Light Blue 8.1.1

We’ve released Light Blue 8.1.1, which is another free update to everyone who subscribes to our online services or has bought Light Blue 8. This is a minor update that adds new features and fixes bugs that were reported after the launch of Light Blue 8.1.

• You can now create Purchase records from Sale records, using the cost information that you’ve entered into your price lists. In a price list, you can now specify the supplier, net cost, and VAT / sales tax cost of the products that you offer. From a Sale record, you can use the options menu in the Items section or right-click on an item to create Purchase records for the items in the Sale.
• You can now create one-time setup codes from the “Manage My Devices” section of your account. This allows you to add a device to your Light Blue account without giving your account password to the owner of that device.
• You can now set up automatic SMS credit top-ups yourself by logging into your account on our website.
• Non-breaking spaces copied and pasted from other apps are now automatically replaced when you edit a text message template. These characters could make a message use the Unicode character set despite looking like they only contain characters from the standard GSM character set.
• Workflow messages linked to a session or an appointment can now use contact and shoot mail-merge tags.
• Added a warning message when you try to go to records that you don’t have access to from the Home screen.
• The “Restore From Backup” and “Reset Your Light Blue Account” commands are now only available to staff who have full access privileges.
• Clarified the “you can only submit this contract once everyone has signed it” message that appears on unsigned contracts.
• Fixed a problem where non-https images included in emails couldn’t be previewed on macOS.
• Fixed a problem where restoring a Contact record from the trash wouldn’t restore it to the group that it was part of.
• Fixed a rare problem where an email could be sent via our servers rather than your selected email account.
• Fixed a problem where the date of a scheduled text message in the Outbox could be displayed incorrectly.
• Fixed a problem where the purchase net and tax amount calculator wouldn’t work with European decimal separators.
• Fixed a problem where creating a credit note could create one with the wrong cents value if you’re using European decimal separators.
• Fixed a problem where re-entering your account password in the “continue trial” or “your trial has expired” pages of the setup wizard wouldn’t successfully authenticate your account.
• Fixed a problem with upgrading from Light Blue 4 to Light Blue 8.
• Fixed a problem that could cause the “your trial has expired” setup screen to appear when you’re not actually using a trial account.
• Fixed a race condition that could cause “The email hasn’t been synced to our servers yet” errors when trying to send emails in quick succession.