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3.58.4

Shop-floor breakdown handling on mobile, from report to confirmed repair

October 23, 2026
Production

Plant Maintenance now has a mobile breakdown flow: scan the machine, assign an engineer, repair with spares, and have the supervisor confirm.

New Feature

Fixed, operator check and supervisor confirmation

The engineer reports the machine fixed. The supervisor then runs an operator check with the badge and either confirms the repair, which closes the breakdown, or sends it back to the engineer. Downtime is calculated automatically and one failure history record is written.

Other Global
New Feature

Printable machine QR labels

A new Machine QR Labels page produces the labels that supervisors scan when reporting a breakdown.

Other Global
New Feature

New roles and permissions for the breakdown flow

The roles PM Maintenance Manager, PM Production Supervisor and PM Stores Keeper are added, with permissions to report, assign, work on and issue spares for breakdowns. Administrators must assign these roles to users.

System Global
New Feature

Report a breakdown by scanning the machine and operator badge

A production supervisor scans the machine's QR label and the operator's badge on a phone to report a stoppage. Maintenance managers are notified straight away in the app and by web push.

Other Global
New Feature

Assign and accept breakdown jobs

Managers see a queue of open breakdowns and assign an engineer. The list shows each engineer's current open jobs. The engineer accepts the job and the reporter is notified. The Report, Assign, My Jobs and Stores tabs are on a new mobile breakdown page.

Other Global
New Feature

Classify the fault and raise the emergency work order

Engineers classify the breakdown from a category and failure-mode list, record the diagnosis, and raise the emergency work order from the job sheet. They can then start the repair.

Other Global
New Feature

Reserve spares or order external service from the job sheet

Engineers reserve spare parts, and a purchase requisition is raised automatically for items out of stock. They can also request an external service order. Reservations can be cancelled or short-closed.

Other Global
New Feature

Stores tab for issuing breakdown spares

Stores staff see open spare reservations, most urgent first, and can check where stock can be picked. They issue the parts to the cost centre, and the parts are recorded on the work order.

Inventory Global
3.58.5

Front Desk end-of-day report and deleted entry fixes

October 23, 2026
Production

Front Desk gains a scheduled evening report of today's entries, and deleted entries no longer appear in lists, the dashboard, pending goods receipts or reports.

Bug Fix

Deleted Front Desk entries no longer show up

Entries that were deleted at the Front Desk were still appearing in the entry list, dashboard counts, pending goods receipts and emailed reports. They are now excluded everywhere.

Inventory Global
Bug Fix

Category-filtered Front Desk reports no longer send empty emails

A daily Front Desk report filtered to one category used to be sent as an empty email when only other categories had entries. It is now sent only when entries match the filter.

Inventory Global
New Feature

Today's Front Desk Entries evening report

You can now schedule an end-of-day email listing everything the Front Desk received today, oldest first. It can be limited to one category, set to a fixed cutoff time or a specific date, and can optionally send a 'nothing received' email on empty days.

Inventory Global
3.58.6

Price revision now re-prices every item in a costing chain

October 23, 2026
Production

Price revision no longer skips earlier sizes when you create the next size with New Version.

Bug Fix

Price revision covers every size copied with New Version

When you cost the next size by pressing New Version on the previous one, a price revision used to re-price only the last sheet in that chain. It now re-prices each different item, along with the finished fabric and greige sheets they are built on.

Textile Costing Global
3.58.0

Your own AI provider keys, plus CRM and numbering fixes

October 22, 2026
Production Breaking changes

Each organisation now adds its own AI provider key, and credit-blocked sales orders release correctly when edited.

Bug Fix

Releasing a credit-blocked sales order from the edit form now sticks

Moving an order out of Credit Block on the edit form now records a proper credit release, so the next save no longer puts it back in Credit Block. Only users with credit release authority can do this.

CRM Global
Bug Fix

Lowering an order price no longer re-blocks a released order

Reducing the amount of a credit-released sales order keeps its release. Increasing the amount still requires a new credit check.

CRM Global
Improvement

Clearer messages when an AI key has a problem

If the key is missing, rejected, out of credit or lacks permission, the message now says it concerns your organisation's AI account. It also points administrators to where to fix it. Data chat falls back to simpler answers when no key has been added.

System Global
New Feature

Add your own AI provider keys

Administrators can add their organisation's own Anthropic and OpenAI keys on a new AI Provider Keys page. All AI features now run on your organisation's key.

System Global Breaking change
New Feature

Fiscal start year available in document numbers

Document numbering patterns can now use the year the fiscal year starts, for example 2026 for 2026-27. This works with fiscal-year numbering resets.

System Global
3.57.39

Changelog Visibility

October 20, 2026
Production

Unpublished changelog entries are visible only to Biztimize platform staff.

Security Update

Unpublished Changelog Entries Restricted

Unpublished release notes, and editing the changelog, now need Biztimize platform staff. Previously a tenant administrator could see them and change changelog content.

System Global
3.57.40

Biztimize Notes

October 20, 2026
Production

A numbered, versioned knowledge base of corrections, workarounds and how-tos, with a Note Assistant that tracks which notes apply to you.

Improvement

Help Assistant Cites Notes

The Help Assistant can now answer from released notes, and permission, company and licence refusals carry an error code that finds the related notes. The Support Desk Knowledge Base and FAQ are replaced by Notes.

System Global
New Feature

Biztimize Notes

Biztimize Notes are numbered, versioned articles on known issues, corrections and how-tos, read at /notes/ on the Help Center with the same sign-in as Help. Search by number or text, compare versions, download a PDF, give feedback, report a problem and subscribe to a note.

System Global
New Feature

Note Assistant

The Note Assistant lists the notes that apply to your system, with a status and checklist for each. HotNews appear as a banner and are emailed to the administrators of affected tenants, and a “Notes for this screen” button shows the notes relevant to the page you are on.

System Global
3.57.42

Clearer PO Quantity Message

October 20, 2026
Production

The PR-quantity refusal on a purchase order line now points to the over-delivery tolerance.

Improvement

PO Line Over-delivery Hint

Raising a PR-sourced PO line above the requisition quantity is refused, which read as the goods receipt locking the line. The message now explains that an excess delivery is accepted through the line’s over-delivery tolerance, which the goods receipt already honours.

Procurement Global
3.57.43

Standardised Grids for Procurement and Supplier Network

October 20, 2026
Production

Procurement and Supplier Network lists move to the standard grid layout with pivot views and exports.

Improvement

Standard Grids Across Procurement

Purchase Orders, PO Line Items, Purchase Requisitions, RFIs, RFQs, Supplier Evaluations and Evaluation Templates, the Expeditor worklist, the Replenishment worklist, Vendor Master, Supplier Onboarding and Discovery, and Vendor Capacity now use the standard list screen: header icon bar, Grid and Pivot tabs, saved layouts and Excel export. PO Line Items can also be downloaded as a PDF.

Procurement Global
Improvement

Standard Grids for the Supplier Network

Incoming Shipments, Supplier Invoices, Supplier Documents Review and Supplier Analytics use the same standard list screen.

Procurement Global
3.57.36

Biztimize Product Newsletter

October 19, 2026
Production

Subscribe to a weekly or monthly digest of what is new in Biztimize.

New Feature

Product Newsletter Subscription

A new Newsletter Subscription page in the user menu lets you subscribe to a weekly or monthly digest of Biztimize product news, delivered at your local hour. Subscription is confirmed by email, every email carries a one-click unsubscribe, and nothing is sent when there is nothing new.

System Global
3.57.37

Contract Management: Approval, PO Terms and Signing

October 19, 2026
Production

Contracts can now be submitted, approved in My Approvals, renewed and terminated, and their clauses become the terms on a purchase order.

Improvement

Contract Management Licensed Separately

Contract Management is now its own licensed module (permissions prefixed ctm.) instead of being licensed only with Compliance Management. Existing role grants carry over.

System Global
Improvement

Contract Signing and Clause Screens

Contracts can be signed (with a new contract PDF), a certificate signs only for its owner, and unapproved purchase orders are refused by name. Clause versions, variables and applicability rules have their own screens, and vendor, company and document pickers replace typed ids.

Procurement Global
New Feature

Contract Approval in My Approvals

Submitting a contract starts the Contract Approval workflow (role “Contract Approver”). Contracts are approved, rejected or returned only in My Approvals, which now shows the contract on its Document tab and explains a refused approval.

Workflow Global
New Feature

PO Terms from the Clause Library

A new “Terms from Clause Library” button on a draft purchase order assembles its Terms & Conditions from the vendor contract in force on the order date, asking for any value the contract does not state. The printed PO now shows the clauses.

Procurement Global
New Feature

Contract Lifecycle

A contract is submitted once it has its clauses and every required value, approved by someone other than the submitter, and can then be renewed or terminated. It can be returned to draft with a reason; only a draft is edited, and overlapping active contracts are refused.

Procurement Global

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