USAS-R v8.49.0 Release Notes

Summary

This release of USAS-R contains a patch as detailed in the release notes below.  Please keep in mind these release notes only reflect the changes included in this release.  There are many other features of the software that were previously released that will not be reflected in these release notes.  General information about all of the features available in USAS-R can be found in our USAS-R Documentation.  There is a section in the documentation that also details the significant changes between USAS-R and Classic USAS. 

Important Highlights

Improvements

• Payables performance improvements: The changes in this issue resulted in the following improvements.  Additional improvements related to the performance of the expenditure process related transactions is ongoing.

  • 60% increase posting Payables  (creating disbursements)  

  • 6% increase posting Invoices

  • 18% increase creating POs from Pending Transactions. 

• Patch to close archived posting period that remained open after migration.  This patch closes the archived posting period and creates missing periods for 3 specific districts.

• Patch to correct a PO with items over 10 million for a recently migrated district.

• 1099 related changes

  • 1099 PDF documents were created for both the 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC options.   Copy A was added with this release and can be found when selecting the new Output File Type value "Reference Copy" .  This option will display a new "1099 Copy" field.  This is not the folder/sealer copy that will be provided to the vendor.  Additional 1099 printing issues are being worked and when 1099 printing from USAS-R is fully available we will detail that in the release notes.  The PDF versions used last year are still available under the Output File Type: PDF Format.

  • The 1099 extract filename was modified to indicate if the file was generated for MISC, NEC or BOTH 1099 return types.  The filename will also include the submission type if Test or Correction is selected.  No additional naming change will be indicated if the submission type is Original.  These changes apply to the generated files that download and the copies that are sent to the file archive.  The naming convention will be as follows: District_Name_1099_ReturnType_SubmissionType.

    • If Sampleville school generated both types of 1099s and the submission type was Original, the filename would be Sampleville_1099_BOTH.

    • If Sampleville school generated NEC 1099s only and the submission type was Correction (C), the filename would be Sampleville_1099_NEC_C.

    • If Sampleville school generated MISC only 1099s and the submission type was Test (T), the filename would be Sampleville_1099_MISC_T.

Issues included on this release