LendMaster Version History

v2.1 17 Mar 03

• Enterprise: Added the facility to check which users are currently using the system and send them a warning to close their work and exit LendMaster. They can also be forcefully closed down. This is also used in the backup procedure to check that everybody is logged off. Access to LendMaster is then restricted until the Backup program is closed.
• Enterprise: Added - The ability to change data sets from within LendMaster without having to close it and re-open. This option can be found under Files in the menu and needs all windows to be closed (except the main one of course). It is only available in the Enterprise module.
• Base: Added - LendMaster will now create cash book entries for Pastel cash book payments and receipts. To do this you have to pick a cash book entry type for the specific transaction in the Update Transactiontypes screen. So for capital you would pick a payment entry type in Pastel (money paid out to client) and for receipts from employers or borrowers you would chose a receipt entry type. 
• Enterprise: Added - the LendMaster backup program which handles all your back-up and restore requirements. You specify which data paths are backed up in the Edit Data Path screen. Normally all defined data paths are backed up, but you may specifically exclude a data set. You can also (optionally) back-up your Pastel data at the same time by setting the include Pastel data option in the data path. This would then backup that data as well so that the LendMaster backup set is a complete snapshot of the data at one specific time.
• Enterprise: Added - Pre-approval/Qualifier calculator. A user definable calculator that determines whether a loan applicant qualifies for the loan applied for. Only the definition part is done, the printing and application must still be done as well as the user distributable version.
• Enterpise: Added  - Applications browse and processor.

v2.0g 28 Feb 03

• Base: Changed - Transaction types, product lists and calculator data will now operate at the data set level. This means that each data set has it's own transaction types, product lists etc. The files can not be copied across as this would lead to major problems. I will track and check that these files are related to a specific data set. As a future enhancement I might make it optional per data sets (i.e. some data sets have their own and some uses the global settings) but that will have to be considered carefully.
• Base: Added - New reporting column for last payment date on a loan.

 v2.0f  27 Feb 03

• Base: Added - Tagging of loans/employers is now linked to a user. Every user has his/her own set tags for the loans and employers browses. So each user can now tag what he/she wants and use the tags for filtering on loan actions. The tags are also saved between sessions.
• Base: Added - There is a Reporting Group tab on the empoyer browse which will show the employers grouped by reporting group. This is great to generate payments together.
• Base: Added - You can now also put payments on hold for a loan. This is done in the charges list on update loans. Right click on the payment charges and you get the option of putting it on hold. The only effect this has is to stop a payment form being generated for that loan when you generate payments from the Browse Employers screen.
• Base: Added - you can now add a payment to a loan from the Update Loans screen (from the transaction list). This adds a payment transaction for this loan only. Please note that this payment will be confirmed when you say OK to close the Update Loans screen (in other words it is confirmed and cannot be undone). The generate single payment is still there but it results in an unconfirmed payment which you must still confirm. You would use the first option (adding a payment form the update loans screen) when you have confirmation of the payment already. The second option (to generate a single payment) would be used where you are expecting the payment but it has not been confirmed yet.
• Base: Added - Switch for Loan Actions called "Ignore static columns for filtering". Normally if you selected any column then the line will print if there is a value in the column. This means if you select a static column (like balance or ID which allways has a value) you get all the loans based on the criteria. If you also ticked insurance you don't only get loans for which there are insurance but all of them because you ticked the static column as well. The new switch ignores the static column when determining if a loan should print. With this switch on you get only the loans for which one of the transaction type columns reyurned a value.
• Base: Added - New feature: an Employer reporting group. This enables you to print any of the loan action reports limited to a reporting group that you enter for the employer. This means that many employers can be grouped together when printing a report. This has also been implemented in the employer toggle on the Browse Employer screen, which makes it very easy to generate a bunch of payments for many employers with the the same reporting group. You select the reporting groups you want included in the report from a list on the columns tab of the Loan Actions screen.
• Base: Added - Age analysis from loan actions now has an input screen where you can enter a date for which it must run (yes, back dated age analysis) as well as the balance sign options.
• Base: Added - A name can be given to a report without having to save it. The user enters the name in the field and it will display on the report. This will also act as the name of the report when saved.
• Base: Added - Totals to the active & inactive lists on the employer browse. You can now see the current total balance for the employer or the total of capital for all inactive/paid-up loans.
• Base: Added - Insert and change loans buttons to active list on employers browse. It is now possible to create a new loan or edit an existing loan from the mployers browse.
• Base: Changed - The way in which arrear months are calculated. A extra month is only counted if the extra portion of a repayment exceeds 10% (or the test tolerance).
• Base: Changed - The layout and calculation of the Loan Confirmation report. It now uses the charges file and handles fixed and variable interest loans.
• Base: Changed the look of the transaction type browse in Process>Options. You can now filter the browse by clicking on tabs and additional info regarding the highlighted transaction type shows on the right.
• Base: Changed - Rollover of loan no longer adds charges this is handled in update loans.
• Base: Changed - The way that some of the filter values are calculated in Loan Actions. Also dates will default to the end of the month if the ofrst date is entered.
• Base: Fixed - Paid up and inactive loans' arrears calculations are not attempted.
• Base: Fixed - The Loan Actions filter now correctly distinguishes between Roll-Over loans and secondary loans.
• Base: Fixed - some minor conversion issues.
• Base: Fixed - Update loan, confirmation of added transactions now confirms all added transactions as expected.
• Base: Fixed - Update Payment adding a loan in the update loan screen (with the drop down in lower left corner) now creates the transaction accurately.
• Base: Fixed - A zero value posting is no longer generated for a zero commission payment. If there is no commission only the payment is sent to Pastel.
• Base: Fixed - The transaction date of a payment now correctly reflects the date received (as entered in the Update Payment screen) an not the expected payment date.
• Enterprise: Added new 2 transaction frequencies: fixed monthly (charge an amount as long as the loan is active) and annual fixed (charge an annual amount as long as the loan is active). The annual fixed frequency may be capitalised in the first year as well.
• Enterprise: Added import column for user supplied product codes
• Enterprise: Added calculation tolerance on calculation instalment and tax for import testing. A product line will only be rejected if the instalment or the tax differs by more than the setup option. This works like ratio so a .01 tolerance allows a 1% difference.
• Enterprise: Added - Product code filters and columns to loan actions & report.
• Enterprise: Changed the wording on the populate button in update loans. If there are charges the this button reads clear meaning that pressing this button will clear the existing charges.
• Enterprise: Fixed - you cannot delete capital or interest transaction from the product charges list in UpdateProductGroup any longer.
  

v2.0e1 10 Feb 03

• Base: Fixed - bug in Pastel does not allow the right hand bracket ')' to be used in a discription. Transactions will not post.
• Base: Fixed product code disable/hide if not enterprise version
  

v2.0e1 10 Feb 03

• Base: Fixed - bug in Pastel does not allow the right hand bracket ')' to be used in a discription. Transactions will not post.
• Base: Fixed product code disable/hide if not enterprise version

v2.0e 07 Feb 03

• Base: Fixed - Bug that stopped population of some transaction types in loans & product lists.
• Enterprise: Added - Using a product code now prevents charges from being changed when creating a loan.
• Enterprise: Added - Product code and product group description to charges tab in browse loans.
• Enterprise: Added - A recalc payment button that will force a recalculation of the loan's repayment amount (and associated totals). This is only available after a loan has been confirmed.
• Base: Fixed - Settle of loan charges (from button on update loans). A separate tax transaction is no longer generated (it is handled as part of the transaction).
• Base: Fixed - Bug that was stopping delete of existing report definitions.
• Base: Added - Set-up override required to stop you from changing a transaction type's posting frequency.
• Base: Added - A facility to selectively delete transactions generated by the settle button. This means you decide which transactions types you want to "settle". (Can be used where a transaction type's posting frequency have been changed from monthly spread to initial charge).
• Enterprise: Fixed  - Bug that occasionaly stopped a loan from being created using a product code.
• Base: Fix - Bug that sometimes did not add a payment charge when when using a product code.
• Base: Fix - Arrears calculation is no longer done on unconfirmed loans.
• Pastel: Fix - Changing the "dont use accounting" checkbox in options now correctly disbales/enables the Pastel options tab.
• Enterprise: Added variable interest loans to product list.
• Enterprise: Added - Number of days in the product group file will be used to caclulate the interim interest number of days. If this field is blank then the period between the first pay date and the end of that month is used.

v2.0d 31/01/2003

• Base: Added facilty to delete log files from the view log file screen. Files are deleted on exit.
• Base: Added log option to log when some sessions has started or ended only
• Base: Added log file for generate transactions.
• Base: Fixed error in generate monthly transactions that tested for the wrong date so some transactions did not generate.
• Base: now allows interim interest to be used on fixed interest loans as an initial charge
• Base: Fixed transaction filter on Loan Browse
• Base: Fixed age analysis: now ignores unconfirmed payments
• Enterprise: Added product list report - print from product group browse in enterprsie options.
• Enterprise: Scrolling through product list to select, changes the column headers for the highlighted product's transaction types.
• Enterprise: Scrolling through product list now shows the name of the product group of the highlighted product..
• Enterprise: Interest calculator (update loans) now tests and warns if user does not work with a full month.
• Enterprise: Fixed interest re-calculator to exclude only interest in the recalculation period. Other "old" interest is regared as correct and part of the calculation opening balance.
• Enterprise: Added Product List functionality (fixed loans only for now) with import from CSV.
• Enterprise &Base: Product list necessitated a change to auto-population of Loan charges.

v2.0c 15/01/2003

• Base: Update Loan screen - Changed layout (small bits)
• All: Fixed some spelling errors

v2.0b 11/12/2002

• Base: Fixed problem with LoanActions loan filter truncation at 20 chars.
• Base: First implementation of excel export of reports - only on LoanReport & EmployerStatement

v2.0a 4/12/2002

• Installer: Created program only install with check for existing install
• Pastel: Changed file layouts to accommodate excentricities with set-up files
• Pastel: Changed way in which Pastel information is set-up
• Pastel: Defaults to tax type 1 if 0
• Base: Added printing of commissions on employer statement & posting printouts
• Base: Added user configuration to determine final date (month end)
• Base: Added user configuration for payment due date calculation (new columns)

v2.0 1/12/2002

First release of prgram that was born out of MLA v1.x - hence the 2.0 version number. Primary changes to MLA to create LendMaster:

• Modularised components: Base, Pastel & Enterprise (all brand new features)
• Base: Changed basic model from payment to transactional model
• Base: Added transactions & charges to loan methodology
• Base: Added user configuration of transaction types
• Base: Added new monthly run functionality
• Base: Changed payment generation with fancy tagging and date changes etc
• Base: Changed GUI of loan & employer browses to have multiple information tabs
• Base: Layouts of some standard reports
• Base: Added Loan Actions report generator
• Base: Added saving of loan report definitions
• Base: Added loan browse filtering according to loan action filter
• Base: Changed user security interface, including editing of logon parameters
• Base: Expanded user configurable options
• Base: Rewrote roll-overs and added loan cloning
• Base: Added ability to "settle" loan (charge all un-charged transactions)
• Base: Added basic help facility & expanded onscreen help tips
• Base: Added some basic logging (optional) and ability to view logs
• Base: Wrote comprhensive data coinversion routine from MLA
• Base: Added browses for old data still kep on from MLA
• Base: Added continuous check of instalment (user can switch this off)
• Base: Added data integrity scanning/fixing
• Pastel: Method of interfacing with toolkit
• Pastel: Added user configuration of Pastel options per transaction type
• Pastel: Moved all Pastel posting to Browse Posting screen
• Pastel: Re-wrote posting model to allow for extensive recovery.
• Pastel: Added support for Pastel v6 & SDK
• Enterprise: Added variable rate loans
• Enterprise: Added interest rate administration with cascade of rate changes
• Enterprise: Added interest calulation on daily balance & capitlaised monthly
• Enterprise: Added interest calculator & adjustment creator in UpdateLoans
• Enterprise: Added user flag capabilities (define names, update & filter)