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A summary of the main changes, additions and corrections in the latest release of the Durell Solutions product.

As an aid in determining whether particular items are relevant to the version you are running the changes are colour coded thus...

 

Financial Adviser  
General Broker  
Mortgage Manager  
Office Manager  
Investment Management
 (part of Financial Adviser and Mortgage Manager)
 
 
 
Accounts
 (Part of all versions)
 
 
Program Correction F
 
Revisions for 2005
Revisions for 2006
Revisions for 2007
Revisions for 2008
 
 
 
 
  Program Revision 4.14 31 October 2006
Insurecom Users
Auto-lapsing now occurs 5 days after the renewal date (or 7 for Cornhill). It no longer allows for week-ends
It is no longer possible to edit the on-cover date for a "Renew Amended Risk" (i.e. it must use the renewal due date). F
It is no longer possible to create an MTA after the renewal date for lapsed policies F
When a renewal invitation has been received the policy's stage is now set to "Active, Invite received". F
Selection of documents to download is revised, NIG now works correctly F
   
  Program Revision 4.12 17 October 2006
Life & Investment Users
Fixed problem with Fee entries being lost if sent to the Diary when it's minimised on the task bar F F
Insurecom
Added security devices to Motorcyles screen
Fixed "UK Resident" field on Drivers screen so it now correctly applies to each driver individually F
Added Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) to Commercial Vehicles screen
   
  Program Revision 4.11 11 October 2006
Accounts
Fixed Cashbook Report, which would print journal entries even when these were not requested F
Fixed "This payment" figure for manually created invoices in the new Cashbook Remittance Advice for Financial Advisers. F
Added a new Cashbook Remittance Advice for the NHFA
Clients
Fixed problem where if you re-name a client the system also moves the client's scan folder, but leaves any manually created sub-folders F F F F F
When you create a new client the system automatically generates a default empty fact find, which is now dated rather than blank as before
Insurecom
Fixed problem that prevented MTAs from being created F
Fixed problem entering Specified Items for Household policies F
   
  Program Revision 4.10 9 October 2006
Insurecom Motor & Household Quotes
System no longer auto-lapses renewal invites for policies where a renewal exists that has been taken-up in Insurecom, even though it may not have been taken-up in Durell F
System correctly removes redundant rebroke and renewal invite records when you take-up a renewal in Durell  
System correctly removes duplicate renewal invites  
Mortgages
Added new mortgage product types for "Reversions".
Added fields on mortgage screens for gender, date of birth, drawn down and reserve sums.  
Changed wording on mortgage "Compliance Dates" pop-up.  
Added buttons on "Supporting Documents" pop-up for mortgages to allow user-defined lists to be saved and re-loaded. Also added "Print" button.  
Added "Replacement" tick-box on mortgage screens  
All Systems
Date fields sent to an Excel spreadsheet are now be correctly formatted (n.b. only applies to Office XP and 2003 - not possible to fix in 2000 or earlier)  
Added "Signpost" option when reconciling an account in the Cashbook to display "All advisers" or "All leads" commission  
Changed wording "Full" to "Full advice" in FSA's "Basis of advice" dropdown  
   
  Program Revision 4.08 29 September 2006
Insurecom
Fixed error with Insurecom where a renewal invite would be issued for a policy not in Durell (e.g. deleted or not transferred). F
Claims
.Colours can now be allocated to claim stages so that claims in the scrolling list can easily be identified by stage.  
Mailshot selection has been added to claims for the identification of claims by multiple criteria.  
The claims scrolling list may now be sorted by the current mailshot selection.  
New fields have been added for the claims total values, re estimated, retained, actual and fees.  
A new claim "Fault" type has been added for "No driver error" (in motor claims only).  
A new "Awaiting" date has been added to claims for "Notification with solicitor" (available to Word & the Binoculars search).  
The "Add" button for claim "Contacts" now defaults to the most recently found contact (to speed-up data entry).  
The "Print Claims List" can now print the mailshot selection.  
   
  Program Revision 4.06 25 September 2006
All Users
Transaction Trail of user-activity now records log-on and log-off and includes a new report.  
On the Client Details screens the Introducer is now entered first.
The Adviser may then be selected automatically based on either the...
* selected introducer
* client's postcode
         
Now possible to pass client's policy schedule to Word          
Fixed problem with Leads screen losing its toolbar F F F F F
Added Data Protection Act fields to address set screens          
The Cashbook "Signpost" option to "Include outstanding invoices" now has sub-selections for "Sales only", "Purchase only"          
Life & Investments
"Review Date" and "Reason for Review" added to policies, with ability to select for mailshots (and hence to list via the "Green Binoculars" button and via File / Print / List).
Fixed XML link to Friends Provident for policy revaluation (n.b. users should check their passwords) F F F
Added a new "Remittance Advice" in the Cashbook called "Financial Adviser" for payments to advisers and introducers.      
Add a button on the "Save Fee Timer" pop-up to make client or adviser notes in addition to the diary entry      
Added "Existing policy" as a choice in the "Basic of Advice" dropdown      
General Insurance
Reinstated ability to "Pass claim details to policy" for motor claims F
Reinstated ability to start a quote for a new client F
Compulsory Excess in Household is now free-format  
Only one driver can now be set as the proposer (provided checks are turned on)  
Fixed spelling of "until" in the Policy Cancellation pop-up F
Fixed the erroneous symbol in the notes at the bottom of private car quotation summaries F
Renewal invitations are no longer duplicated F
Report now provided re the auto-lapsing and downloading of renewal invites  
When a re-broke is taken-up all associated renewal invites are auto-lapsed, and associated renewal versions get deleted  
Improved the auto-calculator for "Numbers of Years Licence Held" on Drivers screen  
Documents now passed correctly to re-broked policies F
The data field "Cover from time" is now passed correctly to Word F
Added new product type "Marine / Personal Accident"  
   
  Program Revision 4.05 17 August 2006
General Broker
Fixed certain types of motor policies (e.g. 'Fleet') which report 'Invalid use of null' on the motor details screen.