A new email option has been added to the Setup/ Email options setup screen allowing easier sending of emails via Outlook.com. This option can be used with outlook, hotmail and icloud email addresses that have been registered for use with Outlook.com.

The new option configures SMTP options for Outlook.com allowing bulk emailing of invoices, quotes etc. Any emails sent will appear in the Sent folder in Outlook.com.

The new Outlook for Windows app downloadable from the Microsoft Store is a frontend for the web-based Outlook.com so if this Outlook app is being used with Outlook.com, the Sent folder in the app will also show emails sent by SliQ.

Note: If you are still using the classic Outlook for Windows please choose the Outlook email option or the Default Email Program option.

If recurring invoices are set up and the date on which the recurring invoice is to be raised is the last day of the month, e.g. 31st Jan, SliQ will now adjust the next raised date to always be the end of the month where appropriate. For example, if the invoice is to be raised on a monthly cycle, the next dates raised will be 28th Feb (or 29th in a leap year), then 31st March, 30th April and so on.

The Sales by Month (non chart) report now includes a new optional column - Percentage Change on Last Month - that shows the percentage change in net turnover since the previous month. To show this column, selected the Sales by Month report on the Reporting tab, press the Change Titles, Columns, Grouping button in the toolbar and check the option to include the new column.

A number of minor updates and corrections have been implemented including updates required by UK HMRC for MTD for VAT interface changes.

A new Bill Payment Summary has been added. This shows a reports of payments made for bills or refunds for supplier credit notes.

A number of minor updates and corrections have been implemented including updates required by UK HMRC for MTD for VAT interface changes.

Items added to bills can now be categories, e.g. as Car Expenses or IT expenditure.

A new report - Bills by Item Category has been added to show the expenditure on different item categories with a specified date range.

A standard set of item categories is supplied. The list of available categories can be edited on the Setup/ General tab using the Add/ Edit Item Categories button.

Product records can now be defined with a specific item category for use on bills. By default, a product has the category Cost of Sales.

A financial year end date can now be specified on the Setup/ Business details page. This date is then used in date filters on reports to allow easy selection of date ranges such as This Finanical Year, Last Financial Year.

A number of minor updates and corrections have been implemented including updates required by UK HMRC for MTD for VAT interface changes.

A Windows 11 Update had broken the folder browser dialog used by SliQ for picking autobackup folders, template folders etc. A new dialog has been included that works on the latest Windows 11.

On the Setup/ General tab, the Manage Customer Messages and Manage Supplier Messages dialogs now let you order messages using new Move Up/ Move Down buttons. This order in which messages appear in dialogs is used when selecting messages while editing invoices, orders etc.

In V6.7.0 a new set of selector controls were controlled that optimised performance for larger data sets. In V6.8.0 more of the new selectors can be optionally switched to the older, legacy selectors via the Use Legacy Selectors option on the General tab in the Options dialog.

A new report type has been added that shows all items on bills and supplier credit notes. This report can be customised as with other reports. One example might be to group by Supplier then filter on item code to find out how much of a specific item is being bought from different suppliers.

The Options dialog now includes an AutoSave Customer Messages option on the General tab that can be used to stop SliQ automatically saving new customer and supplier messages entered while raising new invoices, POs, bills etc.

SliQ will now let you create a desktop shortcut that opens SliQ with a specific server company file. The ability to allow a desktop (non server) company file to opened from a shortcut was added in V6.6.0. Now server companies can also be opened via shortcuts.

To create a shortcut that opens a specific server company file, right-click on the Windows desktop and choose New/ Shortcut from the popup menu. In the Shortcut Wizard, browse and choose the SliQ Invoicing executable (normally C:\Program Files (x86)\SliQTools\SliQ Invoicing V6\SliQInvoicing6.exe) and finish the wizard. In the Properties dialog for the shortcut add the name of the server company you want to open in the Target field, e.g. adding "sqlserver::mikedesk2022\sqlexpress\\sliqabc " into the Target field after the name of the SliQ Invoicing V6 application. Double-clicking the desktop shortcut will run SliQ and open the sliqabc company on the mikedesk2022\sqlexpress SQL server. Remember to include the text “sqlserver::” before your “server name\\companyname” in the Target field on the Shortcut Wizard.

For instructions on opening a desktop company from a shortcut see the V06.06.00 release notes below.

A number of minor updates and corrections have been implemented including improved header updates for VAT submissions and improvement of the VAT Filer Submit button visibility on PCs set for a larger text size.

Performance improvements have been implemented for opening the Customers & Statements tab when large numbers of customer records are held in the company file.

In the Options dialog, on the General tab, a new option “Use Legacy Selector” is available. For older company files with a larger number of customer records in the company file, unchecking this box can improve performance when raising or opening invoices.

A new Pay your VAT Bill button has been added to the VAT filer to launch the HMRC VAT payment web page.

improved workflow for VAT MTD authorisation has been implemented that no longer relies on Internet Explorer being installed.

A number of minor updates and corrections have been implemented including improved email support for default desktop email programs that was affected by recent Windows updates and improved sorting of rows on reports.

SliQ will now let you create a desktop shortcut that opens SliQ with a specific company file.

To create a shortcut that opens a specific company file, right-click on the Windows desktop and choose New/ Shortcut from the popup menu. In the Shortcut Wizard, browse and choose the SliQ Invoicing executable (normally C:\Program Files (x86)\SliQTools\SliQ Invoicing V6\SliQInvoicing6.exe) and finish the wizard. In the Properties dialog for the shortcut add the path of the file you want to open to the Target field, e.g. adding "C:\Users\ml\Documents\SliQInvoicing6\test.slinvoice6" into the Target field after the name of the SliQ Invoicing V6 application will run SliQ and open the test.slinvoice6 company file.

A {CUSTOMERBALANCE} field can now be added to invoice, quote and credit note email templates. When an email is sent, {CUSTOMERBALANCE} will be replaced by the total amount outstanding from the customer.

Supplier information can now be uploaded from desktop companies to an account in SliQ Invoicing Online.

A new Copy and Condense Company file feature has been added. This feature allows a local company file to be copied and selected data deleted from the copy of the company, e.g. deleting paid invoices prior to a specified date. This new feature is intended to allow large company files to be copied and reduced in size while still keeping all product, customer and setup data.

For information see Copy and Condense Company File.

The HTML email template editor has been updated to cater for recent Windows updates that could cause the editor to have problems on some PCs.

Within the HTML email template editor, handling of different images with the same name has been improved.

The VAT Filer authorisation workflow has been updated to cope with recent Windows updates that could cause the authorisation workflow to pause.

The VAT Filer has been updated to comply with API changes from UK HMRC.

The template editor now includes a field “SubtotalPlusCarriageNet” that will show the net total of an invoice including the net carriage value.

SliQ Invoicing will now open maximised/ in full screen mode if configured in Windows. See this article for how to configure programs to open maximised: Always Open a Program Maximised

The Find Low Stock function has been updated to improve handling of the Check/ Uncheck All buttons.

A number of smaller updates and corrections have been included in this release.

The amount of VAT due to be paid by a customer for invoices including VAT Reverse Charge items can now be displayed on invoice templates and in invoice reports.

For information on how to include Reverse Charge values by editing templates or configuring reports, see VAT Reverse Charge.

When an invoice (or quote etc.) is being edited, SliQ shows a gross line item total by default. A new option has been added to allow the net total to be shown.

Note that this option has no effect on the disply of line items when invoices are printed or output as PDFs. To change whether a line item total is net or gross when the invoice is printed/ PDFed, please edit your invoice (or quote etc.) template and configure the columns.

For more information on invoice/ payment options in SliQ Invoicing, see Invoice/ Payment Options.

A number of smaller updates and corrections have been included in this release.

SliQ now allows supplier bills and credit notes to be recorded.

Bills and supplier credit notes are added via a new Bills tab.

A number of new billing reports have been added to SliQ including reports allowing income and outgoings per month to be shown.

For UK customers, SliQ will be able to use purchase/ billing data in VAT returns.

New VAT MTD headers required by UK HMRC have been implemented to keep SliQ current with HMRC security requirements.

For UK customers, SliQ will be able to use purchase/ billing data in VAT returns.

SliQ's support for VAT has been updated to cater for Britain leaving the European Union. SliQ now supports the new Northern Ireland Procotol.

SliQ's VAT submission feature now supports Postponed VAT Accounting and allows adjustments to be recorded for each box on a VAT return.

A number of smaller updates and corrections have been included in this release.

SliQ has been updated to include the latest UK HMRC header requirements for VAT MTD submissions.

The caching of changed data when switching between tabs has been improved in Server mode.

A number of smaller updates and corrections have been included in this release.

SliQ has been updated to include VAT reverse charge support needed for construction services as from 1 March 2021.

To enable the VAT Reverse Charge features, see VAT Reverse Charge in SliQ Invoicing.

A number of smaller updates and corrections have been included in this release.

The VAT submission feature in SliQ Invoicing has been updated to include the latest header information required by UK HMRC.

A number of smaller updates and corrections have been included in this release.

The VAT submission feature in SliQ Invoicing has been updated to include more information in the API used when submitting VAT returns to the UK HMRC.

A number of smaller updates and corrections have been included in this release.

SliQ now includes an option for emailing invoices etc. via Gmail. See the Email Options dialog in SliQ to access the new option.

When the Gmail option is selected, SliQ will ask you to verify SliQ with Google when you first email, e.g. when you first email an invoice or quote. Any emails you send will be shown in the Sent folder in your Gmail account.

If you are using SliQ in client/ server mode, you can now type a server name into the server setup dialog if SliQ is unable to automatically find the server, e.g. if you are using a remote server.

UK HMRC VAT submission will soon require more mandatory information to be included in requests to their API. SliQ Invoicing has been updated to support the required information and has been tested with HMRC's latest test APIs. There are no visible changes from a user's point of view but SliQ includes more tracking information, e.g. Windows account name, when making submissions.

UK HMRC have a restricted allowable range of dates when requesting VAT obligations. SliQ has been updated to avoid exceeding the requested date range when a year is a leap year.

SliQ now supports and optional server mode of operation that allows multiple users to read and raise invoices in the same company at the same time.

When Client/ Server Mode is enabled, SliQ switches to use Microsoft's SQL Server database as a backend for storing data. SliQ can work with your own, existing installation of SQL Server or you can install Microsoft's free SQL Server Express.

For more information, see SliQ Server Overview.

Note that the IT requirements for a client/ server system will be specific to your own network, PCs and servers and you may need to get local IT support to get up and running.

For non-admin users SliQ's password mechanism can now be used to restrict access to the Products tab and to prevent recurring invoices be raised and emailed by specific users.

For invoice, receipt and reminder email templates, the referenced quote number and customer order number fields can now be included.

A number of minor updates and corrections have been included.

The VAT Filer previously allowed the VAT information for a VAT return to be saved into a PDF file. In this new version, the ability has been added to also save the VAT information to a Microsoft Excel file. The new Save Excel button has been added next to the Save PDF button on the VAT Return information displayed on the VAT Filer's View Obligations and View VAT Return pages.

For text fields in reports three new filter types have been added:

• Is Empty - matches fields which are empty.
• Is Not Empty - matches fields which are not empty.
• Starts With - matches fields starting with the specified text. As with all other text filters, the comparison is not case-sensitive.

A number of minor updates and corrections have been included.

The ability to search invoice items (and quote and PO items) when typing into the search boxes at the top of lists has been added. To make this feature work, the Apply Search to All Items on Invoices box must be checked on the Invoices & Payments tab in the Options dialog. To open this dialog press the Options button in the toolbar.

The ability to use custom string and date information in email templates, including HTML email templates has been added.

A number of minor updates and corrections have been included.

Added the capability to get VAT returns from HRMC that have been submitted already using MTD for VAT.

Added the capability to capture more VAT submission response data after submitting a VAT return using MTD for VAT.

The PDF generation of VAT summaries has been improved.

Additions and Improvements for the MTD for VAT feature in SliQ Invoicing.

Changed the country code for Greece from GR to EL to align with HMRC VAT country codes.

This is a recommended download for any users wishing to use the VAT Filer in SliQ Invoicing.

Additions and improvements for the MTD for VAT feature in SliQ Invoicing to handle updates to the HMRC MTD for VAT API. This is a recommended download for any users wishing to use the VAT Filer in SliQ.

SliQ Invoicing now supports submission of VAT returns using HMRC's MTD API. You can view your VAT obligations in SliQ and choose an open obligation to submit a VAT return. SliQ calculates sales VAT from your invoices and lets you enter purchase figures before submitting the VAT return.

For instructions on enabling and running the new VAT filer feature in SliQ Invoicing, see VAT for MTD in SliQ Invoicing.

To enable SliQ to identify sales VAT for EC/ non EC countries the country code can now be specified for a customer.

Customers can now be set as Zero Rated for VAT purposes. If a customer is zero rated then no VAT amounts will be added to an invoice for the customer.

The customer address and delivery address can now be added to email templates.

The option dialog contains new options on the Invoices & Payments tab to allow new invoices to be automatically marked as paid. The options dialog allows the payment kind, e.g. cash, direct debit and supporting info to be set fo a payment to be automatically logged against a new invoice. If the option is set then any new invoice or recurring invoice will automatically be marked as paid.

If the number of items in stock is below the reorder level, the product is highlighted in red on the Products list.

A weight can be set for a product allowing SliQ to calculate the total weight of items on an invoice. The total weight is set in the details for the product on the Products tab. The total weight of items on an invoice is shown on the Carriage/ Delivery tab when editing the invoice and can be added to invoice (and quote, credit note and PO) templates using the TotalWeight field.

A new option has been added to the Options dialog on the Invoices & Payments options to maximise space when editing line items. If the option is selected then line items will be displayed in their own tab when editing invoices rather than under the customer details.

Values entered into custom fields can now be stored as standard lists for easy selection/ entry in the same way that Ship Via or SalesPerson names are stored in lists.

In addition to the storing of standard Products and Discounts, Services can now be added on the Products & Discounts/ Products & Stock tab. Like products, services are available for selection when adding line items to invoices but unlike products, stock is not tracked for services.

For text fields on reports a new Does Not Contain filter has been added

If the width of a column is adjusted, e.g. on the Invoices & Payments tab, SliQ will remember the column width after being closed and reopened.

New chart reports have been added for Sales by Month and Orders by Month.

Line items with a price but a quantity of zero (and hence a line item total of 0) can be added and saved onto invoices and quotes.

If the invoice template is edited and line item numbers are selected then line item numbers will also be shown when editing an invoice and adding line items.

Focus could sometimes be lost when typing into report filters. This is now corrected.

When a new invoice is raised the default VAT rate is set for the carriage applied for the invoice.

When adding items to an invoice using the Search for Products dialog, the search will also include product custom strings.

Additional fields can now be added to email templates including the Invoice Address, Delivery Address, Customer Address, Custom Strings and Custom Dates from the invoice and customer.

When sending emails using Outlook 2016 the attachment filenames included a temporary path. The pathname is no longer included.

Conditions can now be applied for PayPal buttons, e.g. a condition can be set so that the PayPal button is only shown on PDFs and not on printouts.

A new SubtotalGross field is available for selection in the template editor. The field shows the invoice subtotal including taxes but without any carriage.

On any report where customer fields can be added, the customer title, first and last names are now available for inclusion. The fields can also be exported from the reports as per any other field.

Two new macros are available for invoice item descriptions and customer messages. The macros show the calendar week number with the first week of the year being the first full week in the year.

The macros are {calweeksun} and {calweekmon}. {calweekmon} returns the ISO 8601 week number most commonly used around the world where Monday is the first day of the week. {calweeksun} treats Sunday as the first day of the week and is more commonly used in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

V5.5 includes a new PDF generator for creation of PDF invoices and quotes.

The new generator provides a workaround for a PDF problem in later Apple iOS versions where some PDF text would not be displayed if the PDF was displayed in the Apple email reader on an iPhone or iPad even though the PDF would display correctly in Adobe Reader on an iPhone/ iPad. The new PDF generator makes sure that text will be displayed correctly even when previewed in emails on an iPhone or iPad.

The new generator also allows GIFs with transparent areas to be used as logos.

The new generator will be automatically used after V5.5 is installed. Previous versions of the generator can be selected if needed via the General tab on the Options dialog.

On some reports, the CostOfGoods field could be incorrectly calculated for credit notes. This has now been corrected.

A number of minor improvements and corrections have been made.

The search boxes on the main Invoices, Quotes and Purchase Order tabs now allow searches of customer and supplier messages.

A number of minor improvements and corrections have been made.

The columns in the recurring invoices list in the Manage Recurring Invoices dialog can now be configured via the Invoices tab in the main Options dialog.

A number of minor improvements and corrections have been made.

SliQ could sometimes fail to delete attachments to customer records when requested. This has been corrected.

A number of minor improvements and corrections have been made.

SliQ now allows an unlimited number of VAT or tax rates to be configured. See the Setup/ VAT Rates tab in SliQ for more information.

The template conditions on fields now treat the number 0 as an empty field. Previously, the comparison was done as a text comparison and any value which wasn't an emptry string "" was treat as non-empty. Now both empty strings and 0 are treated as empty. For more information on setting conditions on fields in the template editor, see:

http://www.sliqtools.co.uk/help/DisplayanItemdependingonafieldva.html

SliQ now allows VAT/ Tax rate names to be configured. Previously rates only had a value, e.g. 0%, 20% but now names such as Std, Reduced, Zero-Rated can be used.

Ampersands (&) are now handled better in HTML emails. Previously, the use of an ampersand could potentially cause problems in the parsing of HTML email templates. This has now been improved.

The Date Format tab in the Options dialog now allows dates in the format day Month Year, e.g. 5 January 2015.

Note that as with other date format selections, the format is only used when printing or emailing invoices. The date format used on the tabs in SliQ follows the date format shown in the regional settings in Windows.

The Document Number Format tab in the Options dialog now allows the year/ month/ day order to be configured for invoice numbers generated by SliQ.

PDF filenames can now be configured so that they do not begin with an underscore if no prefix is selected.

For invoice templates, a field can be added that shows the delivery note number (name DeliveryNoteNumber) corresponding to the invoice.

In V5.3.0, SliQ Invoicing Plus was changes so that when a new invoice or quoe was created the last sales person value would automatically be entered on the invoice. This has now been changed to be configurable and is by default off. By going to the Options dialog (by pressing the Options button in the toolbar) and selecting the General tab in the dialog, the Use Last Sales Person setting can be changed.

By default SliQ embeds fonts used in PDFs into the PDF so that the fonts are available on the readers machine even if the fonts are not installed. This has now been made configurable so that if SliQ's PDFs are used with 3rd party PDF programs that have difficulties with embedded fonts, PDFs can be generated without embedding the fonts.

By default, SliQ will continue to generate PDFs with embedded fonts as in previous versions.

To turn off embedded fonts go to the General tab on the Options dialog by pressing the Options button in the toolbar.

When a credit note is used as a payment against an invoice, it is now possible to set the date for the allocation.

When adding a product to an invoice line item, the product columns shown in the Pick Product dialog list can now be customised by opening the Options dialog and selecting the Products & Discounts tab.

A number of minor improvements and corrections have been made including better date selections on reports and better handling of No/ False conditions when importing data from CSV files.

A new Aged Debtors report has been added. This report shows the ageing information for each customer as displayed at the bottom of a customer statement.

SliQ's HTML email facility now works with Outlook 2016 as it did with all earlier versions of Outlook.

A number of minor improvements and corrections have been made.

A new Customer Summary report has been added. This shows the total sales for a customer and the percentage of sales made to specific customers.

This report is similar to the Customer Summary Report that was present in older versions of SliQ Invoicing.

SliQ now remembers the last entered salesperson value and will enter this by default when a new invoice, credit note or quote is created.

For any report where invoices are included, two new fields are available for selection:

CostOfGoods - This field shows the total cost price (Quantity * Cost Price for each line item) for the items on the invoice. The value is calculated using the current Cost Price information for a product on the Products & Discounts tab.

Profit - This field will give the profit for the invoice, i.e. the difference between the net total and the cost of goods.

A number of minor improvements and corrections have been made.

A field value of TotalQuantity can be added to a template (invoice, quote, credit note, purchase order, delivery note etc.). This will show the total quantity of items on the invoice. For example if there are two line items on an invoice with the first line item having a quantity of 2 and the second line item a quntity of 3, the TotalQuantity field will show the value 5 on the invoice printout or PDF.

Customer field Credit Limit and Use Credit Limit can now be exported to Excel and imported from CSV files. Importing a customer with Use Credit Limit set on and Credit Limit set to 0 effectively puts the customer on hold.

The Use Credit Limit field in the CSV file should be set to one of "TRUE", "YES", 1, "T" or "Y" to be set on. Any other value turns off Use Credit Limit.

Sales by Invoice Item, Sales by Quote Item reports can now be configured to show Product fields, e.g. Item Cost Price.

To add additional columns to reports in addition to the default columns, see Add, Remove Report Columns.

The operation of Check  All and Uncheck All in the Find Low Stock dialog has been improved.

Handling of credit notes in the Debtor Summary report has been improved.

In the options dialog, it is now possible to add the customer account number in the prefix format for invoice and quote numbers. Similary, supplier account numbers can be added for purchase order numbers.

In addition to the existing option to show a PAID watermark on invoices that have been fully paid, SliQ now includes and option to shown the watermark on receipts for fully paid invoices.

When a single PDF document is generated, e.g. a single PDF of an invoice is saved to disk, SliQ will no longer output a message box after performing the save.

When editing invoice templates (or quotes or POs), SliQ now allows a hyperlink to be placed on the image so that clicking the image in a generated PDF loads the link in a web browser.

As with Open Item statements, Date Range statements now use the configurable age breaks rather than always using the fixed 0-30, 60-90 etc. breaks.

A number of corrections and minor updates have been made.

For multi-page printouts, SliQ now allows a continuation page offset to be set that leaves a gap at the top of the second and later pages in an invoice printout (as well as quotes, orders etc.). This allows letter headed paper to be used for multi-page printouts.

To set the continuation page offset, edit the template in SliQ Invoicing Plus and click on the background of the template to show the main form properties. The continuation page offset will appear in the properties panel on the right. Adjust the offset value as desired then save the template. Then try a print preview of a long invoice spanning more than one page. If the offset is not the correct size, e.g. it still overlaps your letter head, edit the template again and adjust the offset.

Via the More Options tab on the Template Setup tab under the main Setup tab the Show Page Numbers dropdown now includes the option to never show page numbers on eother single or multi-page printouts or PDFs.

If stock control is enabled, SliQ will now show current stock levels when searching for products to add to an invoice.

When searching the data in the main lists, e.g. the list of invoices on the Invoices & Payments tab, the Notes field and Customer Account Numbers are now matched against the search string.

SliQ Can now import inventory data when importing product data.

When recording payments via the Customers and Statements page, SliQ now remembers the date of the last payment entered when recording a subsequent payment.

A new recurring invoices report has been added. This allows a list of the recurring transactions to be displayed giving the dates of the next invoices to be raised.

A customers report has been added allowing a list of customers to be filtered, sorted and either printed or output to PDF or Excel as with all other reports.

When editing line item descriptions in invoices, quotes etc. SliQ now supports new keyboard shortcuts.

The supported keyboard shortcuts now include:

Ctrl-Left - skip a word back
Ctrl-Right - skip a word forwards
Ctrl-Shift-Left - select a word back
Ctrl-Shift-Right - select a word forwards
Home - go to start of text
End - go to end of line
Ctrl-Home - go to start of line
Ctrl-End - go to end of text
Ctrl-Shift-Home - select text to start of description
Ctrl-Shift-End - select text to end of description
Ctrl-A - select complete description.

When an image from a website is inserted into a HTML email template, SliQ now downloads a copy of the image and inserts it into the email.

Reports now include a This Month To Date option for dates that will allow a report to be configured to only show invoices (for example) from the start of the month up to the current day.

Using the Change Filters button, up to 3 filters can be shown at the top of a report on the Reporting tab allowing easy selection of whichever a user decides are the most important filters. Previously only one filter could be shown.

Note that although up to 3 filters can be shown at the top of the report, the report can be filtered using any field in the database using the Choose Filters dialog and, as from V5, reports show a summary of the applied filters.

Note: Some of the default reports have been extended to show more filters. However, existing users will need to select a report and press the Default button in the toolbar on the Reporting tab to see any extra filters appear. Alternatively, select the report and press the Choose Filters button in the toolbar to choose whichever filters are desired.

Date Macros can now be used in email templates in addition to line item descriptions and customer messages.

See Automatic Date Macros for a description of the macro values.

A number of other updates and corrections have been made including widening the item code dropdown when editing an invoice line item, correcting the CustomerBalance field available in the invoice template editor and improving the layout of the Manage Recurring Invoices dialog.

SliQ Invoicing Plus now includes a spellchecker. Line item descriptions on invoices, quotes etc. are now spellchecked. The spellchecker works in a similar way to Microsoft Word - any mis-spelled words are underlined with a red squiggle.

To see suggestions for corrections to spelling mistakes, right click the word with the mouse and choose a suggestion from the popup menu.

SliQ also includes a user dictionary so that you can add any special words to stop SliQ flagging them as mis-spelled. To add words to the dictionary, right-click a mis-spelled word and choose Add to dictionary from the popup menu.

SliQ comes with a number of standard spelling dictionaries for UK English, US English, French, German etc. To choose between the dictionaries, see Options.

For more information, see the SpellChecker topic in our online help file.

SliQ can now track stock level for products. The Products & Discounts tab has been renamed to Products & Stock and includes fields to show the number of items in stock and preferred supplier. For use in finding low stock levels for products, stock reorder level and stock reorder quantity fields have also been implemented. The new fields allow SliQ to raise orders to replenish stock levels when stock runs low.

For more info, see the Stock Control topic in our online help file.

In addition to plain text email templates, SliQ now allows HTML email templates to be edited. These templates allow richer formatting, e.g. different fonts, bold, italic or underline text as well as allowing images and logos to be added to the email templates.

For more information, see the Editing Email templates topic.

A customer credit can now be entered on the Price Band & Credit Limit subtab on the main Customers & Statements tab.

If the Use Credit Limit box is checked, SliQ will output a warning if an invoice is created that would make the customer exceed their credit limit.

A customer can effectively be put on hold by entering a credit limit of 0.

A set of custom/ additional fields can now be defined for product and discount records.

See Defining Custom Fields for more information.

Automatic date fields can now be added to line item descriptions. The date fields will be automatically expanded when an invoice is printed or emailed. The date fields can be used when creating recurring transactions to automatically include the correct date information in line item descriptions based on the date of the newly raised invoice, e.g. automatically inserting text such as "Charges for October 2014", "Charges for November 2014" as recurring invoices are raised in successive months.

For more information, see Automatic Date Fields.

If an existing invoice is edited, SliQ now only deleted payments already recorded for the invoice if the new total for the invoice is less than the sum of the payments records.

A read receipt option can be configured for SMTP emails. The read receipt can be configured in the email sending options. Note that the receiver may decide to not send a read receipt even if one is requested.

Files can now be attached to customer and supplier records on the Customers & Statements and Suppliers tabs.

When editing a template, conditions can now be set on items to control whether they are included on documents depending on whether the document is being printed or emailed.

This feature makes it easier to print an invoice onto letter headed paper where the company logo is already pre-printed onto the paper but when emailing the same invoice, make SliQ include the company logo.

For more information see Print/ PDF conditions.

The breaks/ ranges can now be configured in ageing reports on statements.

In previous versions, the ageing report ranges were always 0-30 days, 31-60 days, 61-90 days. In this version, the ranges can be changed in the Ageing Report Values options.

When editing the email template for use when emailing invoices, a field can now be included to show the total of the invoice being emailed.

When recurring invoices are created that use the due rate mechanism instead of payment terms, the due dates for invoices raised are now calculated by taking the offset of the due date of the original recurring transaction from the date of the transaction.

A number of new reports have been included, e.g. reports to show the number of products on order or to show stock value. In addition, a new Week Number field has been made available in sales reports. The new WeekNumber field allows Sales by Week type reports to be configured if needed. Each report now optionally shows a filter summary.

If the invoice template has been edited and the column headings have been changed, i.e. the column headings for line items, the column headings also show when editing an invoice and adding line items.