Release Notes (alle Versionen in 2023)

Shop importer (ECOM-1814)

The Settings for Shop or Marketplace section was missing on the Interface tab of the shop importer's Details page. This has been fixed.

Webhooks (PIM-1091)

You can now subscribe to an event, that will be generated whenever a product is created, using webhooks.

Amazon (AMAZON-1898)

In the Amazon shop importer settings, the legacy settings of the old VCS implementation are now hidden by default. If needed, they can be displayed by clicking the corresponding check box.

API (PIM-1096)

External developers can now create, read, update, and delete a product's purchase prices via the API.

Performance (FFU-1596)

The performance of the Lagerzahlen cronjob has been improved.

Country list and states modules (FAC-1869)

The Country List module and the States module will be removed in the future. As a first step, we have deactivated all create, edit and delete options.

Shopify API (ECOM-1802)

We have added pagination support for the GraphQL Shopify API to our Importer.

Shopify POS (ECOM-1526)

We have improved the error handling for the sales order import of Shopify POS sales orders.

New Xentral updater (PF-1228)

All new Xentral instances are now using the new Xentral updater. It has some minor user interface changes, but most importantly it makes the updates faster and more stable.

User interface (PIM-1173)

When using Xentral on a mobile device, parts of the sidebar navigation (administration menu) weren't accessible at all times. This issue has been fixed.

Picking list (FFU-1651)

With the Picking list details module active, the sorting order in the pick list was not correct. This has been fixed.

DHL 3.0 (FFU-1579)

Printing a shipping label automatically as part of step 1 of the auo-shipping process with DHL 3.0 failed in specific cases. This has been fixed.

Dispatch center (FFU-1521)

The filtering of the delivery note field in the Shipped tab of the dispatch center now shows proper results.

Datev connect (FAC-1899)

In DatevConnect there will now be fewer exceptions caused by invalid login data.

Credit notes (FAC-1640)

If a customer tries to split an incoming payment and selects the type credit note, this type is now also prefilled correctly on the incoming payment page.

Payment methods (FAC-982)

User-generated translations in the payment methods module now work again.

Dispatch center (FFU-1687, FFU-1685)

Scanning of batches in dispatch center is now stocking out the correct number of best-before stock from correct storage location.

Batches (FFU-1678)

The "autoversand_manuell" cronjob will not crash anymore when the batches app is active.

Amazon FBM stock sync (AMAZON-1955)

An issue with the update of Amazon FBM stock information from Xentral to Amazon via the SP-API has been fixed so that the Amazon FBM stock sync now works again properly.

Direct debit (FAC-1862)

The IBAN in the payment advice has been anonymized in accordance with GDPR rules.

Shopify payments (FAC-994)

We have improved the receipt of payment Shopify live import.

Sales order (FFU-1583)

The quick overview in the Delivery Handover tab of the Sales Order module displayed incorrect data. This has been fixed.

Formulas (FFU-1582)

In rare cases formulas acted upon the wrong items and therefore the wrong calculated numbers were displayed in documents. This issue happened only under specific circumstances involving parts lists, disabled listing of items documents, and formulas that act upon these items in documents. This has been fixed.

Delivery notes (FFU-1542)

Postage items were not displayed on delivery notes even though the Only take over stocks items (Nur Lagerartikel übernehmen) setting in Projects was not selected. This has been fixed.

Dispatch center (FFU-1468)

Proper error messages have been added when users scan invalid delivery notes, e.g. because the delivery note does not exist or was cancelled. In particular, there is now a proper error message when a user tries to scan a delivery note a second time that has already been processed.

Receipt of payment (FAC-1853)

In some cases, there was an error in the background with the quick preview.

Liabilities (FAC-1846)

When different suppliers used the same invoice number, these liabilities could not be exported into DATEV. This has been fixed.

Reports (FAC-1827)

The "083 - customers who have not ordered anything for X days" report now delivers correct data.

Shipping tax split (FAC-1781)

The shipping tax split module doesn't calculate anything if you add a shipping position manually and the checkbox for automatic calculation is not active.

Taxdoo (FAC-1756)

All documents are now transmitted properly to Taxdoo in accordance with the document date in UTC.

Payment advice (FAC-1650)

The payment advice now uses the same document background as the underlying invoices based on their projects.

NextGen user interface (GRO-196)

We have changed the German names and positions of some tiles in the NextGen launchpad.

Shop export (ECOM-1346)

Even if only the price of an item has changed, this will now be updated in the online shop.

Amazon (AMAZON-1946)

The difference between FBA and FBM stock updates was not properly respected in the Amazon shop interface and the stock was updated for both FBA and FBM. This has been fixed so that now only stock for FBM listings is updated.

Invoices (FAC-1859)

The quick preview of an invoice in the Invoices overview table (when expanding the invoice or clicking on the invoice number in the table) displayed a wrong invoice, whereas in Edit mode the correct invoice was displayed. This has been fixed so that the correct invoice is now displayed in all cases.

Shipping method: Amazon Prime (FFU-1452)

We removed the fields to connect the Amazon Prime shipping method via Amazon MWS as this method of connection is no longer functional.

Shipping methods (FFU-1015)

The settings for the shipping methods GLS, DPD, and DHL (alt) are now divided into basic and expert settings.

Shipping methods (FFU-662)

When copying a shipping method, problems could arise because of duplicate types. If you copy a shipping method now, a unique entry for type will be generated when you save.

Split shipping (FAC-1007)

The Update postions button no longer has an effect on items that are marked as postage, because this could cause issues with postage items that were changed by the Split shipping module.

Credit notes API (FAC-1824)

We created an API endpoint that is able to deliver all related documents for a specific credit note. This endpoint is currently in Beta.

Kaufland (ECOM-1665)

You can now map all your product listings in Kaufland with one single table based on EAN codes.

Kaufland (ECOM-1664)

You can now select a product category to export your products with the new Kaufland API 2.0.

NextGen user interface (PIM-1168)

We have fixed several issues with the Back button in Xentral NextGen.

Production (FFU-1630)

When adding a batch to production, an error message appeared. This has now been fixed.

Order proposal (FFU-1623)

When users tried to open the product overview tab in the Order Proposal module, an error message appeared due to wrong formatting quantities internally. This has been fixed.

Tracking numbers (FFU-1612, FFU-1606)

A 500 error message ("Undefined class constant DOCUMENT_INVOICE") appeared when users tried to save the tracking number from the shipping provider. The underlying issue has been fixed.

DHL. 3.0 (FFU-810)

For DHL 3.0, the visual age check feature is now available.

Contacts (TAN-2899)

The user interface in the Addressfilter module is now available in English as well.

Product API (PIM-1095)

External developers can now create, read, update, and delete product properties via the API.

Revenue statistics (FAC-1761)

In the revenue statistics, the revenue is now split by currency so that different currencies are not added up anymore.

Credit note API (FAC-1735)

We have added the "Get Credit Note" details endpoint that allows getting comprehensive data of a credit note via API.

Liabilities (FAC-866)

The project field in liabilities is now filled automatically with the preferred project or, if there is no preferred project, with the default project.

DATEV (FAC-210)

The email is now exported to DATEV together with the other data in the manual customer/supplier CSV export.

Pipedrive (TAN-1982)

The Pipedrive integration has been fixed. Contacts and deals can be synchronized between Xentral and Pipedrive.

Internetmarke shipping label (FFU-1581)

The issue with creating Internetmarke shipping labels has been fixed.

Kaufland (ECOM-1744)

The order import from Kaufland to Xentral failed. This has been fixed.

Kaufland (ECOM-1747)

If the Kaufland shop importer interface was set up with wrong or missing credentials, all products linked to this online shop could not be edited anymore in Xentral. This has been fixed.

DATEV (FAC-1805)

The DATEV Rechnungsdatenservice (formerly DATEV connect online) module was not visible and not usable in some Xentral instances. This has been fixed.

Personal access tokens (PF-1015)

The functionality of the personal access tokens has been extended so that they are now available for older Xentral APIs as well. Please keep in mind that the permissions of the old APIs do not apply when you use the personal access tokens.

Projects (FFU-1470)

We have fixed an issue with attachments in connection with the auto-shipping option.

Production (FFU-1367)

When an item that was part of a production parts list was located in two warehouses with the same batch number and best before date, it was not retrieved from the preferred warehouse, but from the warehouse with the most stock instead. This has been fixed, so that now the preferred warehouse will be used.

Management board (FAC-1783)

In the Management board, the Liabilities (gross) fields for the previous months now properly sum up all liability amounts - no matter whether they have been paid or not.

Shopimporter (ECOM-1736)

Orders from shops and marketplaces were only imported into the intermediate table and needed to be imported manually. This was fixed and the process is fully automated again and the intended behavior restored.

Financial accounting export (FAC-1149)

We fixed an issue where the liabilities number in the file name was incorrectly exported from DATEV.

Hubspot (TAN-2958)

We fixed an issue where Hubspot users could not properly update their Xentral instance.

Email account (TAN-2893)

If you added a specific email address in both the basic settings and the Email accounts module, Xentral will use the configuration from the Email accounts module. Important: In this case make sure that you have defined your SMTP settings in the Email accounts module, as you will not be able to send emails from Xentral otherwise.

We updated the default PHP Mailer to the latest version.

Financial accounting export (FAC-1694)

We now show an error message if there is an error while creating a PDF during the financial accounting export. The error message displays a link to the respective document.

Translations (FFU-1430)

We have added some missing translations to the user interface of the sales order positions table.

Translations (FFU-1527)

We have added some missing translations to the user interface of sales orders and delivery notes.

Hubspot (TAN-2799)

There was an error, when too many requests were sent to the Hubspot API. This issue has been fixed.

Products API (PIM-1065)

Users can now create, read, and update more parameters among the product details via the Xentral API.

Products API (PIM-1066)

Users can now create, read, and update product sales prices via the API.

Sales order API (FFU-1415)

We added data for sales order items to the GET endpoint.

DPD AT (FAC-1471)

The tracking number is saved automatically against the shipping label for DPD AT.

Split shipping (FAC-1150)

When you use split shipping, float tax rates, like 5.5, are now used in the correct way and the shipping articles are generated correctly.

Receipt of payment (FAC-1617)

Klarna transactions can now be properly matched to the corresponding document.

NextGen overview tables (PIM-1027)

A filter setting applied to one overview table was also applied to other overview tables erroneously. This has been fixed.

Tags (PIM-1042)

The color scheme of tags in the NextGen and classic design have been aligned.

User management (TAN-2180)

The permission for editing payment transaction now works correctly.

Payment transactions (FAC-1716)

The direct debit avise PDF now displays the amount (in the description text of the avise) with two decimal places.

Sales order API (FFU-1403)

Users can now specify order date from and until, so that only orders in a specified date range are reported.

Financial accounting export (FAC-1691)

Special characters such as "&" in the document field (Belegfeld) cause problems when you export liabilities with DATEV. These characters now automatically get excluded/replaced.

Invoices (PIM-1029)

When you clicked on the filter button in the invoice table using the NextGen design, you got an error message. This issue has been fixed.

Translations (TAN-2616)

We have fixed some language issues with user interface labels in the User module.

We have added digital signature functionality to all relevant eBay calls to meet new security verification requirements.

Shipping methods (FFU-1126)

Shipping labels are now stored in the Files section of the sales order and of the delivery note for later use, for example, to print the label again.

API (PIM-1011)

Users can now delete products via the API.

API (PIM-945)

The Update Product endpoint has been enhanced in scope so that more product fields can now be updated.

NextGen user interface (PIM-1044)

Some issues with login to Xentral NextGen have been fixed. For example, user trying to go to sales orders were asked to enter login credentials again.

Products (PIM-993)

If the selling price in a product had been defined in a currency other than the default currency, and this product was added to an offer or sales order, the selling price did not appear in the document. This has been fixed.

Liabilities (FAC-1670)

Liabilities with correct goods and invoice inspection are not indicated as "not loadable" anymore when imported in the payment transactions module.

Payment methods (FAC-1656)

The creation of new payment methods (by clicking +NEW) except for the "custom" payment method was not possible. This has been fixed.

Payment transaction (FAC-1637)

The correct number of payments is now displayed in the Payments tab again.

We have added the Ebay header signature on all finance requests so that we can ensure compliance with Ebay from next month onward. This is still hidden behind a feature flag at the moment.

Shipping methods (FFU-1428)

Custom carriers (shipping method "Custom") were unavailable after an update to version 23.0.4. This has been fixed.

Reports did not load and the corresponding activity indicator (the spinning Xentral icon) was visible indefinitely. This has been fixed.

We have restored functionality of the dispatch center with regards to batches, (manual) auto-shipping, and auto-shipping plus.

Printing shipping labels in stage one of the logistics process did not work properly. A few issues in this context have been fixed.

NextGen user interface (PIM-1032)

We have changed the color of links in system messages pointing to other resources, e.g. to sales orders or invoices, in order to improve readability.

Liabilities (FAC-1669)

The status of a liability is set back to "open" after a partial payment (bank transaction) has been removed from the liability.

App Store (PIM-1024)

In the NextGen user interface, users could not open apps from the App Store: After clicking on the app's open button, an error message appeared. This has been fixed so that the apps are now accessible.

Fiskaly (FAC-1687)

The transactions tab in the Fiskaly module did not display entries also with large amounts of data. This has been fixed.

NextGen user interface (PIM-1007)

When a user filtered a table (e.g., the Products table) in the NextGen user interface and then reloaded the page, the filter was still shown as applied, but the table was not filtered anymore. This has been fixed so that the filter is still applied after reloading the page.

Liabilities (FAC-1633)

In the incoming payments module, liabilities match to the bank transactions by their document number again.

Payment transactions (FAC-1513)

The error message on Accounting > Payment transactions > Direct debits > SEPA collective debits has been removed and printing works again.

Sales orders, invoices, and delivery notes (FHPB-12)

Sales prices in other currencies than the standard currency in the system were not applied correctly in sales orders, invoices, and delivery notes: Instead of the actual price in the non-standard currency being directly applied, the conversion rate was applied again on the price, thus resulting in a wrong price in the document. This has been fixed.

Pipedrive (TAN-1982)

Pipedrive did not sync properly and an error message did not disappear in conjunction with the setup of free fields. This has been fixed.

finAPI (FAC-1693)

Customers using the live banking connection via finAPI were unable to renew their bank consent due to a synchronization issue between Xentral and finAPI.

Mobile version (PIM-768)

The app's homepage has been optimized for mobile devices.

Service order (FFU-1273)

The service order module is now available in new instances again.

Shopify POS (ECOM-1528)

If a sales order is imported into Xentral from Shopify POS that has no other customer data than an email address (in particular, no first and last name), the customer data is now overwritten with the default customer - otherwise, Xentral would ignore the sales order.

NextGen user interface (PIM-772)

Your subscription status is now displayed in the side menu.

Dispatch center (FFU-1120)

We improved the loading times when users scan items in the dispatch center.

DHL 3.0 and Sendcloud (FHPB-2)

It is now possible to create shipping labels for item quantities less than 1.

Financial accounting export (FAC-586)

Concatenated account and booking key number having been manually inserted in the bank transaction by the user will be checked against the customer number in the accounting export. This will prevent that these values aren't split in the export.

API (PIM-840)

The Create Product endpoint is now available in the Xentral API.

Purchase orders (FHPB-15)

When a purchase order with a non-default taxation was edited, the taxation reverted back to the default setting. This has been fixed.

Online shops (ECOM-1630)

Some customers reported issues after the update to version 22.5.3 when they checked the connection to the online shop or when they picked up sales orders manually in the shop importer. The database connection errors for several shop interfaced have been fixed.

Employee time tracking (TAN-2767)

The vacation day settings for the year 2023 are now possible.

Documents (sales order, proposal, delivery note, invoice) (FHPB-3)

When a user changed or added the contact data directly in the document instead of retrieving it from the master data, the contact's state and country were not applied.

Financial accounting export (FAC-1623)

The export button in the DATEV financial export module works again.

Sendcloud and DHL 3.0 (FFU-1279)

If discount items were part of a sales order, the shipping labels were not created properly. The bug fix leaves out discount items from shipping label requests.

NextGen overview tables (PIM-935)

A bug with the overview tables in the Xentral NextGen design has been fixed: You can now sort columns alphabetically in ascending and descending order.

FinAPI (FAC-1612)

If the bank connected to FinApi requires a renewal of credentials, you will now see a message in the account and on the payment transaction import page.

Returns (FFU-1104)

The link to the help center in the return order module has been fixed.

Delivery notes (FHPB-16)

The CN23 form used to have all items from the invoice instead of only the items from the delivery note. This has been fixed.

Sales orders (FFU-1064)

Special line items (such as group headings) in the sales orders used to have wrong denominations and could not be deleted. This has been fixed.

Warehouse (FFU-977)

Under specific conditions, when items with serial numbers were relocated, the serial number remained with the old storage location instead of moving with the items. This has been fixed.

Delivery notes (FHPB-4)

The selected delivery date was not saved when an item was added to the purchase order. This has been fixed.

Delivery note (FHPB-10)

Batch items were incorrectly put back into stock after the cancellation of a delivery note.

Warehouse (FHPB-38)

When you tried to store items with serial numbers, clicking on the Serial Number Assistant button did not open any wizard.

Tasks (FHPB-5)

Special characters are now displayed correctly on a task's PDF.

Amazon (FAC-767)

The tax rate on the invoices and sales orders was different from the tax rate on the Amazon invoice. This has been fixed.