification; in message being sent, name of Party was being shown instead of Party name as
specified in Separate Billing/Shipping Details. Now name as specified in Separate Billing/Shipping Details
will be shown.
Depreciation chart was showing depreciation % on the basis of decimal places specified for currency
which was creating confusion. Now it will show % in 2 decimal places only.
New field WhatsApp No. added in Account & Broker master to specify Party/Broker WhatsApp No. To be
used later on in mobile Apps.
Exporting any report to Excel, option ‘For blank columns copy last non blank value’ was copying data from
last non blank primary row which was creating confusion in certain reports. Now two options provided,
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either to copy from Last Primary Row or Last Row (Any). User can choose between these two modes
depending upon the situation.
Report Notes were not available for ‘GSTR-1 New Format’. Now made available.
Two new adjustment types added in ‘GST Adjustment Details’ window, ITC to be claimed in Next Period &
ITC claimed from Previous Period. These two adjustment types will help user to match ITC ledgers with
actual ITC claimed.
Item-wise discount applied on Item Amount or Absolute mode, changing Price in Item Grid was not
impacting the final amount as that would have disturbed the discount calculation. Now it this scenario,
Price in Item grid will not be changeable.
If Item Serial Nos. were specified in a voucher; while changing MC, a warning was being shown and Serial
No. details were getting deleted. Now no warning will be shown and Serial No. details will be retained.
Importing inventory vouchers from Excel; while specifying default Bill Sundries, decimal places for Bill
Sundry % was 2 which was creating problem in case of TCS. Now decimal places increased to 3.
Filter on any report, value for option ‘Check Sub Details’ was not being saved and was being shown as
unchecked by default. It was creating problem whenever filter was being applied. Now this value will be
saved and will be checked by default.
‘Bills Payable’ report, provision made to show Party’s GST Return Filing Frequency also.
Alerts enabled; same were getting saved in background during data entry and were being sent when main
form was kept open for around 10 minutes. Now it will be sent after every 10 seconds when main form is
kept open.
While showing List of Companies, provision made to copy grid data to clip board (to be pasted in Excel)
using CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+C key.
Bugs Removed
‘Profit & Loss Summary Detailed’, sometimes no value was being shown against a Group even if some
balance was available. Now problem rectified.
Tracking No. enabled and a voucher saved with option ‘New Tracking No.’ and then voucher modified,
tracking status was getting changed to ‘Existing Open No.’. Now problem rectified.
Features/OptionsAccounts tab, searching for string ‘Bill’ was generating error. Now problem rectified.
Import voucher through Excel and data being frozen upto a date; vouchers having date before freeze date
were also getting imported. Now problem rectified.
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‘Ratio Analysis’; on pressing <ENTER> on GP Ratio, Profit & Loss A/c was being shown for full year and not
on the date range specified for Ratio Analysis. Now problem rectified.
‘Serial No. Ageing’ report with option ‘Exclude Stock Transfer Entries’ enabled; sometimes an error was
being generated. Now problem rectified.
‘Item-wise Discount/Markup’ report was sometimes showing incorrect values. Now problem rectified.
‘Parametrised Profitability’ report, Cost Price as specified in opening references was not being picked.
Now problem rectified.
‘Query on Transactions’ with filter on Amount was generating error in printing. Now problem rectified.
‘Royalty Calculation’ report, Sales Return was getting added to Royalty amount instead of subtracting.
Now problem rectified.
If Raw Material Item was repeated in BOM, ‘Production Variance’ report was showing incorrect data.
Now problem rectified.
‘Consignment Order Summary’, custom column <VCH/BILL_DATE> was generating error. Now problem
rectified.
‘Update GST Summary’ utility, if End Date was less than the Start Date, a message was being shown
continuously and there was no way to get out of the form. Now problem rectified.
‘User Dashboard’; sometime while drilling down to voucher, blank voucher was being shown. Now
problem rectified.
Minimum Sales Price warning was not working properly for Alt. Unit. Now problem rectified.
Feeding Dr/Cr Note, Round off Amount was getting adjusted in taxable amount in GST window. Now
problem rectified.
Printing of QR Code was not working in Sales/Purchase Quotation. Now problem rectified
‘Sales Analysis One Item Group/All Parties’ was sometimes generating error in SQL mode. Now problem
rectified.
‘Pending Sales Order’ report along with Closing Stock & Deficiency in Alt. Unit, sometimes Closing Stock
was not being shown correctly. Now problem rectified.
Import Masters from Excel, BOM master was being shown in Basic Edition also. Now problem rectified.
‘Item-wise Brokerage’ report, sometimes wrong brokerage was being calculated if Alt. Unit was enabled.
Now problem rectified.
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POS data entry and Scheme enabled; scanning BCN then changing quantity manually, scheme was not
getting applied. Now problem rectified.
POS data entry; if Item’s Batch was scanned directly, a message ‘Mfg. Date cannot be greater than Expiry
date’ was being shown. Now problem rectified.
Exporting report ‘Finished Goods to be Received’, option ‘Copy last non blank value for blank columns’
was not working. Now problem rectified.
Converting data from SQL to Access, TCS references were not getting copied. Now problem rectified.
Utility ‘Save Images in Database’ to save voucher image was not working if any special character like %-/
was part of voucher no. Now problem rectified.
Scanning Item Serial No./BCN/Batch directly at Item grid and ‘Tax Inclusive’ price option enabled in Item
master, wrong Item price was being shown in Item grid. Now problem rectified.
If tax inclusive price was specified in Item master, option to apply tax on the basis of price was not
working. Now problem rectified.
Item-wise BCN maintained along with Alt. Qty. and Alt. Qty. Con. Factor being Main/Alt., while scanning
BCN or picking BCN from BCN window, sometimes Item’s Main Qty. was not being picked properly. Now
problem rectified.
Journal Register, custom column <ORG_INVOICE_NO> was generating error. Now problem rectified.
Masters dropdown filter with CTRL+F key was not working in ‘Call Management’ vouchers. Now problem
rectified.
‘Trial Balance Hierarchical’ report; on pressing F9 on first row, sometimes the decimal places from totals
column was getting removed. Now problem rectified.
Stock Transfer through BCN in POS mode and option ‘Treat MRP as Sales Price’ enabled; same was not
working properly. Now problem rectified.
POS data entry with settlement enabled, splitting of vouchers was not working properly for settlement
amounts. Now problem rectified.
‘Stock Status Columnar’ generated in Main Unit, sometimes Items with zero qty. was being shown. Now
problem rectified.
Pressing <CTRL+ALT+L> at list of companies was generating error. Now problem rectified.
‘Auto Adjust Account References’ utility was not working properly if same account was used multiple
times within a voucher. Now problem rectified.
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MRP-wise Stock Status was showing wrong opening stock. Now problem rectified.
‘Sales/Purchase Analysis’ with option to show Sales Return Qty. Only and option to show Item with Zero
Qty. disabled, some of the Items with Zero Qty. was being shown. Now problem rectified.
POS data entry, total of List Amount was showing wrong value if transaction unit was different from main
unit. Now problem rectified.
Filter Junk Characters report, line feed as specified in voucher notes were being shown as jink character.
Ow problem rectified.
While exporting ‘P&L Summary’ report, option ‘Export Zero Numeric Value as’ was not working. Now
problem rectified.
‘Merged Stock Ledger’ for multiple years; sometimes entries for one of the F.Y. was not being shown.
Now problem rectified.
Screen report grid, copy and paste of a single row was not working. Now problem rectified.
Sub-user not having rights for report export was able to export ‘List of Accounts’ configurable format.
Now problem rectified.
‘Production Memo’ printing; wrong unit of totals in Items Consumed was being printed. Now problem
rectified.
Transport Details in Sales voucher, if ‘Station’ & ‘Pin Code’ was left blank, same was getting picked
automatically from last voucher during voucher modification. Now problem rectified.
Item barcode printing, sometimes values for Con. Factor field was showing incorrect values. Now
problem rectified.
‘Merged Account Ledger’, running balances were not getting updated after deleting any row using F9.
Now problem rectified.
‘Balance Sheet’ for a branch in vertical mode was generating error. Now problem rectified.
‘Tracking No. Details Account Summary’ was not showing correct data when generated for multiple Fin.
Years. Now problem rectified.
Duplicating ‘Call Management’ vouchers, label ‘Copy of …’ was not being shown. Now problem rectified.
Applying TDS Bill Sundry in Purchase voucher; while showing help for TDS calculation, wrong TDS % was
being picked while coming out of TDS help window. Now problem rectified.
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