finPOWER Connect - 4.00.02 - released 27 June 2023

Intersoft Systems has announced their release of finPOWER Connect version 4.00.02 dated 27 June 2023. This release includes several new features.
Version 4 of finPOWER Connect does not include any database changes, therefore there is no database upgrade.
Review a comprehensive list of the release notes →
Note: mbsl recommend that you contact us in the first instance if you are considering upgrading to this latest version.
Warning: Although a database can be opened in version 3.4.x and 4.0.0 it is strongly recommend that you only do so when testing changes. New features may not be backward compatible with earlier versions.
Some of the highlights include:
finPOWER Connect
Countries
- Added Country support for Samoa
- Added Country support for Tonga
Quick Search 2
- Now supports hashtags in record Notes
Clients
- Added new "Hardship" status
- Politically Exposed Person (PEP) Status and Date added
- Client Image now supports MP4 video
Accounts
- Deposit Accounts now record audit information on Interest Transactions when Closing Account
- Deposit Interest Transaction Reversal
- Withholding Tax Type on reversed Transaction may be incorrectly set to Null
- Payment Transfer
- Date Cleared is now transferred to the new Account
- Added new properties to Account Payment to enhance scripting
Account Minimum Payment Change
- Now supports scripting
- Cancel now supports scripting
Account Monitor Category Change
- New option to audit changes
- Cancel now supports scripting
Interest Payouts
- Added Activity Log audit record
- Option added to automatically send Bank Transaction via Zepto
Account Processes
- Was closing Loan accounts instead of setting to Closed (Pending)
Secured Party Groups
- Code increased from 5 to 10 characters
Phone Number Validation
- Added validation logic for Fiji, Papua New Guinea
- Enhanced validation logic for Australia and New Zealand
Documents
- Added "File Category" for Document Manager files
- Updated to implement File Category
- Account Letter
- Client Letter
Document Manager
- File Categories
- New option to define standard File Categories via Information Lists
- Various changes to improve interface with regards File Categories
- E.g. to move Files between Categories
Workflows
- "Allocate to User" Item Type now support clearing the current User
Task Manager
- New Global Settings to hide system folders and disable folder counts
- Task Manager 2
- New "Bookmarked" and "Recently Records" system folders
- Folders can now define a 'Summary Page (version 2)' Script to produce the item summary
- New "Quick Search" folder type to show a saved search
- Monitored Accounts folders can now be configured to allow Monitor Category to be updated for multiple selected Accounts
Compliance Reporting
- Added Compliance sub-menu under Processes menu
- Includes
- Configuration Security Report
- PCI DSS Compliance Report
- NZ AML Report
- PCI DSS Compliance Report
- Updated to version 4.0
- NZ AML Report
- Elements; "Include as revenue in AML Reporting?" option added
Australian Annual Investment Income Report (AIIR)
- Updated to version 13.0.3
Credit Bureaus
- Populate new Politically Exposed Person (PEP) Business Layer properties
- Centrix
- Biometric Verification
- Enhanced Name handling logic
- Identification Image and Liveness video download now supported
- New option to add or update the Client Image
- Identification document images are now resized and converted to JPG format
- Equifax NZ
- Consumer Enquiry
- Added support for One Score, including Key Contributing Factors block
Bank Account Enquiries
- Completed Bank Account Enquiries now set a Log Action Date
Bank Interface
- Zepto (formerly Split Payments) Australia
- Added Channel to Make Payment request
Electronic Signatures
- Secured Signing
- New Alerts
- New Status Columns for ID Verification
- Added button to open the ID Verification report
PPSR Interface Add-On
- Simplified version now available for all Countries
User Logs
- Can now be "Repeated" on a specified cycle
HTML Widgets
- (Limited) Record Bookmarking implemented
- New Widgets
- Product Type Edit
- Secured Party Group Edit
- Log Edit form. Previously this was a customer form, but has been rebuilt as an HTML Widget
- Account Related Security Statements HTML Widget
- Workflow Item Bank Account Enquiry Review HTML Widget
- Annual AML/CFT Report
- Updated Widgets
- New Client Widgets
- Identification now supports paste Name and Date of Birth
- Account Schedule
- "Overdue" column now added as default for Loan Accounts
- Process Direct Debit Payments wizard
- Value can now be updated
- Account Refinancing
- Full Refinancing is now handled by the Account Close and New Account HTML Widgets
- External Party Edit
- "Show only related Accounts when selecting Disbursement, Commission and Securitisation Accounts?" Global Setting is now respected
- Centrix Individual Credit Enquiry
- Now supports Biometric Verifications
- InfoAgent Security Enquiry
- Previous Report option now available
- Override Forms
- Account Transaction Edit Reference and Notes form can now be overridden with a Widget
- Account Restructure wizard can now be overridden with a Widget
- Controls
- New widget.Minimise() method
- New widget.UI.Button control
- widget.UI.DocumentManagerComboBox now has Buttons and ButtonsDefine methods
- widget.UI.DateTimeZone control has new .ValueSetNow() method to set value to current date and time
- widget.UI.InformationListComboBox; New method SetLogOutcomeComboFromSectionedInformationList()
- widget.js; JavaScript Polyfil functionality required for Internet Explorer has been removed
Excel
- Numbers are no longer parsed when loading a CSV file
- GetString returns unexpected exponential value when a large number stored in Cell
- Added Get and Set functions for Long values
Scripting
- Go To Definition functionality extended
- Snippets
- Various enhancements, including
- Alternate folder location can now be defined
- Sub-folders now supported
- Support for Template Text
- New option to create a snippet directly from Code or Template Text
- Filter text is now highlighted in code
Service Logs
- Information stored in Service Logs enhanced to better track versions for some Services
- APLYiD
- InfoAgent
- NZ Government
- RealAML
- Secured Signing
Auditing
- Licence changes are now audited
- Auditing of Pools added
Webview 2
- Windows Update for WebView2 (Runtime version 114) causes Task Manager 2 to hang
finPOWER Connect Cloud
- Log Edit form is now an HTML Widget
- Security Statements can now be added independent of adding a new Account
- Document Manager (Files tab) now supports File Categories
- Hash tagging (for Quick Search 2) now shown as links in Notes for various records
- Transactions can now be authorised
- Annual AML/CFT Report (New Zealand) now available
Source: Intersoft Systems Limited - "Release History" - https://finPOWER Connect - Release History
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