It is now possible to assign an outcome code to vehicle interests. This is mostly of use for reporting purposes in order to produce statistics about the sales success level.

• It is now possible to view vehicle stock and select a specific vehicle from within prospect vehicle interests.

Platinum now supports the revised VAT treatment of caravans that are longer than 7 metres (m) or wider than 2.55 m, and which do not meet British Standard 3632:2005 (mainly static and large touring caravans). This change comes into effect as of 06/04/2013, and when Platinum is used on or after that date, the new rules will be applied.

• If your business involves the sale of caravans as described above, you will need to configure your system to indicate which VAT rate to use for the "Reduced Rate" (5% at the time of writing). To do this you should navigate to "Vehicle Sales" -> "Maintenance Options" -> "Parameters" -> "Invoicing - Sale Vehicle", against "Reduced V.A.T. Rate".

• The hopefully small number of new vans affected which were purchased prior to that date, but which have not been sold yet will need to have the purchase VAT manually adjusted on the vehicle details in order that Platinum can calculate sales VAT in the correct ratio.

If you have any queries please contact your Platinum dealer or contact our support team on (0116) 230 1500 or by using our website support contact page.

It is now possible to list the methods of payment used when printing a "Workshop Management" invoice.

The following new tokens have been added to allow this.

Document Configuration - Vehicle Workshop Document

~120

• Payments Tendered Layout

~713

• Tendered Amounts Breakdown

• See the configurable document format documentation for the full details of the above token(s).

Catalyst is proud to announce the release of their Motorcycle Model File.

We have spent time creating over 3000 models to make life easier for our dealers. All these models have been linked to their corresponding eBay models to make sure your vehicle appears in the correct place. Your own models with all of their information can be easily merged with the Platinum Models.

• If you are interested in this free file, please contact our support team so they can enable the download.

Regular expressions have been added to the Data Import and Report Generators for advanced pattern matching and filtering.

New Formula Operators

=~

• Regular Expression comparison, returns TRUE for a successful comparison.

?~

• Regular Expression search, Will return the string found in group 1.

• See Regular Expressions for more details.

Several improvements have been made to the Platinum O+ Website Management. These include:

• You may now flag a page as 'Under Development'. Pages under development and any subpages of that page are not uploaded to the web.
• On the "Items" page, you can now search for stock by analysis code.
• The Categories/Pages can now be searched.
• The Categories/Pages section will now scale with the width of the window. Stretch the window to see the full category descriptions.