Import enhancements and other new features

Another Market Package has been released today

E-conomic's Market Package no. 31 includes improved import functionality, further improvements to the Stock Management module, plus ability to use web hooks.

Small and Standard enhancements

For imports generally, the name of the import file is displayed in the import screen. This way, you are less likely to mistakenly import the wrong file.

Two new columns have been added for product imports: "Access" and "Bar code". Importing "Access" values is particularly useful if you have seasonal products: When these go out of season, they are now easy to bar, and thus hide by default. Similar to the "Mandatory department" item for Chart of accounts imports, the system reads the value of the "Access" field so that blanks, "-" and "0" are interpreted as "No", and all other values as "Yes".
In Chart of accounts imports, file types are now checked just as strictly as in other imports, which means that other file types than CSV are now rejected automatically. The resulting error messages thus make a lot more sense than when the system tried to read all files as if they were in CSV format.

The final update of import functionality concerns empty lines, which are now ignored for all imports. This reduces the need for manual editing when Excel produces lines without content during CSV file saving.
When based on customer, the Turnover statistics report now shows the customer number. This feature has been requested for quite some time.

Previously, partially overlapping accounting years would sometimes occur when overwriting an accounting year NOT starting on the first of a month with one starting on the first of a month. This issue has been fixed.

Also, when e-mailing customer ledger cards or reminders, deleted contacts are no longer included among the suggested Cc recipients.

Stock Management add-on module enhancements

Now multiple-line input is allowed in the "Text" field on supplier orders. This enables you to provide more details/instructions about the supplier order that you're creating.

If you add one or more product collections to a quotation, offer or invoice, and you have not defined a price in the relevant currency in the product collection or the product register, now an error message will appear to tell you which product/currency combination does not have a price.

Enhancements to the E-conomic API

We have now added web hooks, which enable tighter, more automatic integrations.

This means that you can set up 'event notifications' ('web hooks' is the more recognized term for this), so that when a particular event happens in E-conomic, an external system will be notified automatically.

Synchronizations benefit from this especially, as there is no more need to frequently check whether new data has been added to E-conomic.

At this time, the supported events in E-conomic are "Invoice booked" and "Journal booked". More events will be added by demand.

Furthermore, the notification URLs set up for this will support merge fields. This means that e.g. an "Invoice booked" web hook URL could be set up to include the invoice number by default.

Support for web hooks

Note: This is a relatively technical function, and requires that the external system integrated with it supports web hooks! To be safe, end-users should contact their external system integration partners for further instructions on how to set this up.

Integration partners are always very welcome to contact our technical API support at api@e-conomic.com if they have any technical questions. For complete technical information about web hooks, along with some sample code, is available on our TechTalk blog and in the API forum. If you would like, you can also learn more about web hooks at webhooks.org.