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AboutUpcoming R2, 2025 Release
This Release Outline provides an overview of all updates that are included in the upcoming release. With this Outline, a new customer preview environment has been provided to you for you to access and review the new features. This environment can be accessed at https://comingsoon.4castplus.com.
As with all our pre-release environments, please remember to refresh your browsers each time you log into the environment. Additionally, Custom Reports in the comingsoon environment are samples only. Please upload the templates from your Live System, for any Custom Reports that you wish to review.
Performance, Usability and User Interface Updates
We are preparing to release a set of enhancements aimed at delivering a more efficient, intuitive, and visually consistent user experience.
Performance Improvements: Optimizations across the platform will deliver faster load times, improved system responsiveness, and greater overall stability.
Usability Enhancements: Key workflows and interactions have been refined to reduce friction, improve accessibility, and support a more seamless user journey.
User Interface Updates: A modernized design with updated layouts and visual elements will offer improved clarity, consistency, and ease of use.
Configuration
This release saw a great many improvements in how the system is configured. Including additional custom field for Workpackages, enhancements to allow for Labor and Project custom fields to be identified as Header or Detail fields, additional and extended options for notifications, tracking of Effective Date changes for Taxes, and more. This release also introduces an update to the resource database design structure to remove Cost Code and Tag Number from the equipment and materials databases, introduce Equipment ID to the equipment database and introduce Part Number (internal) to the equipment and materials databases.
Projects
Numerous enhancements were added in this release to project management features, including performance optimizations in the Budget Revision and Progress Measurement features. The Project Profile includes an addition of Project Addresses in the profile to allow for project personnel to identify key address and contact data for Procurement, Billing and Transmittals. On the WBS side, we’ve added in a ‘Refresh Dates’ feature into the Actions menu, enhanced the date control in the WBS to auto-update Rollup Workpackage dates from the Deliverable dates and added in Custom Fields to both the UI and the Import. The Billing feature includes some relabelling of data in the header, new fields added into the Transactions grid, along with improved visibility into the individuals assigned into the Approval workflow. Change Management includes an update to provide more visibility into the individuals in the Approval workflow, along with the ability to Bypass Approval.
Budget, Budget Revisions, Forecasts & Progress Measurements
This upcoming release introduces key enhancements to project financial and performance tracking, aimed at improving accuracy, control, and visibility.
Budget: Streamlined tools for creating and managing cost and quantity estimates, with improved alignment to project scope and structure.
Budget Revisions: Enhanced support for budget adjustments, including version control, auditability, and more flexible approval workflows.
Forecasting: Improved forecasting capabilities to better predict costs and progress trends, enabling proactive decision-making.
Progress Measurements: More robust tools for capturing, validating, and reporting physical and financial progress across all project phases.
These updates will help teams maintain tighter control over project performance, ensure financial integrity, and support informed, data-driven planning.
Procurement
4castplus project procurement area received a significant amount of updates, new features, defect fixes, etc. in this release. This release sees an exciting new feature – Milestone Planning, a new Requisition Summary Report, a complete redesign of the Purchase Order Revision Feature, a new Expediting Reports and an updated Timeline Report. Performance optimizations include improved loading time in the RFQ Items, Purchase Order Items, Purchase Order Print and Receiving > Purchase Order items grids.
Jobsite Timesheet
This release introduced an extension of our Transmittals feature to the 4castplus Customer Portal, allowing you to electronically submit your Daily LEMS/Reports to your Customer for review and approval. With complete tracking, notifications and monitoring of approval status and invoicing readiness.
Timesheets
Efficient time management is crucial for the success of any project, and our timesheet system is designed to streamline this process for you. Timesheets are a fundamental tool for tracking the hours worked by employees and contractors on various tasks and projects. By accurately recording your time, you contribute to project transparency, precise billing, and resource allocation. Our user-friendly timesheet interface ensures seamless entry and submission of your work hours, enabling better project planning and decision-making. Let’s explore how our timesheet system can optimize your workflow and maximize project efficiency.
Approvals, Vendor Invoice Matching & Administration
In this release, we see the introduction of the Delegate Approval workflow to the ‘Reports To Supervisor’ Labor Timesheet approval routing option.
Project and Program Reporting
Several new reports, many new fields, key report upgrades and a few defect fixes were achieved in the project & program reporting area.
Custom Reports
The custom reporting features received a great deal of attention this release to provide more reports, more fields and a few bug fixes to improve usability and performance.
Business Intelligence
Many new reporting fields and a number of new reports were added to the business intelligence area of 4castplus. Please read further by clicking the link below.
4CP Connect
4castplus Connect provides for the exchange of Vendors, Vendor Invoices, and Vendor Payments using the following directional flow of data:
Vendors: Data can be created in either system.
Vendor Invoices: Data will be created in 4astplus
Vendor Payments: Data will be created in the financial system
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Features & Enhancements
Performance, Usability and User Interface Updates
- Usuability update to Receiving workflows to display a Progress Bar while the Receipt is being saved.
- Usability update to make Payment Terms in Billing Sticky.
Configuration
Manage Labor Resources
Update: Added reassignment feature for PM/Approval Roles when a Labor Resource is Terminated or set to Inactive.
Projects
Setup
- Update: The Project Currency can be changed after Actuals have been incurred on the project.
WBS
- Update: Restored the project root node in the WBS main grid.
Budget
- Updated the Budget Cost Rate and Billing Rate rounding to have the same behavior.
Progressing
- Update: Added SPI (Hours) to Progress Tab.
Billing
- Update: Billing and Customer Invoice Approvals display all Billing Transactions and Fixed Price Custom Templated reports assigned to the Project.
Change Management
- Update: The function ‘Hide on Timesheets’ has been extended to Change Orders.
- Updated Change Management Stages Icon,
- Updated the Stage Number column to Change Stage Number.
- Update to the Commit Change Order confirmation screen.
Budget, Budget Revisions, forecast & Progress Measurements
Forecasts & Progress Measurements
- Defect fix re: When Time-Phasing is Weekly of Earned Value S-Curve Period Start Dates is different from Time-Phasing.
Reports
- Defect fix re: When Start Date is later than End Date, there should be no Timeline Chart S-Curve/Project Spend Forecast data/graph displayed.
Procurement
Requisitions
- Defect fix re: Column Selection in Requisition Summary grid is not sticky.
- Update: A Progress Bar has been added to Procurement Requisition Import Workflows.
- Added Area and Phase columns to the Requisition Add Item workflow.
Purchase Orders and Subcontracts
- Remove table columns:
- Incremental Tax
- Incremental Project Cost Tax Amount
- Previous Project Cost Tax Amount.
- Update to the’ field Name will reflect the value ‘actually reporting (Pre-Tax)’ and add the Fields for post-project cost tax values:
- Updated Total Adjustments (PO CCY) > Total Adjustments (Pre-Tax) ( PO CCY)
- Updated Total Adjustments (BASE CCY) > Total Adjustments (Pre-Tax) (BASE CCY)
- Update: Added the ability to Delete A Line Item on Purchase Order Revisions.
- Unreceived Amount (PO CCY) > Unreceived Amount (Pre-Tax) (PO CCY)
- Unreceived Amount (BASE CCY) > Unreceived Amount (Pre-Tax) (BASE CCY)
- Added Total Adjustments (PO CCY)
- Added Total Adjustment (Base CCY)
- Added: Payment Schedule Level, with a drop-down ‘Purchase Order ‘ and ‘Purchase Order Line Item’ options.
- Added Area and Phase columns to the Purchase Order Add Item workflow.
- Added Area and Phase columns to the RFQ Add Item workflow.
Expediting
- Update: A Progress Bar has been added to Procurement Expediting Import Workflows.
Reports:
- Summary Purchasing Report
- Defect fix re: Summary Purchasing Report discrepancies in Transaction Summary and Transaction Detail.
Jobsite Timesheet
Timesheets
- Defect fix re: Reduce deadlocks when saving a Jobsite Timesheet that includes surcharges or discounts alongside Timesheet Entry timings.
- Updated the default transmittal expiration to 30 days (previously 5 days).
- Added a warning alert when submitting transmittals, showing how many days remain before the expiration date.
- Added alert in Billing when there are pending Customer Transmittals.
Approvals and Vendor Invoice Matching & Administration
1. Approvals:
Vendor Invoice Matching
- Added: Update Button to Vendor Invoices.
- Added a data check to help ensure vendor invoice currency information is consistent.
- Added permission for Vendor Invoices > View Vendor Invoice.
- Added “View Only” permission to Vendor Invoice Matching.
Project Reporting
- Update: Added SPI (Hours) to Project Summary Report.
- Update: Project Resources Report to separate Labor Resources into First Name and Last Name.
Custom Reports
- Update to Custom Templated Title Names:
- Incurred > Incurred (Pre-Tax)
- Incurred w/Taxes > Incurred
- Invoiced Amount w/Taxes > Total Invoiced
- Update to the ‘Item Date’ behavior when an RFQ is issued to a Vendor/Vendor Date and not awarded to a PO.
- Added ‘Incurred Project Tax’ column
- Added column ‘Invoiced Project Tax’ column
- Added Column ‘Committed Project Tax’ column
Business Intelligence Reporting
Labor Summary Report
- USABILITY: Corrected the % Totals in the Labor Summary Report.
4CP Connect
- Update Public API > Create Customer Error Message for Customer Contact with the same Email Address.
If you want to learn more about this software upgrade – and we hope you do – please feel free to email us at info@4castplus.com.
Or, if you’ve landed on this page and you’re not already a customer, here’s where you can sign up for a free live demo of 4castplus.