When posting a progress billing invoice from a service call with a Fixed Quote Contract, the service call is now left OPEN and the status is OPEN.

Service Invoicing users now have the ability to reopen a manually closed service call and have the option to also pull the costs back. When reopening a service call, a reversing journal entry is created and a reversing batch is created. The batch naming convention is the first 5 characters of the user name + MNLREOPEN. (For example, LESSOMNLREOPEN.)

Considerations:

• Reopening a close service call is for Service Invoicing only. You cannot reopen a service if you are using SOP Invoicing.
• Only the latest cost transactions can be called back on a manually closed service call. If a service call was manually closed, then invoiced without pulling back unbilled costs, new costs are added, and the call was manually closed again, only the cost transactions that were last manually closed can be pulled back.
• Only the most recent unbilled invoice is pulled back, regardless if a valid invoice has since been posted. The unposted invoice history record is removed and a new invoice is created in the Open Invoice table.
• When using an extended pricing matrix:
  • Unbilled fixed costs that were manually closed and not billed are recalculated when the costs are pulled back into the Transaction Work table from the Cost History table.
  • Any other overhead costs that are calculated based on other types of costs will also be calculated and added to the Transaction Work table.
  • For fixed costs (for example Trip Charge, after reopening the service call, you will need to open the Invoice window so that the rate is added back to the open call invoice.
• Verify the Divisional accounts are correct for the reopened service call.
• Billing amounts are recalculated and based on the rate on the actual day you reopen the service call. These amounts may be different than when you closed the service call. This includes changes made to extended pricing, labor rate groups, SOP inventory, unit prices, and/or travel rates after closing the service call. 
• After entering a markup percent for the subcontractor Added Cost window and haven't billed these costs, when the call is reopened, the billing amount is recalculated using the pricing matrix, not the markup percent entered in the Added Cost window.
• If you modify a billing amount (override) and the call is reopened, the pricing matrix is used to calculate the billing amount.
• When reopening a service call that has an SOP transaction, the system will first look at the customer record, then the RM setup, and then the inventory item for a price level. If the price level has not been set up and was manually selected on the SOP Order/Invoice line, the billing cannot be computed and will be $0.

Users can now reprint a posted project-level SSRS invoice for an open job from the new Project Billing Inquiry window accessed from the Project Status window. Inquiry > Job Cost > Project Status and then select the new Billing button. This feature does not support reprinting a project level invoice when the project has a billing type of Project Allocated Revenue.

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If your payroll posting is taking a significant amount of time to post due to a large transaction volume, you can now set up Microsoft Dynamic GP's Distributed Process Server to send the payroll posting process to another computer on your network. This reduces the workload of client computers and improves posting performance. The client computer used for data entry will be immediately available to perform other tasks, so you don’t have to wait to continue working while the task is completed, or work more slowly while the task is completed in the background. For information on how to set this up, see the Microsoft Dynamics GP System Administrator documentation, specifically Part 3: Distributed Process Server. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-gp/installation/systemadminguide#part-3-distributed-process-server

When setting this up for TimeTrack payroll posting, in the DPS Setup window, select Third Party and then mark the Remote checkbox to the left of Payroll: Signature Post.

We've added two new buttons to the Signature Payroll Post window - a Mark All and an Unmark All button. (Transactions > Payroll > Signature Payroll Post) This lets you quickly mark (or unmark) all batches that you want to post. The Mark/Unmark buttons will not affect batches that are already marked by other users.

The  Signature Registered Users window has been updated to require the Email Address field if the user has a manager listed in the Manager ID field. The assigned manager's user row will also require that the manager's email address be entered. A red asterisk * is displayed if the manager's email address is missing. This requirement is only in effect if the TimeTrack checkbox is marked in the Signature Registered Users window and the Require Manager Approval and  E-Mail Notification options are marked in the TimeTrack Setup Options window. (Microsoft Dynamics GP > Tools > Setup > TimeTrack > Setup Options) You can exit the Signature Registered Users Setup window without entering the required emails, however, you will be prompted to do so the next time you open the window. You can quickly find the users missing emails by using the new by Missing Emails sort option.

The Signature Registered Users window now remains open after saving the window so that you can continue with editing the window.