Till

Scanning BP Vouchers at the Till

BP vouchers can be scanned at the till and will be shown in the basket as "BP Voucher" of 0 price. Any voucher scanned will then be sent to BP for validation and redemption. 

BP Loyalty Tender

A BP Loyalty Tender button can be added to the till to allow for tending of Points, Coupons and Virtual Money within the basket.

BP Loyalty Button on Refund

An option exists to allow the BP Loyalty button to be displayed when tendering a refund.

The option is named "Show Loyalty Button on Refund" and is defined on the Back Office Shop Options screen, on the Global Till Options > Credit Accounts tab.

If the option is off then the Loyalty button will not be displayed when tendering a refund.

BP Loyalty Screen on Refund

An option exists to allow the BP Loyalty screen to be displayed when tendering a refund.

The option is named "Show Loyalty Screen on Refund" and is defined on the Back Office Shop Options screen, on the Global Till Options > Credit Accounts tab.

If the option is off then the Loyalty screen will not be displayed when tendering a refund.

Self Checkout Receipt Prompt

Available From 9.1

A prompt to print or not print the receipt can be added to the self checkout , more details can be found here : Self Checkout

Ubamarket

Available From 9.1 

Ubamarket is a smart phone app that will allow customers to scan items as they walk around the store and put them into their basket. Once they are at the till they can use the app to send the basket to the till, meaning the cashier does not need to scan each article in but simply add any extra items the customer may want and tender the basket.

Cashier Age Check Override 

Available From 9.2

When a Cashier Age Check Limit is fired it can be overridden instead of having another employee log in to complete the basket

Details of requirements can be found here : Age Checking and Hours of Sale

Exclude Account Cards from Searches on Till

Available From 9.2

New global till option which hides customer account cards from search screens on the Till when searching by name or account number. More information can be found here, Exclude Account Cards from the Search on the Till.

No Means to Pay Street Number

Available From 9.2

An option has been added to split the street name field of the No means to pay into two separate parts of Street Number and Street name to make it clear both parts are needed.

Support for syncing 1 million records + from the BO to the Till

Available from 9.5

The syncing mechanism has been changed so it is not dependent on available memory to transfer large datasets from the BO to the till.

New option to suppress loyalty prompt for non-Texaco Gempay stores

Available From 9.6

A new global till option has been added to suppress the Gempay loyalty request for cash and account. This is to be used non-texaco sites that use the Gempay terminal.

Self checkout voice prompt to wait for credit card

Available From 9.6

New setting to turn on the voice prompt "Please wait for the card transaction to fully complete on the terminal" if the customer selects the credit card tender button. This is set to true by default.

Back Office

Stock Transfers

Receiving A Stock Transfer

If receiving a stock transfer on a Back Office which is connected to a Head Office system and the [ Complete ] button is clicked when one or more of the stock transfer lines has a received quantity value of 0 (combined "Cases / Weight" and "Units" values for a stock transfer line), then a warning message is displayed.

The user can choose to cancel the operation, update the required received quantity values directly in the cells of the Stock Transfer Lines table as shown below, and then re-click the [ Complete ] button.

Open

Stock Taking

A new column called Stock Updated has been added to the Stocktake grid under Management → Stock Taking. Now when you complete a stock take you will be able to see if it was completed with or without updating stock. See below image:

Open

Options Linked to Batches

If certain options are enabled on the back office the batch will automatically be activated. More information can be found on the relevant set up pages.

Options Linked to Self Checkout

A new option has been added to the Back Office under Global Till Options → Self Checkout. This is to prompt the user if they require any bag, see image below:

Sage/Envisage Link Export

For the new Sage/Envisage export to work you need to specify a directory and make sure the export type is set to Sage as shown in the image below:

It is important to note that if the directory above doesn't exist then create it manually.

This should run as a batch process "Daily" called Sage Export using the Shared/Sage/exportSageData.r

There is also a standalone program that can be used via program loader. It can be located at C:\OpenEdge\WRK\edgepos\Shared\Sage\Envisage\runExportFromDate.r

Sending Products to Ubamarket

Functionality has been added to upload any changes to an Article or Price to Ubamarket if the Ubamarket_Enabled option is set on the Back Office. 02 barcodes will be padded out to 13 digits and 20 seven digit barcodes will be padded out to 13 digits.

A new Third Party Name field has been added to the Commodity Group tab under Department Maintenance, this allows; for example, "Milk" to be set against a Commodity Group rather than use "Dairy – Other" within the Ubamarket app.

Mobile Apps Settings

A new menu has been added to the Article maintenance screen called Mobile Apps Settings as shown below circled in red:

Sending/Receiving Appetite Data

Available from 9.2

Functionality has been added to upload any Articles that have the Allow Send to Appetite option enabled under the Mobile App Settings on the Back Office as highlighted above. There is also functionality to create transactions on the Back Office for completed Appetite Orders, this is done by a batch process.

13 Week Sales Chart

Available from 9.2

The 13 Week Sales chart on the Sales tab of the Article Maintenance screen has been updated to include reduction sales and wastage data over the current 13 week period.

See "13 Week Sales Chart" for more information.

SELPrint

Available From 9.1

There is now the ability to select all labels that are on promotion from the Labels To Print tab,read more here SEL/Label Types

Disable Tax Code selection in Article Maintenance

Available From 9.1

A new option has been added which will disable the Tax Code selection when creating an article and also in article maintenance.

Support for Filshill Wholesaler Link 

Available From 9.2

edgepos now supports the wholesaler link to Filshill, supporting invoices, orders, promotions etc.

Solum ESEL

Available From 9.3

New fields have been added to the Solum ESEL messages which include : OnDealFlag, AverageDailySales,LastSoldDate, LastGRNDate, LastOrderedDate, MinStock, CurrentStock, SuppShortCode and SuppName

If a stock value changes an update for that article will be sent out the next day to refresh the CurrentStock value

Alphanumeric Short Codes

Available From 9.3

A new option has been added which can block supplier short codes from being created containing a character. 

Update of ASR Stock Import Program

Available From 9.3

The ASR Stock import program has been updated to  continue on through the file if it finds a line with an error. 

Blocking Duplicate Commodity Group Codes 

Available From 9.3

A setting has been added to  stop users from being able to create a commodity group with the same commodity group code on a Back Office or Head Office.

Article Product Codes

Available From 9.3

At shops which are configured to use the Blakemore Wholesaler link, articles can now share their product code with other articles.

Product Batches

Available from 9.3

At shops which are configured to use the Blakemore Wholesaler link, product batches received from Blakemore (as viewed on the Back Office Management > Batch Processing screen) which update an article so that it has a "deleted" status will no longer be deleted from the system.

Instead, such articles can still be scanned at the tills but can no longer be ordered via the HHU.

Dee Bees Wholesaler Link

Available from 9.5

Edgepos now supports the wholesaler link to Dee Bees, supporting invoices, orders, promotions etc.  See Dee Bees Setup Instructions.

Deals

Available from 9.5

Deals can now be scoped to Ubamarket transaction.

HHU

Gander Wastage

Available From 9.3

When an article is wasted it will not be sent to Gander immediately when using the HHU but sent every 10 seconds from the BO along with the reductions etc.  This should speed up creating wastage using the HHU and stop accidentally multiplying the wastage when it seems unresponsive. 

Scales

Label Templates on UC3 Scales

Available From 9.6

Label template can now be saved in article maintenance in the article label screen and sent to the UC3 scales. See Mettler UC3UNDEFINED .

Reports

EFT Summary Report

A new Parameter has been added to the EFT Summary Report. This allows the report to be broken down by Merchant ID. The transactions will be separated out by shop sales, Mobile Transactions (BPMe), OPT.

EFT Transactions Report

The build by parameter on the EFT Transactions report a new build by type has been added. This allows the report to be broken down by Merchant ID. The transactions will be separated out by shop sales, Mobile Transactions (BPMe), OPT.

Scale Sales Report

Available From 9.2

The scale sales report has been updated to display the time the receipt was printed from the scale and also the time it was claimed at the till.

Excel Reports

EFT Summary Report

An excel version of the EFT Summary Report has been added. 

Support

Improvements to Record Viewer

• Auto completion of query when the tab key is pressed. 

• New real-time validation of query as the user types.

• New layout for tabs to make it easier to add and remove tabs

• New combined logging function Available From 9.2