New features
- Windcave Chip & Pin Integration
- ‘Pay at Table' feature introduced in collaboration with payment express
- Asia Pacific
- Thai tax - tax report, tax sequences on receipts and low-value currency support
Enhancements
- Back office
- Reports - Advanced Reports
- Covers reporting - changed analysis of covers data by service number rather than order number (for better accuracy when calculating spend and averages from split bills)
- Covers reporting - added further breakdown for wet/dry/service
- Revenue centre filter added to bespoke reports configuration
- PLU id column added to allow grouping of refunded items with the same PLU
- Progress bar added while the report is being compiled and exported to excel
- Service charges and service instructions filtered were not appropriate
- Speed issues and excess system resource (memory) usage addressed
- Support added for Microsoft Excel 2016
- Void reporting - filtered automatic removal of service charges
- Login
- Added keyboard & biometric login to back office
- Menu config
- Copy menu tab functionality added to the menu config screen
- Create and assign menu tab templates to multiple terminals
- Permanently delete functionality added to un-delete menu tab
- Place a menu tab button within a menu for more flexible navigation
- Modifier menus
- Double click to edit functionality added to the grid
- Modifier sub-menus
- 'Allow hold' & 'force pick' options added
- Double click to edit functionality added to the grid
- Price override option added to modifier PLU’s
- PLU setup
- 'Automatic price override' option added to PLU’s to prompt for price
- Double click to edit functionality added to the grid
- Editing a food PLU will update all system areas
- Editing PLU or menu related data will refresh on terminals upon login
- Package header option for the single pick of multiple ‘ingredient’ PLU’s
- Search filter added to PLU items screen
- Stock items
- Double click to edit functionality added to the grid
- Food stock item automatically created from 'cost (nett)' field on PLU
- 'Link PLU' feature added to quickly find and link drink stock items
- Table layouts
- Double click to edit functionality added to the grid
- User rights assignment
- Prevent user from creating or promoting above own level
- Introduced minimum / maximum pin length restrictions
- User right added for refunding payments
- User right added to allow room postings only
- User right added for the Bluerunner loyalty system
- User right added for premier spa 'day guest' interface
- User right added for table bill splitting
- Bar screen
- Assign to table
- Add an extra bill split while assigning an order to the table
- Number of covers prompt with pop-up number pad
- Advise of no postings allowed status for resident upon assignment
- Automatic price override prompt
- Independent of user access to price override
- Item countdown
- Manually set and display the number of PLU items remaining
- Misc items
- Allow creation of zero value misc items
- Filter inappropriate codes from the drop-down list via charge code setup
- Extended the pre-select quantity using number pad feature to misc items
- Prevent ‘blank’ description entries by using the space bar
- Mobile view
- 'Toggle' button introduced to switch between top and bottom halves of a menu (to support new ‘menu in menu’ feature)
- Service instructions
- Prevented non-zero values entered in price override and misc
- Voiding
- Single ‘error correct’ allowed per order for restricted users (system option)
- T9 search
- Results now display button description, not PLU description
- Gratuities
- Gratuities and manual service charges can now be applied to an empty bill
- Refund button added to gratuity screen for gratuity only refunds
- Individually select gratuities or service charges when removing gratuity
- Login screen
- Block ‘shutdown terminal’ option for mobile devices running full-screen view
- Custom external URL shortcut button (option)
- Online help (for support) shortcut button (option)
- Rezlynx mobile URL shortcut button (option)
- Orders on hold
- Improve orphaned current orders logic for terminal crash data auto-recovery
- Date, time and picked by operator columns added to the 'view' screen
- Payment screen
- 00, 10.00, 20.00 payment buttons - allow values to be user-definable
- Room transfer
- Added progress animation
- Search by booking ref - automatically strip prefix characters
- Search by booking ref - support for room picks (BK00123/2)
- Search by loyalty id added
- Search by surname added
- Auto service charge
- Toggle button to re-add after manual removal
- Picklist printing
- Table transfer notification print
- Receipt & bill printing
- Display all sales on tax receipt as nett value (system option)
- Display food & beverage group totals (system option)
- Hide discount value from receipts (system option)
- Language support for all bills & receipt titles
- Nett breakdown split between applicable tax rules
- Print number of covers on tax receipt (system option)
- Print guest name on tax receipt (system option)
- Print split name on the tax receipt
- Room transfer signature ticket suppressed if guest details already on the bill
- Room transfer final bill suppressed regardless of receipt status (option)
- Suppress guest name title if not available
- Suppress manager's name and email address titles if not available
- Reprint receipt
- Addressed speed and resource issues when searching for old receipts
- ‘No sale’ receipts are now available for reprinting
- Display service charges and gratuities separately (as per original receipt)
- Filter by operator & terminal added - (defaulted to current terminal)
- Refresh grid upon drop-down selection
- Tables
- Bill splitting
- 'Match covers to splits' prompt (if mandatory covers are enabled)
- A different resident can be assigned to each bill split
- Return to next unpaid bill split after completing payment
- Split by item - fixed column width issues for all screen resolutions
- Billing screen
- Improved header text format from e.g. '4/2 (split)' to 'table 4 (split 2)'
- Move items
- Move items between splits on the same table
- Option to create a new split on the destination table
- Table grid
- 'Double tap' an empty table to open a new bill
- 'Double tap' to edit guest name and covers
- 'Double tap' to select destination table when moving items
- 'Ordered up to' column added for improved service monitoring
- Show the table you are moving items from as highlighted on the grid
- Traffic light warning colours added to the 'last served' column
- X-Read
- Added on-screen display prior to printing
- Z-Read
- Blind cash declaration - force a blind cash declaration prior to completing a z read
- Z-Read
- Added message to the login screen to advise of unposted z read transactions
- System
- Auto-log-off after x seconds feature added (system option)
- User dialogues converted to a standard message box style
- Screen matrix button data storage converted from XML flat files to SQL database
- Optimisation of SQL database views to improve the use of system resources
Interfaces
Bar screen
- Bluerunner loyalty
- Bar screen cash button - added optional loyalty prompt
- Print customer's last 100 transactions (with screen preview)
- Progress animation added to Bluerunner loyalty lookup
- Top-up and pay with points balance transactions added to customer history
- Auto-undo discount / promotion / redemption by re-entering loyalty screen
- Definable loyalty top-up limits (minimum and maximum)
Bug Fixes
- Numerous bugs have been squashed
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