Version 17.95 December 6, 2017

1. Tenant Chargeback: A new feature was added that enables a one-step process to add a charge to a tenant and simultaneously prepare a template letter (user definable) to the tenant explaining the charge back – like a tenant invoice.

2. Revised Total Number of Apartments on Reports: A field was added to the Property Menu Apartments Tab Screen for the user to enter the total number of apartments for various reports (Apartment List, Monthly Detail and Rent Roll Reports). If no number is entered, it will not appear on the reports.

3. Total Shares Report: A new sub report (optional) was added to show the total shares in a condo/coop by status code.

4. Rent Roll Columns Report: A feature was added so that you can copy the report details between properties.

5. Novel Pay Import: A feature was added to allow manually applying all payments during the import process.

6. Tenant Letters: We added a new category of letters for the Chargebacks to tenants and we added a filter so that when you add a letter you should choose the caterogy – tenant letter, legal letter or chargeback letter.

Version 17.91 November 28, 2017

1. Report – Monthly Detail: Fixed an issue with the report totals being affected by the balance due filter.

2. Report – Rent Roll Columns: Added a new report. This report allows the user to customize the rent roll report.

3. Report – Monthly Billing Summary: Changed and added Summary Reports at the end of the Rent Roll and Monthly Detail Report.

4. Check Message: Added an option to print a message “Void after 90 days” on the check. You can customize the language. This can be found in Check Setup on the Banking Codes Screen.

5. Capitalization Program: Added capitalization program for envelopes like letters. Also added “other persons that appears on leases” to the capitalization program

6. Added the total number of apartments to various reports.

7. Tenant Application: We added the Renewal Lease Type to the application. The default will be the prior tenant Renewal Lease Type or if none, the property default type.

8. Tenant Browse Button: We added the Tenant Status Code to the browse view to make various selections more meaningful – for example – renewal lease type browse.

Version 17.80 Ocober 18, 2017

1. Restricted Overpayment: Fixed an issue with removing a restricted overpayment. Now, you can edit the deposit and uncheck the restricted overpayment box.

2. Importing Parking Spaces from Excel: Fixed an issue with the import.

3. Deposit Detail and Summary Reports: Changed certain reports to be on an applied basis so that payments are shown as overpayments in the month paid instead of showing the applied to account to a future bill. This conforms all the general ledger reports with the deposit reports, cash receipts reports and checkbook register reports. 

4. Excel Import for New Properties: Added additional fields to import other persons and their information.

5. Printing Envelopes: Now tenant names and addresses on envelopes will be upper and lower case.

6. New Report: We added a new report,” 'Invoices-All-Vendor.” This lists all invoices sorted by vendor.

7. Excel Import for Checkbook Basic Information: We added an import for checkbook basic information for customers adding a large number of bank accounts (for example, changing banks for all companies).

8. Parking Report: Fixed an issue with the vacancy comment field not showing in all cases.

9. Accountant Lock Date: The accountant lock date now applies to all tenant billing.

Version 17.73 September 11, 2017

1. Balance Checkbook: The order of checks appearing in the balance checkbook screen will now be ordered numerically first and then alphabetically.

2. Security: Fixed an issue with access to reports in security.

3. Horizontal Deposit Slip: Fixed an issue with the horizontal deposit slip printing total.

Version 17.72 September 5, 2017

1. Novelpay Export: Fixed an issue with the export for Novelpay to export billing information for the month to be displayed on the Novelpay website.

2. New York Renewal Leases: Fixed an issue with Recurring Charges save program for certain large properties.

3. New Shut Down Program: We added a new feature whereby users in a multi-user environment who failed to log out can be forced out of the RIS program.

4. Excel Deposit Slip Printing: Replaced the printing program due to changes by Microsoft that interfered with the previous printing program. Also allows redirecting to any printer.

5. Advanced Parking Program: Added a new function for parking lots to manage parking lot billings and payment arrears for large parking lots.

6. Citibank Positive Pay: Added the required bank positive pay check file export for Citibank.

7. ETPA Renewal Form: We upgraded the form to include the line item for sprinkler systems.

8. Advanced Budget: We added an advanced budget excel export.

Version 17.50 May 22, 2017

1. Novelpay Export: Added a new export for Novelpay to export billing information for the month to be displayed on the Novelpay website.

2. New York Renewal Leases: Added a feature for New York renewal leases. The date to be printed on the form can now be set to any date between 90 and 150 days prior to the lease end date. The setting is located in More Utilities->NY State Rent Control.

3. Account Payable Screen: Added to the accounts payable screen list the name of the person that entered the account payable.

4. Monthly Detail Report: Added a new report – Monthly Detail – Commercial.

5. Checkbook Register Report: Added a choice to append scanned items.

 

Version 17.47 May 16, 2017

1. Microsoft Word Message: Fixed an issue where RIS would restrict new letters generated from templates in RIS if Microsoft Word is open. To turn off the message and permit new letters without closing open letters, go to More Utilities and check the box “Microsoft Word Open Bypass.”

2. Import from Novelpay: Added a feature that will import email addresses from Novelpay and flip on the “email rent bill” switch inside RIS if the tenant elects inside Novelpay to have email billing.  You must contact Novelpay to have this feature turned on for your company.

3. Import Star Credits: Added a feature that will import Star Credits (and any other credits) into RIS where the credit amount exceeds the billings.

4. Excel Import: Added a feature to allow importing additional fields into RIS after the initial tenant import for new properties. This will allow importing additional data that was not available at the beginning and that may have been available only in separate excel spreadsheets from other software programs.

5. New Report: Added a new report called Monthly Detail-Columns.

Version 17.33 April 4, 2017

1.Batch Notices Program: Fixed some issues with the Balance Due 30-60-90 program.

2. Import From Excel: The Excel importation has been enhanced with new import capabilities.

Version 17.29 March 24, 2017

Version 17.29 March 24, 2017

1.Show Checkbook Program: Fixed issue where checkbook screen shuts down after 2 minutes.

2. RIS On The Go: Fixed issue where running patch disconnects the RIS On The Go program.

Version 17.28 March 16, 2017

1. PDF Combine Issues: Certain pdf combine issues were corrected.

2. Rent Roll Supplemental Reports: Now, when using the filters, the additional reports will also be filtered.

Version 17.27 March 13, 2017

1. Apartment Pull Down Navigator: The apartment pull down navigator window was enhanced to add additional information for browsing purposes.

2. Rent Roll Supplemental Reports: Now, when using the filters, the additional reports will also be filtered.

3. Batch Report Utility: Now, when you export Batch Reports for multiple companies, you can designate where to save the resulting reports and you can add your own file names (but RIS will start the file name with the Company short name).

4. Tenant Applied Report: We corrected some report issues in certain circumstances.

Version 17.25 March 8, 2017

1. Import From Excel: The Excel importation has been rewritten and enhanced. All customers importing tenants for new properties must use the new Excel sheet and follow the instructions.

2. Import From Excel Additional: We have added an Excel importation to add data for existing tenants so that customers exporting data from other programs can import the data from separate Excel spreadsheets.  New tenants cannot be added.

Version 17.21 February 21, 2017

1. Federal 1098 Form (For Coop/Condos): Added additional fields to the excel export  and made some changes to the export data.

Version 17.18 February 9, 2017

1. Entering Check Number from Recurring Charges: Added feature that when you process a Recurring Charge from the Batch Processing Menu, you can have the program automatically use the next check number or you can enter your own check number (which helps with online payments that do not use the regular check number sequence).

Version 17.17 February 8, 2017

1. Locating Files Error Message: Fixed an issue with locating files with complex path names.

2. New Checkbook for Recurring Payments: If you add a new checkbook to a company and you need to change the checkbook assignment for the future Company Recurring Payments, we added a button “Update Checkbook” so you can change all Recurring Payments for that Company to the new checkbook. You can also change any one item in the edit screen.

3. Importing Tenant Email Addresses from Novelpay: Added a feature to import email addresses and email rent bill switch to the Novelpay payment portal import.

 

Version 17.06 January 18, 2017

1. Federal 1098 Form (For Coop/Condos): The export to Excel was rewritten to accommodate the new requirements for 2016. Printing of the forms has not been done.

Version 17.05 January 16, 2017

1. Federal 1099 Misc Forms (to Vendors): The printing program was rewritten to work through Microsoft Word as a mail-merge document. This allows our users to purchase forms from various manufacturers and make any necessary changes to the layout.

Version 16.67 December 22, 2016

1. AvidXchange Interface: RIS now interfaces with the AvidXchange program. AvidXchange is an off-site solution for accounts payable, just as lock box is an off site solution for accounts receivable.

1. Recurring Payments: We added a button, “Update Checkbook” that allows you to change the checkbook for all recurring payments for the company at one time. This is helpful when you change bank accounts.

Version 16.59 November 10, 2016

1. Add A Company: This program was redesigned to simplify the process of adding a company.

2. New Company Report Added: Report “Invoices-Open-Vendor” lists open invoices sorted by vendor, one report with details and a second report with totals.

Version 16.54 October 21, 2016

1. Novelpay Import: We added a new feature to import the tenant payment deposits into the general ledger by payment type (ACH,Credit Card, etc.).

2. Auto and Manual Apply Updated : Now, when you import tenant payments from Novelpay, Paylease or ACH, the program will prompt you to manually apply the payment to open invoices if there is a balance due for that tenant. You can turn this feature on and off before importing the payments.

Version 16.50 September 22, 2016

 

1. Email Bill Checkbox: The checkbox was added to the Tenant Application as well as the import for new properties.

2. Batch Reports: During the batch process exporting to pdf, if a report has no results, blank pages will not be exported. Also, the message, “This report has no results” will be suppressed.

3. Batch Reports – Multiple Companies: Now, when exporting to pdf files for multiple companies at the same time, you can export to separate pdf files or to one pdf file.  The selection is in the Batch Utility on the Reports Menu screen.

4. Batch Reports with attached scanned images: Now, you can set all the reports in the batch to either include or exclude the scanned images. The selection box appears when you run the report.

5. New Report: On the Company->Multi Company Vendor program, we added an additional report – Multi Company Vendor Open Invoices.

6. Deposit Message: Now, when you enter a deposit, if the tenant has a negative balance the screen will report “Credit Balance instead of “Balance Due.”

7. Naming Scanned Images: Now, when you enter a scanned image to a check or invoice, you can add additional descriptive information to the file name.

8. ACH File Naming: Now, the ACH file naming scheme has two options – manual and automated.

9. Z-Fold Rent Bills Return Address: We added an option to enter the tenant’s address as the return address on the z-fold return envelope or to leave the address blank with lines.