Additional Parameters
Setup - Miscellaneous Setup
The application has a number of additional parameters that will allow to adapt the use of the application to the needs of the business or even of this particular terminal. Here you will find an explanation of all the available options.
Sales
Order Diners: You will be able to select if it is mandatory to enter the number of diners before starting each sale.
Ask User: You can select if it is mandatory to identify a User before starting each sale.
Force Table: You will be able to select if it is obligatory to select a Table, to be able to make a sale.
Automatic Item Sale: If you enter an Item here, it will be automatically sold as many times as the number of Diners you have entered on the receipt. For example, if you enter four diners, you can have four servings of bread sold automatically.
Show Minimum Stock: All Items with Stock Below Minimum are shown on the sales screen with a yellow checkmark. Those with Stock equal to zero or below are shown with a red check mark.
Quick Collect: By default, all sales made using the Quick Collect key are recorded as Cash sales. You can select to register them as Credit Card sales.
Keypad on Sales Screen: You can have the numeric keypad displayed on the sales screen by default or have it minimized.
Charge at this terminal: You may select whether to allow charging at this terminal.
Request price level: You can select whether you want to be asked for price level each time a new receipt is initiated.
Ask for Service: You can select whether it is mandatory to ask for the type of service each time a new receipt is made.
Default Service: You can set here the default Service to be used for receipts.
Sales Continued
Block receipts between Users: You can activate this option, so that when a User initiates a receipt, no other User can access it until it is cashed.
Default Price Level: You can set here the Sales Price Level to be used for receipts without a table.
Default Area: You can set here the Consumer Area that will be displayed by default when accessing the Consumer Areas screen.
Images on Buttons: You can set here if you want product images to be displayed on the sales screen, for those that have an image selected. In terminals that have a low CPU speed it is recommended that the images are not displayed.
Images on receipt: You can set to display the images of the Items in the receipt preview of the sales screen. Disabling this option will increase the processing speed.
Product Rows: The size of the Item buttons on the sales screen, is determined by the rows we want to display.
Product Columns: The size of the Item buttons on the sales screen, is determined by the columns we want to display.
Collection window: You can select whether you want the amount to be collected and the change to be returned to be shown on the screen when a collection is made.
Remove key: You can determine what to do when removing the Dallas/iButton key on sales screen: Park the current receipt, Collect the current receipt.
Assign code or name: You can select whether you want to assign a code or name to the receipt at the time of cashing it.
Name receipt: You can define how you want to name the code or name the receipt at the time of collection.
Table status change: You can define the time in seconds, in which an inactive open table automatically becomes pending.
Product display type: You can define the type of display (Rectangular or Circular) of the products that you want in the sales screen.
Printing
Consolidate lines: You can activate this option if you want all the same items to be grouped in the same line. This option is not recommended if you have active Preparation Areas.
Print in Kitchen without Tables: If you have Production Groups, enabling this option will print the Items in the Production Groups, even if you have not selected a Table.
Receipt Language: You can select to use the application in the language of your choice, but here you must set the language in which the receipts will be printed, which must be an official language of the country.
Print Items with Zero Price: By default, Items that have a sales price equal to zero are not printed on the receipt. Enabling this option will print them.
Time on Receipt: You can activate, whether or not to print the time on receipts.
Tips on Proforma: If you activate the automatic calculation of tips, by activating this option, the tips will be printed on the Proforma Bills.
Kitchen Order on Receipts: The system has a consecutive order number that is printed on the Kitchen Printers. If you want this order number to be printed on the receipt as well, you must activate this option.
Number of Diners in Kitchen: If you enable this option, the number of diners entered on the sales receipt will be printed on the kitchen receipts.
Order Code: You can select whether you want to print the complete kitchen order code, or only the last two digits.
Document to print: You can select on which documents you want a bar code to be printed at the bottom of the receipt, including the document number and the amount to be charged.
Second printout: You can select whether you want to add a second printer to FACTORYPOS for printing fiscal documents such as receipts and Z-Reports.
Kitchen printing: You can select how you want to perform kitchen printing.
Price Level name: You can select on which documents you want to print the name of the price level applied to the receipt.
Tax summary: You can select on which documents you want the tax summary to be printed.
Inverted text: You can select whether you want to print in the kitchen, supplements and modifiers with inverted text (black background and white font).
Customer data: You can select if you want to activate an area in the proforma document for the customer to fill in his data.
Bar code format: You can select in which format you want to print the bar codes on the sales documents.
Print receipts: You can define whether you want to print in kitchen, only the receipts that have been cashed, or all receipts.
Bar code with receipt identifier: You can select on which documents you want to print the bar codes with the receipt code.
Daily cash closing: Activate this option if you want the kitchen order counter to be reset to 1 every time the daily cash closing is performed.
Document with tip area: You can select on which documents an area will be printed where the customer can write the tip amount manually.
Receipt format: You can select the format in which you want the receipt to be pre-displayed on the screen: in text mode or in graphic mode.
Reports/Enter-Exit
Enter / Exit: If you enable this option, the system will store the check in and check out times of the Users and print them in the X and Z Reports.
Z Report at preset time: By default, the system statistics start and end at 0:00. If your business closes after midnight, enabling this option will allow you to set the start and end time of the daily sales statistics.
Automatic Z Report closing: If this option is activated (recommended), when the preset time is reached or exceeded, the Z report of the day will be made automatically.
Z Report closing time: Here you can set the time at which the Z Report will be made.
Z Report with pending receipts: If you activate this option, the Z Report will not be generated until all outstanding receipts parked on tables are collected.
Z Report with cash closing: If this option is enabled, the Z Report can be closed automatically, even if the daily cash has not been closed.
Training in Z Report: If you activate this option, in case of using Training Type Users, their sales will also appear in the Z Report together with those of normal type Users.
Send e-mail
Automatic e-mail: If you activate this option, an email will automatically be sent each time the Z report is closed.
E-mail address: Here you can enter the e-mail address of the recipients of the Z report. You can enter several addresses if you separate them by the semicolon symbol.
Send tendered receipts to customer: You can define whether you want to send the tendered receipts to the customer by e-mail. If the receipt doesn’t have a linked customer, then an email address will be requested.
Documents
Product Rows: The size of the Item buttons on the shopping screen, is determined by the rows we want to display.
Product Columns: The size of the Items buttons in the shopping screen, is determined based on the columns we want to display.
Images on Buttons: Item images can be displayed on the buttons of the shopping screen or just the description text. For terminals with slow CPUs, it is recommended not to display the images.
Numeric keypad size: You can select the size you want the numeric keypad to be, between Normal (recommended for screens larger than 10") and Big (recommended for screens 10" and smaller).
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