Welcome to Eagle Release 31! The following documentation provides brief descriptions of new or enhanced functionality in Eagle Release 31. Each major product addition or enhancement is discussed briefly below. For complete information about new or enhanced functionality, refer to the corresponding links below to online help installed with your upgrade.
Note: We highly recommend that Eagle Analytics users upgrade to Compass 14.0.0.6825 or higher when upgrading to Eagle Release 31 or above.
eConnect 3 users - if you use eConnect 3 to install software on your clients, they must be on version 3.371 or higher before you can do the upgrade to Release 31. The latest version of the eConnect 3 software is available for download on the Eagle Customer Portal.
Telecommunications/National Account Enhancements
New Option 1999 "Print Customer Name on Receipt" allows you to choose whether or not to print the credit card customer name on the receipt. This option defaults to Y (Yes) and only applies to the default customer with a credit card purchase.
Purchase Order Format Report (RPO) - New Option 2056 “Fax/Email PO's that have already been faxed or emailed” set to Yes allows you to fax or email purchase orders already transmitted to the vendor. It applies to all POs with a fax and/or email address regardless if there is the Transmitted flag on the PO Header or the RPO Print Option F (Mark PO as transmitted - use when Faxing/Emailing final PO to Vendor). Setting this option to No prevents emailing or faxing transmitted POs again.
Note: This does NOT apply to a range of POs and will spool a report when no email or fax is sent.
Purchase Order Import - The Purchase Order Import Designer has a new field for UPC. You can now map the UPC field to include it in the Data imports.
Note: When importing the PO data file, the UPC field must have an associated SKU in Inventory to process the record. If the SKU for that UPC field does NOT exist in Inventory, you CANNOT import this record.
Eagle Alerts Enhancements:
New Alert "View Customer Over Credit Limit?" set to Yes provides the ability to create an alert when an A/R customer is charging over their credit limit. The alert is triggered after the clerk answers Yes to the question: "Credit Limit Exceeded. Do you want to continue?" in the POS Totals screen. This feature allows the owner/manager to monitor charges over the credit limit. Select Maintain Alert User Profiles from the Alerts Viewer to set up this alert to display for a particular user or to be sent in an email.
New Alert "ESTU Transaction was Rejected" - New E4W Option 3295 "Record "ESTU Rejected" alerts" set to Yes allows you to record an alert for failed/rejected Eagle Import Integrator for third party (ESTU) transactions. This new alert notifies you when an ESTU transaction fails to process. In Maintain Alert User Profiles you can configure the alert ESTU Transaction was Rejected to: Receive an Alert, Receive an Email and/or Receive a Text Message.
Note: For instruction on how to create alerts, refer to the Setting Up Eagle Alerts for the First Time topic.
User Viewer (VIEWUS) - This new viewer is available from the Eagle Browser. Type VIEWUS or USERS in the Launch bar, and click Enter (alternatively, you can click the System Management folder and then click User Viewer). The viewer displays all users in the system in a grid layout.
Notes:
Access to this viewer requires security bit 1170 "User Viewer".
You can lookup/filter by user and store (for multi-store customers).
Retains current security for the Add/Change/Delete functionality - refer to security bits 2, 3, 4.
New Option 2013 "Use Invoice Number in filename for emailed PDF's" set to Yes includes the document number in the filename of the emailed .pdf attachments for invoices/estimates/orders. The new format is yyyymmdd_Doc#.PDF.
Note: If emailing a group of invoices (Group By = C ) from the Document Viewer in one PDF, there is No document number inside the filename.
AceHardware.com - Eagle now transmits the Committed Quantity field to Ace. It allows you to see if you have enough stock in store to fulfill a customer's Acehardware.com order. For example, if you have an item with a quantity on hand of 2, and a committed quantity of 2, this means zero are truly available to sell. In this case, Acehardware.com displays that you don't have any items available for pickup from your store as both items are already committed.
New E4W Option 2009 "When adding Ace Rewards customer from EFM, allow checks?" - Determines whether the Ace Rewards customers newly added to Eagle through the Electronic File Maintenance (EFM) can use checks as a payment type. The default value is Y (Yes).
If this option is set to Y (Yes), the Check Allowed setting in Customer Maintenance (MCR) also displays Yes.
If this option is set to N (No), the Check Allowed setting in MCR displays No for the newly added customers.
Note: This can be overridden in MCR for that customer later.
Replacement Item Maintenance (ICM) Enhancements:
When a cancel/replace is done through Acenet ICM, the canceled/replacement item displays in Inventory Maintenance (IMU). However, if the replacement item already exists in the store, and its location is not set to 'NEW' or blank, then the replacement item will continue to be reordered since it is already carried in the store.
Unlink ICM - Eagle now gives you the ability to delete a link between two items that are linked as 'canceled/replacement' in Acenet ICM. This is useful when the link was created by mistake, or when you want to start ordering the replacement SKU without waiting for the canceled SKU’s stock to decrease. To access this functionality in Inventory Maintenance (IMU), open the Codes tab, and click the Additional Codes hyperlink.
Electronic File Maintenance (EFM) Updates of Dropship Items - When EFM runs and an item that currently does NOT have product source is updated to a dropship only item, Inventory Maintenance (IMU) will now display the item's source as "dropship only".
AceHardware.com (AH.com) Integration - Improved General Ledger (GL) creation for BOGO sales performed online.
When a AH.com sale is processed on Eagle and added to the VIEWAHCM viewer, GL entries are created using the pre-defined accounts linked in GLSET as follows:
For instore pickups, a debit for the free item's Ace cost is made to the Online Revenue account; the matching credit is made to the Inventory account.
For ship-to-store or ship-to-home, a debit for the free item's Ace cost is made to the Online Revenue account; the matching credit is made to the Online A/P account.
When a AH.com return is processed on Eagle and added to VIEWAHCM, GL entries are created as follows:
For the financial referral adjustment on a return, a debit for the free item's Ace cost is made to the Online A/P account; the matching credit is made to the online revenue account.
For the quantity-on-hand (QOH) adjustment on a return, a debit for the free item's Ace cost is made to the pre-defined Inventory account; the matching credit is made to the Online A/P account.
For the QOH adjustment when the merchandise is returned to the RSC, a debit for the free item's Ace cost is made Online A/P account, the matching credit is made to the Inventory account.
Dynamic Promotion Cleanup - Ace has a large number of Dynamic Promotions that causes some stores being unable to add them from EFM. Nightly maintenance has been changed to purge any inactive Dynamic Promotion which has an end date older than six months. This enhancement should keep the total number of Dynamic Promotions on Eagle low enough to always allow EFM to add the promotions.
New Mango Economic Order Quantity - The Acenet Retailer Dashboard has a new feature that allows stores to update the Max Stock field and have that info updated to the item in Inventory Maintenance (IMU) on Eagle. For more details on this feature, refer to the Acenet’s Ace Way of Retailing section.
Do It Best - Modify Item Promotion Viewer (MIP) has a new "Promo Cost" column which displays the Promotion Cost sent down from DIB Telecom. You can add this column by going into “Select Columns to View” from the column heading and selecting that column in the list. To keep it permanently in the grid, you should save a new view.
Note: Only for DIB Partners with Option 88 – DIB Telecom on System.
New Security Bit 1170 "User Viewer" - Allows access to the User Viewer (VIEWUS).