Release Notes – NetView 3.4
Welcome to NetView ECO 3.4 release update.
We’d like to thank everyone who joined us in New Orleans last month. Connecting in person continues to be one of the most valuable ways for us to gather feedback, better understand your evolving needs, and ensure our ongoing development is aligned with the realities of your business.
We appreciate your continued partnership and look forward to supporting your success!
API Enhancements
APIv2 + Service updates
The current Service APIs will be updated to support additional endpoints related to requested common needs. These will include:
- Repair Orders
- RO Details (Line items/Conditions)
- RO Description
- RO Cause text
- RO Fix text
- Technicians
- RO tech notes text
- Technicians time clock
Current API customers will have access as of the release to production, new interested dealers will need to engage with customer success to be on-boarded with this optional extension of the NetView software.
Note: This is NOT a breaking change for customers on API v1, who will be able to continue to use the existing endpoints.
APIs endpoints—Wholegoods and Customers (NV-8214)
These are also moved to v2 configuration. No new endpoints released.
General NetView Enhancements
- NV-8495- Adjustments to service invoices to better display surcharges
Addresses the possibility for this info to overrun the existing total box at the bottom on some template forms and places total surcharges next to credit card confirmation info. - NV-8289- Repair Order (RO) condition image attachment
This extends the existing attachment capability within ROM to allow individual condition lines to have documents associated with them. This should help with consolidation of warranty workflows. - NV-8202- Disable Payroll check printing (Canada)
This eliminates the ability to use this program for Canadian dealers, as it was deprecated in October 2025. - NV-8201- Add notification to discontinued payroll programs
Related to above, informs the user to the discontinued functionality of these modules when opened. - NV-7985- SmartSupply partials
Further enhances this offering for Kubota dealers. - NV-7617- ARA to Excel
Requested by multiple dealers, including at the recent Learning Zone conference- this update enhances the useability of this report output. - NV-7192- SC/ROM closed conditions view
Optional user interface toggle adds the ability to reduce the number of items showing in the calendar view in Service Connect (SC). In the image on the left below, the full Service Connect calendar is present. The right view toggles off closed conditions, reducing visual clutter:
- NV-7147- Parts Inventory Adjustment Report export available via Excel
This report is now printable to .xlsx/.csv. - NV-7244- Manage Pop-up customer comments when invoicing
Makes it possible to suppress these via IPOS settings toggle. - NV-8113- Warn user when cancelling the condition information modal with unsaved changes
Prevents inadvertent deletion and/or user rework.
Updates
- NV-7839- POS Disable billing tab on internal tickets
Prevents payment of invoices for internal/warranty tickets - NV-7799- Integrated Purchase Order (IPO) lowercase model numbers
Forces the use of uppercase entry consistent with rest of NetView - NV-7720- AP vendor name
Addresses case where vendor name(s) would not populate in reports - NV-2253- Database AP records not clearing when posting AP journals
Ensures all records clear when posted - NV-7496- Deleted user Permission sets removed
Removes ability to see/use deleted NetView users as permission templates in “Copy From” dropdown - NV-7454- Custom Customer Maintenance (CCM) typo in Field Label addressed
- NV-3532- PNC Part numbers with a space
Supersessions save as expected now - NV-7673- Inter Store Parts Transfer (ISPT) issues with adding parts to ticket
Error message adjusted, users able to edit any lines with issues - NV-7860- Quick Order Adjustments (QOA) scroll behavior modification
Prevents the scroll bar from activating until the visible data entry area is full, which may have caused users to make incorrect entries - NV-3231- ISPT part number field length adjustment
Now accepts up to 20 characters to match related Inventory programs - NV-7210- Quick Order Adjustments QOA auto focus cursor adjustment
Changes behavior when selecting a line that could cause a data refresh/clear when not intended - NV-7612- AR Customer Mailing labels (CAL) pdf printer selection errors
Now working as an option when selected - NV-7672- Tax Rate Maintenance (TRM) Tax codes not retaining selections
Tax codes now maintain selections during multi-edit - NV-7302- POS behavior when changing shipping address
Now accepts “enter” to move to next input - NV-8474- Print option in Sales History Via Customer (SHVC)
Works for all date range selections as expected - NV-7128- Inventory Transaction Report (ITR)
Supports the “#” character now
We look forward to your partnership in the coming year and visit this space for regular updates in the future!
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