Spire 3.12 Release Notes (3.12 to 3.12.13)

Spire 3.12 was released on August 12, 2024; the latest update in this version is 3.12.13 (December 16, 2025). Below are Spire Systems’ release notes for every 3.12 release, organised by area, newest first. Spire 3.x and Spire 4.x are separate lines; these notes are for Spire 3. All Spire 3.x release notes.

In this version: 3.12.13 · 3.12.12 · 3.12.11 · 3.12.10 · 3.12.9 · 3.12.8 · 3.12.7 · 3.12.6 · 3.12.5 · 3.12.4 · 3.12.3 · 3.12.2 · 3.12.1 · 3.12

Highlights

Production gets its biggest upgrade. Import templates and orders, work-in-progress posting and phased builds, a Reports tab, and cost methods with differential cost posting.
Pricing tools. A Change Sell Price tool for mass updates, more rounding options, and cost, margin and markup columns in the price lists.
Warehouses can be set Active, Inactive or On Hold, and lists and lookups respect it.
Purchasing. Invoice an issued purchase order before the stock arrives and post it as a deposit.
Payroll. CPP2 support and transfers from EFT clearing to the bank account.
Administration. Install Spire Desktop updates without Windows administrator rights, default email templates, and “From End of Month” payment terms.

Spire 3.12.13 (December 16, 2025)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

Payroll module

Update tax tables for 2026 as per CRA
Update xml schema for 2025 T4s as per CRA

Report Changes

T4-14b-CRA – 2025 revision
T4-14b-employee – 2025 revision
T4-14b-employer – 2025 revision
T4-Summary – 2025 revision
T4A Page 2 – 2025 revision
T4A-Summary – 2025 revision
T4A – 2025 revision
T5018– 2025 revision

Spire 3.12.12 (June 17, 2025)

Spire Desktop New features

Payroll module

Add July 2025 Tax Tables

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

Payroll module

Correct session error when saving an employee with date type UDF fields where UDF date validation is in effect

Production module

Allow Exp. Scrap Qty to be filled in and automatically update Exp. Scrap %

Sales module

Sort Price drop down by Price Level Code

Spire 3.12.11 (March 31, 2025)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

Accounts Payable Module

Correct permission error posting a foreign AP Expense when no foreign expense GL account exists

Customer Module

Correct error changing Payment Terms with multi edit

General Ledger Module

Move memo field in Add Bank Fees dialog in Account Reconciliation

Inventory Module

Correct error when creating a Margin Price in Edit Inventory, Prices and Unit without setting a Sell Price Level
Correctly display Current Cost on a Kitted line shown in the Components tab of a Kit
Maintain user overwritten quantity for subassemblies when Collapsing and Expanding subassemblies in Bill of Materials tab
Correct ability to edit second Sales Tax code in Edit Inventory, Sales Taxes

Payroll Module

Add ability to clear remitted status from an existing individual T4
Do not calculate CPP2 for exempt (over age) commission employees who have a value in Estimated Pay
Recalculate taxable amount and tax on timecard when RRSP amount is edited
Correct ability to Export edited and amended T4s
Correct Invalid type for GL Account Allocation within Payroll Department

Production Module

Correct Error “Unbalanced Transaction” when building some Production Orders
Correctly post Non-Physical Inventory lines to designated GL Account
Correctly maintain the order of items in Production Templates, based on where the item was placed when added
Maintain user overridden quantity for subassemblies when Collapsing and Expanding subassemblies in Template

Purchases Module

Correct Error “Insufficient permission to edit requisition” when closing a Purchase Order
Do not prompt for Save when closing a Purchase Order where no changes were made

Sales Module

Do not create an empty Equipment record when creating new Sales Order
Commit and backorder Macro items appropriately when a Macro is entered below a Job Header
Correct session error saving a Sales Order with a UDF that has validation or formatting set
Create separate columns of Order Reference No and Reference No (Item) in Sales Order, Items tab

Report Changes

AP EFT Payment Remittance – show records with duplicate date and reference number
AP Open Items – show records with duplicate date and reference number
AP Payment Remittance – show records with duplicate date and reference number
AP Payments Batch – show records with duplicate date and reference number
Inventory Adjustments – support 5 decimal places on cost price
Inventory Transfer – support 5 decimal places on cost price
Purchase Order reprint – support 5 decimal places on cost price
Purchase Order – support 5 decimal places on cost price
Receiver General by Payroll Dates – adjust *Gross pay with taxable benefits —

Spire 3.12.10 (March 4, 2025)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

General

Do not prompt for upgrade when Spire Desktop starts that has a higher point release version than Spire Server. This allows the Spire Desktop 3.12.10 upgrade to be installed by Payroll clerk only. i.e. Spire 3.12.10 Desktop will not prompt for an upgrade when logging into a Spire Server 3.12.9

Payroll Module

Add ability to create Amended T4s where the needed changes to the original T4 are detected either due to an error or added timecard
Correct Box 26 for employees whose pensionable earnings exceeded $68,500 in 2024 on amended T4s and new T4s
Remove spaces from postal codes in T4.xml file
Improve error message creating T4.xml when an address in a T4 contains an invalid character

Report Changes

Receiver General by Payroll Dates – add Child Care amount to Gross Payroll column

Spire 3.12.9 (January 29, 2025)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

General

Correctly support “&” in merge fields in Email Subject and Email Body
Correct session error when manually typing in a Serial/Lot number in the Serial/Lot dialog

Customer module

Correct session error copying a BillTo address

Inventory module

Correct Attribute error adding a new price

Payroll module

Correct T4 XML (T619) file for company names > 30 characters
Add ability to enter a Representative ID in Export for CRA T4 screen (now required when logging into CRA T4 upload site as a Representative)
Remove imbedded space from Postal Code when uploading ROEs

Production module

Improve support for non-inventory items on Pending Production Orders and Build Production Orders

Sales module

Correct error when Print All is used with the Sales Order number column removed from the list
Remove “Use Available” button from Payment Method screen since behaviour was the same as “Override”

Report Changes

Customer Product Sales – restore ?CustomerNoList parameter for email to work correctly —

Spire 3.12.8 (January 15, 2025)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

General

Correct Crystal Reports error when installing Spire Desktop and selecting “Install for me only (recommended)”

Accounts Payable module

Respect user permissions for Unlink transactions in Unapply

Accounts Receivable module

Respect user permissions for Unlink transactions in Unapply

Import module

Support phone extensions when importing contacts
Support 0.00 value in Sell Prices import

Inventory module

Increase timeout for loading records in Movement tab

Job module

Respect document date on Job Cost date entry

Payroll module

Correct T4 XML file format for Upload to CRA
Add CPP2 column to T4 List

Sales module

Remove Create Batch screen when it is complete
Correctly use sum of kit component costs for Price calculation, when Price Matrix Margin pricing has been set on a Kitted item (only when show options is disabled)

Report Changes

Employee Vacation – improve report description
Payroll Ledger – remove ID from Cheque column
RL-1 Worksheet – edit for 2024 RL-1 forms changes —

Spire 3.12.7 (January 9, 2025)

Spire Desktop New features

Inventory module

Add ability to Reset temporary serial allocations without performing a full Serial/Lot number quantity reallocation

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

General

Add ability to open Communication attachments and set file association on Spire Cloud
Do not allow Serial or Lot number quantities to be reduced below 0 by an Order or Inventory Adjustment when Company Settings, Inventory, Prohibit overshipping is enabled
Do not refresh Lists when changing the Sorted column
Correct error clicking a New Field with a field selected (and not a page selected) while editing a UDF Structure
Improve support to open Communication attachments stored in Spire Cloud

General Ledger module

Replace the GL Group field label “Total Header” with “Total Label”

Import module

Correctly capture error attempting to Import a Vendor Contact with an invalid Ship ID
Make This Year and Last Year Dental Benefits as required fields when importing Employees

Inventory module

Correctly allow Inventory Count to correct a negative Serial/Lot Qty
Do not change description on next line when deleting a line in the Inventory Requisitions List
Improve speed returning results when using Search on the Inventory List

Payroll module

Add ability to set Last Year Dental Benefit in Edit Employee
Correct error attempting to set an employee Payroll Department to blank
Add notification to Edit Employee screen when dental benefits are not populated
Add dental benefits columns to Employee List

Requisitions module

Correct error clicking Drop Ship in the Requisition List before processing the requisition

Sales module

Correctly display Communications when Kind column is removed from Communications List
Allow Reverse Sales Order to be created from a Sales History Invoice even when an address related to the customer is On Hold —

Spire 3.12.6 (December 18, 2024)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

Payroll module

Note; Ensure that all employee profiles have the dental benefit set in Edit Employee, Amounts tab, prior to performing a Payroll Year End for 2024!
Add 2025 Canadian Payroll Tax Tables
Correct error creating a Record of Employment for employee with a prior Termination Date
Correct error while creating an empty EFT file
Correctly zero Employee YTD CPP2/QPP2 when performing Payroll Year End

General

Set Manage Bank Information to disabled when creating a new Non Admin user. This will also affect users who have never had this setting modified.
Correct occasional errors due to columns being hidden on Lists
Correctly show Email Batch window on top
Automatically add a Main Contact record for all Addresses, if missing

Accounts Receivable module

Allow reports to be run with Customer Number column removed from List

Customer module

Correctly create new address contact record when a main contact record does not exist

Inventory module

Move Bill of Materials Categories and Replace Bill of Materials Components from Production menu to Inventory menu
Correct error attempting Inventory Transfer to an On Hold warehouse
Improve new part number validation in Inventory Code change

Production module

Correct error using Switch to Alternate on a sub-assembly in a Production Order
Correctly retain Phase on Production Order when adding items

Purchases module

Remove ability to post GL Transactions for a Purchase Order, to a different division than it was created in, including the consolidated division
Correct duplicate receipt on a Purchase that fails posting due to an Inactive GL Account

Requisitions module

Correct error changing a Vendor on a non-inventory item

Sales History module

Correct error clicking View Transaction in Sales History, Invoices tab when Trans No column is disabled
Correctly print Invoice report even when Invoice number column is removed from the List
Remove Extended Price column when user does not have permission to see Sell Prices
Remove calculated Discount Amt column from Sales History, Invoice screen

Sales module

Correct error adding Sales Orders to an existing Sales Order batch for Batch posting
Do not assign an Invoice number to a Sales Order when posting is cancelled from Review GL Transaction
Correct errors using Update Orders after editing Customer, when Sales Orders have invalid fields like missing Salesperson or Inactive Inventory
Correctly populate sell price while adding new lines on a Sales Order copied from Sales History
Correct error attempting to delete a On Hold Inventory item from a Sales Order

Spire Web Improvements and corrections

General

Respect disabled flag seen in Spire Server Admin, Reports page for company specific reports
Show Spire Release Notes when clicking the Bell in Spire Server Admin

Report Changes

Customer Product Sales – remove ?CustomerNoList parameter which could cause some records to get missed from the report if there were too many customers listed
GL Open Balance check – add subtotals on Divsion
Payroll Cheque-Bottom – Include CPP2 in YTD Net Pay
Payroll Cheque-Centre – Include CPP2 in YTD Net Pay
Payroll Cheque-Top – Include CPP2 in YTD Net Pay
Payroll Direct Deposit – Include CPP2 in YTD Net Pay
Payroll Ledger by Department – show subtotals for unposted timecards
Payroll Ledger – show subtotals for unposted timecards
Production Template – keep subassemblies together
Purchase Order – increase height of part number field to show underscore
T4-14b-CRA – CRA form changes for 2024
T4-14b-employee – CRA form changes for 2024
T4-14b-employer – CRA form changes for 2024
T4A Page 2 – CRA form changes for 2024
T4A – CRA form changes for 2024
T4A Summary – CRA form changes for 2024
T4 Summary – CRA form changes for 2024
T5018 – CRA form changes for 2024
T5018 Summary – CRA form changes for 2024 —

Spire 3.12.5 (November 28, 2024)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

General

Improve display of non ascii characters in Email list
Improve error displayed when saving a communication with an attachment file that no longer exists
Add ability to set Header and Footer notes for Financial Reports in Company Settings, Reports, Messages
Correct error received after doing a Year End Close while the GL Transaction list was open
Correct error running a Crystal Report that has a printer specified but does not exist on the available printer list
Set default sort order on transactions lists to descending Transaction Number
Correct session error when selecting a GL Account while setting up a new Sales Tax record

Accounts Payable module

Correct periodic session error double clicking an Accounts Payable record, when Job Cost was not enabled

Communication module

Respect user permissions when exporting from the Communication lists

Customer module

Correct the migration of Price Level settings in Edit Customer, Addresses, Pricing tab for customers linked to foreign currency Price Levels

Import module

Add option Update Existing for Import Inventory Sell Prices to improve speed when only adding Sell Price records
Improve speed importing Sell Prices
Correct memory leaks and release cache when importing multiple files

Inventory module

Add ability to edit Effective Date to blank on a Sell Price record

POS module

Correct error Invoicing when the customer has exceeded their credit limit and user has “Ship and Invoice Orders Over Credit Limit” disabled

Production module

Copy all information from a Production Template to a Production Order subassembly line including Instructions
Correctly refresh the interface when using Collapse All on a Production Order containing Kits or WIP processed subassemblies

Purchases module

Correct error clicking Open Source when a linked Sales Order has been Invoiced
Correctly respect the lack of “Buy” being enabled on a UOM when adding to an item to a Purchase Order

Sales module

Improve speed adding many lines to a Sales Order
Correct Shipped quantity for a Lot numbered item when an alternate UOM is used for Order quantity
Correct error Invoicing a Sales Order which has a manufactured item with unprocessed linked Requisition record
Show Sales Order banner alerts in this order – Sales Order Alerts, Customer Alerts, Shipping Address Alerts, then all other Sales Order communications
Correct error when recovering a deleted Sales Order with an attached communication note
Correct Sell price on Sales Order line when changing to and from UOM that has no Sell Price
Remove Sales Order line discount values when using Refresh Prices on the Sales Order List and inside the Sales Order
Add “Refresh All Prices and Preserve User Discounts” in Sales Order, Refresh Prices
Allow a linked Equipment record to be removed from a Work Order/Sales Order
Correct error when attempting to remove an item from a Sales Order after the item has been marked On Hold
Correctly respect the lack of “Sell” being enabled on a UOM when adding to an item to a Sales Order

Requisitions module

Correct Search behaviour on the Requisition List
Display columns for Created, Created By, Modified, Modified By

Report Changes

Balance Sheet – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Comparative Statement – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Financial Statement by 12 Periods – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings
Financial Statement by Period – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Financial Summary – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Historical Balance Sheet – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Historical Statement by 12 Periods – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Historical Financial Statement by Period – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Historical Income Statement – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Historical Trial Balance – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Income Statement compared to Budget – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Income Statement compared to Forecast – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Income Statement – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports
Trial Balance – add Header and Footer notes from Company Settings, Reports —

Spire 3.12.4 (November 14, 2024)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

General

Improve speed when loading the results of auto complete lookups
Correct error trying to save a Shipping Method without a code

Accounts Receivable module

Correct Session error editing a cheque payment in an Accounts Receivable Payment batch

Import module

Correctly import Sell Price Level in Customer Address Import

Inventory module

Add ability to remember selected columns and column position in Edit Inventory, Prices and Units, Pricing list
Improve ability to use pre 3.12 values for Inventory Status Filter

Production module

Do not allow edit on Production Order lines that have had WIP Built

Report Changes

Post Inventory Count – remove inventory_receipts.id from Details section

Spire 3.12.3 (October 30, 2024)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

General

Correctly save when editing Company Settings, Company, Address, Contact Type
Improve sort order on Phase History List
Set default focus to Print button in Reports List dialog

Customer module

Correctly support User permission for “Modify on hold flag” in multi edit dialog

General Ledger module

Improve Recurring GL Transaction, Frequency labels to Semi-Weekly and Semi-Monthly

Inventory module

Remove Inactive warehouses from Warehouse list when copying Inventory
Improve Vendor sort order when using Purchase button on Inventory List

Payables module

Prohibit removal of Bank Account in Review GL while posting a payment

Production module

Correctly prompt for Lot number creation when sub-assemblies are built and the Lot number setting is Consume by Choice
Copy subcomponent lines assigned to WIP and built to Production History after Production Build

Purchase module

Do not allow an On Hold Inventory item to be received
Do not allow Purchase Receipts on a PO with Freight when the Freight GL Account is Inactive
Prohibit removal of Accrued Payables account in Review GL
Correctly average Lot Cost when the same Lot number is received on multiple lines within a PO

Sales module

Remove text “Press <enter> to insert comment” on empty line
Add Ship To field in Sales Order tab order
Improve banner notification when editing a Closed Sales Order which is not On Hold

Spire Server Improvements and corrections

Improve automatic database upgrade on Spire Cloud

Report Changes

Production WIP Reconciliation – add sort on _created —

Spire 3.12.2 (October 21, 2024)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

General

Automatically uncheck Apply Discount to Freight when Apply Discount to Net Amount is unchecked in Payment Terms
Correct session error saving Historical Periods in Company settings
Correct session error in T5018 and T4A forms
Remove invalid characters from Name and Email field when creating contacts
Improve tooltip on Company Settings, Sales Orders, Process/Invoicing, Customer Credit, Check credit based on ordered quantity
Check for Phase in use in User settings before allowing a delete phase to happen
Improve session management while acquiring record locks

Accounts Payable module

Correct View Transaction when select GL Transaction is in GL History
Correct error during subsequent GL Posting if it has already been presented in a View GL Transaction screen and Cancelled
Allow Voiding a payment that has been reconciled
Correct cheque report printing when posting payments in an Accounts Payable Batch

Accounts Receivable module

Correct View Transaction when select GL Transaction is in GL History
Allow Voiding a payment that has been reconciled

Customer module

Correct error deleting a row from the User Type list in Edit Customer, General
Correctly write last_modified value when importing new customer records

General Ledger module

Allow Reversing an Account Reconciliation with no End Date
Make navigation buttons unavailable when creating a new GL Transaction
Add GIFI code to GL Account Import

Inventory module

Correct error posting Inventory Count with manual serialized count
Update Inventory committed quantity when deleting an item from an Inventory Transfer
Use different shaped coloured icons in Inventory Count
Correctly write last_modified value when importing new inventory records
Populate part number on copy Inventory screen
Correct error when attempting to sell an item in an inactive warehouse from the Inventory List

Payroll module

Correct error clicking on Payroll, Payroll Departments when invalid GL accounts exist in the record
Correct Net Pay amounts during on Timecards that contain CPP2 amounts migrated from BV
Correct session error in Payroll, Remit Source Deductions
Improve error handling when Change Pay Periods tries to set a conflicting period

Production module

Correct error clicking in Update Template checkbox on the Header Title row
Correct Unbalanced Transaction error when building the remainder of a Production Order, after a previous partial build
Correct Unbalanced Transaction error when performing a WIP Build on a subassembly where some subcomponents had already had a WIP Build performed
Populate WIP Built On date on subcomponent lines only if they were WIP Built separate from the subassembly
Add Phase column to Production Templates list

Purchases module

Separate Purchase Deposit from Invoice into its own button
Support Reverse Purchase Deposit
Correct UDF validation on required fields during Issue
Correct Open Source in a Purchase Order when it links to a posted Sales Invoice
Do not update Requisitions if a Purchase Order receipt is cancelled

Sales module

Correct error Invoicing a Sales Order that was started in Point of Sale
Correctly use adjusted price when Inventory Price is edited from Open Inventory inside a Sales Order
Correct banner advising that Inventory is available to commit on Sales Orders with Deposits
Do not allow a Standing Order in use by another user, to be Invoiced
Correct filter in ShipTo address lookup
Show ShipTo ID in Sales, Items tab

Spire Server Improvements and corrections

Recover progress of the task display after the database connection is lost on Spire Cloud

Spire Web Improvements and corrections

General

Automatically uncheck Apply Discount to Freight when Apply Discount to Net Amount is unchecked in Payment Terms

Database Changes

A database upgrade will happen due to a change in a User Function

Report Changes

Aged Accounts Payable List – correct Credit Limit values
Employee Ledger – correct Hours values for Advance, Statutory and Bonus pay types
Employee Summary – add Statutory Pay and Bonus Pay to YTD Pay
Production WIP Reconciliation – report on amounts removed from WIP account when Production Order is built
Production WIP by Order No – correct Qty to use Consumed Quantity
Receiver General for Payroll Dates – add CPP 2 to Total Pay on each timecard row —

Spire 3.12.1 (September 10, 2024)

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

General

Correct error when a user attempts to email a report where they don’t have email permission enabled
Correct session error during Copy User
Correct error when a User attempts to email a report where permission has not been granted

Accounts Receivable module

Correct periodic session error double clicking an Accounts Receivable record, when Job Cost was not enabled

General Ledger module

Allow multiple EFT configurations of the same type, to be established on a bank account
Handle error during Export Transactions where memo contains invalid characters
Correct session error cancelling a Reconciliation
Correct session error loading Budgets with divisions active

Inventory module

Correct session error refreshing Bill of Materials tab
Correct session error in Bill of Materials tab, Expand Unavailable

Payroll module

Correct session error editing Pay Period from default in a Timecard batch

Production module

Correct error in Create Template when an item with an alternate part numbers exists
Correct error in Create Template from a Production Order with communication

Purchases module

Correct error “Unable to over- receive item” when a user attempts to click Receive with their cursor in one of the Tax columns
Correctly remove newly added Detail lines not yet saved, when deleting a Purchase Order
Correct session error unchecking a received serial number during Purchase Order receipts

Requisitions module

Correct support for multi-select rows

Sales module

Do not update Sell Prices for Kit components (0.00) during Store All Prices process

Spire Server Improvements and corrections

Correct Archive, Import for on premise server

Report Changes

Disbursements Journal – remove duplicate Details records —

Spire 3.12 (August 12, 2024)

Spire Desktop New features

General

Add support for Great Britain phone numbers when the address has a country of GB
Correct timeout error retrieving messages on a large saved Email Batch
Correct error on Link No when importing UDF for Sales Order Items
Add support for custom colours to be created when using colour picker
Allow ports other than 10880 to be used to connect to a host, no longer assume port 10880 for localhost
Add the ability to install a Spire Desktop update without requiring Windows Administration permissions
Add setting in Company Settings, Sales Orders, Process/Invoicing, Process and Shipping, Serialize on Commit – Default to On
Reduce Time to display permitted Companies in the Spire Desktop logon screen, company list
Add “From End of Month” option to Payment Terms
Add ability to set Default Templates for Email messages

Accounts Receivable module

Display a Payment Method column on Payment records in the Customer Ledger

Customer module

Add Open Related button to Contacts List Import
Add Vendor Payment account to Vendor Import
Add Salesperson Import

Inventory module

Add Extended Cost columns to Inventory List
Add Primary Vendor, Cost, Margin and Markup columns to Inventory, Sell Prices List
Add Cost, Margin and Markup columns to Inventory, Prices and Units, Pricing List
Add Change Sell Price tool to mass update Customer Price Level records
Add multiple rounding methods in Change Sell Price tool
Add “Upload to Web” field to Inventory Import
Add ability to set User Permissions for Edit Sell Price
Add support for typing a Margin in Sell Price screen to add a Price if one does not exist
Add 1 and .05 as rounding options in Sell Prices, Round Price feature
Add ability to delete inventory prices in Inventory, Sell Prices List
Add ability to set Active, Inactive and On Hold Status to Inventory Warehouses, respect in Lists and Lookups
Add buttons to show Historical and Future Prices to Inventory, Prices and Units, Pricing List
Remove the use of a Materialized View for displaying the Inventory List
Add a banner warning regarding the use of a different GL Account when setting Inventory Type to Non-Physical

Payroll module

Add ability to transfer batch amount from EFT Clearing to Bank Account
Add CPP2 column to Employee, Timecards tab
Add migration of CPP2 field when BV Import 2.1 is used to migrate a BusinessVision database Note – Both Spire 3.12+ and BV Import 2.1+ are required for employee and timecard CPP2 amounts to be migrated!

Production module

Add ability to Import Production Templates and Production Orders
Add Work In Progress posting and Phased building processes
Add Reports tab to Production module
Add finished goods warehouse and part number columns to Inventory, Production, Templates, Items List
Add the ability to search by Build number in Production History
Add Company Settings, Production Orders, Cost method and support Inventory, Current and Standard costs, posting to a differential cost account as required
Add weight and extended weight columns to Production Order and Production History
Add support for Inventory Macros in Production Orders
Add UDF columns to Production Template List
Add ability to update unmodified In Progress Production Order lines when editing a Template and pushing the changes
Add ability to click View Source in Production Order GL Transactions and see the related Production Order or Production History
Do not show Inactive Warehouse on drop down list, do not allow a part number in an On Hold warehouse to be added to a Production Order line

Purchases module

Add ability to add an Invoice on an Issued Purchase Order before Inventory is received and post it as a Deposit
Do not show Inactive Warehouse on drop down list, do not allow a part number in an On Hold warehouse to be added to a Purchase Order line
Do not allow transaction to stay in memory after aborting from a Duplicate Invoice number error

Requisitions module

Add ability to Filter Requisitions

Sales History module

Add Vendor Number to Sales History Invoice view

Sales Order module

Add End of Month option for Recurring Sales Orders
Force serial/lot numbers to be selected on Sales Order commit when Company Settings, Sales Orders, Process/Invoicing, Process and Shipping, Serialize on Commit is enabled (default behaviour)
Do not show Inactive Warehouse on drop down list, do not allow a part number in an On Hold warehouse to be added to a Sales Order Items line
Add Print button in Sales, Items tab

Spire Desktop Improvements and corrections

General

Move User Setting for Export Direct Deposit file from Employees to Payroll
Make Show UDF button availability consistent in all modules
Support more phone numbers in Contacts based on the country of the address
Correctly retain phone number format after tabbing off the field
Correctly provide email parameters based on valid Report templates in Phases
Improve Email Batch creation process and improve show progress dialog
Correct error encountered when selecting email message where the batch had been deleted and then attempting to delete the selected messages
Ensure Email message screen is on top after selecting a report and clicking Email
Allow access to Communications when user does not have permission for Email
Improve Windows Colour picker options and position
Improve speed displaying list by not requesting data for hidden columns
Improve reliability of Filters using “is one of”
Remove Cancel button from task based progress bar dialogs i.e. Year End Close
Improve speed to perform Year End Close
Respect Due Date on Communication Alerts
Improve error saving a record when a UDF field has been removed and then recreated with the same name, but a different data type

Accounts Payable module

Allow a 20 character Vendor Code when creating an EFT Payment file
Remove navigation buttons inside Accounts Payable, Open Items, after double clicking on a row
Return to Payment screen for editing when Review GL Transaction is cancelled

Accounts Receivable module

Remove navigation buttons inside Accounts Receivable, Open Items, after double clicking on a row
Return to Payment screen for editing when Review GL Transaction is cancelled

Customer module

Do not allow Customer to be deleted if any Sales History Invoices or deleted Sales Orders exist
Limit the number of characters that can be entered in Customer, Add ShipTo code
Improve allocation of next customer number and next vendor number when these values are set to automatic assignment

Email module

Correct error sorting on To column

General Ledger module

Do not default End Date in Account Reconciliation
Add Last Statement balance to GL Account Import, remove Job cost prompt
Remove Segment selection from General Ledger, Reports, GL History Transactions, Template
Correct GL Division filter for “000”
Left pad GL Accounts, EFT Settings, Bank Transit with leading 0s for Transit numbers with less than 5 digits

Import module

Correct Promotion label in Import Price Matrix

Inventory module

Correctly save changes in Bill of Materials tab after deleting components
Do not permit Kitted Items to be Serialized or Lot numbered
Correctly display error when attempting to Import Inventory records which contain an invalid Sales Department value
Automatically add a new Price record when filling in a new Inventory Item and adding a Cost and a Margin value
Correct Search in Sell Prices List
Improve the ability to enter a percentage amount in Change Price
Use Operating Date, set during Spire Logon, to calculate Lot Expiry date
Do not allow non-physical Inventory to be set as Serialized or Lot Numbered
Enable BOM tab when creating a new Manufactured Inventory Item without requiring a Save
Allow editing cost on a non-physical item in the BOM tab
Do not un-commit On Hold Inventory when opening a Sales Order
Correctly display the Price and UOM for the Sell UOM on the Inventory, Details tab
Correctly display UOM converted Inventory Cost, Margin and Markup on alternate UOM Pricing List
Correct Refresh of Prices when editing the Price Factor in Edit Inventory, Price and Units, Pricing

Job Costing module

Correctly retained user entered Job, Entry dates if edited in Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable transaction

Payroll module

Create a new Timecard with Timecard Import if it is a replacement timecard for a voided timecard
Make UDF button available immediately when creating a Timecard
Allow Timecard Import to have a timecard with a rate > 0.00 with hours = 0
Disable editing timecard entry codes for a posted timecard

POS module

Automatically select value in Tendered amount field in Payment screen
Respect User Settings, Sales Orders, Edit Tax Flags

Production module

Improve Replace Components when replacing a Manufactured Item with a Normal Item
Update Full Text Index after Replace Components has been used so that Search works consistently
Show Progress in Replace Components
Correct Inventory allocations when an In Progress Production Order is partially built
Allow an In Progress Production Order to have sub-assemblies expanded when Toggled
Correctly show Available indicator when Toggle is used to collapse a line
Check Company Settings for over commit Inventory when a Production Order is committed with In Progress or Pending status
Display customer name when a customer number is selected on a Production Template and an Order in Production History
Retain custom UOM when reversing a Production Order from Production History
Respect Company Settings, Production, Enable Scrap and Yield when editing Extended Quantity on a Production Order and Template
Do not allow the Production Order number to be edited
Correctly set Remaining Qty when creating a Production Order through Requisitions
Correctly open Sales Order when clicking Open Source in a Production Order that was created from a Sales Order
Correctly copy all items when using Copy Production Order
Correct behaviour when using Edit Inventory, Production, Templates, Create From Templates
Correct typo in message when the user does not have permission to build a Production Order
Correctly save Revision number without tabbing out of field
Do not delete Notes in Production History when a partially built Production Order is deleted
Do not allow a Production Order to be built with a negative quantity, putting the On Hand quantity to negative
Do not allow a Production Order with no components to be built
Improve colour and shape of Production line indicators
Update Production Order UOM conversion if it has changed in Inventory
Show user edited Production Order lines in italic font
Correctly calculate cost when building an item, where sub-assembly quantity exists and costs change. Post adjustment to inventory, and inventory accounts as needed.
Correct Priority Filter on Production List
Do not show Production menu without a Production License
Populate Production Order reference number from Template when created by a Requisition number which does not have a Sales Order reference number
Retain suffixed Sales Order number in the Production Order after the Sales Order has been invoiced
Do not change Committed Quantity on Productions Orders migrated from BVEssentials
Correct default Received Qty when reversing a built Production Order

Purchases module

Do not leave a Purchase Order with Status of “C” when Closing PO, while focus is in Reference number
Do not allow a Purchase Order with a blank Vendor Order No when Edit User, Vendor Order No Required has been enabled to add a Serial number
Remove Purchase Order Type from Purchase Order Import
Correct suffixed Source number on Purchase Order line after it has incremented past -0, this makes the Open Source button work as well

Sales module

Retain created by and modified by initials of person who created the Communication notes when copying to a Back Order
Show Sales Order in Totals by Ship Qty after reversing a Sales history Invoice
Retain link to Communication added while changing a Quote to a Sales Order
Support Territory and Salesperson when using Search in Sales Order List
Populate UDF data in Edit Inventory, Sales tab without requiring a forced refresh
Allow Equipment from a different customer to be selected on a Service Order
Do not enforce Equipment Territory when selecting by Equipment Tag
Set default column widths in Edit Sales Order, Main tab

Sales History module

Respect Edit User, Inventory, See sell prices setting in Sales History
Retain Phase modified information when Invoicing a Sales Order

Vendor module

Move T4A Statements and T5018 Statements from Payroll menu to Vendors menu so that a Payroll license is not required for use of these reports

Spire Server New Features

Add Spire Power BI Connector to Integrations page

Spire Server Improvements and corrections

Improve text in JSON error in SMTP Integration configuration
Improve ability to restore large snapshots by streaming the upload
Improve performance upgrading a new company created by BV Import

Spire Web New Features

General

Add ability to pin and reset columns on Lists
Add ability to Edit Product Codes
Add ability to Add and Edit UPCs
Add ability to Add and Edit Price Levels
Add UDFs
– Inventory
– Sales Order
– Sales History
– Purchase Order
– Inventory Group (Product Code)
– Payment Terms
– Sales Tax
– Salesperson
– Ship Via (Shipping Method)
– Territory
– Warehouse
– address sections (Customer, Vendor and Customer Shipping)

Communications module

Correct behaviour for modules filter

Customer module

Add Search to Contacts List
Correct Open Sales Order from Customer List
Update all Credit Approval fields when editing Customer Credit
Make all columns available on Customer List

Inventory module

Make all columns available on Inventory List
Add Statistics section to Inventory page
Add Serial/Lot number section to Inventory page
Add Accessories / Kit Components / Macro Substitutions section to Inventory page
Add ability to add non inventory items to Edit Inventory, Accessories, Kit Components
Add ability to add, edit or delete UPCs
Add Pricing and Unit of Measure lists to Inventory page
Add ability to add non inventory items to Edit Inventory, Kits, Accessories and Macros

Purchases module

Add missing columns to Purchases List

Sales History module

Make all columns available on Sales History List

Sales Order module

Add Quote Expires date field

Vendor module

Make all columns available on Vendor List

Spire Web Improvements and corrections

General

Display lists even if Company Settings, General Ledger, Special Accounts have not been set up correctly
Improve display in Autocomplete fields
Make Company and User Settings fields consistent
Improve error message when a user enters an EFT Transit Number or ABA Routing number that is too short
Allow Shipping Methods, Tracking URL to show entire content
Immediately show a new user added to the Accounts list
Add “From End of Month” option to Payment Terms
Support User’s Default Warehouse in all modules to duplicate Spire Desktop behaviour
Improve organization of Top menu items by using Groups

Customer module

Correct error in View Contacts
Correctly sort Contact List by Customer Name

Sales Order module

Correctly apply UOM conversion on Sales Order line
Improve the Notification banner layout
Remove box around Sales Order Items fields to manage vertical display space
Respect user permissions to view costs
Correct Open Inventory button behaviour
Correctly populate UOM and include UPC on Sales Order line when created with a UPC
Improve auto complete search while typing a part number on a Sales Order line
Correct error when opening a Sales Order where a part number has a blank description
Correctly display Invoice number format
Correctly display Expected Date format on Sales Order line
Correctly display selected Employee on Sales Order line
Correctly support minimum and maximum integers in UDF fields
Correctly display Total and Gross Profit columns on Sales Order List
Correct load and save Job Cost entries in Sales Orders
Correct Warehouse overlapping part number in Sales Order, Items
Do not change Customer code when tabbing from the field, improve keyboard selection and navigation
Correctly populate part number on Sales Order line while partially typing the code and pressing <enter>
Correct 500 error Invoicing a Sales Order with backorders, order number suffixing and an attached communication on Spire Cloud

Vendor module

Correct fields displayed in Edit Vendor, Address, Order Defaults

Database Changes

email_templates – add field link_table, default_flag
employees – note changes in data dictionary and v3 views for ytd_ei, lst_ei
inventory_warehouses – add field status
matviews.inventory – remove materialized view
payment_terms – add field eom
payroll_timecards – note changes in data dictionary and v3 views for ei, ei_rate, ei_exempt
production_history_items – add field wip_account_no, wip_built, phase_id, weight, user_weight
production_history – add field division , trans_no, weight, user_weight
production_order_items – add field wip_account_no, wip_built, phase_id, inventory_cost, weight, user_weight
production_orders – add field division, weight, user_weight
production_template_items – add field weight, user_weight
production_template_items – add field wip_account_no, phase_id, weight, user_weight
production_templates – add field phase_id, weight, user_weight
production_templates – remove field status
purchase_orders – add field deposit, deposit_consumed
udf_fields – alter field min_numeric and max_numeric to numeric fields

New Reports

Production WIP by Order No – new report
Production WIP Reconciliation – new report

Report Changes

Verify Database in all reports to realize fields added to the v3 views
Edit all payroll reports to use fields named ei rather than uic in the employees and payroll_timecards tables
Customer AR Payments List – respect multiple payment records with the same transaction number
Disbursements Journal – remove Void Disc. records
Employee Ledger – Add Pay Type total section to report footer
Employee Ledger Detailed – Add Pay Type total section to report footer
Inventory Status UDF – correct syntax in sample SQL statements
Production Trial Build – respect WIP Built in Required column —

Upgrading

Spire 3.13 and higher require Windows Server 2022/2025 or Windows 11 (64-bit) or higher. Before upgrading, read Spire’s Upgrading to this Version page in the Spire 3.13 user manual.

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Source: Spire Systems Inc. release notes for Spire 3.12, 3.12.1, 3.12.2, 3.12.3, 3.12.4, 3.12.5, 3.12.6, 3.12.7, 3.12.8, 3.12.9, 3.12.10, 3.12.11, 3.12.12, 3.12.13, as published by Spire and retrieved on 2026-10-08, organised by SpireAssists. Highlights are our summary. Spire is a trademark of Spire Systems Inc.; SpireAssists is an independent Certified Spire Integration Partner.