Availability
On August 10th, the release was distributed to a group of early adopters -- clients who had shown an interest in one or more of the new features. If you wish to join the group of early adopters for the next release, please contact Support.
The release will be made available to all clients on September 14th.
Importing Beginning Balances
If you are new to Breeze Premier or migrating from another system, a new toolbox function has been added to allow you to Import Beginning balances. You can import the following:
Your open AR (unpaid and paid charges).
Open AP (unpaid and paid checks – to account for checks that have been processed, but have not cleared the bank yet).
Beginning general ledger balances for all general ledger accounts.
Accounts Payable:
On the Invoice Bulk Approval screen, you can now sort data in all columns in ascending or descending order.
On the Vendor screen, there is now a Vendor ID field that displays each vendor’s unique identifier or code. When creating Vendor ad hoc reports, you can include this field as a column.
There is now a Resync Bill Pay toolbox function that allows you to re-sync data for a specific bank.
When using the Job Cost functionality, you can now change the Contract, Job, and Category on the posted Job Cost Payables, by clicking on the Reclass button. Each change made is recorded and can be reviewed at any point in time by checking the activity feed.
You can now delete Unposted Journal entries.
Maintenance:
You can now create your own custom Maintenance Request ad hoc reports.
You can now create recurring Maintenance Requests for all preventive maintenance that you perform on a regular basis.
Correspondence:
You can now create custom owner correspondence-- you can add new templates on any topic.
You can now change the name of existing Notice letters and Rent Increase Letters and add new ones with custom names.
On the Owner Correspondence screen, a new filter has been added to allow you to filter by Owners who have an email on file and those who do not – this allows you to easily identify those who require physical letters.
The default verbiage used when emailing vendors' remittance letters can now be modified by going to the Company Settings screen on the Email Templates tab.
Reporting:
When running the Transaction Register Journals report, you can now filter the transactions by the General Ledger book. Note: This will only show up if custom books are set up.
The Income Statement report now allows you to review comparative data, including variance columns for the amounts and percentages. For example, you can compare this year’s numbers with last year’s numbers.
A Check Summary report has been added under accounts payable. The report lists all payments processed during a specific time frame, for a specific bank, and also displays whether they have been reconciled and if they have, when.
A Chart of Categories report has been added to allow you to review all Job Cost Categories that have been set up. (Reporting > Admin Reports).
The Unit and Notes columns can be added to all ad hoc reports that have the Data Source set to Owner.
Security:
You can now restrict users from accessing the Unit page and the Sell Unit function.
No Marketing Emails
You can now choose not to receive marketing emails from Yardi -- there is an Opt Out checkbox on the My Profile screen.
