POS settings
Overview
You can change the POS settings to improve your experience. Once you have made any changes to your settings, make sure you sync your POS.
Administrator rights required
Open POS settings
Select the user menu (your username) and then select Settings.
Select POS and then POS Settings.
Make all required changes and select Save.
Register setup details
POS ID |
This is the unique code needed for your POS registers during setup. |
POS Key |
This is the password needed for your POS registers during setup. |
General
Close Register by Each Register Code |
Choose:
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Always Select Branch after Login |
Choose:
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Inactive Auto Logout |
Choose when an inactive user is logged out of the POS. |
Enable IP Printing |
Choose:
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Change Branch Password |
Add a password that users will need before they can change their branch. The will need to use this password every time they change their branch. |
Home Banner |
Click on Upload Image to add a home banner image for your POS login screen. This needs to be 1500 px wide and 800 px high. |
Maximum percentage discount for Standard users |
Add the maximum discount allowed for a POS transaction. By default this is 10%. Managers and Admin users are not affected by the discount limit. |
Default Delivery Stage for Sales Orders |
Choose how customers can collect items by default:
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Created Date of Sales Orders converted from Layby to be |
Choose if a Sales Order copies its created date from the:
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Created Date of Sales Orders converted from Quote to be |
Choose if a Sales Order (converted from a quote) copies its created date from the:
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Stock settings
Selling more stock than you have on hand? |
Choose how the POS sells products that are out of stock.
This setting only applies to products with Order or Limited Stock as the Order Type. |
Apply stock on hand selling restrictions to Kit products? |
Additional setting that appears if you change the Selling more stock than you have on hand? from No Restriction to another option. Choose if the same restriction in the above setting applies to Kit products as well. |
Auto Round-Up the following UOMs |
If you have Unit of Measures that have decimal places, you can round them up to the nearest whole number in the POS. Add the UOM option names separated by commas. This field is case sensitive and the UOM option name must be an exact match. |
Accounts
Invoice Options |
Choose how you want your POS transactions to be invoiced:
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Receipt print settings
Open browser Print dialogue automatically |
Choose if the browser should open the print screen for your receipt automatically. |
Close the print dialogue after printing |
Choose if the print screen will close after the receipt is printed. |
Print a receipt when 'Finish Order' is clicked |
Choose if the receipt will automatically print when Finish Order is clicked. |
Display Button to Print Receipt for the Last Sale |
Choose if you want to show a button that will print the previous sale made. |
Email receipts
Auto Email Receipt |
Choose if the receipt will be automatically emailed to the customer. |
From Email Address, Subject, and Bcc |
Add the from email address, subject, or Bcc for the emailed receipt. You can use placeholders for the subject, for example %%OrderRef%% will show the order's reference number. |
Gift voucher settings
Generate Gift Voucher Codes |
Choose how your gift vouchers will be issued:
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Gift Voucher Expiry |
Choose how long your gift vouchers are valid for. |
Store credit settings
Only allow managers to Credit/Refund |
Choose if you want only managers to issue credits and refunds. |
Store Credit Expiry |
Choose how long your store credit is valid for. |
Require customer to be selected for refund |
Choose if a customer has to be added to the POS transaction before issuing a refund. |
Treat Store Credits as |
Choose if Store Credits are:
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Withhold Tax when issuing Store Credit during Refund |
Additional setting that appears if you Treat Store Credits as Discounts (not Payments). Choose Yes to collect the right amount of sales tax when your Store Credits are treated as discounts. |
Auto loyalty reward settings
You can configure a wide range of Loyalty Rewards.
Ecommerce voucher sync
Enable Voucher Sync |
Cin7 Omni can update Gift Vouchers from the POS to your ecommerce channel and vice versa. Customers can then buy and redeem Gift Vouchers in-store and online. This will require more setup in your ecommerce channel (for example, setting up syncing in Shopify). Choose:
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Product grid settings
These settings change how you view products in POS.
Show Alternative Units of Measures |
Choose if you want to hide or show the Alternative Units of Measures for products. |
Show Images |
Choose if you want to hide or show product images. |
Show Addons |
Choose if you want to hide or show Bill of Materials (BOM) components in POS. When shown, you can use and make BOMs while selling the item. |
Distribution branch
Enable Selection of Distribution Branch |
Choose:
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Collect in Store and Ship in Store
Use Collect in Store and Ship in Store to dispatch sales orders from other branches via POS.
Once you’ve enabled Collect in Store and Ship in Store, you’ll see the Ship in Store feature in the navigation of POS. There you’ll see a list of sales orders from other branches with the current POS branch as the selected Distribution Branch, which you can then dispatch via WMS.
To enable this feature for all POS branches, set Collect in Store and Ship in Store to Yes - To All Store. To enable this feature for selected POS branches, set Collect in Store and Ship in Store to Yes - To Selected Stores and then select which branches.