document language — use the app in your own language and still send invoices, work reports and e-mails in your customers' language. Switch it with the globe icon at the top right.
hail document import — read a dent protocol or a SilverDAT calculation from a PDF instead of typing it. Dent counts, vehicle data and amounts are proposed, checked against the document's own totals and only imported once you approve them. Switch it on under Settings → Hail.
flat rate / manual now works independently of the pricing table — damaged parts, outsourced services and additional costs are available in flat-rate mode in every country, whichever table was selected before.
damaged parts, outsourced services and additional costs are now available in the German AW list and the Belgian table as well. Existing work reports keep their figures.
vehicle document scanner — CH/EU switch: choose whether you are scanning a Swiss vehicle registration document or an EU registration certificate. Your region is preselected; the red bar and the recognition follow it.
the client's customers on the sub side — edit contact details, hide entries and merge duplicates; in the customer window of a report and in the address book under the client.
"Customer receives" — set per customer whether they get the customer report, the insurance report or both. The client sets it when delegating; the sub can adjust it in the job window, in the address book or remember it for the customer right when sending.
Improved
hail document import — an imported calculation is billed as it stands: the hourly rate and any diverging AW come from the document. As soon as you change a row yourself, PDR Kalk computes it again.
money cards in the hail editor — the «AW» and «Price» columns are labelled everywhere now, and part prices are shown consistently with two decimals.
vehicle document scanner — the whole picture is now scanned by default; the blue frame only appears after «Choose crop».
vehicle document scanner — when a scan fails, the message now says what went wrong, and «Test key» also checks that a test document is read back.
issuing an invoice — no more device notice; the device list shows for every device when it last reported in.
e-mail templates — French and Italian standard texts added.
delegated customers are recognised as the same customer despite spelling differences (case, umlauts, spaces).
report and quote emails pre-tick the customer report when the customer has it set that way in the address book.
"Inform customer" on the sub side — the email to the customer now closes with your name "on behalf of …" instead of your company signature and logo; the signature also appeared twice.
Fixes
various corrections in the sub function — merging clients, a client's customer list on every device and in the full backup, VAT display in the subcontractor statement.
various corrections in the vehicle document scanner.
4.26.59
Released
New
hand a job over to another workshop, or share it with a partner — the job travels as a file to another PDR Kalk installation and arrives there as their own job, with their own number and letterhead.
a separate R&R rate on hail reports — set it in Settings, override it per customer in the address book; it is shown on the work report. Existing reports keep their rate.
subcontractor payout — on a received report the payout for that job can be adjusted; the window then shows the sub's amount, your amount and the difference.
address book → Subcontractors — changed terms can be sent to the sub directly. They apply from the next report onwards.
subcontractors — under the «Hourly rate» model the Auftraggeber can set which share of the consumables the sub receives (e.g. 75% with a 25% customer discount).
dashboard — as a subcontractor, «Received jobs» shows which jobs are still open and at which payout; entries that are no longer current can be removed.
Settings → Storage shows when the other devices in the working folder were last active; when issuing an invoice there is a note if a device has not synced for a while.
e-mail templates — the greeting word of the informal register (previously fixed to «Hoi») can be chosen freely, e.g. Hallo or Sali.
dashboard — finished jobs that have not been invoiced yet are shown with a reminder card and a mark in the list.
search everywhere (Ctrl+K) — find jobs, invoices, receipts, rental agreements and customers from anywhere and open them directly.
Improved
on hail documents the regular hourly rate is now called "PDR rate" — so you can see at a glance which rate bills which work. Invoices already issued stay unchanged.
sub payout — the calculation details show the labour amounts, the amount of a flat fee is shown everywhere, and the payout adjustment can include or exclude the consumables.
sub order — the status reads "not yet notified" until the customer or the Auftraggeber has actually been notified; on delegation a hint appears when the customer is missing an address, discount or e-mail address.
technician selection — newly typed names are added to the team list automatically; upper/lower case no longer creates duplicates.
Analytics → Team — a job handed over in full no longer counts, neither in revenue nor in payout.
cancelling — the status field now asks first instead of cancelling silently, and records the reason; a cancelled document can no longer be set back by accident.
vehicle registration scanner — the position of the red bar is remembered on this device; you drag it once instead of on every scan. "Reset red bar" restores the default position.
"What's new?" — the release notes of an update open in a large, easily readable window.
Fixes
syncing between several devices — contacts (Auftraggeber, subcontractors, insurers, customers) and the small-parts rate.
subcontractors — several corrections to payout, statement, currency display and received reports; "Notify customer" also without a stored e-mail address.
technician selection on the report — names typed by hand are kept when saving.
e-mail — informal salutation in Dutch; "Cancel" on the "Photos missing" warning.
contacts import — contacts sharing one e-mail address.
vehicle registration scanner — rotating the image and changing the window size.
4.26.46
Released
New
third-party services — outsourced work such as paintwork, panel beating, mechanical work or wrapping can be recorded with a price directly on the hail damage report and appears as its own position on the report, the estimate and the invoice. Enable it and manage the pick list under Settings → Hail damage.
4.26.45
Released
New
rental agreements with payment method "Invoice to renter" or "Invoice to insurer" are billed automatically when the invoice or receipt is created; a closed agreement can also be billed directly inside the direct-insurance split invoice — chargeable to either the insurer or the customer, each with correct VAT disclosure. Please update all devices before activating.
sub jobs can be forwarded to another subcontractor — the new company takes over the report and bills the Auftraggeber directly.
Auftraggeber can send corrections to received sub reports back to the sub — with automatic invoice updating on request.
technician assignment now also on subcontractor jobs — assign panels as usual; the split appears on the work report and travels with the completion report to the principal.
hail editor — the "Removal & refitting required" section records which parts the customer removes and refits themselves; it appears on the estimate and the work report. Maintain the parts list under Settings → Hail damage.
jobs can now be found by chassis number (VIN) — part of it is enough, and matches show the VIN ending in the row.
company details — the country is now a selection list; a company seat abroad appears in the footer of all documents.
sub workflow — "resend" of an assigned job now updates the report on the sub's side directly instead of being refused as a duplicate.
Settings → Finances — the reminder interval is now configurable (10 days by default).
Improved
history — the actions of a consolidated invoice appear as a single entry instead of one line per report; payment reminders and dunning notices are marked in red and show the due date, the send date and the next reminder level.
sub workflow — edited reports that are not yet paid immediately show the current figures in the compensation and the statement, with a reminder to send the correction to the sub; on already-paid reports the statement stays at the amount paid and now shows the difference to the current figures.
long-running operations now show real progress — restoring a backup shows the current step, the count and the elapsed time instead of a silent spinner.
replacement-vehicle lines on invoices and receipts now show the vehicle, rental period and daily rate.
contacts — noticeably smoother on Android (search and buttons respond immediately); the key export in the sub contact now also works on Android.
Settings → Finance — warnings when the QR payment slip cannot be generated (missing CH/LI IBAN or incomplete address) or the VAT number is missing; a VAT number with the official suffix is no longer labelled twice in the footer.
document-list search — spaces and hyphens in licence plates and chassis numbers no longer matter.
display of private customers with a company name (sole traders) in the address book, job and dashboard.
backup before the update — shows how long it has been running and can be stopped with "Skip"; under Settings → Storage a note points out when the default backup folder is not in its usual place.
sub invoice to the Auftraggeber — when the payout comes to no amount (e.g. parking damage without a parking payout), the agreed share can be entered as a percentage right when creating the invoice.
Fixes
history — the entry for a sent payment reminder now names the correct document type.
sub statement — download and resend use the same statement number again; plus several corrections to the statement, to the "send update to the sub" hint and to importing job updates.
rental agreement — corrected the VAT rounding on separately billed agreements.
e-mail preview — the "QR payment slip included" notice now only appears when the slip really is in the PDF attachment.
backup before the update — various corrections around the target folder and the process.
logo and certification seal — picking the image file on Android devices corrected.
4.26.40
Released
New
Portuguese (Português) — app language, user guide and email templates for Portuguese-speaking users.
Spanish (Español) — app language, user guide and email templates for Spanish-speaking users.
sub work — optional, freely nameable marker for jobs already recorded in your bookkeeping.
sub job — when the Auftraggeber’s payment model yields no amount (e.g. parking damage at a flat price), the agreed amount can be entered directly.
Improved
actions menu (⋮) in all lists — consistently aligned entries, calmer icon colours, no more clipped labels.
«Update job folder?» prompt — now explains that the changes are already saved and what the two options do.
assigning a sub — hail-damage and parking-damage payouts are clearly labelled apart; the parking-damage payout is shown and adjustable when assigning, when editing the terms and in the job-without-report wizard (default from the sub contact).
job without report — the window is two-column and clearer on desktop, more compact on Android and small screens, and the buttons always stay reachable; if «Uses PDR Kalk» is off for a sub, this is now explained right there.
sub job for parking damage without an agreed parking-damage payout — 100 % of the report applies until the Auftraggeber sets the payout.
sub work — reports to the end customer go one at a time via the row's sub send (the bulk email skips them with a hint); changes coming back from the sub are marked like your own changes after invoice, approval or sending; the signed acceptance protocol stays with the Auftraggeber.
Fixes
report folder — «Open folder» and the automatic filing use the same folder again for sub jobs and renamed customers.
email sending — the error message now names the actual cause.
tax label and note texts on the PDF documents.
various corrections to the sub statement — job total, sub amount and the calculation base shown for the percentage model (on the work order too).
Android trial — region selection on first start.
manual invoice — the customer country field and the VAT derived from it.
sub invoice to the Auftraggeber — combined invoice over parking-damage jobs, replacement invoice after cancellation and the type shown in the invoice list.
job without report sent to a subcontractor — the parking-damage payout from the sub contact is now included.
sub jobs — the Auftraggeber's email address is prefilled again for parking-damage reports and sub invoices; the sub job window shows the payout that applies to parking damage.
cross-border sub jobs — the sub's parking-damage reports are kept in the Auftraggeber's currency; sub job window and import preview show the same parking-damage payout as invoice and statement.