UPDATE 4 – October 6, 2012
- Member Query – Selecting members with “payments set to come due” now works correctly.
- The CoPOS Main Menu and Menu 9.1 (System Constants) are much easier to read.
- Special Orders – Prepaid deposit refunds are accounted for more straightforwardly.
- Various – Warns users that try to tender monies on closed registers that, “the amounts will not show on the x-tapes or the balancing tools. This will create a discrepancy between these and the sales recap and z-tapes.”
- Menu 8.7 – Process Electronic Invoices – SRP calculation via margin will use, from highest to lowest priority: specific item margin, default category margin, default department margin.
- Discounts by department are calculated correctly when System Constant #36 is enabled.
UPDATE 3 – September 25, 2012
- Support for October’s Healthy Advantage Sales Flyer
- Importing items from a spreadsheet has been made more robust.
- Labels – Better alignment for the new, dual-perforated repack labels.
- Queries – The number of items or members is listed when using a set of items from a query.
- New Menu – 3.33 – Department Discounts – View discounts by department and perecentage of net sales.
- Menu 1.1 – Record a Sale
- Special order and gift card customers are more easily searched at the register using “+” character. For example, “+son” will display Larson, Johnson, Carlson.
- Tendering “Other” payments calculates correctly when a gift card is exhausted.
- Fixed “.S” to recall a sale placed on hold.
- Menu 3.1 – Sales Recap Report – Different tiered tax structures are displayed properly.
- Menu 3.11 – Print Mailing Labels – Query correctly loads member list for printing.
- Menu 3.15 – Improved ingredient editor.
- Menu 4.4
- Member Query – Fixed many issues in the new and improved member query.
- Editing Multiple Items – Use the standard item spreadsheet to select a set of items.
- Export/Import – The import is now compatible with the exported file.
- Menu 7 – Membership – Corrected several options’ name and number for consistency.
- Menu 7.1 – Post Member Payment – Payments posted as credit are now treated as equity depending on user choice.
- Menu 8.8.8 – Process Price Change Files – Improved the speed of processing UNFI BID files.
- Menu 10.1.15 – Employees/Members Not Clocked Out – Fixed numerous issues with reporting manually punches.
UPDATE 2 – August 24, 2012
- Label Printing – Corrects a problem when printing small shelf tags.
UPDATE 1 – August 22, 2012
- Electronic Invoices – Tree of Life invoices can be processed electronically. Setup in Menu 4.8, and then use Menu 8.7 to process.
- Item Ingredients – Added ability to edit ingredients when adding an item and also when printing a repack label using Menu 3.15. When using the latter, type “*i” in the Sell By or Weight field to launch the ingredient editor.
- Label Printing
- 3844Z printer, rotated 90-degrees, is more accurately aligned.
- Type “#labels” or “#tags” at the main menu to display the number of labels and tags printed by each department per month.
- Mailing labels are only printed for members who have their mailing status set to yes.
- Membership – Type “fix dues” at the main menu to recalculate the amount owed on dues/equity based on detailed dues/equity payment information.
- Screen Contents – On-screen choice boxes, checklists and menus can be printed using CTRL-P.
- Special Orders – Payments are only accepted if the current register has an open session.
- Menu 1.1 – Record a Sale
- When paying by check, the prompt for the check number can be canceled. The user is returned to the payment field.
- Pressing PAGE-UP/DOWN in the QTY field no longer defaults to zero quantity.
- Menu 3.1 – Sales Recap Report
- Now prompts for a new date range before quitting.
- When a multi-day period is entered, the average number of sales per day is displayed.
- Menu 3.15 – Bulk Repack Labels – Print Julian sell/freeze-by date by enabling System Constant #168. Format is YYDDD where YY is the current year and DDD is the number of days since January 1st. This is useful for “encoding” the sell/freeze-by date in a format less recognizable by savvy shoppers.
- Menu 4.1 – Item Database
- Edit – Secondary suppliers can be added without error.
- Add – Pressing F11 will automatically fill in the item details from the “last viewed” item.
- Menu 6.12 – Inventory Detail – Inventory detail is automatically purged after 3 years.
- Menu 7.8 – Overdue Members – Exported file correctly displays totals for equity and payments.
- Menu 7.11 – Member Sales by Volume – Aligned column headers and column data in file export.
- Menu 8.1 – Enter Item Prices – Now works with the standard item file exported via Menu 4.1 – Item Database.
- Menu 8.20 – Print One Shelf Tag – Printing one shelf tag is now more reliable.
FEATURES
- CoPOS now tracks monthly member purchases by department. CoPOS will run a one-time program to calculate past sales history. This program will take up to 10 minutes to run.
- Labels – Preliminary support for our new, dual-perforation, larger, expanded-ingredient repack label. Each item in the CoPOS database supports the original expanded ingredient list (compatible with small/large repack labels) and an expanded ingredient list (compatible with the dual-perf labels). Contact CoPOS Support at 1.855.77.CoPOS to request a free sample.
- Using only the ENTER key to read the scale weight has been disabled. Use “+” and ENTER instead. Some users reported that being able to type ENTER would cause cashiers to get ahead of CoPOS and cause errors. This feature may be reintroduced as a System Constant. Your feedback is always appreciated.
- CoSAT – Price check allows checking multiple items
- Main Menu – Typing “.v” displays the CoPOS version. This software update adds an extra keystroke that removes the version information from the screen.
- Menu 1.4.4 – Inquire on a Specific Gift Card – Use a date range to view a limited amount of transactions on a gift card
- Menu 9.1 – The menu for “Other Miscellaneous System Constants” has been renamed to “Numbered System Constants.”
- Menu 9.1 – Specify the starting number used to generate member numbers
FIXES
- Colors – Some border colors have been changed to avoid blending with the button color
- Coupons – Adding a coupon in Record a Sale via F8 works from any field (Qty, Price, etc.). Removing a coupon is more straightforward and less confusing.
- Discounts – Ineligible discount items (beer, newspaper, etc.) are properly discounted (read: not discounted) when a discount is given on a sale to non-members
- Employee Hours – Time validation has been improved
- File Exports – Choosing [Back] when exporting a file generates a correct filename
- File Exports – Some users experienced instability when exporting SPINs data. A fix is included in this software update. Please report further issues with SPINs exports to CoPOS Support.
- IOU Limits – Customers are limited to 31 open IOUs. This maximum has always existed and can not be changed. When this maximum is reached, the open IOUs are displayed on-screen. This software update fixes a bug where the limit was displaying wrongly for some users.
- Membership – New members with no equity/dues may be signed up at the register without an additional purchase
- Sales and Promotions – When sale dates overlap the last CAP sale takes precedence
- Tax – Sales tax on EBT items is calculated correctly (via System Constant #42)
- Menu 1.1 – Record a Sale – When entering payment all quantities are checked for zero values. The user is prompted to specify a quantity. This is an infrequent and rare issue. Please contact CoPOS Support if you can replicate this behavior.
- Menu 1.8 – Sales Query – A date range before the purge date is displayed on screen
- Menu 1.26 – Set Up Bag Charge/Credit Amounts – Fixed a minor user interface bug
- Menu 2.7 – Enter IOU Payments/Credits – Paycheck subtractions are calculated in the Sales Recap Report
- Menu 4.1 – Item Edit – Normal price can not be lower than a sale price
- Menu 4.1 – Item Query – Searching for multiple green fields works as expected
- Menu 5.15 – Special Order Sales By Item – Open department rings (using item 1 through 17) are counted
- Menu 6.7 – Receive a Shipment – On-screen prompts clearly indicate if the shipment was saved
- Menu 7.2 – Inactivate Members/Refund Equity – Refunds are calculated on the Sales Recap Report
- Menu 7.12 – New Member Signups – Members with no join date are counted in the member total
- Menu 7.21 – Member Patronage – Overdue members are always included when patronage is accrued at the time of sale (via System Constant #77)
- Menu 10.6.2 – Export Sales Recap Figures – Some users experienced instability when exporting sales recap figures. A fix is included in this software update. Please report further issues with exporting sales recap figures to CoPOS Support.
MINOR
- CoSAT – Price check allows checking multiple items
- Main Menu – Typing “.v” displays the CoPOS version. This software update adds an extra keystroke that removes the version information from the screen.
- Menu – 9.1 – The menu for “Other Miscellaneous System Constants” has been renamed to “Numbered System Constants”
- Menus 3.21 and 3.20 now reflect the correct numbering in their respective reports and exports