Release Date: January 3rd, 2024

Since we didn’t want to interrupt your December selling season, this month’s release of MyPOS Connect is actually two months’ worth of product development. Here’s the list of new features and improvements.

• Added feature to prompt for shopping bag(s) at the end of the sale. To enable, first, setup your bag products, (i.e. Small Shopping Bag, Large Shopping Bag and optionally a “No Bag” product). Next,
  • Back Office –> Device Options –> Bag Prompt –> Bag Prompt Enabled.
  • Fill in the Product Codes of the bag products you setup in the Bag Prompt Product 1, Bag Prompt Product 2 and Bag Prompt Product 3 options (if you need more bags, contact our support team). Optionally set a Product Code for the “No Bag Product Code” option. Users will be prompted to choose bags right before they pay their transactions
• Added feature to support specifying quantity along with Product Code in Product Macros. To setup:
  • Create a product with product type “Program Function”, Target Function “PRODUCTMACRO”; Full Description (comma separated list of Product Codes with optional quantities). For example, “10200,5544,9876,9876” would sell Product 10200, followed by one of Product 5544 and then two of Product 9876. Specify quantities like this: 10200~1,5544~1,9876~2. If no “~” is specified, the Product Macro will continue to sell qty 1
• Added language support for System Security Options
• Added language support for table names listed in Refresh Local
• Added menu with drop down options to the Default Customer Type option in Company Options
• Added notes and status to Price Schedules search grid
• Added option to automatically apply remaining credit to on account transactions when remaining credit is less than the entire transaction. To enable:
  • Back Office –> System Setup –> Device Options –> Operational Settings –> Automatically apply available credit from On Account
• Added option to change the name of the “Manager” button in the till. Update in
  • Back Office –> System Setup –> Device Options –> Language -> Manager button label
• Added option to enable the copy product function to work from the store in an enterprise setup. The default option prevents this behavior. To enable,
  • Back Office –> System Setup –> Company Options –> Allow Stores in a Multi-store environment to copy a product
• Added option to require customer on refunds. To enable,
  • Back Office –> Device Options –> Customer –> Require customer on refund
• Added option to set the logged in user as the default current user in the receipt filter in the till. To enable,
  • Back Office –> Device Options -> Receipt Settings -> Receipt Lookup User Filter defaults to current user
• Added SQL LocalDB version information to “About Till” button in the till and “About” button in Back Office
• Added tax group filter for multi-selector window when adding products in Product Wizard
• Changed work order logic to prevent using reward points as deposits
• Fixed issue in Menu Setup when target page isn’t set and move/resize attempted
• Fixed issue where Price Band label is deleted and a customer with that Price Band is used in a transaction
• Fixed issue where PLU button was no longer focused after picking sales rep from sales rep button
• Fixed issue with incorrect calculation in the “Expected Value” printed on X/Z reports when Advanced Cash Up was enabled
• Improved Advance Cash Up screen to auto-focus textbox on first row
• Improved Advanced Cash Up warning messaging
• Improved Customer setup by changing the “Active” checkbox to be an “Active” button
• Improved grids in various back office areas including Products, Company, Customers, Promotions, Security Options, Tax Groups, User Groups
• Improved location of “Exit” button on login screen to prevent it from being accidentally clicked
• Klaviyo: Update to ensure all Customers, coming from MyPOS Connect, indicate their source as MyPOS Connect
• Klaviyo: Fixed issue, after recent release from Klaviyo, where customer could not have a blank phone number
• Shopify: Added new option to prevent sending Collections to Shopify. To setup, uncheck the following option:
  • Back Office –> System Setup –> Shopify Setup –> Send Collections to Shopify
• Shopify: Added new method to invoke Shopify sale prices using a Price Band as an alternative to using promotions. To setup, first, name your price level:
  • Back Office –> System Setup –> Company Options –> Pricing.
  • Next, assign the Price Band as the sale price, Back Office –> System Setup –> Shopify Setup –> “Shopify Sale Price Source”.
  • Finally, update Shopify items with sale prices in the specified price band. Notes: Prices of $0.00 in the price band will disable the price. Once sale prices are set, you must perform a Shopify Sync
• Till button: Added new till button to reprint Credit/Debit Card receipts. To deploy,
  • Back Office –> System Setup –> Device Options –> Till Button Settings –> Buttons – Sale Row ? –>  CARDRECEIPTS
• Till button: Added new till buttons to reprint last (custom) receipt/invoice. To deploy,
  • Back Office –> System Setup –> Device Options –> Till Button Settings –> Buttons – Sale Row ? –>
  • Note: button label can also be updated in Back Office –> System Setup –> Company Options –> Language –> Reprint Last Custom Receipt/Invoice label
• Till button: Added new till buttons to reprint last (standard) receipt. To deploy,
  • Back Office –> System Setup –> Device Options –> Till Button Settings –> Buttons – Sale Row ? –> REPRINTLAST
  • Note:  Button label can also be updated in Back Office –> System Setup –> Company Options –> Language –> Reprint Last Receipt label

If you have questions about any of these features, or you want to know how they might affect your system, call us at (877) 877-4767 and press “1” for Support; or email us at support@tricityretail.com.

Release Date: September 5th, 2023

The following list describes the new features of this release of MyPOS Connect – brought to you by our hard-working product development team at Tri-City Retails Systems.

• Added function to “Transfers In” to support import of new products from handheld/text import
• Added logic to label formats to remove $ or other currency symbol from price fields.
  • To remove currency symbol from currency add “FormatAsCurrency=0” to the text block for PRICE01 or any other price field
• Added new option for the “Refresh Local” to use “Bulk Copy” method to insert records to improve speed.
  • To setup go to MyPOS Connect Back Office –> System Setup –> Device Options –> System Settings (Folder) –> Refresh Local Use Bulk Copy
• Added new option to allow/disallow deleting of users. Default is “Not Allowed” (Users should only be deleted once you no longer want to see them on reports).
  • To setup go to MyPOS Connect Back Office –> Data Setup –> User Security Options –> Delete User
• Fixed issue with daily sync check to only be active when system is online
• Improved Advanced Cash Up feature to check individual payment amounts as well as overall totals when over/short threshold is setup, remember previously declared values and show over/short for each payment on the X/Z reads
• Improved logic in “Users” and “User Groups” to only show and allow edit of users or user groups with a lower security level than the logged in user.
• Improved memory usage relating to Microsoft’s RDLs (Report Definition Language) used for reports and custom receipts, invoices, workorders and quotes.
• Improved speed relating to syncing when going into the MyPOS Connect Back Office from the till
• Updated MyPOS Connect installation to install SQL LocalDB 2022 (upgraded from 2019)

If you have questions about any of these features, or you want to know how they might affect your system, call us at (877) 877-4767 and press “1” for Support; or email us at support@tricityretail.com.

Release Date: May 23rd, 2023

IMPORTANT:  .NET Framework 4.8 is now required for MyPOS Connect releases.  All computers running MyPOS Connect on any Windows version below Windows 10 21H2 may be required to manually install from this link https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2088631

Following are improvements made in this release of MyPOS Connect:

• Added new column to Price Schedule grid to show profit margin, based on weighted average cost and the newly entered price
• Added new feature to create price schedules from purchase order using products on the purchase order
  • To setup, go to Back Office –> Company Options –> Purchase Order Show Price Schedule Button; button will show on Purchase Order screen and the Purchase Order number will be the name as the new Price Schedule
  • For price schedules created from Purchase Orders, a profit margin will be shown for both the weighted average cost and for the supplier cost
• Added new logic to perform an additional check of customer points balance at subtotal if a points payment is already present
• Added new option for CRM Klaviyo integration for separate list id for SMS
  • To setup, go to Back Office –> System Setup –> Company Options –> System Settings –> Klaviyo Default List ID (SMS)
• Added new option to disable promotions on products that are on sale pricing
  • To setup, go to Back Office –> Company Options –> Pricing –> Apply promotions on sale prices
• Added new option to prevent zero value sales with no products
  • To setup, go to Back Office –> Company Options –> Operational Settings –>  Allow zero-value sales with no products
• Added new option to print for float declaration (default is to print)
  • To setup, go to Back Office –> System Setup –> Device Options –> Cash Handling –> Print Float Declaration
• Added new option to print for cash up slips (default is to print)
  • To setup, go to Back Office –> System Setup –> Device Options –> Open/Close Settings –>  Print Cash Up Slip
• Added new options to split the existing print button options into two options – one for immediately after payment and one for the Receipts area in the till:
  • Show Button Alternate Invoice Print on Finalize screen
  • Show Button Alternate Invoice Print on Receipts screen in Till
  • Show Button Invoice Print on Finalize screen
  • Show Button Invoice Print on Receipts screen in Till
  • Show Button Gift Receipt on Finalize screen
  • Show Button Gift Receipt on Receipts screen in Till
  • Show Button Receipt Print on Finalize screen
  • Show Button Receipt Print on Receipts screen in Till”
• Added new security options for allowing/disallowing import of products, customers or users.
  • To setup, go to Back Office –> Data Setup –> User Security Options –> (Search “Import”)
• Changed logic to include product notes when Refund All is used from Receipts screen in till
• Fixed issue in receipt lookup where local sales were not being looked up when in offline mode
• Fixed issue when Product was on a Promotion and on Sale, deduction was being calculated based on regular, not sale price
• Fixed issue with cash up print out where float value in header was incorrectly showing as 0 (float was correct on X and Z reports)
• Improved speed of loading of Device Options

If you have questions about any of these features, or you want to know how they might affect you, call us at (877) 877-4767 and press “1” for Support; or email us at support@tricityretail.com.

Release Date: February 8th, 2023

IMPORTANT:  .NET Framework 4.8 is now required for MyPOS Connect releases.  All computers running MyPOS Connect on any Windows version below Windows 10 21H2 may be required to manually install from this link https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2088631

Following are improvements made in this release of MyPOS Connect:

•  Added capture of MyPOS version, Windows version, RAM and Processor details for MyPOS Devices. Can be viewed on the Device Listing Report found under System Reports
• Added new option to control minimum password length.
  • To setup up go to MyPOS Back Office –> System Setup –> Company Options –> System Settings –> Password – Minimum Password Length
• Added new option to show “DUPLICATE” on reprinted receipts. This feature works with the built-in receipt.
  • To enable this feature, go to MyPOS Back Office –> System Setup –> Company Options –> Receipt Settings –> Show “DUPLICATE” on reprinted receipts.  For custom receipts (invoices), a new parameter @Reprint (BIT) can be added to indicate the original or reprinted version.
• Added new option to show external IP address from either the “About” button in the till or the “About” button in the back office (System Setup).
  • To enable this feature, go to MyPOS Back Office –> System Setup –> Company Options –> Operational Setting –> Enable External IP Lookup (ipify.org)
• Optimized X/Z reports to improve performance
• Updated Klaviyo (CRM) integration as per new requirements (URL Encoded JSON)

If you have questions about any of these features, or you want to know how they might affect you, call us at (877) 877-4767 and press “1” for Support; or email us at support@tricityretail.com.