Spire 3.3 Release Notes (3.3 to 3.3.4)

Spire 3.3 was released on November 6, 2019; the latest update in this version is 3.3.4 (January 21, 2020). Below are Spire Systems’ release notes for every 3.3 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: 3.3.4 · 3.3.3 · 3.3.2 · 3.3

Highlights

Spire Server Administration. Upload a company logo, read and download log files, manage custom reports and snapshots, and maintain user accounts and company access.
Sales orders. Ship serialized items before assigning serial numbers, permissions per order type and for cost overrides, and easier editing of job, kit and accessory groups.
Requisitions. Drill down between sales orders and the purchase or production orders created from them.
Inventory. A Movement tab, purchase orders created from selected items, and freight on transfers.
Also: report header and footer messages, a searchable PDF viewer, shared calendars, and a database data dictionary on the Spire Server.

Spire 3.3.4 (January 21, 2020)

Improvements and corrections

Change default Federal TD1 amount to 13,229 when adding a new employee, to comply with CRA changes released January 9, 2020
Add confirmation to Mark Remitted in T4 screen when T4 has already been remitted
Allow Recalculate Employee Amounts to work even if Employee Benefits and Deductions have been deleted
Correct occasional date error when clicking on snapshots in Spire Server Administration
Show snapshot created time in local time in Spire Server Administration

Report Changes

Invoice Batched – show Lot quantity
Invoice Posted – show Lot quantity
Order Confirmation – show Lot quantity
Packing Slip – show Lot quantity
Pick Ticket – show Lot quantity
POS Receipt – show Lot quantity
POS Receipt Reprint – show Lot quantity
Process Slip – show Lot quantity
Quote – show Lot quantity
RMA Order – show Lot quantity
Sales Order – show Lot quantity
Ship Slip – show Lot quantity
Work Order – show Lot quantity
Inventory Status UDF Sample – update SQL Expressions —

Spire 3.3.3 (December 18, 2019)

New Features

Add support for January 1, 2020 Payroll tax tables
Add support for Booking Order, RMA and Work Order Header and Footer messages
Add ability to import Job entries
Add message to Spire Server Admin Download Update page to remind user to do perform update on the Spire Server computer

Improvements and corrections

Respect Payment currency while posting the transfer of AR Payment batch from Clearing Account to Bank Account
Correctly auto populate NB for postal code starting with “E” while adding a Customer Address
Correctly respect Edit Orders permissions when editing a Customer address and clicking Update Orders
Correctly populate Sell OUM when printing Inventory Labels from a Sales Order
Correct Batch number showing as “0” to show as “”
Correct Batch by Closed Orders for an Invoice Date
Correct occasional UDF error while adding a Customer to a Sales Order
Allow AR Payment records to be Imported
Correctly import Freight and Duty values in Inventory Import
Only show Items returned by a credited Sales Orders once, in Inventory Movement tab
Correctly use Default categories on new Production Templates
Remove Edit Company, Reports, Development tab
Remove Edit User, Reports, Messages tab
Properly limit field length of Price Matrix Promotion description to 35 characters
Ensure that Customer, Vendor and Inventory Code Change only post uppercase values for New Code
Correct link to customers in Data Dictionary
Correct link to ar_batch_items in Data Dictionary
Add database information for new kit fields in sales_order_items and sales_history_items in Data Dictionary
Remove link to inventory_conversion_factors in Data Dictionary
Correct Unable to connect to database error when using BVImport on some servers
Correct blank Report Preview screen when Windows user profile has a space in the name

New Reports

Historical Financial Statement by 12 Periods – new report
Historical Financial Statement – new report

Report Changes

AP EFT Payment Remittance – add logo, French and Spanish
Financial Statement by Period – improve Current Earnings calculation when report run for Last Year or This Year dates
Invoice Batched – correct extended Levies to support UOM conversion
Invoice Posted – correct extended Levies to support UOM conversion
Order Confirmation – correct extended Levies to support UOM conversion, add support for Booking Order Header/Footer message
POS Receipt Reprint – correct extended Levies to support UOM conversion
POS Receipt – correct extended Levies to support UOM conversion
Quote – correct extended Levies to support UOM conversion
RMA Order – add support for RMA Order Header/Footer message
Sales Order – correct extended Levies to support UOM conversion
T4-14b-CRA – changes for 2019
T4-14b-employee – changes for 2019
T4-14b-employer – changes for 2019
T4-Summary – changes for 2019
T4A-Summary – changes for 2019
T4A – changes for 2019
T5018 – changes for 2019
Work Order – correct extended Levies to support UOM conversion, add support for Work Order Header/Footer message —

Spire 3.3.2 (November 27, 2019)

Improvements and corrections

Correct error when selecting multiple Sales Orders and clicking Process if one or more Orders need credit override
Correctly populate Sales Order lines for Kits migrated from Spire 2.x
Use Invoice Date for Inventory Receipts done with a Sales Order Credit (product return)
Correct Modified Date on Sales Order, Items list
Correct occasional “Multiple results found” error in Edit Phases
Correct error while creating fulltext index for an inventory record with many thousand linked serial numbers
Correct memory error posting an Inventory Count
Correct occasional ‘reduce’ error posting an Inventory Transfer with freight
Correct error during Void AR Payment with Payfirma
Correct error in Company settings, Edit Customer/Vendor when segment delimiter is missing
Correct occasional “Multiple results found” error in Company Settings
Correctly post Job Costs stated on Sales Order Import
Improve Database name validation in Spire Server Admin

Report Changes

Customer Statement – improve date sort in Detailed version
Inventory Re-order – sort hyphenated part numbers as expected
Inventory Statistics – sort hyphenated part numbers as expected
Inventory Status – sort hyphenated part numbers as expected
Inventory UPC List – sort hyphenated part numbers as expected
Invoice Batched – improve text footer position
Invoice Posted – improve text footer position
Payroll Cheque-bottom – correct page format on multiple cheque run
Purchase Order – correctly print manual typed Ship Via description, correct watermark
Receipts Order Fulfillment – improve linked to backorders
Quote – improve text footer position
Work Order – add French and Spanish version of approval text by signature, improve text footer position

Database Changes

addresses – add SLSP to data dictionary description
improve fulltext index —

Spire 3.3 (November 6, 2019)

New Features

Add Spire Server Administration with new features
– Add ability to upload a maximum 4cm x 4cm Logo in gif, png or jpg format
– Add ability to read and download log files
– Add ability to download and upload custom reports
– Add ability to make stock and custom reports Inactive so that users do not see them
– Add ability to download snapshots
– Add ability to add/maintain user accounts and give access to desired companies
– Add ability to change password for the user currently logged into Spire Server Administrator
Add User permission settings to create different Order types – (review Edit User, Sales Order, Add or Edit Sales Orders for all users)
Allow serialized Inventory to be Shipped on a Sales Order without assigning Serial Numbers
Add ability to drill down to Purchase Order or Production Order from Sales Order target field when Requisitions have been used
Add ability to drill down to Sales Orders from a Purchase Order or Production Order source field when Requisitions have been used
Add Movement tab to Inventory List
Add ability to create a Purchase Order for selected items on the Inventory List
Add ability to Select All/Select None on column right click menu
Add freight component to Inventory Transfer
Add ability to remember when user has done a cost override in Sales Order Current Cost and Standard Cost
Add User permission settings for Edit Sales Order Current Cost and Standard Cost
Add ability to add more lines to the bottom of a Sales Order Job group
Allow the insertion of an item into an expanded Sales Order Kit or Accessory group
Add ability to see other users’ calendars if permission has been enabled in Edit User, General, View All Calendars
Add ability to set Header and Footer messages for reports in Company Settings, Reports, Messages
Create separate BV Import utility with download link in Spire Server Administrator
Replace Report PDF viewer with one that supports Search
Create Data Dictionary at https://localhost:10880//doc/database/ on the Spire Server, also accessible from Spire Desktop, Help, Spire Server Documentation, Database Documentation

Improvements and corrections

Change all Import and Export functions to support Excel xlsx file format, drop support for xls format
Improve speed opening a Sales Order for a customer with many associated records (AR, ShipTo IDs and Price Matrix)
Correct issue of a Backorder warning occasionally causing the program to close
Correct issue of creating a Job Header occasionally causing the program to close
Correct recursive error when a Kit contains the same component multiple times
Correctly retain Contract Cost when editing a previously saved Sales Order
Correctly refresh all Cost fields on new Sales Order when copying a Sales Order
Set Sales Order Total Weight field to read-only
Retain original Salesperson when doing a Sales History Invoice, Credit
Use UTC for system_settings audit dates
Improve error reported while opening a Spire record containing invalid UDF data
Improve Search behavior on Shipping Method list
Correct Shipping Methods, Description filter to support Contains
Improve speed while presenting auto complete list as the user types into a code field
Refresh Inventory Cost when opening a saved Inventory Adjustment / Transfer
Correct Customer, Address List, Address filter to support Contains
Make GL Transaction Source column consistent with Production Order
Allow Template to be changed on a Production Order using the Lookup button
Correctly show status indicators in Inventory, Bill of Materials
Correctly refresh screen after clearing Search field in Edit User and Company settings
Attempt to reconnect SMTP Server if a disconnection error is detected
Drop legacy Search Key field from Customer Import field list
Update database engine to PostgeSQL 10.9
Update pgAdmin to 4.13

Database Changes

sales_history_items – add fields user_current_cost, user_standard_cost

Database Changes

sales_order_items – add fields user_current_cost, user_standard_cost
system_settings.type – change field from smallint to configdatatype

New Reports

Inventory Movement by Posted Date – new report for Inventory, Movement tab
Inventory Movement by Source Date – new report for Inventory, Movement tab

Report Changes

All Reports – verify database to recognize table changes to sales_order_items, sales_history_items, system_settings
Customer Statement – add support for logo, header and footer messages
Invoice Batched – support kits and accessories within a job group, add support for logo, header and footer messages
Invoice Posted – support kits and accessories within a job group, add support for logo, header and footer messages
General Ledger Account Activity – reset balance of foreign revenue and expense accounts on fiscal year change
Historical Inventory Status – correct the double adjustment for past historical date, credit sales
Order Confirmation – support kits and accessories within a job group, add support for logo, header and footer messages
Packing Slip – add support for logo, header and footer messages
Pick Ticket – add support for logo, header and footer messages
POS Receipt – add support for header and footer messages
POS Receipt Reprint – add support for header and footer messages
Process Slip – add support for logo, header and footer messages
Production Build – add test for divide by zero
Production Order – add test for divide by zero
Purchase Order – add support for logo, header and footer messages, add support for Canadian English, French and Spanish in text fields
Purchase Order Reprint – add support for logo, header and footer messages, add support for Canadian English, French and Spanish in text fields
Quote – Make references to Quote rather than Sales Order in labels, remove Shipped and Back Order columns, support kits and accessories within a job group, add support for logo, header and footer messages
RMA Order – support kits and accessories within a job group, add support for logo, header and footer messages
Sales Order – support kits and accessories within a job group, add support for logo, header and footer messages
Ship Slip – add support for logo, header and footer messages
Work Order – support kits and accessories within a job group, add support for logo, header and footer messages —

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 3.3, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 3.3.4, 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.