GTX 5.8.1

  • Updated on Aug 26, 2025
  • Published on Aug 26, 2025
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Marlin GTX 5.8.1 release notes.
Released: 26/8/2025

Revise time and attendance quick ref

Feature Highlights

Time & Attendance – Phase 2

GTX-29083 - Time and Attendance: Implemented Time & Attendance Phase 2 enhancements.

A number of improvements have been introduced to Time & Attendance functionality, streamlining performance and enabling integration with Marlin HR payroll.

and the Marlin mobile app.

These new enhancements enable users to:

  • Clock-on/off and record breaks remotely, using the Marlin mobile app
  • Integrate attendance records with marlin HR payroll
  • Send help requests to review and revise attendance events if they make a mistake
  • Edit and cancel attendance events, if necessary
  • Capture daily snapshots of staff attendance and schedules
  • Add notes to attendance events and summary records, which are visible in HR
  • Produce Head Office Attendance Summary Reports in HR

Smart reminders have also been implemented, prompting users to perform tasks like sending booking reminders and perform the End of Day close-off before clocking off.

See the Phase 2 Time & Attendance Inform Guides for more information.

GTX Mobile App
MBM-598 - Mobile App: Added GTX mobile app integration.

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GTX now integrates with the Marlin mobile app mobile app, enabling users to:

  • View and update bookings from within the workshop
  • Remotely record time & attendance events
  • Perform remote stocktakes, using barcode scanning and real-time inventory updates

See the Marlin Inform Guides for further information.

Updated documentation in progress.

Mobile Stocktakes
MBM-637 - Mobile App: Added Marlin mobile stocktake integration.

GTX stocktakes can now be performed and managed remotely, using the Marlin mobile app.

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This integration streamlines the stocktake process by enabling real-time inventory syncing, barcode scanning and mobile product entry.

Users can enter or update product counts, add unknown items, filter by count status and review discrepancies that have been marked for recount directly from the app.

See the Mobile Stocktakes Inform Guide for further information.

Updated documentation in progress.

Customer Receipt and Deposit Surcharges

GTX now allows surcharges to be automatically calculated and applied to customer receipts (account payments) and deposits.

Once configured, surcharges are automatically calculated and applied when the relevant payment type is selected, ensuring seamless surcharge handling across multiple transaction types.

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See the Surcharges Inform Guide for further details.

End of Year Enhancements

GTX-29320 – End of Year: Improved End of Year speed and archiving.

The End of Year close-off speed has been greatly improved, making EOFY processing faster and more efficient.

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Once the close-off is complete, the Previous Year Data Archiver now also launches in the background, allowing trading to continue while previous years' data sets are installed.

See the End of Financial Year Inform Guide for more information.

Other Enhancements

GTX-30318 – AutoTracker: Added email column to Business Planner search results.
GTX-31062 – AutoTracker: Improved AutoTracker information editing.
GTX-30313 – Business Planner: Enabled company names to be displayed in resource planner tab.
GTX-30342 – Business Planner: Updated resource list right click options to match task list.
GTX-30434 – Business Planner: Added option to disable the ability to add or modify bookings from the task list.
GTX-30524 – Business Planner: The message and recipient mobile number are now shown when right-clicking to send a deposit request.
GTX-30551 – Business Planner: Booking dates can now be changed when a booking has a parked invoice.
GTX-30600 – Business Planner: In resource planner hint, Enabled for time out settings such as All Day.
GTX-31259 – Business Planner: Added option to show work order details from planner inbox.
GTX-31258 – Business Planner / Customer Deposit Entry: Add SMS standard message substitutions for invoice heading and suburb.
GTX-31175 – Business Planner / SMS Manager: Enabled SMS standard messages to be maintained by a head office.
GTX-30322 – Consignment Stock Out: Enabled CSO Delivery/Return to select an inactive product if there is qty on hand.
GTX-30367 – Consignment Stock Out: Consignment Out data entry can now import transaction pricing.
GTX-30096 – Dispatch: Enabled configuration of work order columns.
GTX-31265 – Journal Entry: Increased Journal Entry import limit from 800 to 5000 lines.
GTX-29999 – Invoice Entry: Lines imported from Repco now include service and vehicle header remarks.
GTX-30678 – Invoice Entry: Repco Navigator quote prices are now always tax-inclusive.
GTX-30705 – Invoice Entry: Improved Vehicle Index searching.
GTX-31235 – Manage Customers: Enabled different dealer prices to be shown in the Trade Portal, instead of the invoice prices shown to the payer.
GTX-30838 – Printing, Reports: Added job headings and subtotals to work orders and invoices.
GTX-28350 – Text2Pay: GTX now uses shortened URL formats to reduce SMS character count and associated costs.
GTX-30622 – Stock Transfer: Added scrolling to show Branch Stock quantities.
GTX-30792 – Utilities: Added Ctrl+F search to Specific Cost Item Maintenance.

Notable Fixes

GTX-30325 – AutoTracker: Fixed handling of dashes in Model during Planner search.
GTX-30675 – Business Planner: Fixed buttons greying out after closing insufficient stock warning.
GTX-28660 – Business Planner: Fixed issue with licence plates being incorrectly added to vehicle fields when adding new vehicles.
GTX-29269 – Inbox Processor: Fixed promotion remark codes not being added to web orders.
GTX-28940 – Invoice Entry: Invoice Entry now correctly validates quantity when promotions are manually added after remarks.
GTX-31020 – Invoice Entry: Fixed issue with product-scope promotions preventing non-stocked items from being used.
GTX-30795 – Invoice Entry: Fixed red highlighting of unmatched external products on work orders and invoices.
GTX-30636 – Invoice Entry: Fixed unresponsiveness when tabbing after removing add-on package parent lines.
GTX-30540 – Invoice Entry: Fixed delivery addresses not clearing.
GTX-30452 – Invoice Entry: Fixed add-on package totals.
GTX-30185 – Invoice Entry: Prevented sales into negative stock when not enabled.
GTX-30920 – Manage Products: Fixed issue preventing field edits when adding products.
GTX-31109 – Receipt Entry: Fixed issue with refunding Txt2Pay deposits.
GTX-30525 – Reports: Fixed GL reports not printing company names.
GTX-30471 – SMS Messaging: Fixed SMS macros (e.g. %N, %R) not being substituted in invoice link messages.
GTX-30611 – Stock Transfer: Fixed finalise and save issue.
GTX-30621 – Stock Transfer: Fixed issue with tabbing to the next line after changing quantities.
GTX-30935 – Work Order Enquiry: In work order enquiry you cant reopen a cancelled work order.

GTX 5.8.1 – Patch 1

Released: 26/8/25

GTX-31467 – Attendance Entry: Changed "Request Help" to "Request Adjustment".
GTX-31468 – Time and Attendance: Added Attendance Summary enquiry.

Attendance Enquiry?