In Release 5.4.8, several product improvements and enhancements have been made in areas related to Accounting, Data Management, Inventory, Import/Export, e-mailing, TCS, TDS, VAT, and remote accessibility.
● When a receipt voucher was created by allocating the entire receipt amount to On account in Bill-wise Details screen, and this receipt voucher was later altered to adjust against a sales bill for a partial amount, the sales bill value was not appearing in the Amount field. The Amount field was displaying the entire value of the receipt voucher. This issue is resolved.
● When Cash Flow or Fund Flow report was exported month-wise to any format, the data in the exported file appeared only for the first month. For the remaining months, the data was blank. This issue is resolved.
● In Balance Sheet columnar view (generated from horizontal format), the negative balances of sub groups belonging to any group were displayed as positive. This issue is resolved.
● While recording contra vouchers in single or double entry mode, by using cash ledgers created under the Cash-in-Hand group, in the Denominations For window under Bank Allocations, the denomination of 2000 is now provided.
● While printing the Cash Deposit Slip, if you have enabled Print Cash Deposit Slip?, the Cash Denomination section now displays the denomination of 2000.
The denomination of 2000 is now displayed in the printed Cash Deposit Slip.
● The error Debug location error Internal error. MsgFile::Walk function status is fixed. If you are accessing Tally data from a shared network location, we urge you to:
o Disable Offline file share feature of Windows. Click here for the procedure on disabling this feature for different Windows Operating Systems.
o Include Tally data files in the exceptions list of your anti-virus software. See this page for the procedure to follow, for various antivirus.
● Multiple copies of vouchers, in PDF format, can now be printed or e-mailed. The type of copy (original, duplicate, triplicate, and so on) is displayed in the PDF version of the vouchers.
● When sales and purchase vouchers were exported to Excel by enabling the option Export for Pivot Table?, the optional vouchers were also exported. This issue is resolved.
● Tally.ERP 9 32 bit application is compatible with Windows XP SP3 and above. And Tally.ERP 9 64 bit application is compatible with Windows XP SP2 and above.
● While a POS invoice was created by enabling the options Warn on negative stock balance? and Maintain multiple Godown?, the warning message Negative Stock was displayed even when there was sufficient stock balance. This issue is resolved.
● When the Keyboard language of the company was changed from English to another language, the State field was not displayed in the Party Details screen of inventory vouchers. This issue is resolved.
● When reminder letters were printed through Multi Account Printing, the receipt/journal voucher amount (which was recorded as advance reference number) was not captured under On Account. This issue is resolved.
● While printing a Material In voucher, the user-defined values for height, width, margin on top, and margin on left were not considered. This issue is resolved.
● The option Print Foreign & Base Currency for Total? is now available in Printing Configuration of the following vouchers:
o Purchase
o Sales Order/Purchase Order
o Delivery Note/Receipt Note
o Material In/Material Out
o Job Work In Order/Job Work Out Order
● You can now print checked/verified by, and prepared by details in Purchase Invoice by enabling the options Print space for Checked/Verified by details? and Print space for Prepared by details? in Printing Configuration.
● In Remote Client, when Cost Centre Summary report was viewed in detailed mode, by navigating from Category Summary, sub-cost centre details were not displayed completely. This issue is resolved.
● The details in the Cost Centre Summary report were displayed repetitively when viewed in Remote Client if,
o Cost Centre Summary report was viewed by navigating from Category Break-up, Ledger Break-up or Group Break-up and
o Shift + Enter was pressed on any of the parent cost centres.
This issue is resolved.
● In Remote Client, Columnar Voucher Register appeared blank when the option Show Forex Transactions? was enabled. This issue is resolved.
● In Remote Client, Opening Balance of stock items did not appear when the stock items were printed/exported/e-mailed through Multi Account Printing by disabling the option Start fresh page for each Account? This issue is resolved.
● A debit note recorded against a TDS purchase transaction with both, TDS and service tax ledgers, was being listed under Uncertain Transactions in TDS Form 26Q or Form 27Q report (with the exception type Expenses/purchase returns not linked with expense/purchase transaction). This issue is resolved.
● When TDS expenses were booked against two parties, using same TDS nature of payment, and
o Transactions recorded with the first party were for an amount greater than the single bill value.
o Transactions recorded with the second party were for an amount lesser than the single bill value.
The value of transactions made with the second party were combined with transactions made with the first party, and displayed under Deduction at Normal Rate in TDS Form 26Q report.
This issue is resolved.
● A provision is made to copy the default accounting allocation configured in an item master to other stock items or groups.
● The triangulation report is enhanced to display all tax liabilities under one heading - Sales/Liability. In case of purchases from unregistered dealers, the amount of tax liability recorded in the books and liability not recorded are displayed under different rows for each tax rate. This makes it convenient to know the tax liability.
● In stock item master, when MRP was enabled and Tax Rate was provided, the Tax Rate updated last in the item master was applied for all items, when opened in alteration mode. This issue is resolved.
● On drilling down from the triangulation report to the Voucher Register, the transaction in the Voucher Register was displayed in the order in which it was recorded, and not date-wise. This issue is resolved.
● While printing sales invoice in simple format from display mode, the VAT ledger name and amount were not printed. This issue is resolved.
● In Form VAT 100, Excess Input Credit Brought Forward from the previous month was not getting printed. Hence, there was a mismatch in the value of the Total VAT/CST Payable / Refundable column of the printed triangulation report. This issue is resolved.
● When Interstate Purchases Annexure was exported to Excel template, the value captured in the Total Value column was after deducting the CST tax amount and other charges, instead of displaying the invoice value. This issue is resolved.
● When credit note was recorded with the classification Interstate Sales - Against Form C, with 2% CST, Form VAT 100 was not capturing credit note value in the column 3.1.1. This issue is resolved.
● When local sales and purchase transactions were recorded using nature of transaction Branch Transfer Outward, Consignment Transfer Outward or Branch Transfer Inward, Consignment Transfer Inward, the transactions were getting captured in Local Sales Annexure and Local Purchases Annexure.
Hence, while uploading the XML file of sales and purchase annexures to the department website, the error message Purchaser's TIN cannot be same as Seller's TIN was displayed. This issue is resolved.
Now, local sales and purchase transactions recorded using nature of transaction Branch Transfer Outward or Branch Transfer Inward are not captured in Local Sales Annexure and Local Purchases Annexure.
● While uploading the xml file of e-VAT Annexures for Interstate Sales to the department portal, the error message Validation Error: The ‘MainComm’ element has an invalid value according to its data type. was displayed.
This was occurring when the interstate sales exempt transactions had items containing decimal values (99.99) in the commodity code. The commodity code, say 99.99, was getting exported as 99..9. This issue is resolved.
● In a purchase transaction, when the party was cash or URD, and the Nature of transaction was Purchase - Tax Free, Purchase - Zero Rated or Labour Charges Paid, then the error message Invalid TIN was displayed in the purchase annexures. This issue is resolved.
● In sales annexure of VAT Form 231 and CST form, the values of local URD sales and interstate URD sales were not bifurcated. This issue is resolved.
● The assessable value of tax free interstate sales was not captured in Tax Free Sales Rs. column in Sales Annexure. It was getting captured in Taxable Value column. This issue is resolved.
● In the triangulation report, quantity details were not displayed under the Assessable Value/Qty column even when the option Enable VAT calculation on quantity? was enabled in Company VAT Details screen (F11: Feature > F3: Statutory).
This issue is resolved. Now, the quantity is displayed in F1: Detailed mode.
● The value of interstate Sales - Works Contract transaction was not getting captured in Annexure-22 and 23. This issue is resolved.
● In taxable sales invoice, the buyer’s TIN was getting printed twice. This issue is resolved.
Now, the TIN will be printed based on the configuration set in F12: Configure.
● In Annexure B, the Name and address of the purchasing dealer, TIN, and Tax invoice No. were printed in all the rows when different commodities were billed in the same invoice. This issue is resolved.
● When data of an excise enabled company was migrated from Release 4.93 to 5.x, the company's TIN was displayed in the supplier’s TIN/ Sales Tax No. column. This was occurring on drilling down from Purchase Register to purchase columnar report. This issue is resolved.
● In an excise invoice, the MRP provided in the item master was being displayed in the Description of Goods column. However, the assessable value was being calculated based on the MRP value provided while recording the transaction.
This was occurring when MRP was enabled, and the option Allow MRP modification in voucher? was enabled in the item master. This issue is resolved.
● When an excise invoice is opened in display mode and printed, the company name was not displayed above Authorised Signatory. Also, the subsequent invoices, even though opened using Enter key, were not displaying the company name when printed. This issue is resolved.
● Increase in minimum charges payable for Employer PF Administrative and Employer EDLI Administrative to Rs. 500/- and Rs. 200/- respectively, is supported.
● A new function $$IsAnyEmpty is introduced. This function evaluates the expression parameters in the sequence specified in the code. It will return True, when an expression evaluates to empty, and ignores the subsequent expressions.
● The actions Increment and Decrement now accept multiple variables.
● The collection attribute, WalkEx is enhanced to conditionally walk collections. You can apply condition to walk certain objects optionally.
● Currently, in Extract Collections, while walking the sub-objects, there is no direct way of identifying if the source object context has changed. For this purpose, a new function IsCollSrcObjChanged is provided to identify when a source object is changed during a walk.
● A new function CollSrcObj is provided to evaluate expression in the context of source object while walking the current object.
● A new attribute Source Fetch is provided to fetch methods from source object context, while walking the current object.
● The collection attribute Aggr Compute is enhanced to support the keyword Last to extract the method value from the last object.
● The collection attributes ReWalk and ReCompute are provided for re-computation in collections.
● New attributes Prefetch and Source Prefetch are provided to pre-fetch the object method and retain the values for the subsequent usage within the current context. This is possible without having to re-evaluate the expression (in the Object Method) each time it is used.
● Generating output using Productivity Suites is enhanced to take Microsoft Excel file as an input, and produce an output based on data input (tokens) provided in Input Excel file. For this, an alias - MAP, is provided for XML MAP and a new resource type MSExcel is introduced.
