AccountRight 2018.2 | release notes

We’re excited to share that AccountRight Live 2018.2 is now available for developer partners from my.myob.com.au. We’ll be upgrading the shared sandbox files over the next day or so.

You’ll find the 2018.2 release notes on the developer site and we’ve included a summary here on the blog.

Introducing Multi-currency

2018.2 introduces a closed-beta for multi-currency in AccountRight Live and that means we’ve added new endpoints, fields and errors being added to the V2 API. In summary, you’ll see:

• new /GeneralLedger/Currency endpoint
• new read-only “ForeignCurrency” field on bills, spend/receive money, supplier cards and accounts.
• two new types of API errors for foreign currencies.

The most important thing to know is that resources for foreign currency transactions (such as bills and orders) will be read-only via the API and will not allow PUT or POST API calls in this release.

Learn more about multi-currency:

• A sneak peek at multi-currency (our recent blog post)
• Introduction to Multi-currency (developer site)
• Multi-currency in the AccountRight Live API (developer site)
• AccountRight Live 2018.2 Whats new (product release notes)

“LearnMore” about API errors!

We’re adding a new field to errors returned from the AccountRight Live API. The “LearnMore” field is null by default and will include customised links directly to our documentation to help you resolve errors.

LearnMore links are included for errors relating to multi-currency (see below) and we’ll be adding more documentation references over time.

Here’s an example of the LearnMore link that we’ve added for a new ValidationError.

{
  "Name": "ValidationError",
  "Message": "Cannot update a local bill with a foreign currency",
  "AdditionalDetails": "ForeignCurrency",
  "ErrorCode": 70003,
  "Severity": "Error",
  "LearnMore": "http://developer.myob.com/api/accountright/api-overview/error-messages/?code=70003&context=400"
}

Single Touch Payroll

2018.2 introduces a number of workflow improvements for your clients including an updated Single Touch Payroll readiness check. You can learn more about AccountRight Live and STP here.

We’ve also removed the employee state validation rule that was added in 2018.1; the state field is still required for STP, but your clients will be prompted to supply this information via the STP readiness check instead.

New Sale/Invoice “OnlinePaymentMethod” field

The “OnlinePaymentMethod” field can be set to “All” to enable online payments for a given invoice. This only applies if clients have set up online payments. The field will default to “None” in 2018.2 and “All” in 2018.3.

We’re on schedule to commence our staggered release AccountRight Live 2018.2 to partners and clients in the first week of May.