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Coming from the old WickedFile: what moved and what is gone

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Written by Payton Saladna

WickedFile 2.0 is a rewrite rather than an update. The daily job is the same, the navigation is arranged differently, several things are called something new, and some features do not exist in this version.

This article maps the old product onto the new one. It covers where the screens went, which terms changed, what has been removed and what to use instead, how returns work now, and what has been added. If you are looking for one specific feature, the table of things that are gone lists it with the nearest alternative.

The nav changed shape

The previous version had eight or nine places to go. This one has six, and the AP Hub absorbed most of the work.

Old

Now

AP Hub, four tabs

AP Hub, two tabs: Invoices and Statements

AP Hub > Transactions tab

Transaction Viewer, its own nav item

AP Hub > Document Issues tab

The Needs review drawer, opened from the pill above the tabs

AP Settings, its own page

Settings > AP Part Codes

Search and Lookups

One search box at the top of every screen

Tasks, a list page

Manager Dashboard

The layout of the new AP Hub is described in The AP Hub: what you are looking at.

Vocabulary that changed

In each of these cases the concept still exists and only the label changed.

Old term

New term

Untraceable PO Number

Uncategorized Spend

Inventory Purchase

Inventory

Shop Supply Purchase

Shop Supplies

Office Supply Purchase

Office Supplies

Pending AI Analysis

Pending AI

Document Issues, or triage

Needs review

Verified and Unverified statements

Received, Reconciled, Ready to pay, Approved

Missing AP Docs

Review N lines

Assignments

Tasks

Things that are gone

These have no replacement in this version. The second column gives the nearest alternative where there is one.

Gone

What to do instead

The old reporting section and all six of its report types

The six nav surfaces each answer a specific question. There is no query builder.

The prebuilt reports that shipped with it

Same. The questions they answered are now built into the screens.

Ask Navigator

Spark, the assistant, which queries live data rather than summarising a report.

Folders

Nothing. Use tasks to hand work to a person.

Email Alerts and Trackers

Nothing. In-app notifications only, from the bell.

Risk Ratings on screen

Nothing. Work the red flags in the AP Hub instead.

The Repair Orders list page

Repair orders are still there and still matched. There is no page that lists them.

System Status page

Nothing.

Account page and Scan Counts

Nothing. Billing lives under Settings > Locations.

Print a return slip

Nothing. See the note on returns below.

Google Drive upload

Not supported. Use drag and drop, a paired scanner, or the mobile capture app.

Custom workflow statuses

Status is now a fixed three: Needs review, Ready to pay, Exported.

Returns work differently

The previous version let you mark a part Returned to Vendor, which gave the line a yellow code while you waited for the credit. That state does not exist in this version. There is no yellow tier and no return slip.

A part you have sent back stays at Bought for RO Not Sold until a matching credit memo arrives, at which point it changes to Credited by Vendor on its own. No manual step is needed at either end.

The effect on your screen is that the red count tracks money that has not come back yet, rather than returns you have recorded. A part stays visible until the credit arrives. The codes are covered in full in Part codes: what every colour means, and the design of this behaviour is covered in Returned is not credited.

Things that are new

New

What it is

Matrix Violations

Parts sold outside your own pricing bands, with the dollar gap.

Parts Matrix in Settings

The pricing standard itself. In the old product a matrix was only a report filter.

Needs review carve queue

One PDF is split into many documents automatically, and boundary problems are flagged.

The document workspace

Full screen, scan beside data, with line item correction and an audit trail.

Match to RO

Pair invoice lines to repair order parts by hand when the PO number never connected them.

Bank payment matching

Statements show the card or bank payment that settled them.

Spark

An assistant that answers questions against your live data.

Mobile capture

An installable phone app for photographing invoices at the counter.

Vendor Hub

Triage unrecognised vendor names, write recognition rules, merge duplicates.

Roles and per shop access

Admin, manager and viewer, assignable to specific locations.

Integrations are no longer self-serve

The Integrations panel in Settings is read only. Connecting or changing an integration is handled by the WickedFile team.

Tekmetric and Shop-Ware are live. Several other shop management systems are marked coming soon, as are QuickBooks Online and Dropbox. Bank and card connections through Plaid are the one thing an admin can still connect directly.

What has not changed

The daily job. You work invoices through the month, place the money, use statements as the final check before you pay, and chase credits while the return is recent.

If that was your rhythm in the previous version, it still is. Your daily, weekly and monthly checklist describes the same shape.

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