Is where you set up and maintain your PC information

• When you first access the PC Setting program, the Find PC Setting screen will appear, where you can either find an existing PC on your iMerchant network, or add a new one..
• To add a new PCto your iMerchant network
  • Click on the New button in the Task Bar.
  • A New PC Setting window displays.
  • In the Devices field, select the PC from your network to add
  • Click on the arrow to the right of the field and scroll through the list.
    • All PCs on your store network should appear
  • Click on the one you want to add to the system and it will appear in the Devices field.
  • Click on the Next button in the New PC Setting window.
  • You are taken to the PC Setting Properties screen
  • Here you will set up the information for this PC.
• Each PC that runs iMerchant (registers and non-registers must be licensed).
• If you have met your license count, you will not be able to add any more PCs to your iMerchant network.
• If you need to license more PCs with iMerchant, please contact Computac Customer Service at [email protected] or call (603)-298-5721 and ask for Retail Support
• You can also remove a PC from the iMerchant network, which will reduce your license count.
• Every PC that you wish to include in your iMerchant network must be added here in PC Settings.

The PC Setting Properties screen is where you set up and maintain the PC's information within iMerchant.

There is an assortment of fields:

PC Name: automatically fills in with the network name of the PC.

• There is no reason to change this.
• Once you have added the PC to the system and then visit the Properties page again, the field is grayed out.

Description: allows you to key in a description for the PC.  

Register: select from the available Register IDs within your system by clicking on the binoculars icon to the right of the field

• The Register ID program screen appears.
• Select the Register ID you want.
• If the PC you are adding to iMerchant is not going to serve as a register, leave the Register ID field blank.

All of the following fields deal with peripheral equipment that will be used with the register you are setting up.

With the exception of the Barcode Printer and Report Printer fields, each of the following fields needs to be OPOS (Open POS) compliant.

• That essentially means that, aside from the two aforementioned printers, all of your peripheral equipment must be compliant with OPOS.
• If it is not, it will not be able to function within iMerchant.

Many of the following fields have an arrow to the right of them. When you click on the arrow, a list of all applicable equipment for that field appears.

Click on the piece of equipment you want and it will appear in the field.

If you do not intend to use the PC as a register, many of these fields can be ignored.

If you do plan to use it as a register, ignore all fields that pertain to equipment you don't have or that are not OPOS compliant (with the exception of the Barcode Printer and Report Printer fields).

For all applicable items below that are OPOS compliant, activate by checking the Use box to the right of the field

POS Printer: Select the receipt printer to use at the register

Cash Drawer: select the manner in which the cash drawer is connected to the register PC

Cash Drawer 2: Select the manner in which the second cash drawer is connected to the register PC

• If you want to activate this field, be sure that you have Drawer Management set up for your store.

DisplayPost: Select the display post for this register

Magnetic Swipe Card: Select the credit card reader at this register

Signature Capture: Select the credit card capturing signature device used at this register

Point Device: Choose the point device used at this register

Charge It Pro Device: Choose the Charge It Pro device used at this register

Print Receipt Logo at . . . % of bitmap field: key in the percentage of bitmap desired.

• This controls the size of the bitmap printed on the POS receipt printer header. The default is set at 100%.

Using Touch Screen: is a checkbox field.

• Checked =the touch keypad will be active at the POS
  • The touch keypad comes into play upon selecting a Tender at the POS.
  • The touch keypad allows the POS clerk to enter values in any Tender field.

POS Receipt Printer: Choose the POS receipt printer for this PC

Characters Per Line: Decide the maximum number of characters allowed per line on the receipt in the box.  

• The default is set at 40, but can be changed.

POS Slip Printer: Choose the POS slip printer for this PC

POS Display Post Printer: Choose the POS display post printer for this PC in the field.

Characters Per Line: Decide the maximum number of characters allowed per line at the display post in the box.  

• The default is set at 20, but can be changed.

Barcode Printer: select the label printer this register will use.

• If you leave the field blank, iMerchant will select the default printer for this PC.

Report Printer: Select the general iMerchant printer for this PC.

• If you leave this field blank, iMerchant will select the default printer for this PC.

Please take note of the Test Devices option in the Task Bar at the top of the PC Settings window.

• When you click on this, the POS Device Tester window appears.
• From here, you can click on each menu choice to test it without needing to run the cash register.

When you are finished filling in all applicable fields:

• Click on the Close button at the top of the PC Settings Properties screen.
• The system will prompt you to save your changes.

Is where you set up and maintain your system’s POS servers, synchronize the POS server database, and import offline sales into the system.

Select Tools > Administration > POS Servers (Off-Line Servers) from the iMerchant Menu Bar.  

You are taken to the POS Find Server window.  

From here, you can either select an existing POS server, create a new one, update the POS server database, or import offline sales.

To Create a New POS Server

• Click the New POS Server button.  
• The POS Server Properties window appears.  
• There are some basic, informational fields that need to be filled out, and there is a Test Connection button to make sure the connection is functioning.  
• The POS Server Table Updates and POS Server Sales Upload are informational and will fill in automatically with the pertinent data.

To access the POS Server Properties page for an Existing POS Server

• Run a search and then select whichever POS server you want from the list that populates the grid at the bottom of the screen.  
• The POS Server Properties page will open for that server.

To Synchronize the POS Server Database with the latest information on file

• Select the POS server you want in the grid at the bottom of the screen
• Click on the Update POS Server button.

To Import Offline Sales from a POS Server into the system

• Select the desired POS server
• Click on the Import Off-Line Sales button.  
• The system will prompt you if you want to continue.  
• If you do, click OK

Error Log Viewer allows you to view the system error log, email the error log, or send the error log to Computac.  

Simply select Tools > Administration > Error Log Viewer from the main iMerchant menu, and choose whichever option you need.