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Jiwa 8 Release Highlights

A Smarter, Faster, More Connected ERP for Australian Businesses

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Jiwa Version 8.0 is one of the most significant updates in the platform’s history. It’s a release designed to modernise the user experience, strengthen technical foundations, and deliver new automation capabilities across finance, inventory, sales, purchasing, and integrations.

Built for Australian distributors, importers, manufacturers, and service organisations, Jiwa 8.0 focuses on three core themes: performance, productivity, and platform flexibility. Here’s a look at the standout enhancements that make this release a major step forward.

A Modern, Secure Foundation

64-bit Architecture

Jiwa 8.0 is now a fully 64‑bit application, enabling:

  • Faster processing
  • Better memory utilisation
  • Improved performance for large datasets and high‑volume environments

This upgrade lays the groundwork for future scalability and more advanced features.

Modern Authentication with Microsoft Entra ID

Security and convenience come together with optional Entra ID login:

  • Users can authenticate using their Microsoft credentials
  • No password entry required after the first login
  • Centralised identity management for IT teams

This brings Jiwa in line with modern enterprise security standards.

Contained Database Authentication

Database logins no longer require SQL Server-level credentials. This simplifies:

  • Database restores
  • Server migrations
  • Security administration
modern authentication tools Microsoft Entra ID

Smarter Banking & Financial Control

Jiwa 8.0 introduces a completely redesigned banking experience:

New Bank Account Maintenance

  • Clean, modern interface
  • Currency assignment per account
  • Clear transaction views with flexible date filters
  • Real‑time balance visibility

Bank Receipts & Payments (Replacing Cash Book)

A more intuitive workflow for allocating payments and receipts, including:

  • Foreign currency support
  • Direct debit remittance export (ABA)
  • Automatic allocation rules for matching transactions
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Bank Matching Rules

Define simple rules to automatically match imported bank transactions to:

  • Debtors
  • Creditors
  • General ledger accounts

This dramatically reduces manual reconciliation time.

Customer Web Portal: Modern, Self‑Service Access

A major highlight of Jiwa 8.0 is the new Customer Web Portal, built on modern frameworks (.NET 10, Blazor) and available open‑source on GitHub.

Customers can now:

  • View and download invoices, statements, quotes, and orders
  • Access 12 periods of statements
  • Manage their own users and permissions
  • Reset passwords securely

It runs on Windows or Linux and integrates seamlessly with Jiwa’s REST API.

Inventory & Purchasing Enhancements

Richer Product Data

  • Multiple product images
  • Hierarchical web store categories
  • HTML product descriptions
  • Tags for improved search and categorisation

Improved Inventory Maintenance

  • Images for classifications and categories
  • Custom fields on SOH transaction details
  • Faster transaction history performance
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Comment Line Flow-Through

Comment lines added to purchase orders now flow through to:

  • Goods Received Notes
  • Purchase invoices

This improves communication and traceability across purchasing workflows.

Sales, Debtors & CRM Improvements

Enhanced Delivery Address Management

Delivery addresses now support:

  • Latitude and longitude
  • Map-based pin placement
  • Geocoding from address fields

Ideal for route planning and logistics optimisation.

Debtor & Contact Tags

A flexible tagging system allows:

  • Categorisation of debtors and contacts
  • Improved search and segmentation
  • REST API support for integrations

Foreign Currency Sales

Sales orders and quotes can now be created in any currency, with:

  • Automatic price conversion
  • GST support
  • Clear visibility of foreign totals

A New Search Experience

Jiwa 8.0 introduces a modern, streamlined search interface:

  • One search term can interrogate any field
  • Instant results with each keystroke
  • Faster server performance
  • Easier customisation without plugins

Advanced Search forms for Sales Orders, Work Orders, Purchase Orders, and Service Manager Jobs are now standard.

REST API Enhancements

The REST API receives several powerful upgrades:

  • Output Caching (Opt‑In) – Supports in-memory, Redis, Memcache, or SQL caching providers.
  • OR Filter Operations – AutoQueries now support OR logic, enabling more flexible filtering.
  • Customisable Webhook Content – Plugins can tailor webhook payloads and conditions per subscription.

Rate Limiting – A new standard plugin provides optional API rate limiting for security and performance.

Reporting Engine Modernisation

Jiwa 8.0 introduces a redesigned reporting engine architecture:

  • Report Providers can now be swapped or extended
  • Crystal Reports remains supported
  • Future versions will introduce an alternate provider and report designer

This shift prepares Jiwa for future .NET upgrades and more flexible reporting options.

Upgrade Experience Improvements

Resumable Upgrades

If an upgrade script fails or is cancelled:

  • You can resume from the point of failure
  • Script details are visible for troubleshooting

This reduces downtime and simplifies complex upgrades.

Change Tracking (Opt‑In)

A powerful new audit capability:

  • Tracks field-level changes per save
  • Stores historical versions
  • Allows comparison between versions

Ideal for compliance, troubleshooting, and accountability.

A Smarter, More Capable Jiwa for the Future

Jiwa 8.0 is more than a version update – it’s a platform evolution. With modern authentication, improved performance, richer data handling, a new customer portal, and major enhancements across banking, inventory, sales, and the REST API, this release positions Jiwa as a future-ready ERP for Australian businesses.

Across manufacturing, importing, and distribution, Jiwa 8.0 delivers:

  • Speed – faster search, faster login, faster inventory history.
  • Accuracy – better banking, improved foreign currency handling, cleaner data structures.
  • Automation – bank matching rules, resumable upgrades, improved API capabilities.
  • Modernisation – Entra ID login, 64‑bit architecture, redesigned reporting engine.
  • Customer empowerment – the new Customer Web Portal.

It’s a release that reduces friction, cuts manual work, and strengthens the operational backbone of any product‑based business.

Key Jiwa 8 Improvements Summary

  • New global search makes finding orders, products, and customers dramatically faster.
  • Delivery address geocoding (lat/long + map pin) supports route planning and logistics optimisation.
  • Customer Web Portal gives customers self‑service access to invoices, statements, orders, and quotes.
  • Tags for debtors, contacts, and products improve segmentation and searching.
  • More accurate landed costs with improved shipment notes, documents, and foreign currency handling.
  • Faster reconciliation thanks to new bank matching rules and clearer banking workflows.
  • Better product data for webstores, including multiple images, HTML descriptions, and tags (great for importers selling online).
  • Improved purchase order traceability, with comment lines flowing through GRNs and invoices.
  • Stronger inventory accuracy through faster transaction history, custom fields, and improved SOH detail.
  • Better handling of multi‑image products and classifications, so you can have images for grouped items, instead of images of the individual items.
  • Improved reporting foundation, allowing for more flexible reporting in future versions.
  • Enhanced foreign currency support for the procurement of goods and management of sales globally.
  • Change tracking for auditability - perfect for environments with compliance or quality requirements.