Horizon 4.83 Release Notes

Horizon 4.83 is scheduled to be released on 13 May 2025. It will be deployed to Horizon Cloud customers on 19 May and 27 May, from 8pm onwards.

New Features

Enhanced Delivery Information Report for EvolutionX

You want the Delivery Information report to include courier tracking details.

We’ve made several key improvements to the Delivery Information Report to enhance usability and provide clearer, more useful delivery tracking data. This report can be seen by your customers when they click a link in EvolutionX orders – contact the EvolutionX Support team to set this up for your webshop. The report shows itemized sales delivery notes, with the delivery status for each line. You can customize it with your logo and brand style.

The report has been saved to Utilities > Report Designer > All Folders > Reports Library > WebReports LIB as Web - Delivery Information (Template). To let your customers use this feature, you will need to save your customized version to All Folders > Reports > Web Reports > Web - Delivery Information.

Wholesaler Comms

You want mobile telephone contact information to be sent to the supplier.

To support VOW’s switch to DPD, Horizon now includes contact mobile numbers in opXML orders, in preference to the so customers can receive delivery updates by text.

When sending order information using opXML orders:

• If a contact's Mobile number is present, it will now be sent as the contact telephone number
• If no Mobile is available, the Telephone number will be used instead.
• There is a new option Allow delivery texts (selected by default). When selected, your contact's telephone number is included with the order. When cleared, no number will be sent.

This change helps ensure that a better telephone number is used, giving your customers a better experience with their deliveries.

Email

You want to CC or BCC emails from Horizon.

We've added CC and BCC to the Email window to give you more choices when sending documents to recipients.

Robot

You want schedules to be stored in your database instead of in a local file.

Robot now stores schedules (when a template will be run) in the database instead of a file. On first run, existing schedules are copied to the database. Future template additions or modifications are changed in the database. Each of your Robots is uniquely identified.

Bank Statement Import

You want to have long-form month date format options available in the banking import configuration.

We’ve made it even easier for you to import receipts from HSBC and other banks that use long-form month formats. You can now select two new date formats in Banking Import Configuration:

• dd mmm yy – e.g. 14 Mar 25
• dd mmm yyyy – e.g. 14 Mar 2025

These options are especially useful if your bank statements use abbreviated month names, helping you avoid the need to manually reformat dates before importing. A table of all the supported date formats is included in the guide.

Process Types

You want the default process type set against a supplier to automatically apply to purchase orders created via Shopping or Back-to-Back.

We’ve improved how default process types work when raising purchase orders via Shopping or Back-to-back. If you’ve set a default process type against a supplier, they are now automatically applied to purchase orders created through Shopping or back-to-backed – just as it already does for manually created purchase orders. This change helps streamline processes like credit card reconciliation, reduces the chance of human error, and improves filtering in daybooks.

Back Order Download

You want each error log entry to include the Config ID for the failed task.

We’ve made it easier to identify which Back Order (BO) download task is failing when an error occurs. Now, each back order download task includes its Config ID in the log entries, so you can quickly trace and troubleshoot errors.

You want to select if your supplier's server uses Active or Passive mode for FTP or FTPS.

We've added a Passive tick-box to Back Order Download configuration. Passive mode has always been default for FTP configuration. If your supplier sets up their server using active mode, then clear this option.

Export Data Service

You want the products exported to EvolutionX to automatically have the 'Taxable' flag set based on their VAT code in Horizon.

We've enhanced the product export process from Horizon to EvolutionX to make managing VAT settings easier and more automated. When exporting products using Export Data Service, the 'Taxable' flag in EvolutionX will now be set based on the product’s VAT code in Horizon:

• VAT Code 'E' (Exempt) ➜ Product will be marked as not taxable in EvolutionX
• All other VAT Codes ➜ Product will be marked as taxable

This means you no longer need to manually set the taxable flag for each product in EvolutionX – it's handled for you.

Note: This only applies to your own product catalogues that you have selected in Export Data Config. All FusionPlus sourced catalogues are dealt with by EvolutionX. If you have any non-standard VAT rate products in your own product catalogues that you include in your export, then a VAT label must still be set, on the EvolutionX site. Live pricing will fetch the correct price, as set in Horizon.

You want all child products to automatically sync to the EvolutionX pricing list when the master product is on a contract.

When a master product is added to a contract, all linked child SKUs are now automatically included in the sync to EvolutionX pricing lists. This ensures that visibility of private items is correctly managed in your EvolutionX store.

Horizon API

You want newly created traders to automatically inherit settings from your trader template.

When the option Allow orders to create traders is selected, new traders created via Orders and Receipts Import Service, or Horizon API Order POST (e.g. when importing orders from EvolutionX) will now automatically inherit settings from your trader template. This ensures consistency and prevents invoicing issues caused by missing or incorrect set-up.

Defects

Company Set-up

We've extended the scope of the credit control options to cover when you change the customer on a sales order. The system can check the credit limit of the newly chosen customer. If the option Credit check order entry is selected, and the credit limit is exceeded, you will see an alert. If the option On stop when credit limit adding orders is also selected, then the system will place the customer on stop. The functionality behind On stop when credit limit has been moved into these options for simplicity.

Orders and Receipts Import

• Prepaid Evolution X (Stripe) orders now correctly use the Credit Card Process Type during import.

Import Files

• We've fixed an issue with the option Delete Fusion data under the Custom Data tab in Import Files. It's now deleting the replace swap types that are imported with the Alternatives and Additionals data.

 

Release	Version	Database Version	Date
Release to market	4.83.0.53	483.016	13 May 2025

We've addressed cases: DISTR-1934, DISTR-2164, DISTR-2257, DISTR-2266, DISTR-2277, DISTR-2289, DISTR-2406, DISTR-2430 and DISTR-2438.