Added an initial total number of traps for GWSS reported on Report 01, separate from the Nursery, Urban/Residential, Cropland, and Other totals for Report 03PD. If you track GWSS traps on Report 01 as well as on Report 03PD, please be sure to eidt your GWSS trapping routes to set the initial trap count for Report 01 GWSS traps.
This major update to the Weights & Measures Invoicing Module makes it a snap to generate incremental Device Registration invoices for business locations that acquire additional devices or new device types during the calendar or fiscal year. When creating a Manual Device Registration Invoice, the system reviews prior invoices for the location in the same registration period and subtracts devices that have already been invoiced. If there are no additional devices to invoice for a particular device type, that type is skipped on the invoice detail. In the case of Price Verification and Packers, if they have already been invoiced then those are skipped on the invoice detail. All location fees are skipped if already previously billed as well.
The details sections for Devices and PV/Packers have been updated to show a better summary of the calculation logic with the addition of:
An additional Batch type has been added for automatically generating Incremental Device Registration Invoices. Simply select "Incremental" from the batch type menu on the Batch Invoices screen to automatically generate incremental invoices for business locations that have new device types or increased device counts.
To accomodate special cases, the Manual Device Registration invoice has also been modified to allow you to edit the number of devices and location fees charged. Simply click on a row in the invoice detail to activate editing mode and update the device and/or location count. You can also completely remove a device type from the invoice.
Even if you are creating the original invoice for a location for a registration period, you can still modify the device and location counts as well as remove unwanted device types. For example, if a location has devices that are on a regular annual inspection schedule, and also a device that they bring in for sealing if/when they use it, you can manually generate thier invoice and remove the device type that should not be included.
If you remove all device types from an invoice, or there are no additional devices to invoice for the location, the system will warn you with a pop-up message on the invoice screen. Be aware that when a location acquires additional devices or new device types, you must update the device counts on the Location Device Types screen before generating the incremental invoice. Increasing the number of devices on an invoice DOES NOT update the registered device count for the location.
Fixed CalPEATS Sync Processor. Processor was mistakenly overwriting PRAMR manual entries in CalPEATS for PRAMR Categories on the new Report 5 released in July 2022 for PRAMR months prior to July 2022. Manually entered hours through June 2022 are being restored from backups.
The rules that control when a PRAMR category switches to CalCATS Entry Only are as follows:
In the above discussion, the list of PRAMR categories affected is limited to those managed by CalCATS:
Modified Report 5 and the CalPEATS/CalCATS Sync Processor to add two time categories:
Counties that enter time into CalPEATS will see both of these entries in Report 5 and data will be synced from CalPEATS. Counties that do not enter time into CalPEATS will see a new manual-entry field on Report 5 for Field Worker Safety Inspections.
Added Report 5 (PRAMR) to the list of available Ag Activities. This form serves three main purposes:
A more detailed description of the new Report 5 form and your options for data entry are available here.
Added the Admin Fees Collected Report which lists device registration admin fees collected during a specific time period, and (when run quarterly) includes the DMS Annual Device Administrative Fee Remittance Form. The report includes a RawData tab that lists all payments received during the report time period based on the Payment Received date (or the transaction entry date if the payment received date is not available). The RemittanceReport tab summarizes the fees collected into the categories required by DMS. The new report is available from the Revenue Reports screen.
Here are some important things to understand about the report:
Added the ability to process device registration invoices for different device types on different billing cycles. You can now invoice device registration for some device types on a Fiscal Year basis and others on a Calendar Year basis.
The billing cycle for each device type is established on the Device Types configuration screen. Options are Fiscal Year, Calendar Year and None. Use None to exclude the device type from device registration billing altogether. Previously, all device types billed on the same cycle - all of your device types have been defaulted to your existing billing cycle (only Measuring Devices, Weighing Devices, and Price Verification Devices). The default for new device types is None, so be sure to set the appropriate billing cycle for any new device types you add that should be included in the device registration invoicing.
When generating batch invoices, the batch invoice screen has been updated to allow you to selected the billing cycle to invoice based on the billing cycles configured on your device types. The system will default the billing cycle based on the current month, switching to the next round of invoicing two months before the start of the next billing cycle. The counts of eligible locations for invoicing reflect those locations that have device types that are on the selected billing cycle. Also, the generated invoices will only include device types for the selected billing cycle.
As an example, if you want to invoice all of your weighing and measuring device locations on a fiscal year basis, and your price verification locations on a calendar year basis, you can configure your device types with those billing cycles. On the batch invoices screen, you will select Current or Next Calendar year to see how many locations have scanners and to generate invoices for those locations showing only the scanners. Later, you can select Current or Next Fiscal Year to see locations that have Weighing/Measuring Devices and to generate invoices for those device types.
Updated W&M Invoice PDF Features and added Individual Certificate Generation. When a batch of invoices and/or certificates is generated, CalCATS now generates and saves the individual PDF files for each invoice and certificate as well as creating the big PDF with all of the invoices/certificates in the batch. If you open an invoice in the W&M Ledger, you will see a new section at the bottom of the invoice screen that replaces the old "Print" button:
You can access the batch PDF file if the invoice was created in a batch (also note the batch number is listed for cross-referencing on the Batch Invoices page), and download or regenerate the individual invoice PDF.
For Device Registration invoices, you can also generate a certificate (if one doesn't already exist), access the certificate batch PDF if the certificate was created in a batch, and download or regenerate the certificate PDF. NOTE - the system does not prevent you from generating a certificate if the invoice is not paid, so if your policy is to only generate certificates once payment is received then you'll want to check the invoice status at the top of the invoice screen.
Added Next Inspection Calculation Basis to County Preferences. This setting lets you decide how the next inspection due will be calculated for W&M Inspections:
This affects routine inspections that are completed before their due date. For example, if a location has counter scales that are due for inspection on June 1st 2022 and the inspector completes the inspection on March 17th, the next inspection due can be set to June 1st, 2023 or to March 17th, 2023.
On the contract edit page (Admin > Contracts) you can configure an optional set of classification codes. During hour/data entry for a specific contract you can designate a code that will be used to segment the contract report information.
To manage the order of timesheet categories on the timesheet, ensure that you have created at least one timesheet template (Admin > Config > Timesheet Templates). Then make sure that you assign the template(s) to all applicable users. (Admin > Users > Edit). Categories that were previously loaded in a payroll period will still be shown, but will sort to the end of the timesheet alphabetically.
To access W&M Inspections and Complaints Entry, your county administrator must grant permissions to these features.