Version 21.0001 January 4, 2021

 

1. Ebalance Program: Expanded the input to accommodate for banks using date formats in reverse order with year first. Also added a special import the NCB bank

2. Excel Importation Program: Added to the import program the expanded parking import.

3. Avid Exchange: Fixed an issue with the Windows focus that is locking the program.

4. Expanded Parking: Added parking space to the rent bill comment line. Also, restored original Automobile Report.

5. File Searches: Added a program to search for documents using either short name or long name formats.

6. Proof of Mailing Form: Fixed an issue with Proof of Mailing program not closing the open data table.

7. Create Next Year Program: Reorganized the buttons to clarify that the Select Multi Company is merely a selector while the Create Next Year button does the processing. Also added a help button that connects to Risassist.com web help.

8. Tenant Labels: Added a filter for tenant lease expiration date.

9. Yapstone Payment Portal: Renamed button to Rent Payment.

10. Legal Actions: Added a button to access prior legal cases without having to start a new legal case.

Version 20.0085 November 25, 2020

 

1. Risdesk Program: Added a new web based Resident Portal Program for residents to log in and view a statement of billings and payments for the past two years.

2. Tenant Bills: Added an option to billing formats to include the tenant number so that tenants can access the Risdesk Program.

3. Ebalance Program: Revised to add a starting line number for csv imports.

4. Apartment List Report: Fixed an issue with the decimal point format for the number of shares exporting to Excel.

5. Excel Importation Program: Added to the import program the field Appears on Lease to the Persons table.

6. Post Office Proof of Mailing: Added the tenant lease expiration date to the filter.

Version 20.0076 October 23, 2020

 

1. Clickpay Tenant Portal: Added secure ftp (SFTP) to the RIS program. If you are currently using Clickpay, you will need to select the original FTP mode in the Clickpay interface – Clickpay Transfer Type Button.

2. Ebalance Program: Revised the program to handle all bank csv file formats. Please see detailed instructions on our website (or click the help button in RIS when you select Inject  Ebalance File).

Version 20.0071A October 1, 2020

 

1. Company Charge Codes: Revised Charge Code screen and the import, export and rectify programs to consolidate, expand and simplify the procedures.

2. Subsidy Features: Added a new feature – Apply Subsidy Increase by Renewal Wizard. A comprehensive write up can be found on our web help topic Charge Codes and Recurring Charges.

3. Adding a New Checkbook: Added a Help button to assist with adding a checkbook when the account number does not show up on the list.

4. Tenant Applied Summary Report: Fixed an issue with the header on the second page and fixed an issue with multiple year credits affecting the report.

5. Post Office Forms: Added the ability to export the form to Microsoft Word. This will simplify remote printing of these forms.

Version 20.067 September 21, 2020

 

1. Bill Code Feature Added: Added new wizard – Apply Subsidy Increase by Renewal Wizard. This feature was need where there are both positive and negative Subsidy Billings. For an example, see RIS Web Help – Charge Code Setup.

2. Charge Code Settings: Revamp the Charge Code Interface, including the import and export functions and the rectify function. See RIS Web Help – Charge Code Setup

3. Adding a Checkbook: Added help information to assist with adding a checkbook where the general ledger account number does not show up on the list.

4. New York Renewal Lease: Fixed a spacing issue on the Renewny.dot5 template.

5. Combined Reports Menu: Fixed an issue with setting filters in the combined reports menu.

6. Tenant Applied Summary Report: Fixed an issue with the header on the second page and fixed an issue with credits affecting the report.

7. Tenant Bills: Fixed an issue with credits affecting the bill in certain cases.

8. Tenant Bills Screen Preview: Added an “Output PDF” selection for previewing a single tenant bill.

Version 20.0057 August 12, 2020

 

1. RPIE Apartment Export: Added a new program to create the spreadsheet required for the RPIE apartment list upload. See instructions on our blog – RPIE Export.

2. Tenant Applied Summary Report: Redesigned the report so that all billings and credits appear correctly on one line.

3. Z Fold Rent Bill: Removed the Tenant Number for the exterior of the rent bill. Added an option to include/exclude the Tenant Number from the interior of the rent bill; the option is located in More Utilities-Bill Addressing.

Version 20.0049 July 17, 2020

1. NYC Renewal Lease: Corrected errors on the “Editable” form in the previous patch.

2. Accounts Payable: Fixed an error message when changing an invoice number on an invoice that was previously paid.

Version 20.0048 June 26, 2020

1. NYC Renewal Lease: Added missing wording in Part B of the new  Renewal Lease Form – “**No rent increase in first year (RGB Order #52).”

Version 20.0047 June 24, 2020

1.  NYC Renewal Lease & Guidelines: Added a new Renewal Percentage Category “Year to Year” to calculate the Rent Guidelines for the period October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021. Also updated the Renewal Lease Form.

2. Audit Program: Fixed an issue with the Vendor name display.

Version 20.0035 April 10, 2020

1. Checkbook Detail Report: Added a new report. This report is similar to the Checkbook Register Reports, but it sorts the data into certain categories. For more information, see our RIS Help – Checkbook Reports.

Version 20.0030 March 24, 2020

1. Plain Paper/Receipt Tenant Bill: Adjusted the position of the return address to better fit return window envelope.

2. Deposit Program Manual Apply: Fixed an issue to autofill manual apply payment when the checkbox is checked.

3. Monthly Detail & Rent Roll Columns Reports: Upgraded the Excel export to include additional fields designated in the report.

4. Budget Reports: Changed the heading of the difference percentage column from “percent difference” to “percent actual/budget.”

5. Subsidy Bill Feature: Fixed an issue with the feature “Hide from Subsidy Bill.”

6. Deposit Ticket: Added a feature to allow the deposit ticket to print the apartment and check number in addition to the other printing options.

Version 20.0024 March 13, 2020

1. Investor Checks and Reports: Added a new program to calculate and print investor checks and reports for investor activity. Made necessary changes to the Property P&L Capital Distribute and Zero to Account programs.

2. Monthly Detail Report - Rental: Added two options for the report. One option is to exclude moved out tenants with balances, and the other option is to add payment details to show the billing code to which the current month’s payment is applied.

3. Rent Receipt Program: Fixed an issue where the rent receipt was not showing manually applied amounts in some circumstances.

4. ADP Payroll Import: Added a feature to combine all tax deposits into one amount. Made changes to the interface to simplify the mapping process.

5. Late Charge Program: Added a feature to allow a maximum dollar amount to be set where there is a percentage late charge entered.

6. GSB Bill: Revised the GSB bill export to eliminate the : in the address line to comply with post office requirements.

Version 19.0081 December 31, 2019

1. Vendor Activity Report: Added a new report – Vendor Activity-All – for a list of activity for all vendors in a company. This report may be useful for workers compensation information.

2. Importing New Properties: Added user defined fields to the Excel import.

3. NYC Annual Notice: Added the new NYC Annual Notice for 2020.

4. Duplicate Check Numbers: Added a utility to prevent entering duplicate check numbers. This may be helpful for customers using banking positive pay programs. There is a setting in More Utilities – Duplicate Check Numbers.

5. ADP Payroll Import: Added an import for payroll for ADP.

6. AvidXchange: Added a message box to the Batch Processing Menu to capture user errors between customer pay and Avid pay check breakouts.

7. Inject Multiple Files: Added a feature to inject multiple files at one time into the tenant letters and other letter programs.

Version 19.0073 December 4, 2019

1. Rent Roll Columns Report: Fixed a printing error in the Rent Roll-Columns Report for certain additional fields.

2. Rent Receipt Program: Fixed a printing error in the Rent Receipt Program showing the wrong tenant name in some cases.

Version 19.0067 October 28, 2019

1. Rent Stabilization Rider: Added an additional Rent Stabilization Rider RA-LRT-19 (9/19). This additional rider is coded for use at the tenant letters area. The other Rider RA-LR1 is for use at the Tenant Application area. (NOTE: To print on letter size paper, you must be sure to set the printer settings to scale to letter size (or for some printers, set to "fit").

2. Posting Rent Issue: Fixed an issue that was reported to us during the posting rent program. Some computers are corrupting the "eapply.dbf" file. We added a processing delay factor to avoid this problem. If you get this error, you must contact tech support to repair the damage and set the delay factor. Email to techsupport@rissoft.com

3. ETPA Forms: The ETPA Rent Stabilization Addenda was added as a template letter. (Note: There are two templates – one designed for the Tenant Application program
[ET-LR1-19] and one designed for the Tenant Letters program [ET-LRT-19])

4. Rent Stabilization Rider: Added the new Rent Stabilization Rider template [RA-LRT-19] designed for the Tenant Letters Program.

5. Error Messages: Added a program to collect error messages. This will enable RIS Tech Support to better analyze error issues.

Version 19.0064 October 21, 2019

1. Report Utility: Enhanced this utility that, when enabled, will track which network station is using which report. This is especially useful when a report is locked by a crashed computer.

2. Deposits: Fixed an issue with the new feature that repeats previous apartment upon deposit input where a moved out tenant is selected. Also removed an unnecessary error message when editing a non-tenant deposit.

3. Tenant Application: Complete overhaul of Registration Info interface in the Tenant Application to comply with the new RSA Rider. Also fixed the Registered Rent import to the tenant when moving the applicant into the apartment.

Version 19.0059 October 8, 2019

1. Modify PDF Program: Restored the Modify PDF program to more places in RIS.

2. Checkbook Totals Utility: Fixed a printing issue.

3. Tenant Charges: Added a function that allows posting a tenant charge from a work order or a repair.

Version 19.0055 September 27, 2019

1. Renewal Lease Form: Added the new RTP-8 (9/19) form for Rent Stabilized Tenants.

2. Rent Stabilization Rider: Added the new Rent Stabilization Rider RA-LR1 (9/19). NOTE: To print on letter size paper, you must be sure to set the printer settings to scale to letter size (or for some printers, set to “fit”).

3. Modify PDF Program: Restored the Modify PDF program.

4. Accountant Lock Date: Fixed the Automatic Accountant Lock Date program to lock editing two months prior to the computer date.

Version 19.0051 August 29, 2019

1. Rent Receipt Program: Added a comprehensive program to generate rent receipts to comply with the new NYS law passed June 14, 2019.

2. Open Invoice Detail Report: Fixed an issue so the report can be filtered by property.

3. Deposit Options: Added an option during the tenant rent deposit program to repeat the previously entered apartment on the next deposit instead of reverting to the first apartment in the property. This simplifies adding multiple payments by the same tenant. This option is in More Utilities – Deposit Ticket Print Options.

4. Tenant Overview Window: Added a color selector for the pending legal status in the tenant overview window.

5. Income & Expense 12 months report: Added the option to select only certain months for the report.

6. Cash Flow Analysis Report: Fixed an issue with the report reporting the totals of certain asset accounts.

Version 19.0041 July 1, 2019

1. Vacancy List Report: Added prior tenant status code to the report.

2. Post Office Proof of Mailing: Added Lease Expiration Date to filters to enable printing Post Office form for lease renewals.

3. Tenant Overview Window: Changed the screen display when a legal case is pending.

4. Add a Check Program: Tab key order was changed.