What's new in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.9.1

Oct 22, 2015
  • Fixed Import problem in Expense Tracker regarding Tax Deductible setting.
  • Improvements to Reservation Tracker's Tax Report and Deposits Report.
  • Added Sort by Reservation Date to Reservation Tracker.
  • Fixed problem with printing Confirmations, etc. in Reservation Tracker.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.9 (Sep 28, 2015)

  • Fixed a problem adding Other Charges for multiple days/nights in reservation tracker
  • Improvements to the Property Management Invoice
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.8.5 (Jul 2, 2015)

  • Expense Reports now show "Depreciate" and "Not Deductible" properly if the "Tax Deductible Only" option is deselected.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.8.4 (May 1, 2015)

  • In the Vacation Unit Tracker History field if the Reservation does not exist for some reason, you now have the option to Restore it (to some extent).
  • Improvements to Add Other Charge feature in Reservation Tracker.
  • Improvement to Property Management Invoice totals in Expense Reports.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.8.3 (Mar 28, 2015)

  • Add Payment in Reservation Tracker now adds Security Deposit payments to Other Income Tracker automatically if that Preference is set
  • When a Payment is added to a Reservation the Status is changed to Reserved after a confirmation
  • The Add Repair Notes to the Work Order feature is now working again in Work Order Tracker
  • Improvement to the Other Income Tracker Report
  • Improvements to Account Register
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.8.2 (Mar 12, 2015)

  • Improved Rent Roll
  • Improved Expense Report
  • Improved Tax Form Report
  • Improved Property Management - PM Invoice
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.8.1 (Jan 16, 2015)

  • Fixed the Option button in the Confirmation and Receipt printing window.
  • Updated Exchange Rates in the Universal Calculator's Currency Money Exchange section.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.8 (Jul 20, 2014)

  • Fixed Auto Import Income in Other Income Tracker to ignore zero payments
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.7.2 (May 12, 2014)

  • Reservation Tracker:
  • Added Address to the information sent to Marathon/Synapse for Credit Card processing. This should prevent some declines.
  • You can now Print the Daily Reminders list in Reservation Tracker.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.7.1 (May 12, 2014)

  • Reservation Tracker:
  • Sub Total added back to Confirmations when no Payments have been made.
  • Account Register button in Other Income Tracker fixed.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.7.0 (May 12, 2014)

  • Reservation Tracker:
  • Improved Confirmations and Receipts
  • Removed duplicate Total Charges line
  • Deposit and Deposit Returned are no longer removed from Charges in Receipts
  • Fixed problem with ending balances after returning a deposit
  • Fixed other problems with returning a deposit
  • Improved adding Other Charges and how these got reported in a PM Invoice
  • Improvements to Specified Period option in PM Invoice.
  • Critical fix to PM Invoice
  • Contact Tracker:
  • Improvements to List Contacts report.
  • Reports with bolded lines are now printed correctly but no longer have footers.
  • Added support for printing on A4 paper in reports. A4 option must be set in Print Invoice options
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.6.5 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Reservation Tracker's New Occupancy Report totals all rents, and exempt rents, for any period of time, for local tax reporting. A new OTE (Occupancy Tax Exemption) option has been added to the Notes section on the Reservation Tracker records, to indicate exemption. All reservations longer than a specified number of days are exempted.
  • In Expense Reports, in the PM Invoice options, when you click Management Fee, after entering a percent, you can choose All Charges or Only Rent. Now if you choose Only Rent, only the Rent amount is added to the amount calculated for the Management Fee.
  • Several improvements to the Property Management Invoice (PM Invoice in Expense Reports).
  • Fixed a problem with Auto Import Income in Other Income Tracker.
  • Export files can now be saved in CSV format.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.6.3 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Has a minor fix for Amazon downloads

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.6.2 (May 11, 2013)

  • Data is now exported properly from Expense Tracker.
  • Improvements to Check Printing
  • Improvements to Combine feature in Expense Tracker
  • Help button in 1099Misc window fixed
  • Improvements to Transfer to Account feature
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.6.1 (May 11, 2013)

  • Taxes on Charges in Reservation Tracker which are a percent or a multiple of an amount are now more clearly listed.
  • The Tax Report in Reservation Tracker Reports, now has an option to report only completed reservations.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.6 (Feb 13, 2013)

  • Modifying a Guest's name now updates Contact Tracker
  • All Dates in Schedule Checker now works properly
  • When you set an Expense Tracker record to Tax Deductible, then the Expense type is now added to the Tax Deductible Expenses list and subsequent records for that Expense Type will always be treated as Tax Deductible.
  • Fixed miscalculation when adding tax to an Other Charge that is a percent to Reservation Tracker Charges.
  • Adding a Sale Date to a Vacation Unit Tracker record now removes that Unit from the Availability chart.
  • Added unlimited photos to Asset Tracker.
  • Fixed Add to Contact Tracker feature in Owners/Managers window
  • Taxes are no longer added to Total Rent Due in Property Management Invoices when Add Taxes is not enabled.
  • Added Size selector to Check Printer and made Voucher resizable.
  • Improvements to PM Invoice
  • Clicking the "E-mail" label in Contact Tracker will now either copy the e-mail address to the clipboard for pasting into your e-mail program or open a new e-mail for that contact in your desktop e-mail program.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.5.3 (Feb 13, 2013)

  • An import problem in Expense Tracker was fixed (found only in version 1.6.5.2)
  • Fixed miscalculation when adding tax to an Other Charge that is a percent of the Rental Rate to the Reservation Tracker Charges.
  • Adding a Sale Date to a Vacation Unit Tracker record now removes that Unit from the Availability chart.
  • You can now add an unlimited number of photos to Asset Tracker.
  • Taxes are no longer added to Total Rent Due totals in Property Management Invoices when Add Taxes is not enabled.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.5.1 (Dec 22, 2012)

  • Reservations can no longer be made for Units listed as Not Available in Unit Chooser.
  • Modifying a Guest's name now updates Contact Tracker
  • All Dates in Schedule Checker now works properly
  • When you set an Expense Tracker record to Tax Deductible, then the Expense type is now added to the Tax Deductible Expenses list and subsequent records for that Expense Type will always be treated as Tax Deductible.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.5.0 (Sep 17, 2012)

  • There is a new Waiting Reservations Report in the Reservation Report window. You choose this and Other Reports from a new drop down menu at the top right of the window.
  • Added a check for conflicting reservations to Availability Checker.
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.4.1 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • In Reservation Tracker's Preferences you can either Calculate the number of weeks before Arrival that the deposit is due or Always use the Reservation Date for the Deposit Due date.
  • Default Arrival and Departure Times have been added to Reservation Tracker's Preferences
  • You can now enter a 1st Payment of 100% in Reservation Tracker Preferences
  • All Dates in Reservation Confirmations, Receipts, etc. are now in a more international friendly format.
  • The Reservation Date can now be added to the Second Column in Schedule Checker for Arrivals or Departures.
  • Reservations can now be automatically added and updated to multiple installations of the software. Additional registration numbers are required to do this. There is one file to install on a server or shared computer, but no other software is required.
  • Transferring funds from one Rental Expense Tracker Account to another is now possible again.
  • Improvements to Backup and Restore
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.4.0 (Jun 8, 2012)

  • There is a new Suppress Restore Continue Dialogs option in the General section of the Preferences window, which allows the Restore Records process to proceed without any user interaction. If this option is not enabled you will be notified when the records have been restored to each component of the software.
  • Schedule Checker now has an Arrivals & Departures option.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.3.7 (May 22, 2012)

  • Improved Work Order format. The Priority is now added to the Work Orders.
  • Date format in backup file name has been modified
  • Other minor improvements.

New in Portable Vacation Rental Tracker Plus 1.6.3.6 (May 2, 2012)

  • Added a new option menu to Expense Tracker which has the choices Tax Deductible, Not Deductible, and Depreciate. A list of Expenses to be Depreciated is now added to the end of a Tax Form Report.
  • Several improvements to Work Order Tracker:
  • Added a Permission to Enter option.
  • Added Tenant Name and Phone Number to Vendor Notes.
  • Added ability to add Notes Regarding Repairs to Work Order.
  • Text of actual Work Orders removed from export and backup files making these files much smaller.
  • When Importing Work Order Tracker data, Job Types are now added to the menu.
  • Work Order Headers and Footers and Custom Header data are now exported and restored to the Work Order printing window.
  • Improvements to Reservation Tracker:
  • PayPal is now accepted as a Payment Type. It is also a Credit Card Type (MC, VISA, AMEX and DISC have been removed). Clicking the PayPal option opens your browser and takes you to PayPal.
  • Fixed a problem with the CC Number Lock icon in Reservation Tracker.
  • Increased length of Rate Names in Reservation Tracker from 10 to 20 characters.
  • Fixed minor problem with emailed Reservation Receipts - made col 1 wider
  • Fixed a problem generating a Tax Form Report when the Unit's Owner field does not contain a percentage.
  • Updated Synapse gateway scripts for online payments.
  • Other minor improvements.