Release Notes

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V14.0.0 (09/07/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Core data management Manage your fuel cards From now on, you can create fuel card core data and link it to vehicles. This includes management of either fuel cards from known providers or individual fuel/charging cards.
Process management  Creation of damages incl. repair process When a repair process is created, additional metadata relating to the claim is now requested. When the process is created, a claim is automatically generated and linked to the corresponding vehicle.
Process managemen u process designer Define automatic resubmission periods Inside Process Designer you can define resubmission periods for each process step. This enables the automated assignment of due dates in process steps.
Document extraction Extraction of fine notices Electronic registration of administrative offenses. With the extraction of interesting information.
Invoice manager New CSV mass upload format for DKV invoices DKV invoices within CSVs can be imported now.

 

V13.2.0 (08/24/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
General UI/UX improvements Filter for vehicles with no assigned driver You can filter now for vehicles that have no assigned driver.
General UI/UX improvements Customizable tables by enabling and disabling columns  Each user can individually decide which columns he wants to see in each table. This will be stored. 
Lease return list Current mileage value displayed Retrieve the current vehicle's mileage inside lease return list in order to have a fast & easy overview.
Process management Minor UI/UX improvements We cleaned up minor UI bugs and functions to create a faster and better looking experience.
Invoice manager Asynchronous validation for mass uploads Upload, data processing and validation of extremely large CSV files
Document extraction New global invoice formats available Hessengarage and Sixt

 

V13.1.0 (08/10/2023)

Feature  Function
Process Management See sent mails
Process Management Organization filter with short name
Process Management Faster overview by displaying more fields
Vehicle mileage Improved mileage graph
General UI/UX improvements Inline actions in all tables
General UI/UX improvements Better filtering possibilities in table columns
User onboarding New welcome messages

 

V13.0.0(08/01/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Document extraction   Global formats Global business partners can now be assigned invoice formats so that all users of the ECO system benefit from the fully automatic extraction of invoices from these business partners.
Process Management Autoscroll in steps Find your status quo in processes faster by automated scrolling to the right position.
Process Management Send mails from ECO Process steps now can send mails directly from ECO.
Roles & Rights New Rolle "Manager (Read only)" From now on, there is a role "Manager (Read-only)", which allows the user to have a read-only view of the data within and below his organizational unit.
Account management Unique account number Each ECO customer account is now automatically assigned a unique account number.
Home "My open tasks" in Home screen User now sees all assigned tasks (process steps) at a glance on the ECO Home page and can edit & complete them from there.

 

V12.0.0 (07/13/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Process Management Process Categories Categorize your processes for an improved usability and task assignment in teams.
Process Management New Filter "Organization" You can now filter you open and closed process for organizations of assigend drivers and vehicles.
Process Management Refactored Process View More space for your comments and status update in process detail view through combined column for title and detail.
Invoicemanager CSV Import Performance improvement in the import process
Invoicemanager CSV Import We added functionality to mass importer to also validate rental contracts from csv invoices. Invoice items of the type rent are checked against the rates in known rental contracts of vehicles.

 

V11.0.0 (07/04/2023)

Feature Function Benefits
Process Management New process templates You can now use our standard process templates for creating processes in the ares of ordering vehicles, insurance management, ticket handling, fuel card handling, contract adjustment, change of residence and many more

 

V10.2.0 (06/29/2023)

Feature Function Benefits
General New table component

- "Clear All" functionality for filters in all tables and column headers.

- Global show/hide of filter bars in all tables now possible
Process control "Comment when accepting of an approval request (optional)" The previous comment function on approval requests for rejection has also been enabled for acceptance.
View rights management No more document viewing for drivers Effective immediately, users in the "Employee" role can no longer view vehicle, driver or contract documents.
Vehicle administration Show mileage from fuel invoices Effective immediately, mileage imported via the CSV invoice upload will be automatically imported into the mileage overview. Plausibility checks are also performed.
Vehicle administration Vehicle status more visible Icons let you easily identify the vehicle status from now on. These icons have been displayed in the global search bar, vehicle profile and vehicle list.
Driver's license control Manual reminders in case of overdue and invalid checks Drivers whose checks are invalid or overdue can now be reminded manually by the fleet manager.
Driver's license control Export of control panel view CSV export functionality now available for all views in the Driver License Control section.
App Mileage history available in the app New app release now also displays the history of mileage for the respective vehicle. This can also be edited.

 

V10.1.0 (06/15/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Vehicle management Record manual mileage From now on, you can conveniently record mileage readings for your vehicles via web and app. A plausibility check is also performed.
Driver-Vehicle-Assignment Assign pool responsible persons to vehicles You can now also assign pool vehicles to pool managers via driver-vehicle assignment.
Driver license control Invite drivers to driver license control With the driver system, you can also directly invite your driver to carry out the FS check. An instruction email will be sent.
Export functionality  Export all views in the menu area Driver's license control as CSV format for further processing.
General New filter line in tables From now on, the filter bar appears directly under the column labels and allows you to filter even more conveniently.
Invoice management performance improvements Invoice mass imports will be processed faster.
Process Management Selective transfer of documents Transfer your selected documents to either vehicle or driver (e.g. budget documents to driver and only the final configuration to the vehicle)
Process Management Upload documents while initiating approvals You can upload needed documents in the process of creating approvals.

 

V10.0.0 (06/02/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
New table design Better ECO user experience thanks to our new table design - new design
- Filter function for all columns
Driving license control Auto-Ident: New screen in web control When a driver starts the check via the web, he now gets the option to install the app directly and then perform the check in the CARSYNC app
Driving license control Auto-Ident: No FS class control for follow-up checks In case of a follow-up check, the validation of the validity dates of driver's license classes has been removed
Invoice management Global TCO tree All customers receive a fully comprehensive TCO tree for their invoice management by default.
Invoice management Fast links to vehicle and contracts in case of validation errors  If a validation error occurs, the user can jump directly to the relevant vehicle folder or leasing contract via a fast link.
Invoice management Improved validation mechanism Leasing and service rates, as well as their sum, are now included in the validation.
Document extraction Addition of a serial number for fleet objects Invoice items can now also contain objects that do not have a VIN, but instead have a serial number
Document extraction New formats Jungheinrich, Enterprise Rental, MAN
Document extraction Automatic recognition of the correct business partner, including address and location For business partners with different locations, these are now correctly selected in the extraction.
Document extraction units sensitive extraction. The extraction can now distinguish and extract different units in the invoice item.
Document extraction Unit-sensitive Extraction. The extraction can now distinguish and extract different units in the invoice item.

 

V9.2.0 (05/17/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Process management Process designer for PREMIUM Design your own process definitions so you can create single processes for vehicles and drivers.
Process management New menu structure Processes, approvals and process designer are under one single menu.
Driver License Control Integration of help articles Fleet managers and drivers can now access detailed help articles

 

V9.1.0 (05/08/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Vehicle Management Create cost center during vehicle creation From now on, you can already create the cost center of the vehicle during the vehicle creation. If this cost center does not exist in the system yet, a new one will be created automatically, alternatively the vehicle will be added to an existing cost center.
Driver license control Improvements in AutoIdent flow If drivers already perform the check before the due date of the current check, but it fails, the status of the check remains on "Valid" until the due date is reached and the driver has the possibility to perform a check again.
Bugfixes General stability improvements We have incorporated improvements and fixed bugs in various areas of the portal.

 

V9.0.0 (04/20/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Process Management Document transfer Transfer documents from processes to vehicles or drivers after closing processes. This way you can find documents easier in vehicles or drivers.
Approval workflow Approvals on APP See you approvals and accept or deny them.
Approval workflow Keep track of approvals Find your open, your past, created by you and all approvals in the approvals menu for a better managment of approvals.
Approval workflow keep track of reminders in approvals Keep track of approval reminders which are sent initially, weekly or manually to see the approval history in approvals.
Automatic update of vehicle contracts status  Contract management From now on, contracts will be updated automatically based on various criteria.
1. if e.g. a vehicle is put out of operation, the contract status changes to "Inactive".
2. also, depending on the vehicle type, corresponding contract types are switched to active or inactive.
3. in addition, it is possible to create future contracts, which will then be set active on the date of the contract.

The adjustments concern only the contract types ""Purchase, Leasing and Rent"

 

V8.0.0 (03/16/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Process Management Document transfer Transfer documents from processes to vehicles or drivers after closing processes. This way you can find documents easier in vehicles or drivers.
Approval workflow Approvals on APP See you approvals and accept or deny them.
Approval workflow Keep track of approvals Find your open, your past, created by you and all approvals in the approvals menu for a better managment of approvals.
Approval workflow keep track of reminders in approvals Keep track of approval reminders which are sent initially, weekly or manually to see the approval history in approvals.
Automatic update of vehicle contracts status  Contract management From now on, contracts will be updated automatically based on various criteria.
1. if e.g. a vehicle is put out of operation, the contract status changes to "Inactive".
2. also, depending on the vehicle type, corresponding contract types are switched to active or inactive.
3. in addition, it is possible to create future contracts, which will then be set active on the date of the contract.

The adjustments concern only the contract types ""Purchase, Leasing and Rent"

 

V8.0.0 (03/16/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Approval workflow Initiate Approval workflows from processes Initiate, track and approve sensible workflows by active users. Start approvals with an approval text, documents and an order of approvers (active Users). Approvers can approve or deny in the set order.
Contract management Contract creation based on extracted document From now on, leasing contracts can be created in the contract management after successful extraction. To do this, select the extracted document in the contract creation. Subsequently, metadata is filled and the corresponding document is attached.
Driver's license control Send initial invitation for driver's license check Fleet admins / managers can send drivers an initial notification / reminder to perform the driver's license check after it has been created in the driver's license check. This function can also be used as a reminder function.

 

V7.5.0 (02/27/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Process Management Standard sorting Open processes are now sorted by ascending due date. processes not having a due date will appear on top for setting the due date.
Process Management Right Click to new tab Get to the vehicle or driver via right click to new tab to stay in der process and get additional information in a separate window.
General Stability improvements We are constantly improving existing ECO functions.

 

V7.4.0 (02/20/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Document Management Process documents in global documents menu Under "My fleet" you find a submenu item called "Documents", there are tabs for vehicle, driver and process documents respectively
Driver's license control Set individual control intervals Now you can set further control intervals for each driver individually in addition to the standard interval of 6 months
Contract management Contract template when creating a new contract You want to create a new contract, but you want to take over most of the values of an existing contract? Then you can now use our "Use as template" function.

 

V7.3.0 (02/09/2023)

Feature Function Benefits
Vehicle management Historization of vehicle's cost centers The cost center of the vehicle has changed? No problem! Historize mappings between vehicles and cost centers in the vehicle profile.
Vehicle creation based on ZB1 document Now create your vehicle based on a previously extracted Certificate of Registration Part 1 by selecting an existing extraction during vehicle creation.
Driver administration Historization of driver's cost centers The driver's cost center has changed? No problem! Historize assignments between drivers and cost centers in the driver profile
Historization of driver's car policy levels The driver's car policy level has changed? No problem! Historize assignments between drivers and car policy levels in the driver profile
Driver license control Control log (Event log) - As a fleet manager, you now have even more insight into all significant events related to driver license checks, such as reminder emails sent to drivers
- Supports you with the documentation obligation
General improvements Open links in tables in new tabs/windows In tables, you can now open linked elements directly in a new tab using the browser's right-click function.
Process Management Create processes including assigning users By assigning a user directly while creating a process you can save multiple additional assignments in longer processes
Process Management Extended comment function You can add longer comments for steps and see more of the information through the flexible comment field.

 

V7.2.0 (01/30/2023)

Feature  Funktion  Nutzen 
Bug fixes Diverse Bug fixes system stability

 

V7.1.0 (01/25/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Vehicle File Km mileage Km reported in fuel invoices are now graphically displayed in the vehicle file. This will become the basis for future leasing controlling and mileage monitoring. Imagine your entire fleet is optimally utilized from a leasing perspective.
Process Management Processes in Driver-Profile and in Vehicle-Profile You can now view existing processes and create new processes directly in the vehicle profile or driver profile under the "Processes" tab.
Process Management Documents in Processes Processes have been enhanced with document functionality. Upload your documents for a process under the "Documents" tab and place the documents where you need it.
Costcenters Manage vehicle-costcenter assignments You can now make a new assignment directly in the respective cost center under the "Assigned vehicles" tab
Leasing rates check  Leasing rates validation during invoice verification Do the leasing rates in the contract not match the invoice? The invoice validation automatically validates the rate with the contract figures and marks discrepancies clearly visible to the user.
Fuel type check Fuel type validation during invoice verification Does the fuel type according to the vehicle registration document not match the fuel tanked Invoice? Invoice verification automatically validates this with the vehicle registration document and marks discrepancies clearly visible to the user.
Beneficary Orga Check Beneficary organisation validation during invoice verification  Does the benef. organisation on the invoice not match the organisation stored in CARSYNC system? Invoice verification validates this automatically with your Orga structure and marks deviations clearly visible for the user.

 

V7.0.0 (01/18/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Security/Login Captcha functionality From now on, sensitive access points, such as login, registration and password forgotten functions are secured by a captcha. This improves system security.
Car Policy Management Management of assigned drivers per car policy level Now also find appropriately assigned drivers in the car policy levels themselves.
Document Management Automatic transfer of document name If you now select a document via drag n drop, the name of the document is automatically filled.
Reports & Statistics IFRS Report Now retrieve your fleet data in IFRS format for further use.
Process Management Global Search Bar Find your processes in the global search bar
Mass Upload for Invoices Invoice Management Invoices from Arval and Alphabet can now be imported en masse in electronic form (CSV). Practical validations and automatic data enrichment save you a lot of work.
Extraction of Invoices w/o a Table Format Document Extraction Invoices whose items are not in a table format can now also be extracted by AI.

 

V6.2.0 (01/12/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Process Management Additional fields new field for assigning users for better organization of multiple processes

 

V6.1.0 (01/05/2023)

Feature  Function Benefits
Vehicle Contract Management Management of insurance contracts in vehicles New contract type "insurance contract". Every contract can be assigned to a vehicle.
Vehicle Management Additional fields New field "vehicle tax rate" in vehicle management
Document Management Driver's documents in global documents menu Under "My fleet" you can now find a submenu item called "Documents", there are tabs for vehicle and driver documents respectively
Appointments Verification of completed appointments Verify past appointments and archive them - With this you can prioritize just on upcoming and unverified appointments

 

V6.0.0 (12/30/2022)

Feature  Function Benefits
Corporate Car Policy Manage car policy levels and their assignments to drivers Create Car Policy Levels as a Fleet Admin under the "Settings" section.
Each car policy level contains different vehicle parameters, currencies and countries for which they are relevant.
Assign the centrally created car policy levels to drivers.
Cost centers Management of cost centers and their assignments to vehicles & drivers Create cost centers as fleet admin under the "Settings" section.
Assign cost centers to both vehicles and drivers in their respective profile views. 
Vehicle Management 2.0 Additional fields in vehicles & international context New fields in Vehicle Profile allow even more detailed creation of vehicles. Currencies are also supported.
Vehicle documents: An extended selection of vehicle documents now enables even more granular typing of documents. 
Driver management 2.0 Manage more details in drivers New fields in Driver Profile as well as in Driver-Vehicle Assignment allow for an even more detailed creation of drivers.
Driver license control: Activate faster & easier driver license control directly during driver creation.
Driver Documents: Attach driver-related documents directly in the driver profile.
Collective Invoice Import your collective invoice and fuel invoices via CSV Import complete monthly invoices via CSV.
Import document header is automatically recognised or can be trained for future imports.
Validation of invoice items (vehicle, fuel type, leasing rate, beneficary organisation).
Automatic document recognition of Arval and Alphabet collective invoices in CSV format
Document Extraction Extraction Improvements Extraction of: Net, Tax and Gross of the total account. 
Detection and extraction of non-table structures
Appointments Maps integration on the web during booking process Display your own workshops and the CARSYNC partner network on the map
Process Management Manage multi-step processes Benefit from CARSYNC standard processes
Easily start your own process chains and keep track of the steps with deadlines

 

V5.0.0 (11/18/2022)

New ECO Web features

  • Compliance
    • Manual driver's license check - Record manually checked licenses with our new license control feature and meet the requirements for owner's liability.
    • Automatic driver's license check via Auto-Ident - Let your drivers check their licenses on their own via our integrated app/webcam solution
    • Escalation management driver license control - reminder function for drivers
  • Vehicle contracts - Create vehicle contracts in the global menu item
  • Vehicle documents - Upload of vehicle documents in the global menu item
  • Vehicle management - Assignment of drivers to vehicles can now also be managed in the vehicle profile

New features ECO App

  • Manual driver's license check - View for drivers about the current status of their license control
  • Automatic driver's license check via Auto-Ident - Execution of driver's license check via integrated Auto-Ident solution

V4.0.0 (11/08/2022)

New ECO Web features

  • Vehicle document list - list of all vehicle documents now visible in global menu item

  • Invoice extraction - performance improvements

  • Appointment booking - recording of mileage during appointment booking

  • Lease expiry list - New dashboards

  • Business partner management - management of services of workshops

  • Global search bar - integration of appointments

V3.0.0 (09/22/2022)

New ECO Web features

  • Vehicle contracts - Global overview of all vehicle contracts of my fleet
  • Document extraction -
    • Revised workflow and many simplifications when capturing new invoices
    • The AI process for digitizing documents has been improved and now delivers faster and more accurate results
    • Administrators can now view and process all documents from their own company.
  • Driver's license management - management of driver's licenses (metadata & file attachment) within driver's profile
  • Business partners -
    • Creation of multiple contact persons per business partner
    • Inactive business partners can be marked as such and thus no longer suggested when booking an appointment
    • Better differentiation and filtering of CARSYNC partner network and own business partners
  • Dashboards - Now also available in English language

V2.2.0 (08/24/2022)

New ECO Web features

  • Driver license management - Manage you driver's licenses within driver's profile

V2.1.0 (08/11/2022)

New ECO Web features

  • New vehicle contract types - in addition to leasing contracts, further contract types can now be managed within vehicles:
    • Lease contracts
    • Purchase contracts
  • Performance improvements in document extraction process
  • Manage your manual appointments in web

V2.0.0 (07/26/2022)

With endless drive and incredible speed, our team is happy to present to you V2 of CARSYNC Eco Smart with new features and improved performance.

 

New ECO Web features

  • Invoice capture - AI-based invoice capture and digitization
  • Invoice management light - accept or reject digitized invoices
  • Assign invoice items - Link invoice items to the associated vehicles and cost centers
  • TCO Dashboards - Clear overview of costs
  • ZB1 capture quality improved
  • Global Searchbar - Global search for the ECO Portal - Find what you are looking for quickly
  • ECO Home Dashboard - Everything necessary at a glance: Fleet, costs & appointments
  • Workshop appointments - Arrange and manage your appointments conveniently via our appointment booking (body damage, tires, glass, waxing)
  • Direct integration with ATU - You or your drivers can book available appointments directly in the calendar of any ATU workshop without having to make a phone call
  • 15%-50% partner advantage - Benefit from our framework contracts and save at all our partner workshops including ATU, Junited, Vergölst and many more
  • Carsync Partner Network - Get access to our ever-growing network of workshops and their technical integrations
  • Roles and rights - improved roles and rights system

 

New functions ECO App

  • Conveniently arrange and manage your appointments via our appointment booking (body damage, tires, glass, waxing)
  • Get directions to agreed workshop appointments
  • Save your agreed workshop appointment in your personal calendar

 

V1.0.0 (04/01/2022)

We proudly present our first release of the new CARSYNC ECO platform!

 

New ECO Web features

  • Onboarding of fleet data via Excel templates 
  • Organization management - Easy creation and maintenance of the organizational hierarchy
  • Vehicle management - easy creation and maintenance of all vehicles
  • Lease contract management - manual creation of leasing contracts in each vehicle
  • Vehicles documents - Upload and attach any vehicle related documents

  • Driver management - Easy creation and maintenance of all drivers and their relations to vehicles

  • Business partner management - easy creation and maintenance of all fleet-related business partners

  • Document extraction - simply upload registration certificate part 1 in the vehicle; meta information is then automatically transferred to the vehicle

  • Reports - first master data dashboards for vehicles, drivers, business partners and leasing contracts

  • Lease expiration list - list all vehicles with upcoming lease expiration within the next 9 months

  • User management - Invite more colleagues & drivers to your fleet and give them access to CARSYNC ECO

  • Roles & Rights - Besides Fleet Admin role, you can assign two different roles to your users

  • Profile management - Manage your personal information and change their password

 

New ECO App features

Besides the CARSYNC ECO portal, our new CARSYNC app is now live!

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  • Vehicles - Listing of all vehicles as well as the vehicles personally assigned to the user
  • Appointments - Manual management of workshop appointments for bodywork and paint, glass and tires
  • Profile - View personal user or driver profile information

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