RE: [Emerald] PROBLEMS....HELP!

Leah Bilan ( Leah@TDI.NET )
Wed, 19 May 1999 13:31:52 -0400

Nice to see that some problems are being addressed. How does this newer
version work on consolidation? Had any problems with time customers and
their billing?

Leah
TDI Internet Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 11:05 AM
> To: emerald@iea-software.com
> Subject: [Emerald] PROBLEMS....HELP!
>
> Well, the saga continues.
>
> We were using Emerald 2.5.263 until last week. The MAJOR problems we were
> having is switching CC to renewals and reports are not reporting numbers
> accurately. Leaving reports alone for now, this is the situation
>
> Last week we migrated to 2.5.278 which is good for batches only on our
> billing computer. If we try to click accounts, invoices or any other
> buttons we get program shutdown errors. The good part is it fixed the CC
> to renewal problem but we can't use it for anything else. We had to run 2
> versions of Emerald to get through the day. What a pain!
>
> Now, I downloaded 2.5.285. We can use all of the buttons without shutting
> down, the batch does not change CC to renewal, but it calculates our
> annual customers bill incorrectly.
> The scenario is:
>
> We charge $25 per month for unlimited.
> We charge $200 per year for unlimited.
> For this to calculate correctly prior to 2.5.285 we set an annual pay
> period in administrator for 12 months at a 33.3333% discount and it worked
> perfectly.
> Now 2.5.285, with no other changes is calculating that at $200.04 instead
> of $200.00
>
> I cannot understand how some major bugs can be fixed and others created in
> 1 upgrade.
>
> If anyone can help us, please let me know. It is a pain using 2 different
> versions just to get through every day correctly.
>
> I am also looking for an SQL query that:
>
> 1 can specify a specific time period
> 2 will report payments for only taxable accounts during that time period
>
> Thanks,
> John