Spire Version 3.13 - Early adopter

Advanced payment integrations, flexible tax handling, and smarter workflows across every module; Spire 3.13 brings powerful new tools and enhancements to streamline your operations

Key Benefits of Spire 3.13 by Module

General

  • Modern Payment Options: Integrate Global Payments for Card Present and Card Not Present transactions (Canada/US), enabling secure credit card payments directly in Spire—ideal for retail or e-commerce, with no external terminals needed.

  • Flexible Tax Handling: Support unlimited sales taxes, display up to nine on orders and invoices, and manage zero-rated taxes for complex Canadian tax scenarios. Simplified default tax settings ensure compliance with less effort.

  • Better Data Tracking: Track modified dates on filter records to preserve settings during upgrades, and use “&” in email subjects for clearer communication.

Accounts Payable

  • Precise Expense Tracking: Add multiple expense lines to a single AP invoice, each linked to separate GL accounts, for accurate cost allocation—great for detailed financials.

  • Streamlined Banking: Consolidate bank entries into one GL transaction for easier reconciliation, and add bank service charges to payments directly, saving time on bookkeeping.

  • Reliable Posting: Fixes ensure foreign currency AP entries don’t create incorrect GL accounts, and voided payments respect your “Keep Original Date” setting.

Accounts Receivable

  • Flexible Refunds: Issue refunds using any payment method or prompt for credit card refunds with Global Payments integration, speeding up customer service and reducing errors.

  • Accurate Posting: Prevent foreign currency AR entries from creating incorrect GL revenue accounts, ensuring clean financials.

General Ledger

  • Canadian Tax Reporting: Add GIFI codes to GL accounts and export them for easier CRA compliance—perfect for Canadian SMBs preparing audits.

  • Cleaner Year-Ends: Post retained earnings only to the base currency account during fiscal year-end closes, and exclude inactive GL accounts from lookups for faster data entry.

Payroll

  • Efficient Timecards: Persist modified timecard amounts when saving batches, eliminating re-entry and ensuring accurate pay calculations during busy payroll runs.

  • Compliance Ready: Combined with 2025 tax updates, payroll stays compliant and hassle-free for Canadian businesses.

Sales

  • Copy User-Defined Fields from Sales History: When copying an invoice from Sales History to create a new Sales Order, Spire 3.13 now includes user-defined fields (UDFs), automatically carrying over custom data like project codes, delivery instructions, or client-specific terms. This saves time and ensures consistency—especially for repeat customers or recurring orders. For example, a distributor can reuse a client’s preferred shipping method or a manufacturer can retain job-specific notes without re-entering them, reducing errors and speeding up order creation for industries like wholesale, retail, or custom manufacturing.

  • Smarter Order Tracking: Search sales and history by original quote number to trace customer journeys easily, streamlining follow-ups and audits.

  • Enhanced Sales Interface: Spire Web’s revamped sales orders support sorting, pinning columns, kits, macros, foreign currency pricing, quantity breaks, levies, and price matrices—enabling flexible, market-specific order management.

  • Reliable Workflows: Fixes prevent blank buyer fields, improve freight overrides, and ensure accurate backorder and tax calculations, accelerating order processing.

Inventory

  • Accurate Pricing: Calculate sell prices using primary vendor costs or markups, ensuring margins reflect true costs—key for distributors or retailers.

  • Tighter Stock Control: Restrict lot adjustments to available quantities, list warehouses when copying inventory, and disable BOM tabs for kitted items to prevent errors.

  • Inventory Visibility: Add sales tax exceptions and view inventory count lists in Spire Web for better stock management across locations.

Spire Web

  • Modern, Cloud-Ready Accessibility: Spire Web’s enhanced interface supports infinite scrolling, editable user-defined fields, and keyboard shortcuts, making it faster and more intuitive for remote or mobile teams. Access your ERP from any browser—whether in the office, warehouse, or on the road—without sacrificing functionality. This is ideal for Canadian SMBs with distributed teams, like distributors managing multiple locations or retailers with field sales staff.

  • Powerful Sales Order Management: The revamped Sales Order interface lets you sort, rearrange, pin, and resize columns for a tailored view, while supporting advanced features like kits, macros, job header groups, non-inventory items, recurring rules, and accessories. Add alternate part numbers, quantity break prices, foreign currency pricing, levies, and price matrices to meet diverse customer needs. Real-time column totals and automatic price updates when sell levels change ensure accuracy, speeding up order creation for industries like wholesale or manufacturing.

  • Streamlined Usability: Faster list performance and automatic page refreshes when user permissions change keep workflows smooth. Improved permission handling respects settings for editing salespersons, territories, or warehouse options, ensuring secure access. Clearer displays for long fields, required fields (e.g., Customer PO number), and editable fields in Sales History invoices make navigation intuitive, while fixes for freight overrides, tax recalculations, and backorder quantities enhance reliability.

  • Inventory and Customer Enhancements: View Inventory Count Lists and add sales tax exceptions directly in Spire Web, improving stock oversight. The new Open Related button in Customer Contacts List simplifies accessing linked data, saving clicks for customer service teams. These features make Spire Web a robust tool for managing inventory and client relationships on the go.