New
- INVOICING Manual invoices without a flight
From the Advanced plan, invoices can be created without a flight, for example for a club fee or landing fee. They are calculated and sent like regular invoices. - INVOICING Custom invoice number format
On the Business plan, the invoice number format is defined with placeholders, for example 2021-123456-john.doe. The consecutive number can be adjusted to keep it in sync with other bookkeeping. Described in detail in the online help. - INVOICING Separate invoicing address
From the Advanced plan, a separate invoicing address can be stored for each user per group, for example for training. Invoices are then issued to this address. - INVOICING Marking as paid by administrators only
Administrators can decide that only they can mark invoices as paid. The button then no longer appears under “My Finances”. - INVOICING Hiding invoices from pilots
Invoices can be hidden from “My Finances”, for example if they are processed further in an external system. The setting can be changed at any time. - INVOICING Gender-based salutation
A user’s gender can be specified, and new placeholders create a matching formal or informal salutation. If not specified, the salutation is derived from the first name. - INVOICING Invoicing the additional counter
From the Advanced plan, an aircraft’s additional counter can also be invoiced; the price is set in the aircraft details. - Lead time for expiry warnings
Administrators set how many days before a rating expires a warning appears in the dashboard and calendar (default 42 days). The profile now also shows these warnings at the top. - Additional counter per aircraft
An additional counter can be set up for each aircraft, for example for block time, tach time or fuel consumption, with its own name and format and optionally as a mandatory field. - Exporting the logbook
The logbook of an aircraft can be exported to a spreadsheet. - Maintenance forecast
Based on the estimated flight time of reservations and the maintenance intervals, apron:pilot estimates the next maintenance date, including how certain the forecast is. Administrators decide whether the field is mandatory, which period is considered and whether regular users see the forecast. - Internal check flight per aircraft
The validity of the internal check flight is kept per aircraft and shown in the profile next to the assigned aircraft.
Improved
- INVOICING Clearer invoices
The electronic invoice has been restyled and shows flight, refuelling and cost remarks with icons; the PDF has been improved as well. - INVOICING Faster payment runs and invoices
Payment runs and invoices load faster. - Minor interface and wording changes
Switches, the layout of the profile and aircraft details and texts throughout the application have been revised. In the logbook, “Comments” is now called “Remarks”. - Uploading larger files
Receipts in the logbook can be up to 10 MB, NOTAM attachments and aircraft documents up to 30 MB, for example for manuals. - Redesigned aircraft information
The information page shows accumulated, remaining and planned hours, with colours indicating whether the flight time until maintenance is sufficient. - Clearer reply to reservation requests
The e-mail about the outcome of a reservation request shows more clearly whether it was approved or declined and highlights the administrator’s message. - Creator and editor of a reservation
The reservation details show who created and last updated the reservation, and when. - Confirmation before deleting a user
apron:pilot asks for confirmation before a user is deleted. - Initial password link valid only once
The link for setting the initial password can only be used once.
Fixed
- INVOICING Date formats in invoicing
Invoices and payment runs can be edited and filtered with all date formats. - INVOICING Multiple clicks in invoicing
Clicking “Add flights” or “Approve” several times no longer creates empty invoices or duplicate invoice items. - INVOICING Gross amount on tax invoices
The gross amount on tax invoices is shown correctly, even if invoices without tax were created afterwards. - INVOICING Receipt upload with a file that is too large
After trying to upload a file that is too large as a receipt, the other costs form is displayed correctly again. - INVOICING Entering refund values
In some cases a leading space prevented refund values from being entered; this has been fixed. - Start values for administrators only
Regular users can no longer change the start values for Hobbs and total time in service; only power users and administrators can. - Changing the PIC with a second pilot
The PIC of a logbook entry can be changed even when a second pilot is selected. - Phone link in the reservation details
The phone link in the reservation details works in all situations. - Link in the e-mail for new users
The e-mail to new users contains the correct link.
You’ll find full details on every change in the Release Notes section of the online help.
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