SoapMaker 3.18.6 Release Notes

Released April 5, 2023.

Several components have been updated to avoid errors with long integers.

SoapMaker 3.18.5 Release Notes

Released August 30, 2022.

This update addresses a limitation with blends...
It is possible to define a blend that uses another blend as an ingredient, but this is not fully supported. If you do this, several features will not work correctly.

Instead, it is recommended to create a non-soap recipe that can then use blended ingredients. Make a batch with that recipe, then re-use the batch as a supply item that can be used in other recipes (like a blend).

Now, if you define a new blend formula and include another blend as an ingredient, you will see a warning message. And if you make a blend batch using a blend containing another blend, you will see an (optional) warning.

The Users Manual has been updated to explain this limitation and recommend the way to avoid it.

SoapMaker 3.18.4 Release Notes

Released August 29, 2021.

This update fixes a few bugs, and adds some improvements requested by users:

• You are now able to edit names of the base oils supplied with the program.
• INCI names can now be any length. The recipe printout wraps long INCI names at comma or semi-colon separators.
• Dual lye recipes:
  • Lye weights were not calculated correctly based on ratio of NaOH to KOH if KOH purity was less than 100%.
    The total amount of lye was correct for saponification, but the weight ratio was not exactly as specified.
  • Recipe totals showed an incorrect total volume.
• The Import Recipe feature was not handling the new recipe type names introduced in 3.17.0.

SoapMaker 3.18.3 Release Notes

Released May 1, 2021.

This update fixes a few bugs and adds some improvements:

Bugs fixed:

• New Supply Shipment form could show incorrect messages about reducing an item's quantity from a previous order.
• Supply Orders Report: Returned item orders showed wrong total amount because tax was subtracted instead of added.
• Customer List: When editing a customer branch, reverted to first tax group in the list instead of the previously selected one.

New features and improvements:

• When recording venue sales, you can now include gratuities. These will show as a separate line item in the Tax and Income Summary report.
• The Blend formula window can now be stretched horizontally to accommodate long ingredient names.
• The Stock Removed report now includes lot numbers for removed supply items.

SoapMaker 3.18.2 Release Notes

Released February 10, 2021.

More fixes to avoid errors on large monitors

SoapMaker 3.18.1 Release Notes

Released January 1, 2021.

This update fixes a couple of problems

• MyRecipes average sample cost was showing total instead of average.
• On very wide monitors, an error could occur when trying to open a dialog.

SoapMaker 3.18.0 Release Notes

Released December 29, 2020.

This update includes some fixes, and an important new option which can affect the way your costs are recorded for tax purposes. It's being released in time for the new year so you can decide whether to use this new option at the beginning of the year.

New option for purchase cost overheads:

SoapMaker has always bundled overhead costs into indivdual items' adjusted costs when recording purchases. This makes recipe costs and product costs reflect your total costs, but there are drawbacks to this approach:

• One heavy item in a supply order can result in large shipping cost and unnecessarily inflate the costs of every item
• For tax purposes, it may be better to account for overheads like shipping costs separately

Now you can set the option to either adjust costs to include overheads as before, or keep them separate - they will then show as separate lines in your Tax and Income Summary report (Pro edition only).

The default setting for this option is set in MyPreferences on the Production tab (and can be changed for any order in the New Supply Purchase form). When you first install this update, the default is set to adjust costs the way it has always been. There is a new Users Manual topic explaining the pros and cons of each choice - you should have a look and decide how to proceed so you will be consistent for the coming year. The manual topics describing the Supply Orders report and the Tax and Income Summary report have also been changed to include this new option and it's effects.

Other changes:

• On the recipe form Portions tab, the cost/portion values will no longer be cut off if too long.
• When returning supply items, the Notes area will now be saved correctly.
• On the Supply Orders report the order summary will no longer show an 'exchange rate' line unless one was set.
• In MyProducts, if cure time is set to zero, the Ready column will show 'Yes' instead of '-'
• Editing a paid invoice will no longer revert it to unpaid.

SoapMaker 3.17.3 Release Notes

Released November 29, 2020.

This update just fixes one bug: opening a new recipe caused an error, which repeated until at least one item with quantity was entered.

SoapMaker 3.17.2 Release Notes

Released November 25, 2020.

This release adds some improvements related to labor costs. Previous updates added a new recipe Labor feature in the hope that would put an end to the practice of using a 'packaging item' to represent labor. Although the new Labor Cost shows in the Price List, it was not visible in the recipe summary or in the recipe sample costs in MyRecipes.

With this release:

• The Recipe Form header now shows Cost per bar/portion and Sample cost with labor included if any.
• Sample costs shown in MyRecipes list of recipes now include labor cost if any.
• The recipe form header (and recipe printouts) also show the number of sub-batches and number of packaging items in the recipe.
• The Price List now includes a search bar so you can easily find a particular product description.
• Currency symbols have been removed because of difficulty handling symbols from some countries. Now all cost and price amounts are just shown as numbers with two decimal places.

NOTE: When you install this update, any recipes you have saved with Labor hours and rate will be flagged for updating. You can update them in MyRecipes to see the revised sample costs with labor included.

SoapMaker 3.17.1 Release Notes

Released October 27, 2020.

This release completes the beta-test, and adds a couple of new features:

• The MySupplies exported supplies list now includes price and unit cost of each supply lot.
• A new FAQ has been added to the users manual about how to adjust recipe water quantity to allow for liquid additives, such as milk.

SoapMaker 3.17.0 Beta Release Notes

Released October 12, 2020.

This release has two significant changes which touch many areas, so it is being released as a beta test.

• New Soap Type Names:

  As more and more people are making liquid soap using both Sodium Hydroxide and Potassium Hydroxide, the recipe type names have been changed:

  Previous Type name	New Type name	Comment
  Solid soap	Sodium soap	Uses Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH)
  Liquid soap	Potassium soap	Uses Potassium Hydroxide (KOH)
  Cream soap	Combined lye soap	Uses both NaOH and KOH

  The Combined Lye Soap type includes buttons for the pop-up calculators for both Liquid Soap and Cream Soap.

• New Labor Feature:

  Some users like to include a labor cost factor in product costs. Since there was no feature to support this, a kludge was to define a 'packaging item' for labor and include it in recipes. I've never been a fan of this method for Professional edition users because the labor is treated as materials cost - this is not correct accounting practise, and is not valid for taxes.

  Now there is a new Labor feature: You can enter a labor rate and expected time to make each recipe, and save this with the recipe. When you make a batch, the labor cost per bar/portion is recorded, and will show in your Price List to aid in setting prices to achieve the desired profit margin. This labor cost will not be incuded in the materials cost in any report.

  The Price List form has additional columns for labor cost and total cost. The form can now be stretched sideways to accommodate long product names.

SoapMaker 3.16.5 Release Notes

Released September 7, 2020.

This release fixes some problems and adds improvements suggested by users.

• The Price List window was cut off so no scrollbar was showing on long lists.
• If you tried to reuse a product containing only packaging items as an additive, an error occurred.
  Now this is checked and a more friendly message explains that this is not allowed.
• It was possible to save an unused tax with the same name as a used one in the group, which could cause a problem later.
• Long INCI names are now displayed with multiple lines in MySupplies, and wrapped in recipe printouts.
• You now have the option to include INCI name and Notes when first defining a new additive.
• A note has been added to the users manual explaining that when you include a re-used product as ingredient in a recipe,
  the recipe printout will include all the ingredients and INCI names from the original recipe used to make the reused product.

SoapMaker 3.16.4 Release Notes

Released June 30, 2020.

This one really does fix the bug.

SoapMaker 3.16.3 Release Notes

Released June 30, 2020.

This release fixe a bug and adds a couple of improvements.

• Fixed bug in MyProducts and Tax and Income Summary:
  If you had a product batch containing only packaging items, with some quantity in 2 different locations, the total product value was incorrect. This could make the total stock value of your products look ridiculously high.
• When a Recipe form is stretched wider or taller, the Notes area also adjusts to fit the larger size.
• The Sales Register/Invoice form now allows a negative Handling fee as a way to provide free shipping. The Users Manual Q and A section includes a description of this.

SoapMaker 3.16.2 Release Notes

Released May 31, 2020.

This release provides several improvements and fixes a few bugs.

• Citric Acid: If you use citric acid in soap recipes to aid chelation, you can now define Citric Acid as a custom 'base oil' so lye calculation will be correct. A new Users Manual topic has been added in the FAQS/Recipes section regarding this. If you already have Citric Acid defined as an additive, please see the manual for instructions how to deal with this.
• Returned products: On the Sales Registers/Invoices report, If you record sold products returned and written off, this is now reflected in the Stock Removed report, and shows up on the Tax and Income Summary report.
• My Products:
  • When exporting the batch list, you now have the option to include costs.
  • Bug fixed - if you tried to edit a product that contains only packaging items and has been transferred to a location other than HOME, an error occurred.
• Reused Products report: Bug fixed - When acting on a selected item, the wrong item was being used.
• Batches:
  • Recording a batch with more than 32,767 portions caused an error.
  • When making a Blend batch, usage of water is now recorded.
• Price List: Erasing a cost didn't get saved - you had to actually enter 0.
• Customer List: Editing customer contact email did not enable the SAVE button.
• Other small changes:
  • Sales Registers/Invoices report: Removed gridlines because sometimes they overlapped text.
  • MyPreferences was lacking a title bar.
  • A new topic has been added to the Users Manual 'Common Tasks' section explaining how to capture your stock inventory at year-end.
  • New Supply Purchase or Expense form: If you save a new order with incomplete entries, a more helpful warning message is displayed.

SoapMaker 3.16.1 Release Notes

Released January 24, 2020.

This release completes the beta test of version 3.16.0, and also makes some improvements and fixes a couple of bugs:

• Fixed bug in Soap Recipe form - if you shifted a base oil to a different position in the list of oils, and then chose view by percentage instead of by quantity, the graph qualities displayed were incorrect.
• Fixed bug in MyRecipes - toolbar HELP button was being cut off.
• Changed MySupplies so when editing Base Oil specs, the Properties button is not included in the highlighted area.
• Changed Shopping List to avoid suggesting another blend batch is needed if existing stock is exactly enough to satisfy planned recipes. (This could occur due to rounding when converting to grams).

SoapMaker 3.16.0 beta Release Notes

Released December 23, 2019.

This release fixes some long-standing problems that were recently discovered. The changes appear small, but touched a lot of code, so it's being released for beta-testing first.

Invoices Report: If you recorded an invoice with a handling fee but no tax on the fee, an error occured when trying to view the invoice in the list.

MySupplies: Previously it was possible to edit item specifications like specific gravity and INCI name 'on the fly' while browsing a list of items. But this resulted in the possibility of saving the wrong value. For example, if the cursor was left in the input box for specific gravity and then a new item was defined, the new item could be saved with the previous item's SG value instead of the new one entered.

To avoid this problem, a different approach is now used for editing item specifications - to change a value you must click the new Edit button. While in edit mode, all other controls are disabled until you Save or Cancel.

To make it easier to use this new approach, keyboard shortcuts enable you to do it all from the keyboard:

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl-T	Move to the next main Tab (Base Oil, Lye/Water, Additives, etc.)
Ctrl-Shift-T	On the Additives or Packaging tab, switches between Organize by Category view and Sortable List view.
Up/Down arrows	Move up or down within the displayed list.
Left/Right arrows	Expand or collapse a category in the Organize by Category view.
Ctrl-E	Start editing an item's specifications (e.g. Notes, SG value, tracking options)
TAB	Move to the next input field
Ctrl-S	Save changes made to an item's specifications
ESC	Cancel changes and exit the Edit mode

Other changes to MySupplies:

• When you choose any tab in MySupplies, the displayed list or tree is focused so you can use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate. But note: when first loading SoapMaker, if MySupplies opens and there is a dialog (e.g. Daily tip), the Base Oils list will not have focus until you click in it.
• When you choose Organize by Category view, the options to show only items with stock remaining or that need replenishing are hidden because they have no effect in this view.

The Users Manual has been updated to reflect all these changes.

SoapMaker 3.15.2 Release Notes

Released December 13, 2019.

This release fixes some problems and adds a few improvements.

Fixed bugs in the Product Transfers report:

• Exporting to CSV file was not including packaging costs.
• If comments included a return it caused a new line in the exported file.

The following improvements will make it easier to use SoapMaker:

• When creating a Product Transfer record if you transfer all the stock from another location back to the HOME location, it will no longer delete the product record - instead it will just show zero stock left.
• Similarly, in MyProducts if you edit a batch record for a location other than home and set stock left to zero, the record will not be deleted.
• When saving a New Supply Shipment, the unnecessary confirmation dialog is no longer shown unless there was an issue, or you have selected the option to record another shipment after saving.
• When saving a recipe, the warning message you may see if portion settings are incorrect is now optional. You can turn these off if you don't want to be reminded. (Note that you will still see a warning if the recipe contains packaging items assigned to a sub-batch that has no portions because these items will not be saved with the recipe.)

SoapMaker 3.15.1 Release Notes

Released December 3, 2019.

This release just fixes some problems with the Reused Products report:

• Attempting to delete a record could cause an error in some cases.
• When creating a new item, it might not be selected correctly when the report was first shown.
• Added a clarification to message explaining what happens when an item is deleted.
• If you return all the original stock from a reused product, you now have the option to also delete the transfer record.

SoapMaker 3.15.0 Release Notes

Released November 13, 2019.

This update fixes a couple of bugs, and adds a few improvements. It coincides with the initial release of the FREE edition, and major face-lift to the website.

Changes to Soapmaker LITE and PROFESSIONAL editions:

• MySupplies: Added recipe name displayed for supply items that are reused products.
  It was possible to change SG value and then close without saving the change.
• MyRecipes caused an error if you right-clicked and chose New Recipe from the pop-up menu.
• Changed users manual to provide correct FAQ for special price purchases, and added clarifying note on using 'packaging' item to include labor costs.

SoapMaker 3.14.14 Release Notes

Released July 29, 2019.

This update fixes a couple of bugs, and adds a small improvement.

• In MySupplies, if Show only tracked items was checked, the Organize by Category view would sometimes still show untracked items, and creating a new category caused an error.
• Added new Dock button to MySupplies so you can easily move it to the side of the main window.
• In some situations, MySupplies Pro-only options appeared to be enabled for the Lite edition.

SoapMaker 3.14.13 Release Notes

Released July 20, 2019.

Some users still getting occasional errors when creating new categories. This update suppresses those spurious errors.

SoapMaker 3.14.12 Release Notes

Released July 20, 2019.

This update fixes a few bugs and adds some minor improvements:

• MyPreferences was not correctly saving the desired method of specifying water in new recipes.
• Selecting a different method for specifying water sometimes did not enable the SAVE button.
• The Dock buttons in MyRecipes and the Qualities Graph now dock BOTH windows if open.
• The main Help menu item Users Manual now opens at the topic 'Getting Started'. This topic also appears in the list of Common Tasks accessed by the main toolbar HELP button.
• MySupplies sometimes caused an error when adding a new category.
• The Additives and Packaging Tree views did not automatically scroll to show new items or categories after they were added.

SoapMaker 3.14.11 Release Notes

Released July 6, 2019.

This update adds one new feature - in soap recipes you now have the option to specify the water amount by Water/Lye Ratio (as well as the previous options: Discount from suggested or Lye Solution Strength.

SoapMaker 3.14.10 Release Notes

Released May 20, 2019.

This update fixes 3 bugs:

• Sales History report: The View Invoice command was not selecting the invoice correctly, and could trigger an error.
• Importing sales records showed the wrong price if a line item had to be split across multiple batches.
• When recording batches with a labor 'packaging' item set as 'not for inventory', the labor cost was not being included in the batch cost.

SoapMaker 3.14.9 Release Notes

Released April 10, 2019.

This update fixes a few problems:

• The Shopping List caused an error if recipe portion quantity exceeded 32000.
• The Invoices Report would cause an error if an unknown invoice number was encountered.
• The Tax and Income Sumary report could cause an error when opening on a computer with a large screen.
• If you changed your system decimal point from period to comma (or vice versa), and had recorded previous supply orders, an error could occur when viewing the List of All Purchases report, or trying to edit a previous supply order.

SoapMaker 3.14.8 Release Notes

Released February 12, 2019.

Another bug fixed in the New Batch form. Hopefully the last one.

An error occurred if you tried to edit the lots of a packaging item when recording a new batch.

SoapMaker 3.14.7 Release Notes

Released February 8, 2019.

This update fixes one more bug in the New Batch form:
If you selected a different option for portions, the packaging quantities were not being initialized, so were double-counted.

SoapMaker 3.14.6 Release Notes

Released February 8, 2019.

This update fixes a few bugs:

• The New Batch form was mixing up quantity_used and quantity_left for packaging items in some cases.
• The Supply Lots Used report was sorting items by quantity, but this scrambles the list if it contains blend ingredients, so it is no longer being sorted.
• The Users Manual did not explain how blended ingredients are shown on the Supply Lots Used report.
• The Product Transfers report list was not enabled so scrolling didn't work.

SoapMaker 3.14.5 Release Notes

Released January 19, 2019.

This update fixes one obscure bug, and completes the beta test.

If you included packagaging items in a recipe, and duplicated an item specifying quantities 'per SB-x' AND 'per SB-y', the second one's quantity was not being included in the Supply Lots Used report.

SoapMaker 3.14.4 beta Release Notes

Released January 17, 2019 for beta testing.

This update fixes a few bugs.

Also added a help topic 'Specific Gravity Topics' which just lists the other pages (including the list of common substance SG values) for easier access when defining a new additive item.

Please give it a try and report any problems.

Bugs fixed:

• The New Batch form was not including packaging item costs if recipe rate for the item was 'Total' or 'per Any portion' instead of 'per Sub-Batch portion'.
• If there was insufficient stock to satisfy the full quantity of a packaging item, the cost of the extra items was not included in the batch cost.
• The Sales Record form was causing an occasional error.
• If SoapMaker is installed on a new computer and registered with a CD number, you are directed to go to the website to get a new registration number. However, the website address was incorrect.
• Importing Sales Records could cause an error if the imported file was formatted using only LineFeed characters between rows. This has been fixed and files like this are now parsed correctly.

SoapMaker 3.14.3 Release Notes

Released January 11, 2019

This update just fixes one bug, and makes a small change to the Sales History report.

• Fixed bug in the New Batch form: If you recorded a batch which includes packaging items, and then recorded a different batch without packaging, the packaging costs from the previous batch were included in the new batch total cost.
• Changed the Sales History report to show product Tags instead of sizes for consistency with invoices.

SoapMaker 3.14.2 Release Notes

Released December 28, 2018

This update provides several improvements, and fixes a few bugs.

Price List:

• A new option to view (or export) stock quantities for a selected location.
• A new option when exporting to create a file formatted for easy import into Square.
• The Users Manual has new or extended topics covering exporting Price List to Square, and importing sales from Square.

MyLocations:

• You can now edit the description for the Home location (important if you export your Price List to Square).
• Added View Customer to context menu.

Recipe Portions:

In version 3.10, the ability to specify sub-batch portions was added to the recipe form. This is important if you split a batch into sub-batches of different sized products, and include packaging items in the recipe, so that you can associate each packaging item with the correct product size.

However this has turned out to be an unpopular change with users who don't split batches because when you saved a recipe without specifying portions you got an annoying warning.

Now, if you set your Preferences with either a default portion size, or number of portions, when you create a new recipe, it will automatically calculate the quantity or size to match for one sub-batch.

If you make multiple sub-batches and include packaging, it's still important to specify portions on the recipe form. If you don't split your batch, or don't include packaging, you can adjust portion size and quantity when you record a batch, or later by editing in MyProducts.

To make this new feature work, MyPreferences will now insist that each recipe type has at least one sub-batch size or quantity set as default (you don't need both), together with a default Tag (e.g. 'regular').

Other

Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.

SoapMaker 3.14.1 Release Notes

Released December 2, 2018

Improvements

• Import Sales form - Added option to import unit prices instead of total prices, and made several improvements for speed and ease of use.
• By default, management center windows will open automatically if they were open last session (MySupplies, MyProducts, MyRecipes and the Qualities Graph). Now there is a new option in MyPreferences to choose whether or not you want this feature.

Problems Fixed

• When exporting a detailed list from MySupplies, if a supplier name contained a comma, it caused subsequent columns to shift to the right.
• On the Import Sales form, the Skip Row button was not working.
• Added better error handling when exporting the Suppliers Report.
• On computers with a small screen, when a recipe was in full-screen mode, some ingredient lists did not show scrollbars.

SoapMaker 3.14.0 Release Notes

Released November 17, 2018

Improvements

• Supply Lots Used report:
  • Now includes Percentage for each ingredient.
  • Shows component ingredients of blends used to make the batch
  • Uses batch portion units for sizes, instead of recipe units from preferences.
• New Batch Form: Long supplier names are truncated for better display when editing supply lots.
• MySupplies:
  • New option to export a detailed list showing all purchased lots with stock remaining, including expiry dates.
  • New preference setting to select the number of days before an item's expiry date to show warning icon.
• Purchase History report:
  • Now opens with taller default height. For maximum convenience, first position MySupplies to one side of the main window (and close the Wizard pane if open). Then when you open the Purchase History, it will sit beside MySupplies and can be left open while you select different supply items to see their history.
  • Added ability to edit expiry dates.
  • Removed icon for expired lots; instead expiry date will be flagged with *.
  • Added option to show only items with stock remaining.
  • When printing list with long Lot Numbers, they will force a new line if needed to avoid overlapping next field.
  • Added suggestion to print using landscape format, and improved column spacing with this format.
  • Added grid lines to list view for easier reading of dense list.
• Supplier List:
  • The complete list can now be exported as a CSV file.
  • The window can be stretched longer if you have many suppliers listed.
• MyProducts:
  • A warning is shown when reusing products if the selected supply item has already been used to save reused products made with a different recipe.
  • A new button has been added for clearing the search field. After typing a batch number to search for, you can press Enter to do the search, or ESC to cancel it.
  • When exporting the batch list as a CSV file, you now have the option to choose the separator character (e.g. comma or tab).
• When SoapMaker first opens:

  It will no longer automatically open MyRecipes, MySupplies or MyProducts. It used to do this as a convenience, but this could result in unnecessary screen clutter. You can open any of these by clicking the main toolbar button - the window will open with the same size and location as the last time it was used.

Bugs fixed:

• New Supply Purchase form:
  • If you just checked the Not for Business or Special Price box and then saved the item, it was not flagged as missing information and an error would occur if you then saved the form.
  • Added code to suppress occasional spurious error when Enter key is pressed to save a new item.
• Customer List:
  • When defining a new customer or branch, the contact name was not being saved unless you also entered email or phone.
  • The branch table was not being initialized correctly which could cause problems later when trying to link a product location. When you install this update, your database will be corrected to avoid this problem.
• MyMolds: A mold with a very large volume could cause an error when showing the list.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and minor improvements.

SoapMaker 3.13.10 Release Notes

Released September 24, 2018

This release fixes some bugs, and changes the way CDs are registered:

Bugs fixed:

• The Price List caused an error when first opening if there are no products.
• New Supply Shipment form - if you edited a previous order, deleted the last item and then pressed the New Item button, an error occurred.
• MySupplies - If you defined a new custom oil and the display was set to show only items with stock remaining, an error occurred.
• An occasional error could occur in several modules when they were first opened and attempted to adjust their size to fit.

New CD registration scheme

If you originally purchased SoapMaker on a CD, when you move to a different computer and install this latest release, you will not be able to register using the CD number - instead you will be directed to a page to re-register and receive a new number.

SoapMaker 3.13.9 Release Notes

Released August 18, 2018

This release fixes a few bugs and adds several improvements to the program and the users manual.

Improvements

• MySupplies:
  • Options to show only items which need replenishing or have stock are now radio buttons instead of check boxes, since they are mutually exclusive. These options are disabled when viewing with Organize by Category since all items are shown in this view.
  • Any categories expanded in the Organize by Category view will now remain expanded when you add or remove categories or items.
• Import Sales form:
  • The form will now remember the input file type from last session (TXT or CSV) and use that as the default.
  • When importing sales records from a file, rows with invalid fields are now automatically skipped, and you can optionally skip the first valid row if it contains the column names.
  • If you use the Square point-of-sale system, a new users manual topic will help you import sales records from Square into SoapMaker 3.
• If you enter a product code into the Price List and it finds the same code exists for another product with no stock left, it will now give you the option to reuse the code, and remove it from the previous product.
• If you try to record a sale with consolidated batches made with the same recipe but having different product descriptions, you will now see a message saying this cannot be done and explaining how to avoid this limitation.
• When exporting reports as CSV files, the filetype is now lowercase for consistency with other programs.
• Added FAQ help topics about printing to file and emailing customer invoices.

Problems Fixed

• The Sales History report was adding returned quantities instead of subtracting.
• The Edit Lot feature in the New Blend form was not working.
• When recording a sale with consolidated batches, the quantity units (bars/portions) could be blank.
• The Users Manual description of MyProducts has been changed to correctly describe use of the 'Consolidate Products' option.

SoapMaker 3.13.8 Release Notes

Released June 22, 2018

This release provides a few improvements and fixes some bugs:

Improvements

• Resize Recipe dialog:
  • Even if a recipe has multiple sub-batches, you can resize by specifying portion number and size (for a single sub-batch) in the resized copy.
  • Initial Waste factor is taken from the source recipe rather than from Preferences.
  • Improved accuracy to allow for waste when resizing to fit mold
• Recipe form:
  • On the Portions tab, you can now use the Adjust Number of Bars buttons to handle negative excess. These buttons are now only enabled if appropriate.
  • Recipes can be saved even if no bars/portions are specified. If a packaging item is specified per bar, but no bars have been specified, you will be warned that the item will not be saved, but can still save the recipe if desired.
  • The recipe header now shows the cost per bar/portion of the first specified sub-batch, rather than the average cost for all portions.
• New Batch form:
  • Now allows editing of Packaging lots so they don't match recipe quantities if desired.
  • If you make a batch with a recipe that has no bars/portions specified, the Portions Made area defaults to the 'Custom' setting instead of the 'As per recipe' setting so you can immediately enter the desired values.
• New HELP topic added: 'Tracing Source Ingredients for a Blend'

Bugs Fixed

• Errors could occur when using Remove Stock, Reuse Products or Return Reused features if your system was set to use comma as decimal point.
• It was possible to enter a purchase order item with a blank name (one or more spaces). If you then saved the order, an error occurred.
• The minimum width of MySupplies has been increased because the HELP button might not be showing.
• Purchase History report:
  • Trying to remove a supply item when the initial amount was zero caused an error.
  • An ingredient name would not show correctly if it included '&'
  • The popup context menu showed that it was possible to change the lot number, but since version 3.12 the only way to do this is to edit the original purchase order.
  • For Blended ingredients, it now shows that the date can be changed as well as the quantity.
• When making a new batch, the initial Portions values always used those from the recipe even if same as previous batch was the default setting.
• In soap recipes if you used the Adjust Water feature with an additive, then changed the water calculation option from 'Discount' to 'Lye Solution' or vice versa, the other option was not displayed correctly. Although this did not affect the water amount, it could be confusing.
• The Resize Recipe dialog Cancel button would trigger a warning for invalid entries instead of just allowing you to cancel.
• Added code in New Supply Shipment form to chase occasional weird error when Enter key is pressed - please report if you see this error and send the error log file.

SoapMaker 3.13.7 Release Notes

Released May 7, 2018

This release fixes a few bugs, including one serious one that can affect lye calculation under some conditions. It also adds a couple of improvements.

Bugs fixed

• In a soap recipe, if you edited the list of base oils to shift an oil up or down in the list, SAP values were not shifted to match so lye calculation could be incorrect until you saved and reopened the recipe.
• In the New Batch dialog, if you edited the lot of a packaging item to select a different purchase lot, the cost was not being adjusted correctly.
• Pressing space while editing a Tag on the Recipe Portions page caused the cursor to move to the beginning of the line.
• When opening a new Sales Register, or editing a previous one, product codes from the last register saved could incorrectly be applied to new items.
• When the Reuse Dialog first opens and you select Additive or Packaging, the Category list automatically selects the first one, but the name list remained empty until a category was manually selected.

Improvements

• The Recipe Portions page now provides buttons for adjusting either the number of bars/portions or the bar/portion size to use up any excess.
• When recording a new purchase, if you type a base oil name which is not currently one of your favorites, it will immediately be added to the favorites list so it becomes available in recipes.
• A new option has been added in MyPreferences related to the Print Dialog. Normally when printing, the Print Dialog will open so you can easily select the desired printer, choose landscape or portrait format, etc. But if you prefer to use the default system printer and settings, you can un-check this option to skip the dialog and print directly.

SoapMaker 3.13.6 Release Notes

Released April 24, 2018

This release fixes a couple of small bugs, and marks the end of the beta test period for version 3.13.

Bugs fixed:

• The Reuse Products dialog was not saving costs correctly for products which include packaging items.
• A few users reported an occasional error in the New Supply Purchase form when the Enter key was pressed.

SoapMaker 3.13.5 Beta Release Notes

Released April 16, 2018 for beta test

This update adds a few improvements and fixes several bugs.

Improvements:

• There is a completely redesigned Customer List which is smaller and easier to use. (The old customers report is still available, but please give the new one a try.)
• The New Supply Purchase form will now show more decimals for very small quantities.
• Changes to various toolbar button captions and menus for consistent use of ellipses.
• When making a blend batch, the 'best before' date is now set to match that of the ingredient lot with the oldest expiry date.
• Options for recording labor costs have been clarified in the Users Manual.
• If you delete a Price Category in MyPreferences, it now checks whether you have any customers with this preferred category, and warns you.

Bugs Fixed:

• MySupplies was not showing the correct icon for additives past their expiry date.
• The Make New Blend dialog Edit Lots feature was not showing any items.
• When saving an edited supply order, the New Supply Purchase form had lost the ability to re-create a missing purchase record.
• If you entered purchases with 'fl oz' as units and then used the Finish Later feature, when you resumed the order, the units were blank.
• The New Batch dialog caused an error if the recipe had duplicate packaging items (e.g. for multiple sub-batches).
• It was possible to accidentally delete the default MiscPkg category for Packaging items in MySupplies, but then there was no way to restore it.

SoapMaker 3.13.4 Beta Release Notes

Released March 28, 2018 for beta test

This update fixes one bug - an error could occur when saving changes to a batch in MyProducts.

SoapMaker 3.13.3 Beta Release Notes

Released March 28, 2018 for beta test

This update fixes two bugs:

• In MyProducts, printing batch details caused an error.
• In regions where comma is used as decimal point, an error occurred when updating the database on first run if recipe waste factor was set with a fractional value.

SoapMaker 3.13.2 Beta Release Notes

Released March 23, 2018 for beta test

This update fixes a couple of bugs:

• On the Sales Register form, if you added items directly without entering quantities, and deleted an item before adding quantities to any items, the Save button was disabled and remained disabled.
• On some computers, an error occurs when trying to open the Supply Orders report. This update should fix the problem, or at least provide more clues in the error log if it still occurs.

SoapMaker 3.13.1 Beta Release Notes

Released March 21, 2018 for beta test

This update adds a new improvement, and fixes a few bugs found during beta test:

First the improvement: When you export any report as CSV file now, you have the option to choose either comma or tab as the field separator character. Whichever you choose will be the default for the next time.

Bugs fixed:

• The Edit Stock removed dialog caused an error if you saved a comment containing an apostrophe. Now all forms that save notes or comments are checked and illegal database characters are replaced with valid ones.
• If you recorded a sales register or product transfer register and included a packaging item for shipping with no purchase record, the item was not included in the saved register. Now it will be included but will show zero cost.
• The Users Manual showed an incorrect value for the specific gravity of sodium lactate. It should be 1.33, not 0.133.
• It was possible to save a non-soap recipe with a sub-batch having no Tag or duplicate Tag.
• In MyProducts, if you were editing batch details and pressed Shift-Enter while in the top text box for sub-batches, an error occurred.
• An error could occur when saving an edited Supply Order if a related purchase record had been deleted since the order was originally saved.
• When saving a new batch with packaging items drawn from more than one lot, if you unchecked one of the lots and then saved, an error could occur.

SoapMaker 3.13.0 Beta Release Notes

Released March 15, 2018 for beta test

This is a major update with new features and improvements, as well as a few bug fixes.

New Features

Recipe Sub-batches

Previously you could only specify one size of bar/portion in a recipe, although you could specify up to 4 sub-batches with different sized bars/portions when recording a batch, or later by editing the batch in MyProducts.

Now you can specify up to 4 sub-batches in the recipe form, with quantity and size of bar/portion for each sub-batch.

Packaging items can be specified per sub-batch portion, per any portion, or total for the recipe. This will result in more accurate bar/portion costs, and make it unnecessary to adjust packaging lots in the New Batch dialog.

Waste factor and Shrinkage are now set in each recipe, rather than just applied when you record a batch. When you update to this version, existing recipes will receive the current settings from your Preferences.

When you make a new batch now, it will default to using either the recipe settings for bar/portion quantities and sizes, as well as waste and shrinkage, or the previous batch settings if any, based on which option you used the last time you made a batch. You can change this option, or enter custom settings for this batch.

To get to know this new feature, before you make your next batch open the recipe and click the new Portions tab. Set it up the way you want and save the recipe before making a batch. This is how it's intended to work now. (Of course you can still do it the old way if desired.)

Accounting for Batch Excess or Scraps

You can now write off excess scraps from a batch, or reuse them as ingredients for rebatching.

When a batch is first made, or edited later and portions are changed, if there is significant excess you may see an optional reminder that you can write off the scraps and record it in the Stock Removed report, or reuse the excess as an additive for use in other recipes.

Stock Removed Report

You can now print a receipt for removed stock items (products or supplies) given as donations.

A new Edit button allows you to change the date, purpose or comment for a selected record.

Other New Features

• The Invoices/Sales Registers report can now be exported as a CSV file that can be opened in a spreadsheet. The file contains all the data for each invoice listed, including taxes and card fee.
• You can now set the date when removing stock or reusing products.
• In the Supply Lots Used report, a new toolbar button will open the supplies stocklist and purchase history for the selected item.
• The Reused Products report now shows the sub-batch number as well as the batch, and the original recipe used to make the product. A new toolbar button and context menu item will open the recipe associated with a selected item.
• From MyProducts you can now print a consignment stocklist suitable for sharing with your consignment customers.

Improvements

Reused Product Ingredients

• If a recipe includes a reused product as an additive (e.g. if you made a soap base for reuse), when you export the recipe ingredient list, it will include all the ingredients from the recipe for the reused product. The reused recipe ingredients are in the correct proportions so the list is sorted in order of quantity (largest first) suitable for making labels.
• In the Shopping List, if you add a recipe that includes reused products, the ingredients for those products will be included in the list.

Reducing MyProducts batch list Loading delays

• If MyProducts is open when you save a recipe or make changes in MyRecipes, the batch list will be refreshed ONLY if you have chosen the option to show batches by recipe (rather than by product description).
• When recording a new product batch with a date the current year, MyProducts is automatically set to show only batches made This Year to avoid delays in populating the batch list.
• Previously when you recorded a new batch, and MyProducts was already open, it would switch filters like view by recipe to ensure the new batch record would be visible. But this could be annoying if you had already set the filters the way you wanted. Now it will only change filter settings if needed to ensure the new batch will be visible in the list.

Other Improvements

• The New Supply Purchase form, and Supply Orders Report have been changed to make it clearer that the 'Non-Inventory' checkbox means 'Not for Business'.
• When the Sales Registers/Invoices report is opened, it will remember the previous state of the Show only unpaid invoices box.
• If you open an existing non-soap recipe with only packaging items, it will open with the Packaging tab selected.
• Previously, if you deleted a product batch and chose to restore stock to your supplies inventory, SoapMaker used the original recipe to determine quantities to restore. But this could cause problems if the recipe had since been changed, or purchase records had been edited. Now only the batch records are used to restore ingredients to the original purchase records for accuracy.
• Previously you could double-click an item in the Purchase History report to edit the stock remaining. But now you can use the Remove Stock feature which keeps a record so this is the preferred method. Double-clicking an item now will open the Remove Stock dialog. You can still choose to edit the stock remaining if desired, but the first time you use the Edit Stock command in any session, you will see a message suggesting you use the Remove Stock command instead.
• The New Batch dialog now checks to make sure there is some content in the batch before saving, rather than leaving it to MyProducts to deal with.
• On the New Supply Purchase form, when you select an existing row, the Lot number field will be automatically selected if there is none entered yet.
• When you save a new supply order, the Supply Orders report will no longer be opened automatically because this can be annoying - you can open it any time by selecting it under the main Reports menu.
• A new Help topic explains how to account for tap water as a business expense and in your recipe and product costs. This topic is in the Frequently Asked Questions section
• The date format in Sales Register and Transfer Register forms has been changed to be compatible with other forms and reports.

Bugs Fixed

• In MyProducts, If you selected 'Show only items with stock left', and a batch had stock gone from some sub-batches but not all, the Total Made for that batch was not showing correctly.
• On the New Supply Purchase form, if you started to enter the first item, then clicked anywhere else on the form before completing the row, pressing ENTER caused an error.
• The Product Transfer form was not showing the product sizes.
• If you deleted a row from a recipe and then saved the recipe, a message would incorrectly tell you there was an incomplete entry.

SoapMaker 3.12.5 Release Notes

Released Feb 12, 2018.

This update fixes a few bugs:

• When recording a sales register, an item's tax could be added to the wrong tax total under the following conditions:
  • if you were using a Tax Group with more than one tax, and
  • you selected the second tax from the group for an item, and
  • you checked the Tax Included in Price box
• Reused Report � if you deleted the most recent item, the unit cost for that ingredient may not have been updated correctly.
• If you added a new category from the Reused Products dialog and MySupplies was already open, the Category drop-down list did not include the new one.
• When a new product batch is recorded, MyProducts checks the date setting to make sure the new batch will be shown, but if your computer is not set to use English dates, it would always force the setting to 'All Dates'.
• On the New Batch dialog, you can drag the boundary between lists to adjust their relative sizes. But if you dragged too far an error could occur.

SoapMaker 3.12.4 Release Notes

Released Jan 28, 2018.

This update fixes a serious problem for non-English computers - in several reports, date range selection could cause errors.

Fixed a bug in the Product Transfers report - if you tried to print a transfer invoice to a customer branch with no shipping address saved, an error occurred.

SoapMaker 3.12.3 Release Notes

Released Jan 24, 2018.

This update fixes one bug, and marks the end of the beta test phase.

There was a bug in MySupplies which caused column widths to be a bit off.

This version appears stable with no known bugs at this time. If you have not been trying the beta test versions, please see the list of changes for releases 3.12.0 through 3.12.2 below.

SoapMaker 3.12.2 Beta Release Notes

Released for beta testing Jan 20, 2018.

This update fixes a bug in the Reused Products report that could cause the program to hang.

SoapMaker 3.12.1 Beta Release Notes

Released for beta testing Jan 16, 2018.

In response to user feedback, the ability to enter fractional packaging quantities in recipes has been restored.

Several forms and reports have been changed to better display fractional packaging quantites.

A bug has been fixed in the Sales Record form and Product Transfer form - If you added packaging items for shipping while editing a previous order, stock may not have been adjusted correctly.

The Price List has been changed so exporting will exclude products with no stock when the Show only products with stock remaining box is checked.

If open, the Reused Products report list is refreshed automatically when you make a batch using reused products as recipe ingredients.

The Stock Removed report will show 'reused' for the Order Number when you remove supply stock that was a reused product.

SoapMaker 3.12.0 Beta Release Notes

Released for beta testing Jan 15, 2018.

Highlights

New Supply Purchase or Expense form:

This is a completely new form to replace the previous version. It has a format similar to the new Sales Register form introduced in version 3.11, and provides the following benefits:

• You can now define a new supply item or category on the fly without having to close the order form.
• Order size is no longer limited.
• You can add more items by double-clicking them in MySupplies instead of entering them on the form.
• You can safely edit a previous order even if some items had been used already; stock is adjusted to reflect any changes.
• New checkbox to set as special price � price will then not be used for latest unit cost display in recipes or MySupplies.

During beta test, the old version is still available under the main Supplies menu in case of problems, but will be retired when the beta test phase is completed.

Reused Products report

This new report lists all transactions where you have transferred products back into your supplies stock. It is accessible from the main Reports menu.

From this report, you can:

• Return items to the original product inventory if desired.
• Remove them from stock (e.g. write-off)
• View the original product batch, the supply item in MySupplies, and the Usage report.

New Search feature

Search boxes have been added to MyRecipes, MySupplies, MyProducts, and Customers Report. See below for details.

Other Improvements:

Print Dialog

Whenever you print anything now, a standard Print Dialog will show like most other applications. This will enable you to easily select a different printer or print to PDF file, or change printer properties for landscape format (best for wide reports).

Sales Register form:

• If editing a row, then selecting a different row or saving the form will now automatically save your changes instead of raising a dialog.
• More meaningful warning indicators are shown to differentiate between notices about stock levels and warnings about items that are incomplete and can't be saved yet.
• The TotalPrice option has been changed so if a price has already been entered for an item, it will remember which option was used for that item. Otherwise it will use the option currently set in the input area.
• When you use the Fill Prices button, prices are only filled in items where you haven't entered a price yet. But if you have changed any product codes in your Price List, the new codes will be filled in regardless of whether the price is blank.
• When you add packaging items for shipping, the saved costs of these items were previously based on the most recent lot purchased. Now the costs are based on the actual lot(s) from which the items are drawn (the oldest purchase with stock available), the same as when you record new product batches.

MySupplies

• New option to show only items with stock remaining.
• New Search feature for Additives and Packaging - just start typing any part of a name and the list will show all matches.
• List views for Additives and Packaging show total number of names listed.

Supply Orders Report:

• New Export button enables you to export a CSV file containing the displayed list of orders with all their values. This file can be opened with a spreadsheet program such as Excel or LibreOffice.
• the Amount shown in the list of orders was previously the Business Cost. Now it is the Total order cost to match the supplier's invoice.
• When you display a particular order, the total order cost is now shown as well as the total business cost.
• Now shows both Inventory and Special Price indicators in status column.
• New toolbar button to start a New purchase order.

Purchase History report:

• New column shows whether special price (i.e. won't affect recipe costs, or unit costs in MySupplies)
• Added legend to show icon meanings
• Can no longer edit Lot Numbers - these can now be changed by editing the original Supply Order.
• For supply items which are reused products rather than purchases, the Supplier button will open MyProducts with the original batch selected.

MyProducts:

• Reports button has new menu items to show these additional reports: Reused Products, Removed Products, and Transferred Stock
• Search box enables you to look for and select a particular batch number.
• Several reports have a button or context menu item to show the related product batch. Previously this would just open MyProducts, but now it will select the particular batch and show the details.

MyRecipes: New Search feature - just start typing any part of a recipe name and the list will show all recipes which match.

Sales history report:

• New selection filters for price category and tax group like the Invoices report.
• New toolbar button and context menu item to view the selected product batch details.
• The list is now automatically refreshed when changes are made on another form, so the Refresh button has been removed.

Supply Usage report:

• New context pop-up menu when you right-click a list item.
• For Packaging items, the report also lists usage for shipping in Sales Registers or Product Transfer Registers, as well as batches made. A Toolbar button and context menu item allow viewing the related register.

Customers Report:

• When Show Customer Info button is clicked in various reports, the Customers report opens with the related customer and branch selected for viewing.
• New Search feature - just start typing any part of a customer name to highlight it in the list.
• When adding the first contact for a customer, if the only branch is the Main branch, then the contact name defaults to the Customer name to save having to type it.

NewBatch and New Blend Batch forms � you can now cancel and close the form even if you have entered an invalid field.

Additive or Packaging items called 'Lye (NaOH)' or 'Lye (KOH)' can cause confusion, so this is no longer allowed.

Transfers report: Total quantity is now shown on printed consignment invoices.

New Recipe main File menu has been restored and can be used even if MyRecipes is not open.

Exporting a recipe or ingredient list could cause 'invalid filename' error if the recipe name contains a character that is illegal for filenames. Now any illegal characters are removed from the suggested filename before saving.

List of All Purchases report is now refreshed automatically if open when recording new purchases.

Wizard panels on Recipe forms, MySupplies and MyProducts are intended to guide new users while learning the program. But I often see experienced users leaving these panels open even though they use up a lot of screen space. Now if a Wizard panel is unused for 20 sessions, it will automatically be closed. Of course you can open/close it any time by clicking the Wizard button on the toolbar.

Bugs fixed:

Date Ranges:

Previously, the following reports could miss items recorded on the first or last day of the selected date range, depending on the time of day they were recorded:

• Supply Orders report
• MyProducts
• Sales History
• Invoices report
• Supply Usage
• Tax Summary
• List of all Purchases
• Transfers Report
• Stock Removed Report

Some reports showed a date range option 'This year' and some showed 'Year to date'. Now they all use 'This year' to be consistent and avoid confusion.

Miscellaneous Bugs:

• When printing an invoice, the customer name did not show unless there was also an address.
• When editing a transfer record, it was possible to create negative stock in MyProducts.
• If you tried to delete a pending supply order without opening it and saving it, an error occurred.
• If you deleted an item while editing a previously saved sales record, the stock from the deleted item was not restored to MyProducts.
• When adding products to a Sales Register, if you accidentally triple-clicked a batch in MyProducts, an occasional error might occur.
• If a supply order contained identical items, the List of all Purchases report was not showing all of them.
• Packaging item quantities should always be whole numbers, not fractions. But it was possible to enter fractional quantities in recipes, and this would introduce incorrect amounts when making batches. Now you can only enter whole number quantities for packaging.
• Transfers Report: Fixed bug that caused error when trying to zoom print preview.
• Transfer Record form was not validating inputs before saving when you use the Main File/Save menu or Ctrl-S.
• Sales Record form: When adding products directly to a Sales Register (without using the dialog to enter quantity), the warning message about 'no quantity or price' was repeated for each item instead of just showing once for the new item.
• Supply Orders report: When deleting a pending order the database was not updated correctly.
• If you tried to edit a Sales Register with only one item, and the related product batch had no stock remaining, an error occurred.
• Stock Removed report and Labor report: After closing, the File menu for exporting was still enabled, and would cause error if selected.
• Usage History report: fixed problem causing many list items with 'unknown' lot.

SoapMaker 3.11.5 Release Notes

New stable release on October 10, 2017 (First released for beta testing October 6, 2017)

This update fixes a couple of bugs and adds some improvements:

Sales Record form

• When editing an existing sales register, changing the quantity of an item could show an incorrect message saying 'Returning more that made'.
• If you pressed Ctrl-S to save the form, it could cause redundant empty sales record to be saved, or cause an error if the optional Reminder dialog was shown.
• Now pressing ENTER only saves item changes if focus is on one of the boxes in the item input area.
• If you edit an item, and then select a different one from the list before saving changes, you will be asked whether you want to save first instead of just discarding the changes.
• Added keyboard shortcuts to the captions for SaveItem (ENTER) and Cancel (ESC) buttons
• Now if you click the Apply same tax to all items button while still editing an item, it is saved automatically to avoid confusion.

Invoices report: When deleting a sales register and restoring stock, MyProducts and MySupplies are now refreshed AFTER the final message to avoid confusion.

Transfers Report: When deleting a transfer register, if the quantity to be returned to the source location exceeds the quantity made, the stock remaining is set equal to the quantity made instead of being unchanged.

SoapMaker 3.11.4 Beta Release Notes

Released for beta testing Sept. 30, 2017.

This update fixes one bug - The new Sales Record form was not showing the correct Product Description and Item number after editing and saving an item.

SoapMaker 3.11.3 Beta Release Notes

Released for beta testing Sept. 27, 2017.

This update fixes one serious bug, as well as several other problems, and adds a number of improvements.

Problems fixed:

• The New Supply Purchase or Expense form was not saving Other Expense items due to a bug introduced in 3.11.0. Although the items were not saved, their costs were included in the total order cost.
  If you have recorded expense items since installing version 3.11.0 or later, you will need to edit those purchase orders and re-enter the expense items. You can access them from the Supply Orders report.
• When loading a previous purchase order for editing, if there were no expense items previously, the Expense Category boxes were not being populated with the category list.
• Fixed a bug in the Labor Report, Stock Removed report and List of all Purchases which caused an error when opening the form if it was minimized before closing last time.
• The Customers List allowed you to click the Edit button when no list item was selected, causing an error.

Improvements

The following changes should make it easier to use these forms:

Customers List:	The currently selected Input box is highlighted Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-S to save changes ESC key to cancel
MyPreferences:	Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-S to save changes Ctrl-T to move to the next tab ESC key to cancel
MyMolds and MyLocations:	Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-N to create a New item Ctrl-S or ENTER to save changes ESC key to cancel
Price List:	Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-S to save changes ESC key to cancel TAB to move right, or down to next row ENTER to move down one row; Shift-ENTER to move up

SoapMaker 3.11.2 Beta Release Notes

Released for beta testing Sept. 16, 2017.

This update fixes two bugs:

• On the new Sales Record form, you can move up and down the list of items by pressing ENTER or Shift-ENTER. But if the list was longer than the page, it was not scrolling automatically to keep the selected item visible.
• The Non-Soap recipe form was calculating incorrect total weight and volume if you changed portion size or quantity while expected water loss was not set to zero.

SoapMaker 3.11.1 Beta Release Notes

Released for beta testing Sept. 14, 2017.

This update fixes some bugs and makes a few improvements in response to user feedback.

Problems fixed:

• A bug in the Price List incorrectly showed a message saying 'duplicate code' when you tried to add a new Product Code.
• The Sales Register form was not copying the Tax Included indication when Apply Same Tax to All Items was clicked.
• When saving changes to Product Description or Tag in MyProducts it was possible to lose Price List entries if you declined the offer to propagate the changes. Now if there are no other batches with the same changed Description or Tag, the Price List is automatically updated to match.

Improvements:

• Now when you print Product Transfer (Consignment) Invoices, the same products from different batches are consolidated into single items, as in Sales Invoices. Batch numbers are not shown, and you have the option to show Product Codes, Tags or both.
• The new Sales Register form has been improved to make it easier to use, and more like the old version:
  • The selected item will automatically focus on the first field which has no data yet.
  • Pressing ENTER will move to the next item in the list, saving any changes to the current one.
  • Shift-ENTER will move to the previous item.

SoapMaker 3.11.0 Beta Release Notes

Released for Beta Test September 2, 2017

This update introduces a major new feature for Professional Edition users, and provides several improvements and bug fixes.

New Feature - Import of Sales Records

If you use a web shopping cart, or a point-of-sale system, you may be able to import sales records into SoapMaker and have your product stock adjusted automatically. The Users Manual has new topics explaining how to do this.

To facilitate this new feature and address some other issues, the New Sales Register form has been changed significantly. There is no longer a limit of 99 entries, and the user interface is different. To help you adjust, an optional Tips window on the form explains how to efficiently use the new layout.

Improvements

• Added to the warning message when deleting a sales register to mention that the Sales History report will no longer show these items.
• If you delete the most recent batch, the batch number will be re-used for the next batch you make. If you have already recorded sales of some of the products from the deleted batch, those sales records will be misleading because they reference the same batch number as the new unrelated batch. Now if you delete a batch after selling some of its products, you will receive a warning message, and have the option to cancel the deletion.
• If you assign Product Codes in your Price List, each product should have a unique code. Now when you open the Price List, it will check for duplicate codes, and if any are found will save a list so you can correct. When you enter a new code, you will get a warning message if the code has already been assigned to another product.
• A new optional reminder message shows when you make a new batch, explaining that batch costs may differ from recipe costs.
• When saved recipes are opened, input quantities using tsp or Tbsp units will always show 2 decimal places, regardless of the scale precision setting.

Problems Fixed

• Customers report � When creating a new branch, the preferred Tax Group and Notes were not being saved.
• The Price List would occasionally show spurious results due to a badly formed database query.
• The New Batch form was clearing already filled in Tag field when the waste factor was changed.
• Previously it was possible to save a Product Description with leading or trailing spaces. This can result in redundant entries in your Price List. When you update to this version, if any of those spaces are found they will be removed.
• MyProducts was not saving edited Notes for batch records stored in locations other than HOME.
• An error occurred if you tried to add Additive ingredients to a Soap recipe, or tried to save it, before entering any base oils.
• Product Descriptions with ampersands did not display correctly in the Price List.
• In MyProducts, if you chose to view products in ALL LOCATIONS, the number of sub-batches indicated for each batch in the Batch List would total the sub-batches in every location instead of just the total number of sub-batches originally made.

---

SoapMaker 3.10.10 Release Notes

First Released as Beta July 14, 2017; Removed 'Beta' designation July 26.

This update consolidates several bug fixes since version 3.10.5.

If you have already installed 3.10.10 beta, there is no need to update.

SoapMaker 3.10.9 beta Release Notes

Released July 11, 2017.

• In MySupplies, the unit cost column heading now says 'Last Cost/unit' to make it clear that it's based on the most recent purchase.
• The new sub-batch Tags introduced in 3.10 must be unique within each product batch. But when this feature was first introduced and your database was updated to add Tags, they were given initial values derived from the cured size of each sub-batch. If two sub-batches had almost the same size, this could result in duplicate Tags, which can then cause errors later. Now when you select a batch in MyProducts and duplicate Tags are detected, a warning message tells you to change one so they are unique.
• Still trying to fix problem saving Price List when you have a very large inventory of unique products...
  This may be due to a timing issue, so I have increased the delay to allow the database to finish deleting old tables before saving new ones, and made it proportional to the number of products.

SoapMaker 3.10.8 beta Release Notes

Released July 6, 2017.

This update attempts to fix one problem:
If you have a very large inventory of unique products, some changes are not captured when saving the Price List after editing.

This may be due to a timing issue, so I have added a delay to allow the database to finish deleting old tables before saving new ones.

SoapMaker 3.10.7 beta Release Notes

Released June 29, 2017.

This update fixes two problem:

• When editing an existing Sales Register, if a product's Tag had since been changed and you needed to select the new Tag, then deleting the item or saving the edited invoice caused an error.
• Product names with ampersands were not displayed correctly in the Sales Register form or Transfer Register form.

SoapMaker 3.10.6 beta Release Notes

Released June 27, 2017.

This update addresses two error conditions:

• When attempting to record supply purchases, spurious errors occur when entering the Number of Containers field. In this update, the errors are simply being ignored since they don't seem to be based on an actual problem.
• In MyProducts, if on old batch is detected with no content, an error occurred. Now any old empty batches will be deleted automatically.

---

SoapMaker 3.10.5 Release Notes

Released June 26, 2017.

This update fixes a number of problems, and adds code to further chase some weird occasional errors.

• Product Transfer Record form: corrected bug which prevented adding new item to existing register being edited.
• Transfers Report: If you displayed a register for a transfer from a location other than the HOME location, then tried to display a transfer from the HOME location, an incorrect spurious warning was displayed.
• MyProducts: if you edit a batch in a location other than HOME and set the stock remaining to zero for any sub-batch, that record will now be deleted to avoid orphan database records.
• If you have a large database, it can take quite a while to populate the product list in MyProducts or the Price List form. Now a message is displayed while loading the list to let you know what's happening.
• When you record a new batch, MyProducts will show only products from that recipe or with that product description, so the list will load quickly. Also, if you set MyProducts to show only products made this year, it will remember that setting next time you open it, so loading will be much faster.
• The Sales History report was adding the cost instead of subtracting it to get the Profit. This has been fixed. The Cost and Profit columns have been exchanged for a more logical presentation.
• The Tax and Income Summary report was not including the actual cost of supply lots used in the Total Costs value.
• Printers with continuous roll paper were causing an error when trying to print. Now the program attempts to limit the page size to avoid this problem.
• If you changed a product sub-batch tag in MyProducts, and later tried to edit an existing sales invoice that referenced the old tag, an error occurred. Now you will be warned that a matching tag could not be found, and you will have to select an appropriate tag and re-enter the price before saving the edited invoice.
• Added code to New Supply Purchase form to chase occasional weird error.
• The Price List form would sometimes not save changes correctly. The code has been changed to attempt to fix this problem.
• When printing a Price List, long product codes would overlap the adjacent column.
• When updating from a version prior to 3.10, an error could occur while updating the database if you had saved a batch with very small portion sizes in fl oz.
• If old batches had somehow been saved with no weight or volume, an error could occur during update.
• Topics have been added to the Users Manual to describe:
  • How to record product gift sets used for advertising
  • What's involved in deleting old supply items or products

---

SoapMaker 3.10.4 Release Notes

Released June 13, 2017.

This update corrects a few problems and marks the completion of the 3.10 beta test phase. This new version is stable with no know problems.

Problems fixed and other changes in this update:

• If you opened the dialog in MyProducts to add products to a Sales Register, or to transfer products to another Location, then clicked in the MyProducts batch list before completing the dialog, you would see two warning messages instead of one, and in some instances this