v2.19 – Monday 14th July 2014
- Waste stock ingredients and stock products from the EPoS units.
- Item bar code scanning for rapid basket loading (supermarket style).
- Added basket review pane to add-to-tab dialogue.
- Optionally highlight tabs without the number of covers set.
- Prevent brute force PIN detection.
- More traditional discounting techniques.
- Fixed issue where the buttons in the admin menu were misaligned on iPads.
v2.18 – Monday 2nd June 2014
- Ingenico PDQ integration.
- When paying off orders or tabs or taking part payments and have the amount entered on the EPoS automatically sent to the PDQ handset.
- When refunding card payments using Admin->Log Special Order the amount is automatically sent to the PDQ handset.
- Added a warning when a card amount is entered that is over 2x the bill amount to guard against large accidental overpayments.
- Senior users can re-open settled tabs.
- Simplified the Manage Part Payments interface.
- Added a new lock screen. The EPoS will lock when a transaction is in progress instead of logging the user out if there is no activity on the EPoS this means that transactions that take a long time won’t be interrupted but still maintains security in case the user is called away from the till during a transaction.
- Resolved an issue where the No Sale button would disappear after download data was run on another till.
- Resolved a long-standing issue where if a user without the permission “AllowTakingOrders” logged into a till, the till would remain stuck in a state which meant no other users could take orders either until the EPoS software was restarted.
- Fixed issue in the Special Orders this session view.
- Revised permissions model to ensure people who can take orders and manage tabs can view past orders and tabs in the admin section.
- Added warning to lock screen when opening tasks are not complete for the day.
- Enhanced the TillX Print drop down to support more than 10 tills at once.
v2.17 – Monday 19th May 2014
- Support for multiple pricing with automatic changeover.
v2.16 – Thursday 8th May 2014
- Support for cash drawer direct connection to COM port.
- Increased accuracy (again) on overall Expected Tax figure.
- Improved tab part pay process.
- Added till identifier to login screen.
- Card tip to cash tip optional converter.
- Reprint work dockets automatically when a tab is renamed.
- Reprint work dockets automatically when an order is moved.
- Allow manual requests to reprint work dockets.
v2.15 – Monday 7th April 2014
- QR code offline Z report upload.
- Increased accuracy on overall Expected Tax figure.
- Fixed a bug where the cash drawer wouldn’t always open.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes hid discount names on iPads.
v2.14 – Monday 24th March 2014
- Kitchen instructions.
- Cloakroom ticket functionality.
- Add the ability to send kitchen requests for dishes in alternate categories such as ordering a starter as a main course.
- Ability to choose the destination printer for iPad receipt prints.
- Added new user permission to restrict the ability to set/unset service charge on tabs.
- Receipt improvements.
- Only show the first letter of waiting staff’s surname.
- Added configuration to suppress post cash-off receipts.
- Till X and User X report improvements.
- Added “Total Payments” to User X.
- Added “Average Spend Per Head” in the Tabs section.
- Added “Tabs Without Covers Set” line.
- Ensure till tab lists are sorted numerically and alphabetically to stop tabs being ordered 1, 11, 2, 23 for example.
- Fixed an issue where a tab could get stuck in as unpaid despite no payment being due.
v2.13 – Monday 10th February 2014
- Behind the scenes transfer of Z report data to Cloud – no more copying sales figures into Cloud!
- Eat in, Takeout and Delivery options, with separate pricing and tax (VAT) options for each.
- Gross and net tax figures on the Till reports.
- Instant Till Z data upload to Cloud.
- Till Journal – allows you to view previous Till Z reports.
- Tab part payment. @AB
- Increased the sensitivity of the close button on popup windows.
- New refund process (under log special order) to improve cash/card totals.
- Auto-reload upon software update and sold out changes.
- Improvements to work docket printing reliability.
- Ability to re-print orders from the current session.
- Automatic database health check and repair.
v2.12 – Monday 13th January 2014
- Fixed discount support. @AB
- Real time transaction reporting to KOBAS Cloud.
- New Manage Tabs permission @AB @SP
- Users with the Manage Tabs permission have a new option to change a tab’s owner via a select box in the top right of the tab view.
- Users without Manage Tabs permission cannot access other peoples tabs. They can’t view them, add to them or anything. They show up as greyed out buttons in the tab list.
- Restrictions on split and merge tabs. @AB
- Ability to mark items as Sold Out on a per venue basis.
- In the tabs list, tabs belonging to the logged in user are marked with a star and moved to the start of the list.
- Overpayment by card tab gratuity management.
- Significant performance increase via pre-compiled Handlebars templates.
v2.11 – Monday 9th December 2013
- Permit overpayment by card as gratuity. Separate card and cash gratuity on the Till Z.
- By default receipts are now no longer printed when a tab is settled. We can re-enable per venue upon request.
- Fixed an issue where a printer failure would jam the print queue preventing any future prints from happening.
- When a tab is printed, ensure the person requesting the print becomes the tab owner.
- When prompted to select item configuration options it is now possible to cancel at any time.
- Show item configuration choices on orders on tabs.
v2.10 – Monday 18th November 2013
- Scan-able customer loyalty voucher support. @AB
- Support types other than food/wet. @SR
- Discounts can now be configured to apply automatically.
- Reduced line spacing on kitchen dockets from 5mm to 3mm. @RM
- Printable User X reports.
- Significant improvement to initial load and menu refresh times. View file builds 5 times faster. thb
- Fixed a bug where voided or wasted items were being shown on a bill (though the total was correct). Also fixed a bug where comp’d orders weren’t shown on the bill.
- Deprecated session promo/voucher viewer; now available in Cloud.
- Improved layout for tabs view.
v2.9 – Monday 4th November
- Quantity item accelerator. @AB
- Double-click item removal. @AB
- Orders left in the basket when a team member logs off are automatically resumed when they next log on, even if they are on a different till/iPad. @SP @AB
- Introduce X report and per staff member report @SP, @AB
- Combine identical items with quantity multiplier on receipts.
- Set and store the number of covers on a tab and display covers in Z-report.
- Display bill split per person when number of covers is known.
- Java 7 Update 45 support.
- Automatically reduce font size on large (> 100 items) receipts.
- Automatically page receipt prints > 64kB.
- Option to merge orders on the tab when the bill is printed.
- Fixed a bug which meant that configuration options on direct orders (not via a tab) weren’t shown on receipts.
- Fixed a rare case where double tapping a tab name when adding items to a tab could add items twice.
- Fixed a bug where the keyboard would show over the top of some popups.
v2.8 – Monday 14th October 2013
- Fixed a bug where the last digit of the VAT number wasn’t being printed correctly on receipts.
- Till Z update:
- Gratuity no longer included in Till Z total.
- APC UPS support.
- Voucher payments deducted from total, wet and dry sales figures.
- Printed per till Z report fixed to show till specific wet and food sales figure.
- Java 7 Update 40 support.
v2.7 – Monday 7th October 2013
- Support for any gratuity level and multiple gratuity levels.
- Ability to suppress work dockets for particular till and printer combinations.
- Ability to send a work docket to multiple printers.
- Significantly improved low-wifi strength resilience.
- Small tweaks to tab screen layout.
- Performance improvements when manipulating tabs.
- Percent discount now also includes configuration options.
v2.6 – Monday 23rd September 2013
- Implemented user access controls to restrict access to privileged functionality.
- Allow eligible promotions items to be set in Cloud.
- New, improved look and feel of EPoS.
- New admin menu.
- New Till Z screen.
- New session management screen.
- IOS 7 compatibility fixes.
- Confirmation step added when cashing off a basket.
v2.5 – Monday 9th September 2013
- Add voucher as a payment type alongside Cash and Card in the “Take Payment” dialogues.
- Apply percentage discounts to line items excluding those already subject to a promotion.
- Remove fixed discounts – attribute as voucher spend instead.
- Any x for y promotions support.
- Specific x for y promotions support.
- Stability update for the Java USB printer driver applet.
- Corrected an error whereby a fixed discount applied to a tab could make the tab balance negative.
- Ensure tabs are marked as not printed if gratuity state is changed.
- Significantly reduced the time taken to apply or remove a discount to a large tab.
- Significantly reduced tab chooser load time when there are a lot of open tabs.
- Fixed a bug that caused closing dialogues to be slow.
- Suppressed JS console log in production environments to improve performance.
- Fixed a bug where some voided / complementary items were still being charged for.
v2.4 – Tuesday 27th August 2013
- Promotions support:
- Fixed discounts e.g. £10 off order or tab.
- Percentage discounts e.g. 25% off order or tab.
- Any n items for fixed amount e.g. Any 3 selected bottles of beer for £10.
- Specific n items for fixed amount e.g. Any 2 of the same main course for £12.
- Promotion administration on open tabs
- Till Z amended to detail promotional discount.
- Improved receipt promotions print-out support including:
- Add config items that have a cost to the printout.
- Added item and order level discounts at order level (rather than tab level) summary.
- If a tab has adjustments (promo / gratuity), show a sub-total then an adjustments section before the Total.
- Significant performance improvements.
- Added scroll bars to iPad scrollable elements.
- Fixed layout of payment buttons on iPad.
- Prevent login from PIN 0.
- Improved Till Z view when viewing particularly long reports.
- Removed the reload till option from log in screen.
- Suppress print poller on non-registered tills.
- Fixed bug where rounding error meant that amount paid didn’t correctly add up to order total in payment screen.
- Removed CSS transition effect on initial page load to reduce initial load burden.
- Delayed launch of the printer poller iframe to reduce initial load burden.
- Performance improvements.
- Extending shift inserts break between old clock out and extension point.
v2.3 – Friday 9th August 2013
- Splitting tabs – Added the ability to move an order from one tab to another.
- Merging tabs – Added the ability to combine two tabs.
- Added automatic updates on all devices following a download data.
- Show change on receipt.
- Added a display of the staff name to tab orders.
- Minor changes to the item options screen.
- Visual tweaks to the order view.
- Added Kobas logo to log in screen.
- Added Reload till option to log in screen.
- Improved speed of switching between dialogs.
- Small copy changes to both receipts and EPoS.
- Changed iPad icon.
- Fixed an issue where the iPad keyboard didn’t go away when closing a pop up.
- Fixed an issue where an order in progress would get cleared on login.
- Fixed issue where you couldn’t paginate through tabs when merging.
- Fixed an issue where the till could hang when an error occurred during log out.
v2.2 – Thursday 1st August 2013
- Allowed staff rota’d for multiple shifts to extend shifts, or start another shift.
- Added clear button to pin pad.
- All new Clock In, Clock Out, and Break support.
- Admin section UI improvement.
v2.1 – Monday 29th July 2013
- All new tabs section. Complete UX refresh and architecture overhaul.
- Comp/Void/Waste functionality.
- Order item administration – previously only available per complete order.
- Poll printing all tab/receipt prints – this means tabs can be printed from iPads.
- All new split payment calculator available for orders and tabs.
- Gratuity addition to bill and Till Z.
- Moved clock in/out from the Admin section so it is accessible on iPad.
- Highlighting printed tabs so we know which tabs are likely to be vacated next.
- Simplification of the tab/receipt print outs.
- Various printing optimisations.
- Wet/food sales split.
v2.0 “Responsive” – Tuesday 9th July 2013
- Scalable view – works on iPad Mini, iPad, iPad retina, tills etc, all the way up to 1080p.
- Network and poll printing support.
- Item modifiers.
- Branded basket with customisable message.
- All new architecture – JSON, AJAX, templating etc.