Marlin Tyre and Mechanical Workshop Software 5.1.11 release notes.
Released: 26/2/2025
Customer Journals
BLUE-6004 – Journal Entry: Added ability to record journal entries against customer accounts.
Journal entries can now be recorded directly against customer accounts, using the new +Customer button to the top-right of the Journal Entry Details list.
This new feature simplifies the accounting process, ensuring more accurate and efficient reporting.
See the Journal Entries Inform Guide for more details.
Inventory Movement Reports
BLUE-7946 – Reporting: Added Inventory Movement Report.
A new Inventory Movement Report has been added to the Report Centre, showing inventory movements for the selected date range, due to sales, purchases, trade-ins, branch transfers and adjustments.
This new report enables clearer insights into inventory trends, making it easier to track discrepancies and optimise stock management with improved visibility and control.
See the Report Centre Inform Guide for more details.
Customer Statement Filtering
BLUE-8149 – Customer Statements: Added ability to filter out customers with credit balances.
Customers whose accounts are in credit can now be removed from the statement runs, by ticking the Exclude Statements in Credit checkbox, enabling more focused and streamlined reporting.
See the Customer Statements Inform Guide for further information.
Job Card Booking Notes
BLUE-8127 – Customer Orders: Booking notes now shown on job cards.
Booking notes are now shown in the Notes / Description section at the top of the job card along with the customer order description, providing clearer and more comprehensive visibility of order information.
This section will only be shown on the job card if booking notes or an order description have been entered on the order.
See the Job Cards Inform Guide for further information.
Reporting Category Job Cards
BLUE-8170 – Job Card: Added ability to create reporting-category-specific job cards.
As a chargeable extra, custom job cards can now be created to suit specific purposes, and assigned to customers using reporting categories.
This is primarily intended for situations where the default job card is not suitable, such as truck servicing and fleet work.
See the Reporting Category Job Cards Inform Guide for further information.
Other Enhancements
BLUE-7973 – Bank Deposits: Added ability to print EFT settlements.
BLUE-8222 – Customer Master Files: Increased character limit of customer notes.
BLUE-7915 – Customer Orders: Company banking details now printed on all customer order documents, even when the customer does not have an account.
BLUE-7568 – Customer Statements: Total balances now shown on statement documents.
BLUE-8219 – Item Master Files: Made add and edit fields for catalogue items consistent.
BLUE-6742 – Journal Entry: Sub-ledger details now shown on journal printouts.
BLUE-8220 – Megalink: Enabled electronic invoices to be matched to alternative branch names.
BLUE-8197 – Package Master Files: Added ability to import packages.
BLUE-8217 – Reporting: Increased character limit for document delivery emails.
BLUE-8125 – Reporting: Added Last Payment Date field to Customer Payments Due report.
BLUE-8218 – Reporting: Improved branch email layout to prevent email address wrapping.
BLUE-8261 – Reporting: Added company setting to offset customer statement delivery address to suit envelope windows.
Notable Fixes
BLUE-8213 – Customer/Supplier Master Files: Fixed unallocated balances for transactions with Payees/Centralised Purchasing Groups.
BLUE-8185 – Customer Orders: Fixed error when saving orders with follow-ups for a different branch.
BLUE-8176 – Customer Orders: Fixed error invoicing customer orders with follow-ups after getting a validation error.
BLUE-8172 – Customer Orders: Fixed validation messages error for 0 or null quantities when confirming customer orders.
BLUE-8128 – Customer Orders: Fixed error invoicing customer order if asset usage was recorded and the asset is removed.
BLUE-8166 – Podium Integration: Fixed unmanaged podium error for business customers without contacts.
BLUE-8227 – Reporting: Fixed year displays on finance reports when To Date is December.
BLUE-8163 – Supplier Payment: Fixed $0 transactions showing in Allocations table.
BLUE-8206 – Supplier Payment Batch: Fixed error committing Supplier Batch Payment journals with $0 payment allocations.
BLUE-8216 – Till Payments: Fixed electronic payments not opening if Till Status is null.
BLUE-8179 – Vehicle Logic Integration: Fixed Vehicle Data Import activities not automatically being marked as complete.