The latest version of AvonCRM is 1.6.4. You can download this version by visiting the download page.

Version 1.6.4 - 9th November 2008

• New or Enhanced Features
  • Finding Orders: The default option in the Find Order tab was changed to find orders by product in all campaigns since this is the most common reason to use this tab.
  • A new minimum over payment credit amount option has been added to the configuration properties. Over payments that are less than this amount will not get prompted for.
• Bug Fixes
  • The Unexpected Error when printing individual order packing slips has been fixed.
  • The Unexpected Error when creating tasks in future campaigns has been fixed
  • The "Campaign has been finalised" error message when attempting to add orders to past campaigns has been fixed.
  • Order Packaging Slips have been fixed to correctly display totals for orders in credit.
  • Automatic Free gift were being charged after reconcile was finalised. This has been fixed.

Version 1.6.3 - 3rd November 2008

• Bug Fixes
  • The Unexpected Error when changing the campaign number on a product item in an order has been fixed.

Version 1.6.2 - 1st November 2008

• New or Enhanced Features
  • Customer Maintenance Screen: Added a new Save and Clear button when adding a new customer which makes entering multiple customers a breeze.
  • Customer Maintenance Screen: Added a new Save and Order button when adding a new customer to save you time when you need create a new customer and order.
  • Campaign Income Report: The new Campaign Income report provides an overview of your finances in each campaign
  • Customer Brochure Report: A new option to group by sales group has been added making it easier to see which group your customers belong to
  • Brochure Delivery Report: This new report makes planning your brochure deliveries a snap.
  • Financial Statement Report: This report has been enhanced to include more financial details to make your accountant happy.
  • Customer Sorting: Customers can be sorted within Sales Groups allowing you to customise how they are printed and displayed.
  • Customer Sorting: The customer sort screen now shows the entire customer address provide more details for you to determine the sorting order.
  • Customer Brochures: You can now drop off or pickup all brochures to or from all customers in one easy step.
  • Customer List Report: This report has been improved to include the customers full address and preferred contact details. It also has some extra sorting and filtering options.
  • New Credits and Refunds Report: This new report provides extensive details about all of your credits and refunds.
  • Order Maintenance: The Apply Customer credit message now contains the amount of credit that the customer has outstanding giving you more information to decide.
  • Column Sorting: Some of the display tables now support custom sorting. Click on a table column header to sort the table by that column.
  • Customer Income Report: This report has a new column that contains the average order value for each customer. Great for working out who your big customers are.
  • Sales Income Report: This is a new report that shows how much of your income is distributed over the various different sales groups.
  • Order Package Slips: New Sort by Product code option. This option allows you to sort the items on each order by product code.
  • Order Package Slips: A new column to display the product campaign number has been added.
  • Allocated Inventory Report: This new report can be used to determine which products in your inventory have been reserved for sale to your customers.
  • Reply To Email Address: A new configuration property has been added that allows you to configure the reply to address for emails sent by AvonCRM
  • Customer display name: A new setting has been added to allow you to chose how you would like to display your customers.
  • Quickview: A new setting has been added that allows you to customise the sort order of the quickview.
  • Campaign Order Items Report: This report was renamed to Statement Tally Sheet since this name better reflects its purpose. Also a new statement filter option was added.
  • Statement Status: A new column that displays the order cost has been added to the order list on this screen. This provides an easy way to determine the cost of an order.
  • Task List Report: This new report gives you an overview of all of your tasks.
  • Customer and Order Management: A new option to find customers by phone number making easier to see who that missed call was from.
  • Customer and Order Management: Two new columns to display the customer work and mobile numbers have been added to this screen.
  • Order Packaging Slips: A new toolbar action has been created to simplify printing single orders in the order packaging slips.
• Bug Fixes
  • Customer Activity Report: The Empty Report error message when running this report prior to your starting campaign has been fixed.
  • Backup: The date of Last Backup is now getting saved and displayed correctly correctly.
  • Inventory and Supplies Order: Inventory Stock was removed from the status list since it does not makes sense to order supplies or inventory items from your inventory.
  • Return Goods Form: Multi Product Specials now get printed correctly on the Return Goods Form
  • Overpayments: Overpayment message no longer appears in the Order Maintenance Screen for orders that have been rounded up.
  • Customer Activity Report: The customer activity has been fixed export to XLS format Correctly.
  • Order Packaging Slips: The 'null' word after the suburb in the customer address has been removed
  • Order Packaging Slips: This report has been fixed to export to XLS format correctly
  • Order Upload: A new warning prompt about multiple logged in windows will now appear on uploads. This is due to a problem with the website potentially dropping order information.
  • Order Maintenance: The Unexpected Error when the payment date is blank will no longer occur

Version 1.6.1 - 6th July 2008

• New or Enhanced Features
  • Improved support for unexpected problems by providing an option to send a diagnostic email to support.
  • Brochure Report: You can now print, exclude or highlight customers that have an order.
  • Customer Activity Report: Option has been added to print customers that received a brochure but did not place an order.
  • AvonCRM now has the ability to remind you about Customer Birthdays.
  • Brochures: Multiple brochure drop offs/pick ups can now be done in one step.
  • Reconcile Screen: Added support to short a "Pay for Advance" item. When you do this the payment for the advance will be deferred to the next statement.
  • Reconcile Screen: Added a confirmation prompt when you finalise a statement. You can optionally disable this prompt if it becomes annoying.
  • Email Setup: Easily pick your email provider from a list of known suppliers.
  • New Feature to track Credits and Refunds.
  • Customer Page: New field added to store preferred delivery times (prints out on Customer Deliveries Report)
  • New feature to track a list of TODO tasks for a campaign, reminders appear for overdue tasks in Quickview. Also prints out on Customer Deliveries Report.
  • Added the ability to turn off auto statement allocation to allow orders to be added to statements manually.
  • Statement List: New table columns that display the total amounts for Core, Well being and Inventory.
  • Added new financial figure to Campaign List screen.
  • Added a close button to the Reconcile Query Customers screen.
  • Added a browse button to the load license dialog to simply license loading.
  • Added support to CC customer emails to a specified address for storage.
  • Customer Screen: Added a new field to store the Customer Spouse name.
  • Added the ability to select multiple sales groups in the quickview.
  • Added option to return all items with one click for orders that are no longer required.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed brochure status not being displayed in quickview for some customers with no order.
  • Fixed Customers not being sorted based on sort order in Customer Brochures screen.
  • Fixed backup reminders not appearing when using window close button to exit.
  • Increased the length of the substitution line on Order Packaging Slips.
  • Fixed download of campaign database updates that overwrite an existing campaign to take effect without requiring a restart.
  • Fixed Order Packaging Slips report to sort by customer sort order.
  • Fixed column widths cutting titles in Campaign Orders screen.
  • Fixed Order Comments to have a scrollbar when text exceeds the size of the field.
  • Fixed it so the customers title (i.e. Mrs, Miss etc..) can be switched back to nothing (blank).

Version 1.5.3 - 5th February 2008

• New or Enhanced Features
  • Added support to Cancel and Upload Products Outstanding.
  • Improved the procedure for importing brochure items in to inventory.
  • Added new "Customer Activity" report.
  • Added new "Return Goods Form" report.
  • Added support to be able to flag Avon orders sent by phone, fax or mail as being Ordered.
  • Added new filter to "Only show customers with an order" in the Campaign Quickview.
  • Added new option to Print Shorted items as Backorders on order packaging slips and emails.
  • Added new Customer Sorting screen to allow easy sorting of customers in reports.
  • Added dialog prompt for campaign downloads to allow any campaign to be easily downloaded.
  • Removed "Brchre Price" column for order maintenance screen and changed it to a single price.
  • Added a Skip button to the brochure delivery dialog to easily skip when no brochures a provided to customers.
  • Added the ability to view all statements in a campaign in the quickview.
  • Added a Balance Owing column to Campaign Order Payments and Customer Order Management screens.
  • Added support to return and/or replace "Advance Delivery" items.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed Back Orders going into Statement 3 for some campaigns.
  • Fixed "Invalid product/campaign combination" error message appearing on existing items for Inventory and Supply orders.
  • Fixed zero cost being set on all Inventory and Supplies order items.
  • Fixed products outstanding sometimes displaying an empty list.
  • Fixed ordered brochures from having a $0.00 price.
  • Fixed Campaign Order Items report to not chop of items on some printers.
  • Fixed paragraphs in order comments not displaying correctly in Emails.
  • Fixed order returns tab prompting you to select a product twice.
  • Fixed Multi product special dialog to ignore blank lines.
  • When substitution returns are cancelled they now revert back to substitutions correctly.

Version 1.5.2 - 20th December 2007

• New or Enhanced Features
  • Added support to customise the order emails sent to a customer.
  • Added support to backup and recover a database.
  • Added option to default the item campaign number being used in order entry screens.
  • Added support for shorted replacements.
  • Added support to override the brochure price with a customer specific price.
  • Added a confirmation prompt to the mark all orders as paid option in the payments screen.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed Critical Error when Deleting an order that contains Inventory Stock.
  • Fixed Campaign Deliveries Report being chopped on some printers.
  • Fixed upload of early orders for future campaigns.
  • Fixed Customer Payments report to calculate correct balances.
  • Fixed inactive customers displaying in filter list for Campaign Deliveries and Order Packaging Slip reports.
  • Fixed Find Order screen to find product codes that are part of a multi product special.
  • Fixed Campaign Order Items report to correctly include multi product specials in the tally.
  • Fixed Advance Deliveries getting a price of $0.00 in future campaigns.
  • Fixed shorted products not being saved when "Save changes only" is selected in Delivery Reconciliation screen.
  • Fixed not being able to returns inventory stock items.

Version 1.5.1 - 14th November 2007

• New or Enhanced Features
  • Added new Order Status "Delivered Unpaid" and modified order life cycle to allow order to be delivered before it has been paid for.
  • Added Amount owing for order to the campaign deliveries report.
  • Added support to check for software updates and prompt to download them.
  • Added new configuration parameter to customise the number of campaigns to use for averages.
  • Added support to customise the personal details printed on order packaging slips.
  • Added support to to print one order per page on order packaging slips.
  • Added a searchable Help Guide with contents and index.
  • Added support for order comments.
  • Added code to front of returned item reason description eg:03-Wrong size - too big.
  • Added the returned from campaign to the returned items list in the statement status screen.
  • Added support to import database updates from a local folder.
  • Added support for Automatically ordered free gifts.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed brochure delivery dialog box to download campaign brochures (if they have not already been downloaded).
  • Removed Save button on customer brochures screen when it's not applicable (prevents confusion).
  • Removed processing charge for orders on which all products have been discontinued.
  • Left Justify message on order packaging slips.
  • Fixed the quickview to sort by customer sort order.
  • Fixed Customer Income Report to sort from highest to lowest and added alternate row shading.
  • When entering products codes for specials if the product is known then cursor goes straight to the quantity.

Version 1.4.1 - 27th October 2007

• New or Enhanced Features
  • Added new Double Demo profit level.
  • Added support for customised sorting of customers by including a sort number on the customer page.
  • Added a statement filter to the campaign quickview.
  • Added support to create inventory when entering an order. Selecting Inventory Stock for product not in inventory will cause a prompt to appear.
  • Added a new "Brochure collection not required" flag to the customer and database properties.
  • Added the Campaign number and year to order packaging slips.
  • Added support to include a custom message on order packaging slips.
  • Added new Preferred Contact Method to customers (Defaults to Home Phone).
  • Moved the quantity column to before the description column on the order packaging slips.
  • Added support to customise the discontinued, back ordered and substitution text that appears on the order packaging slips.
  • Significantly Enhanced Customer Delivery report (too many changes to list).
  • Added support to send emails to your customers using your configured email program directly from AvonCRM.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed Quickview Add New Order to use selected campaign instead of current campaign.
  • Fixed Quickview not clearing table cells for campaigns that do not yet contain orders or brochures.
  • Campaign Averages are not correct when customer has not been available for less then 3 campaigns.
  • Fixed Donation Amount getting cleared on Statement Reconcile when product price changes are made.
  • Fixed item price being set to $0.00 on backordered items in OrderMaintenance.
  • Fixed campaign column in find order tab to display campaign year correctly.
  • Added ACT to the list of states.

Version 1.3.1 - 15th October 2007

• New or Enhanced Features
  • Modified Order Entry to use default campaign No/Year from previous row.
  • Modified Order entry to skip product lines where there is no product code, description and quantity improving keyboard support.
  • Added checkbox to filter empty statements in the Avon Statement Status and Statistics screen.
  • Added ability to delete empty statements to the Avon Statement Status and Statistics screen.
  • Added ability to change the campaign in the Brochure delivery dialog.
  • Added brochures from previous campaign in the Brochure delivery dialog.
  • Modified Campaign entry on all screens to support changing campaign using the mouse.
  • Added support to delete Inventory and Supply orders that have not yet been sent to Avon.
  • The default data directory has been moved to Docs and Settings to ensure it is backed up in a normal windows backup.
  • Added new Campaign Quickview tab as the default tab.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed Order Entry screen to not create a blank line at then end of the order entering process. It will only create a new line if you hit tab after entering a qty.
  • Modified Database properties dialog to present errors in banner area to prevent error balloon not disappearing.
  • Fix problem on windows 2000 not displaying text on some buttons.
  • Fix problem on windows 2000 with tooltips not being closed. Left clicking anywhere in the tooltip now closes it on windows 2000.
  • Fixed download database updates to override downloads when they already exist.
  • Added new Maximum Number of Statements (default=2) to program configuration to prevent extra statements being created inadvertently.
  • Fixed critical error in Order Entry screen when the status field is blank.
  • Fixed extra line item being created in Order Entry screen when qty loses focus.
  • Removed default state of 'VIC' to encourage user to enter correct state.
  • Fixed NullPointerException error message when email has not been configured and customer has requested email notifications.

Version 1.2.0 - 3rd September 2007

• New or Enhanced Features
  • Added support for customer brochure tracking.
  • Added support for Preferred Payment Types on Customer
  • Modified Customer Payments to use Customer Preferred Payment Type
  • Modified Order tab to use Customer Preferred Payment Type
  • Added new payment type of "Credit Card"
  • Added support for Delivery Instructions on Customers
  • Added Default State to Configuration Options
  • Added new "Customer Deliveries" report
  • Added support to reload a license through the About dialog.
  • Added a check for possible duplicate customer when adding new customer.
  • Added support to list inventory items using product description.
  • Improved keyboard support in Order entry screens.
  • Added the display of Returned items to the Inventory Maintenance screen.
  • Added default suburb and postcode to customer maintenance.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed error message when running the Inventory Report.
  • Fixed problem with Payments page not updating when payments are modified.
  • Fixed problem with Complete order being set to New when modified.
  • Fixed problem in reconcile with costs and profits being set to zero changing a customer order.
  • Fixed critical error in inventory and supplies order tab when adding a new order.
  • Fixed problem with allocated items not being cleared from inventory.
  • Fixed order receipt emails not being sent to customer.

Version 1.0.2 - 20th August 2007

• Initial Beta Trail Release