So have just updated to the latest version and while there are further improvements to this there is to start with one major thing missing:
The ability to set the configurable product price and have all variations priced the same automatically, - at the moment you have to go through every variation which is just stupid when you have different colours/sizes that may all be the same. There needs to be an option here in the admin and a default setting for each product with either 'individual variation pricing' or 'all the same'.