[7:10am AEST 21/05/2015]: Our developers have resolved the issue identified in the original release of AccountRight 2015.2. If you haven’t installed 2015.2 yet, please do so when prompted in your software, or download the installer from my.MYOB.com. If you have installed the original release, please read what you should do now.
In this AccountRight release, we’ve made it easier for you to get the help you need, when and where you need it. We’ve also fixed lots of issues, bugs and workflow problems so you can get on with your work faster and with fewer interruptions.
And for Australian businesses with employees, great news - you can now pay super contributions to self-managed super funds using AccountRight!
More help, when and where you need it
Start up AccountRight and you’ll notice a shiny new Help button on each command centre. Click it to get help about the tasks you’re working on. Or if you have a specific question about anything at all, you can get the answer you need with fewer clicks - just enter your question in the help field and press Enter.
New help pages make finding answers easier
By the way, have you seen AccountRight’s flashy new help pages? Press F1 or click the Help buttons in AccountRight, to take a look. We’ve made it easier for you to get overviews, technical help, and how-to procedures, and you can see what others are asking about the topic on the MYOB Community Forum.
These new help pages resize and reformat for different screen sizes too, so they look great on tablets and even your mobile phone - just go to help.myob.com from your computer or device to access it all.
Easily stay compliant with super payments
Plus and Premier, Australia only
SuperStream kicked in on 1 July 2014 for Australian businesses that have 20 or more employees, and these businesses have until 30 June 2015 to be SuperStream compliant. Are you ready to start paying and reporting super electronically? AccountRight has been SuperStream ready for a while now, and thousands of businesses are already saving hours of work each month by using AccountRight’s SuperStream compliant features.
In this release, in addition to APRA-regulated superannuation funds, you can now pay Self Managed Super Funds (commonly abbreviated to SMSF). This means you can use the Pay Superannuation feature to pay all of your employees’ funds, whether they use retail or self-managed funds.
No paperwork, complete authorisation control, no other portals or banking websites to log into, or reports to print and send. Pay Superannuation is the easiest way to stay compliant.
Remember, if you have 20 or more employees, you need to be compliant by 30 June 2015. So sign up for Pay Superannuation if you haven’t already. (It’s free with your AccountRight subscription!)
Lots of bug fixes and improvements
We’ve addressed many workflow and stability issues for this release. We hope we’ve been able to address something that you’ve asked us to fix. If not, let us know on the relevant MYOB Community Forum boards, or for product ideas add your suggestions to the AccountRight Idea Exchange site.
Performance
- Printing invoices with multiple lines (especially those with 10 or more) is now much faster.
- Printing a batch of pay slips takes much less time to complete.
Improvements
- The Journal Audit Security and Session Security Audit reports now display times in your local time zone, rather than UTC/GMT time.
- When entering timesheets, you can now display a calculator using the keyboard. Press + or - when entering the hours to display it. Previously the calculator was only available by right-clicking in a field.
- When a Connection Error appears, you can now click a link to learn about what might have caused the issue, and how to avoid it.
- Help pages for the Import/Export Assistant are now accessible via F1 or the Help button.
- Get more help preparing payment summaries, with easier access to the ATO’s payment summary guidelines right from the Payment Summary Assistant so you can complete the forms with less hassle.
Fixes
Mailing labels
- Multiple mailing labels will now print on each sheet of labels. Previously only one label would print per sheet.
- Mailing labels now print in alphabetical order, ordered by Company Name or Last Name.
Customer payments
- When recording a Receive Payment transaction, the payment method is no longer cleared if you select a method after allocating amounts to invoices.
- Refunds paid to customers now show on customer Activity Statements.
Purchases and supplier payments
- An issue in AccountRight 2015.1 that prevented Settle Returns and Debit transactions from being reversed, deleted or recapped has been resolved.
- In AccountRight 2015.1, if you pressed the Enter key in a service purchase, the cursor would go to the Amount column of the next line, rather than the Description column. This has been resolved.
- When viewing the Account Information > Details tab of your linked expense account for late charges, the Purchases Linked Accounts window will now appear when you click the Linked Account arrow, instead of the Sales Linked Accounts window.
User interface
- You can now select the checkbox on the last visible line of a scrolling list. Previously the list would scroll when you clicked the checkbox, instead of selecting it.
- Account fields in several windows were not filtering correctly until three or more characters were entered into the field. This affected the Account, Pay from Account, Deposit to Account, and Selected Bank Account fields in the following windows: Transfer Money, Spend Money, Receive Money, Bank Register, Prepare Electronic Payments, Print Cheques, Reconcile Accounts, Prepare Bank Deposit, Receive Payments, Activities List, Pay Bills, Prepare Electronic Payments and Print Cheques.
- Display issues in the Sales Register, Purchase Register and Print/Email... windows on computers using the 125% display setting have been resolved.
Reports
- The Invoice Transactions [Accrual] report now displays payments when you filter it by customer.
- The Category Activity Detail report now displays payments on orders.
Payroll (Australia)
- When processing multiple Pay Liabilities transactions, the Payment Date and liability date range you enter is now retained after each transaction is recorded, rather than resetting.
- Some users couldn’t resend pay slips via email using the Review Pay Slips Before Delivery window, even after deselecting the Advanced Filters > Unprinted or Unsent Pay Slips Only option. This has been resolved.
- An issue where the Standard Pay would not recalculate after updating an employee’s annual salary or hourly rate has been resolved.
- Some users were unable to print pay slips after upgrading from AccountRight v19. This has been resolved.
- An issue where employees were listed multiple times when preparing payment summaries has been resolved.
System errors
- An issue in AccountRight 2015.1 that caused the Find Transactions by Card window to crash, time out, or show a ‘Nothing to display’ message has been resolved.
- Issues causing a System.NullReference Exception error to appear when emailing pay slips or entering purchases have been resolved.
- An issue preventing AccountRight from launching has been resolved.
- An issue that caused AccountRight to crash after updating the spelling dictionary has been resolved.
API
- An issue where adding an hourly-based wage category to an employee’s standard pay via the API would apply the default hours worked per pay period to all wage categories in the standard pay has been resolved.
- An issue where the Standard Pay would not recalculate after it was updated via the API has been resolved.
- An issue where the Standard Pay would not recalculate after updating an employee’s annual salary or hourly rate via the API has been resolved.
How to get the update
[7:10am AEST 21/05/2015]: Our developers have resolved the issue identified in the original release of AccountRight 2015.2. If you haven’t installed 2015.2 yet, please do so when prompted in your software, or download the installer from my.MYOB.com. If you have installed the original release, please read what you should do now.
This update will be available to all AccountRight subscribers over the next few days.
If you’re using AccountRight 2015.1, 2014 or 2013, you'll be prompted to update when you open your company file. Or, you can download the installer by signing in to my.myob.com.
If you’re using AccountRight 2012 or AccountRight v19, visit the AccountRight Upgrades and Updates page to download the latest version.
Using Windows XP or Server 2003?
AccountRight 2015.2 comes with the latest Microsoft .NET Framework software, which isn’t compatible with Windows XP or Server 2003. This means both the PC and Server Editions of AccountRight 2015.2 won’t install on Windows XP or Server 2003. We recommend Windows 7 or later for PCs, and Windows Server 2008 SP2 or later for servers.
