Additional Parameters
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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.
Ask according to the Price Level / Ask No. of People: You will be able to select if it is mandatory to enter the number of diners before starting each sale.
User required: You will be able to select if it is mandatory to identify a User before starting each sale.
Table required: You will be able to select if it is mandatory to select a Table, in order 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 check mark. Those with Stock equal to zero or below are shown with a red check mark.
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 out.
Default Price level: You can set here the Selling Price level to be used for receipts without a table.
Default sales area: You can set here the zone 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 receipts: 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 Items buttons in the sales screen, is determined by the columns we want to display.
Quick Tender: By default, all sales that are made using the Quick Tender 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 Window: You can select whether you want the amount to be charged and the change to be returned to be displayed on the screen when a charge is made.
Remove key: You can determine what to do when removing the Dallas/iButton key on the sales screen: Park the current receipt, Tender the current receipt.
Assign code or name: You can select whether you want to assign a code or name to the ticket at the time of charging.
Rename receipt: You can define how you want to name the code or name the ticket at the time of charging.
Tender at this terminal: You can select whether to allow charging on this terminal.
Request price level: You can select whether you want to be prompted for price level every time a new receipt is started.
Change table status: You can define the time, in seconds, in which an inactive open table is automatically switched to pending.
Request Service: You will be able to select if it is mandatory to request the type of service each time a new receipt is made.
Default Service type: You can set here the Service that will be used by default for the facility's receipts.
Product Display Type: You can define the type of display (Rectangular or Circular), of the products, that you want on the sales screen.
Sound on/off: A sound is emitted when an item is clicked on in the sales screen.
Generate rectifying ticket: You can select when you want to generate a rectifying ticket when making a Credit note.
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 the preparation areas active.
Print in Kitchen without Tables: If you have preparation areas, activating this option will print the items in the preparation areas even if you have not selected a table.
Receipt Language: You can select to use the software 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 receipts. Enabling this option will print them.
Time on receipt: You can activate, whether or not to print the time on the receipts.
Gratuities on Proforma: If you activate the automatic calculation of tips, by activating this option, the tips will be printed on the Proforma Invoices.
Kitchen Order on receipt: The system has a consecutive order number that is printed on the Kitchen Printers. If you want that order number to be printed on the receipt as well, you must activate this option.
Order code: You can select whether you want to print the complete kitchen order code or just the last two digits.
Number of people in kitchen: If you activate this option, the number of diners entered on the sales receipt will be printed on the kitchen receipts.
Document to print: You can select on which documents you want to print a bar-code at the bottom of the ticket, including the document number and the amount to charge.
Second printer: 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 print in the kitchen.
Print Price level: You can select on which documents you want to print the name of the price level applied to the receipt.
Print Tax information: You can select on which documents you want the tax information to be printed.
Inverted printing: You can select if you want to print on a kitchen printer, the supplements and modifiers on inverted text (black background and white font).
Print zone on proforma: You select whether you want to activate the printing of a zone on 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 paid receipts: You can define whether you want to send to the kitchen only the orders that have been fully paid or all receipts.
Bar-code with receipt identifier: You can select on which documents you want to print the bar-codes with the receipt identifier.
Daily cash register closing: Activate this option if you want the kitchen order counter to be reset to 1 each time the daily cash closing is performed.
Document with gratuity: You can select on which documents an area will be printed where the customer can write the tip amount manually.
Receipt for guest: Activate this option if you want to print a receipt for each diner.
Ticket format: You can select the format in which you want the ticket to be previewed on screen: in text mode or in graphic mode.
Enter / Exit mode: 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 default 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: 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 pending receipts parked on tables have been collected.
Z Report with cash closing: If this option is enabled, the Z Report can be automatically closed even if the cash report 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.
Automatic E-Mail: If you activate this option, when the Z-report is made automatically it will also be sent by e-mail.
E-mail address: Here you can enter the e-mail address to which you want to send the Z-report. You can enter several addresses if you separate them by the semicolon symbol.
Send receipt to customer: You can define if you want to email the collected receipts to the customer.
Product Rows: The size of the Items buttons on the purchase screen is determined by the rows we want to display.
Product Columns: The size of the Items buttons in the shopping screen is determined by 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 Small (recommended for screens larger than 10") and Big (recommended for screens 10" and smaller).
