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Café Industries

• Two new industries have been added, Café Item and Café Option.
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  • Café Item are the actual café products being sold.
  • Café Options are alterations or modifications to the café item being sold.

• The industries must be enabled before they can be used. To enable the industries select Tools, Option and check the industry that should be enabled.

Using and Associating Café items and Café options

Some café item products might need to be “built” or tailored for the specific order. This is done using the café option industry.

Café option products are associated with one or more Café item product via the Product Type field. When a Café item is added at POS, [i]merchant checks to see if there are any café options with the same product type. If there are café options the café option menu will appear so the cashier can select the various options. When the item is complete exit the café option menu or scan a new product.

 For example when ordering a bagel there may be choices such as toasted, buttered, cream cheese, or some sort of meat. Each of these items is considered a Café Option that is associated with the café item. Some of the items may have a cost, others will not. 

When a Café item does not have any Café options it is simply added to the sale.

Screen Designer

• The Product properties screen designer incudes designed for Café item and Café Option industries
• The default design for these new industries is the primary book industry screen.

POS Quick Keys

• Two new Quick key categories have been added, Menu and Query.
• The Menu category is an additional quick key menu for the store.
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  • Menus can be linked to the default quick key menu or used as an alternate starting quick key menu.
  • The keyboard keys assigned to the menu items apply to the active menu in POS. This allows the same letter to be used on different menus.
• The Query category is a saved product search advanced query.
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  • Only items for the store are included in the query.
  • A list of buttons with the matching products and price will be displayed similar to the standard quick key menu.
  • Keyboard keys are not active for the query menu items.
  • Care should be taken so that the query will return a reasonable number of items.

Register Properties

• The obsolete PC charge settings have been removed.
• A check box to enable an alternate quick key menu has been added.
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  • When checked, an alternate menu can be selected or added.
  • The menu must belong to the same store as the register.
• Another check box enables the quick key menu to appear when starting a sale.
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  • This prevents the cashier from needing press the quick key button when starting a sale.

PC Settings

• A café printer can be assigned to a PC.
• The printer is used to print the café order after the sale has been completed.
• The printer must be a windows printer.
• The café printer must be a windows printer.

POS

• The Quick Key menu can be enabled automatically at the start of a sale.
• An alternate Quick key menu can be assigned to a register.
• The keyboard keys follow the active quick key menu.
• The café options menu will appear automatically when a café item product is entered and the product has options.
• Café items with options will be added as separate line items to the sale.
• A Print Café Order option will appear at the end of a sale if the PC has a café printer assigned.
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  • The café order only prints café items and the associated café options.

Purchase Order properties

• The default product information area can be replaced with a user designed screen.
• The screen is designed using the “Purchase Order Product” selection on the Product Viewer menu of the screen designer.
• A check box to enable or disable the custom design has been to the Option settings purchasing tab.

Receiving Detail properties

• The default product information area can be replaced with a user designed screen.
• The screen is designed using the “Receiving Detail” selection on the Product Viewer menu of the screen designer.
• A check box to enable or disable the custom design has been to the Option settings purchasing tab.

Cost profit Update

• A Markup or Markdown is logged when the retail price on file differs from the price entered at POS.
• Markup/Markdowns will now only be logged if there is a retail price on the product.
• Previous versions made a markup entry on items that did not have a retail price. This caused the markup amount to be overstated. 

Quick Book OnLine

• An option to use account numbers when exporting has been added.
• This requires quick books to be coded to use account numbers.
• [i]merchant assumes the G/L account parameter description is formatted with the account number, a colon, and then the description.