You can now have 3 decimal pricing on selected items, i.e. 3.579 for gasoline.

The program will transmit a sales file to your mall when you close the register for the day.

The manual has a detailed new section on setting up the program for use in a restaurant.

There is now a "reports" feature for ticket sales. Access through the "Ticket sales" feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program.

When setting up an event for ticket sales if you change the event header you will be asked if you want to save it as a new event or as the old event. The second option is handy if you made a mistake when typing the header.

When selecting an event if you press [F1] you will still list all events but now you will be at the date you entered instead of the beginning of the list.

Well folks the POS program has a major new feature that almost no one will use, but I had fun writing it. The program will now sell tickets to just about anything. This new feature is so big that I have bumped up the version number to 7.0. It is also way too big to describe in this email so if you are interested click on this link to the online user's guide. TICKETS

When the register is locked or closed the pole display will now display a message asking customers to find another register.

For those folks trying to run this program on a PDA, or other computer that does not have function keys, you can now simulate [F1] to [F10] by holding down [ALT] and then pressing [1] to [0]. For example [ALT] + [4] will simulate [F4]. [ALT] + [-] = [F11] and [ALT] + [=] = [F12]. But you cannot use the number keys on the numeric keypad for this.

From the main Cash Register menu you can now press [F8] to look up a stock number or [F9] to look up a gift card balance.

In "Reports" the option for "Gift cards" has been moved to the top section so you can make gift card reports if you are not using a stock table.

There is a new version of the APRINT program which is now APRINT4.EXE. If you have a USB printer, or use APRINT for your printing, you must use the new APRINT4.EXE version when using POS versions 6.40i or later.

From the "Scanner" feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program you can turn off having the computer beep when an item is scanned.

IMPORTANT! You can now select to have the "Timer" feature ON or OFF, the default is OFF. This means that if you are using the timers that you must go to the "Time sales" feature of the POSCONFG.EXE program to turn the timers ON. If the timer feature is OFF pressing [CTRL] + [TAB] during a sale will do nothing.

A unit tax is a sales tax that is charged per item. For example if you sell a bottle of wine there could be a 1.50 per bottle tax. When you are in the Tax column of the stock table you can press [F7] to enter a unit tax for that item. Then when you sell the item the unit tax will be charged for each one of that item you sell. Any item may have both a percentage tax and a unit tax.

When you are entering the description you can make an item “restricted” by pressing [F9]. At the right of the description an “=” sign will identify restricted items.

Then in a sale the first time you ring up a "restricted" item a window will pop up saying, "RESTRICTED MERCHANDISE CHECK ID, F1. ID PASS, F4. ID FAIL." If you press [F1] then you will be able to sell the item and the program will not ask you again if you sell another restricted item for this sale. If you press [F4] then you will not be able sell this item and you will be asked again if another restricted item is rung up.

The new Kitchen feature allows food orders from the registers to be displayed / printed in the kitchen.

GIFT CARDS! You can now sell gift cards and your customers can now use gift cards as a form of payment. Gift cards can also be used for "pre-paid" accounts and store credit.

There is also one additional form of payment, "User defined" meaning that you can name it anything you want a and use it for anything you want.

The "Reports" feature has a new report. "Profit" will compare the sales against the cost of the merchandise sold to produce those sales to tell you the profit you made.

The "Reports" feature has a new report, "Hourly report" will tell you your sales, transactions, and sales per transaction per hour for any day you choose. Or instead of an hour interval you may choose 30, 20, 15, 10, or 5 minute intervals.

You can now optionally print invoices when the receiving file is loaded into the stock table.

In a sale when you are asked for the "Quantity", you can now press [F12] to enter the line money total and the program will figure out how many pieces are needed to come up with that line total.

BUG FIXES
There was a problem when using "groups" when you have a sale partially rung and then press [F10] to sell a gift card or [CTRL] + [TAB] for timers, that when you returned to the sale the program would not restore the partial sale. This has been fixed in version 7.0.

In the KITCHEN program a [?] would often print on the screen for no reason and you would have to press [ENTER] to continue the program, real annoying. Also there was a problem with activating the cutter bar on the printer. If you did not use an employee list the kitchen program would only print the top line of an order on a printer. These problems have been fixed in version 7.0.

There were 3 bugs in the reports feature.
* A problem using automatic reports to make report "B. Employee's sales" It would not do it.
* A problem sometimes manually doing "B. Employee's sales" if you did another report first. It would not make a report.
* A problem in "B. Employee's sales" (are you spotting a trend here?) where the unit tax or tax from the right column from the shop sales would be listed for each employee.
These problems have been fixed in version 7.0.

In all versions that handle gift cards up to 6.40L. There were a few problems when using the multiple currencies feature. Reported by Rollerball. Fixed in version 6.40m

In versions 6.40g to 6.40k there is a bug in the history feature that causes the history file to grow until the program dies when it tries to load the history. Reported by Jovan. Fixed in version 6.40L

The "Tips" section of the closing report was not formatted correctly. Fixed in version 6.40k.

If you sold a gift card and used an old gift card to pay (transfering the balance from the old card to the new card) the balance was not subtracted from the old card. Reported by pdoucet. Fixed in version 6.40k.

The "History" reports would give you the data from the wrong months. Fixed in version 6.40k.

If you asked for a "History" report on one item it would give you the inventory on the item instead. Fixed in version 6.40k.

Some users would encounter an "OUT OF STRING SPACE" error after ringing more than 150 sales in a day. Reported by Jovan. Fixed in version 6.40J

Some users would encounter an "OUT OF STRING SPACE" error if the stock table was set over 8000 lines and they used the "Sales history" feature. Reported by Jovan. Fixed in version 6.40J

The UNIT TAX would not appear if you recalled a sale using the "5. Void" feature making a reprinted receipt or void inaccurate (assuming that it was supposed to have a UNIT TAX amount). Reported be Jovan. Fixed in version 6.40i

If you tried to sell more than one gift card in the same transaction the program would die. Fixed in version 6.40i

When using a USB port printer if you choose to "Pause between receipts" or "Choose to print a receipt" the program would have problems printing multiple receipts / gift cards. Fixed in version 6.40i

In versions 6.40f and 6.40g if you sold gift cards huge values would appear in the "Unit tax." Reported by Joesapi. Fixed in version 6.40h

In the "Timer" feature the program was not giving credit for the "First ## minutes free." Reported by PWEB. Fixed in version 6.40g.

If you could select to print "Start time receipts" or "Stop time receipts" they would not print to a USB printer when using APRINT3.EXE even if you selected to print. fixed in version 6.40g

There was a problem with printing gift cards on printers that connct to the computer by the parallel printer port. Fixed in version 640e.

If an item in a sale was "NO COUNT" in the inventory column of the stock table and you void out an incomplete sale, the other items in the sale were not returned to inventory. Reported by Kevin. Fixed in version 6.40e.

In recent versions after ringing up 50 or more sales in a single session the program could encounter an "Out of stack space" error and crash. Reported by Robert Nel. Fixed in version 6.40d

If you have multiple currencies and track employee tips the program did not display the correct change on the screen. Reported by Rollerball. Fixed in version 6.40b.

In version 6.40 the program would die when the 26th line of a sale would be rung up. Reported by Terry Gillman. Fixed in version 6.40a.

In version 6.40 when creating a new register file or upgrading to version 6.40, HUGE values could appear in the amounts for gift card and user defined sales totals. This would also cause the program to crash later when making a report "A. Sales Report" Fixed in version 6.40a

These bugs have been squished.

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