Improved import features and other updates

It's time for another Market Package!

The 31st Market Package from e-conomic features a number of enhancements to our import functionality, further Stock Management improvements, plus addition of web hooks.

Small/Standard improvements

Imports now display the name of the file being imported in the import window. This reduces the risk of importing the wrong file by mistake.

Product imports now display two new columns: "Bar code" and "Access". Note that, in line with e.g. the "Mandatory department" setting in Chart of accounts imports, the "Access" field for products interprets blanks, "0" and "-" as "No", and everything else as "Yes". Being able to import/update "Access" is particularly useful if your company has e.g. seasonal products – when these go out of season, you can now easily bar them (and thus, hide them by default).
Chart of accounts imports now validate file types just as strictly as other imports, and thus automatically rejects non-CSV files. This results in much more understandable error messages than when the system tries to interpret e.g. a PDF file as if it were a CSV file...

Additionally, 'empty lines' are now ignored for all imports – this reduces manual editing work when e.g. Excel 'decides' to include lines with no content when saving CSV files.
In the Turnover statistics report, when distributed by customer, the customer number is now also displayed – a frequently recurring request for quite some time.

When overwriting an accounting year NOT starting on the first of a month with one starting on the first of a month, partially overlapping accounting years no longer occur.

When e-mailing reminders or customer ledger cards, the suggested CC recipients no longer include deleted contacts.

Stock Management improvements

The "Text" field on supplier orders now allows multiple-line input. This allows for much more information/instructions about the order to be provided to the supplier.

When adding one or more product collections to a quotation, order or invoice, if a price in the relevant currency is not defined in the product collection or the product register, an error message now alerts you of the product/currency combination for which a price is missing.

API improvement

Web hooks have been added, allowing for much tighter and more automated integrations: Basically, you can set up 'event notifications' ('web hooks' is the more technically recognized term), such that when certain events happen in e-conomic, an external system may be automatically notified.

This is particularly useful for synchronizations (no more need to frequently check whether new data has been added to e-conomic), as well as e.g. factoring scenarios, i.e. when selling invoices to a third party.

Currently, supported events include "Invoice booked" and "Journal booked" – more will be coming up on demand. The notification URLs set up for this will support merge fields – so e.g. an "Invoice booked" web hook URL may be set up to automatically include the invoice number.
Note that this is obviously a somewhat technical function, and requires that the external system being integrated with supports it! Therefore, end-users should contact their integration partners for instructions on setting this up.

As always, integration partners are very welcome to contact our technical API support at api@e-conomic.com for any technical questions. Full technical information about this, including sample code, will of course be available on TechTalk and in the API forum. You can also read more about web hooks at webhooks.org.