11 Release Update

Till

BP Pre-Auth

Pre-Authorising a fuel pump is available with BP TAAS and Enabler 4 in version 11, further detail can be found here.

Glory Cash Unit Support

The Till now supports the Glory IC-10 cash units. This allows a system where a cashier doesn’t need to handle any cash. These units are also supported when the till is on SCO mode.

Support for part payments

Available from 11.2

The Glory integration now supports part payments of cash and credit via the SCO.

Secondary Currency Viewable in Inventory

available from 11.3

See Glory Documentation for full details.

Watermark Viewable

available from 11.3

See https://hendtech.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/2538864644/Glory+Cash+Machines#Watermark for full details.

Suppression of Low and Empty denomination alerts

available from 11.3

The low and empty alerts for a denomination can now be suppressed for all or a selection set via the BO.

Added Dual Currency view onto POS screen

available from 11.4

Cash Unit screen now shows Dual currency amounts on screen

Retry of change only requests on 2-1 setup

available from 11.4

The till will now retry every 5 seconds if the cash unit is occupied by another till. This is only relevant to change only requests.

Customer Account Cards scanning on Refunds

available from 11.5

Customer / Credit Account Cards can be scanned from the tender screen on a refund to match how the sale flow works. if the setting is on the system that restricts refund tenders to the same type as the sale this will be taken into account.

Setting to allow scanning of 98 (Receipt resolution) barcodes as products

available from 11.5

A new setting has been added to allow 98 barcodes to be used for normal product scanning

Loyalty Updates

available from 11.5

Updates have been added to the Loyalty Schemes. further information can be found here : https://hendtech.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SUP/pages/8912942

Texaco Loyalty prompt restricted to fuel baskets only for Cash and Account tenders

AVAILable from V11.6

The loyalty prompt will only appear if there is fuel in the basket for Cash and Account tenders. Credit card transactions work as normal.

No Means to Pay Address Lookup

AVAILable from V11.7

As part of the No Means to Pay process, you can now customer lookup addresses to improve accuracy as described here

Self Checkout

Active basket inactive alert

available from 11.3

A cashier alert will be shown if the basket is inactive for X amount of time (this is a setting but defaults to 5 minutes) , more information can be found here : https://hendtech.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ED/pages/302612482

Customer Look up amount

available from 11.3

After the customer presses the Look up screen on the Self checkout they will see a new screen asking them to set the amount of items they have to stop them having to go to the Lookup screen multiple times, more information can be found here :

Flip Cashier Screen to Self Checkout Side

available from 11.3

There is a setting on the Back Office to set up a Barcode that when scanned will flip the cashier screen on to the self checkout screen. You will also be prompted to enter your employee number and password to authorise it. This will be useful if there is any issues with the customer basket. Once the cashier is finished, another scan of the barcode will return screens to their original form, more information can be found here :

Scanned Item Count

available from 11.3

The Self Checkout now shows a visual representation of how many items are in the customers basket.

Light Pole

available from 11.3

There is the option to use a Patlite Light Pole on a Self Checkout , more information can be found here :

Credit Card Failures

available from 11.3

Credit Card Failures will show a Cashier alert on all other tills.

Deal Trigger Coupons

available from 11.5

Deal Coupons will throw a cashier assistance request on SCO when scanned by a customer

Credit card failure due to signature request

available from 11.5

Credit card Failures on Self checkouts due to signature requests will now show a message to the user to use a staffed till.

Shortcut Buttons For Articles or Groups

available from 11.8

Single article buttons or groups within the button profile selected for the self checkout can be shown on the customer screen. See for details.

Back Office

EOD - Setting Articles Inactive

The EOD process will set unused articles to inactive , more information can be found here.

EOD - Export Stock Audit

Available from 11.6

The EOD process will now export Stock Audit records via RIS providing that all prerequisites have been met.

Limitless Sales Export

Available from 11.3

The Limitless export has been changed to send directly to their rest endpoint, setup can be found here :

Remote Pricing

Available from 11.3

Remote Pricing is now available for Enabler V3 Fuel Controller. Further information can be found here :

available from 11.3

EDGEPoS now supports the Nisa wholesaler link, supporting product updates, invoices, orders, etc. Setup instructions can be found here:

Roadchef Sales Export

available from 11.4

An export of sales, stock and deals is done in the EOD for Roadchef stores. See .

Near St Stock Export

available from 11.5

An export of stock will happen as part of a 15min triggered batch any time that stock would be updated. See .

Sage-50 Export Changes

available from 11.5

Enhancements have been made to the Sage-50 Daily Sales export. See and to see details of the new functionality available.

Staff Discount Cards

available from 11.5

You can add Staff Discount Cards on the Back Office / Head Office which will be required to be scanned before Staff Discount would be applied on a Till. More information can be found here

Glory Back Of House Auto Import

available from 11.6

If you have CI-100s installed. You can have EDGEPoS configured to automatically create Safe Counts and Banking records based on reports created on the Glory machine with the Glory End of Day process. See for more detail.

Glory Auto Import - CI-100 Collection Bag Reference

available from 11.8

If the CI-100 has been set up with a scanner to scan the bag when it is being removed, the bag reference will now automatically get imported to the bag reference on a Collect.

Glory Auto Import - CI-100 Bank the Removal of Notes Only

available from 11.8

If the CI-100 accepts both Notes and Coins, there is a setting to only create a banking record for the removal of the notes. The default for this setting is true.

Option Only Allow Open PLUs to use Non Scan Commodity Groups

Available from 11.7

A new option has been added to the Back Office and Head Office, to only allow Open PLUs to use Non Scan CG’s (Button Sales). This option is defaulted to false. Support need to set it if required. This will stop the creation or update of any articles that are not Open PLUs, using Non Scan CGs.

Simple Sales Export Uncommitted Service Lines Flag

Available from 11.8

There is a new field against the lines of the Simple Sales Export which flags a line of a sale transaction as uncommitted to the service. This will affect any extracts which utilise the Simple Sales Export, such as the RIS transactions export. For further information see

Head Office

Services Reports Department Options

available from 11.8

There is a new option added to the Head Office to update the ‘Services Reporting Department’ values. On the HO this is used to set the default Commodity group for Paypoint transactions for reporting purposes only.

HHU

Goods Returns

Available from 11.3

When Goods Returns are created for articles via the Hand Held (HHU), the articles are grouped together with the same Return Number value (viewable on the Back Office Goods > Returns screen) if they are created on the same date and for the same supplier.

This behaviour is now the same as when the HHU is used to create Goods Receiving Notes for articles.

Retail Insights Reductions

Available from 11.6

Management of Reductions via Retail Insights is available on the Hand Held. For further information on setup and use, please see documentation here.

System

Apache Tomcat Upgrade to 8.5.59

Available from 11.2

Update to Apache Tomcat for EDGEPoS REST API and HTTPS Head Office connections.

Upgrade of embedded web browser

Available from 11.2

The embedded web browser has been converted to use Chrome.

External Import Program

Available from 11.3

External Import Program allows the import of multiple suppliers for the same article.

Available from 11.5

The supplier order code will get populated with the import. Also if the article did not exist on the system previous to the import, the product code will get updated to the last record that was imported.

Trigger only batches

Available from 11.3

Some system batches have changed to be trigger only to help reduce the load on the PC

Deals

New Global % Discount Deal

Available from 11.3

A new global discount deal has been added to discount by percentage of the total basket.

Reports

New Discount Totals Report

Available from 11.5

A new Excel only report has been added that will collect all the discounts between two dates and show the totals for each type

Goods Returned/Received Summary Tax Added

Available from 11.5

The Goods Returned/Received Summary report now shows the cost tax amount against each Goods Received and Goods Returned, and a new section summarising the cost tax totals by tax code has been added also.

EFT Transaction Report

Available from 11.7

The EFT Transaction report now supports the Excel format

Stocktake Reports - Variance Calculation

Available from 11.7

There is a new option to change how the variances are calculated on the stocktake reports. This needs setup by Support.

There are 3 options:

  1. Treat Minus Stock As Zero
    (The Default setting and how the reports worked previously)
    This means if you had an opening stock that was a minus figure, when calculating variances, it was treated as 0.

  2. Show Minus Stock Variance Count Only
    This means if you had an opening stock that was a minus figure, when calculating the Stock Qty Variance, the figure is used as it is. For the Stock and Retail Value variance, it is still treated as 0.

  3. Show Minus Stock Variance Count And Value
    This means if you had an opening stock that was a minus figure, when calculating the Stock Qty and Stock and Retail Value Variances, the figure is used as it is.

Support

Job Runner

Available from 11.6

A new automatic process has been added to allow support to run repetitive tasks in the background.

BGP

Available from 11.6

A new menu option has been added to “clear run” and BGP task even if it has not run yet.

Import / Export - Plu Buttons

Available from 11.7

A new setup menu has been added to allow the export and import of Plu Button profiles. This will allow for an easier setup as a profile can be transferred from one site to another.