GP needs VAT electronic filing to be compliant with Making Tax Digital initiative
The UK Governments Making Tax Digital initiative has started to be piloted and will be in affect within a year. More info on the initiative; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/making-tax-digital/overview-of-making-tax-digital
FIx Checkbook Register
The checkbook register runs very slowly after it was moved from a regular table in report writer to a temp table. The code to populate this temp table likely needs to be optimized because it takes up to 5 minutes just to run the report and I assume customers with higher volumes will take even lon...
Group registration for VAT needed with making tax digital
With the February Hotfix we released VAT changes for making tax digital, electronic filing. There are some customers that may need Group registration for VAT. For Group VAT registration, separate legal entities are allowed to submit one consolidated return. As these are separate legal entitie...
Batch checkbook transactions
Every module in GP allows for the batching of transactions except for bank transactions. It would be very helpful, especially for companies that process hundreds if not thousands of batch transactions per month to be able to batch these transactions and print edit lists prior to posting these ...
Thank you for the suggestion, we will look into this in a future release.
Jodi Christiansen
PM, Microsoft
Dynamics GP: HAve Safepay file pull name of employee used on the payroll check, not from employee master
In the past, there were complaints about the Safepay file pulling the vendor's name from the vendor maintenance card, and not the actual name used on the check. So in GP 2016 R2, we added a new feature to now store the check name in the Payables table (PM30200.VNDCHNM) and directed Safepay to pu...
Edit List interruption causes batches to post
When a batch edit list is printed and interrupted, it can cause the batch to be put into batch recovery. When the batch is recovered, GP thinks that the batch was "posting" and finishes the posting process. This causes batches to post without workflow approval and can cause issues if the user h...
Read Year field when defaulting First/Last Day dates in Fiscal Periods Setup window
When creating a new year in the Fiscal Periods Setup window, the system assumes the next year when defaulting the First Day/Last Day dates. If a client is adding history after going live, they may need to add historical years. Suggested update: read the year field to decide w...
Thank you for your suggestion. We will consider this functionality for a future release.
Best regards.
retroactive deferral to update Originating Master fields in GL Transaction
Currently when you use the Retroactive Deferral window to add a deferral to a posted Sales or Purchasing document the Originating document number and master id do not get populated in the journal entry and the drill back does not drill to Sales or Purchasing transaction. We would like it to wo...
Thank you for your suggestion. We will look to add this to a future release.
Jodi Christiansen
PM, Microsoft
Adjustment Period (13) Fix/Function
The Adjustment Period (13) for most needs to work so it is functionally useful. The following is how I would like this to work - I believe the core code is there to work and just needs some tweaking... 1. To Create an Adjustment Period, the Start Date of the period (Last one listed) needs to be...
Thank you for your suggestion. We will consider this functionality for a future release.
Best regards.
BAS Form field 7A - GST deferred on imported goods allow to be editable
The Business Activity Statement (BAS) Report system does have a 7A field for deferred GST which becomes enabled when you import a BAS form previously exported from the Electronic Commerce Interface (ECI) software. This field is usually pre-populated by the ATO and so is only activated once a BAS ...
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We have recently released the February hotfix for GP 2018 and GP 2016 and this includes the Making Tax Digital functionality.