• System startup or company selection. A warning message resulted if the Pervasive database engine was not running at the source of the software and company location. This message ("Pervasive not installed or functioning") failed to provide customers with sufficient information. The message has been modified for clarity and a full explanation with diagnostics for different environments is now provided online.
• User login. A security issue was fixed in an earlier version by enforcing the rule that prevents any User ID from being logged in at more than one workstation at a time. The resulting new error message caused some users to believe that only one person could log in at a time. An online "Hot Topic" is now provided to explain that each person in the office who works on 21st Century Accounting now simply needs a separate User ID.
• Sales/Invoices. The problem with long Purchase Order numbers has been corrected.
• Sales/Invoices. Numbers for new invoices sometimes defaulted to existing unposted invoice numbers. This problem has been corrected.
• System/Company/Backup. The problems some users had backing up to CDs using the Windows CD Writing Wizard have been corrected. You can now use the Wizard with the System/Company Backup function.
• System/Company/Backup. The backup function did not allow you to change the name of the backup file. This has been corrected so you can now modify the filename (as well as select the backup folder and append the date to the filename).
• Receivables/Print/Customer Activity by Period. The integrity warning message comparing customer transaction account balances with G/L control account balances displayed incorrect results. This problem has been corrected.

Enhancements in Version 4.1

• System/Company/Backup and System/Company/Restore. The Backup and Restore functions have been separated on the menu and retooled to be more robust and smarter. They now display the progress of the Backup and Restore operations for your review. If a problem occurs that affects the integrity of the data, the operation stops. You can use the information in the Progress box as a troubleshooting tool.
• Sales/Print/Backorder Report. Backordered items are the items remaining on a Sales Order when a customer's order (for 42 widgets, say, entered on a Sales Order) is only partially filled (only 22 widgets in stock, say, sold via a Sales Invoice). The 20 widgets remaining on the SO are now considered on backorder. The number of backordered items is reduced as you invoice additional sales of the items and when you delete unfulfilled Sales Orders for those items.

  The new Backorder Report on the Sales/Print menu shows the order date, item ID, order number, customer, quantity on backorder, UOM, unit price, and total price for each item listed.

• System/Company/Company Access Control. The new Company Access Control function lets you manage access to the selected company. The settings you make with this command are for a single company; they do not apply to any other companies.

  System/Access Control is unchanged. It resides on the menu in the same place as always and lets you set user access across companies as before.

• Payroll/Configure/Global Employee Update. You can now add, modify, and delete pay factors for all employees or for selected employees. Add and Modify display the selected factor's configurable attributes for completion. Delete displays no attributes. When you "post" the action, the system executes the selected action on the selected factor for the selected employees.