ROBOTILL News and Updates

  This training video shows how to set up products with sub items - also know as compound items. It uses some interesting examples like draught beer. The video uses version 9.03 of the ROBOTILL Point of Sale System .

  This training video will show you how to create supplier orders in ROBOTILL POS system . It will also cover related topics like stock running low, reorder points, order packs and more.

  ROBOTILL is a fast and robust point of sale system . It uses Microsoft SQL Server as the database server. Even with several POS Computers (tills) and back office computers connected at the same time it should still be fast.  We have customers with years of sales history (huge databases) with no performance issues.  If you experience performance issues or the system is unstable, then you could look at the following: Network Problems The most common problem is that the server computer (main PC where your database is) is fast, but that additional computers connecting to the server are slow at times.  The fact that the ROBOTILL applications on the server computer is fast, but slow on the other computers, point to a network problem. It is the same applications and the same database. The only difference is that the other computers need to connect via your network.   Try the following: Restart your router and all computers.  Move your computers closer to the router or extend its range. Chan

  The popular free edition of the ROBOTILL point of sale system just got better. ROBOTILL removed the nagging ' Do you want to upgrade to the full edition? ' message that popped up every time you logged in.  ROBOTILL also increased the number of sales per day for the free edition. For the retail module it is now 200 and for the restaurant module it is 100 sales per day. The free edition never expires - but if you need more power you can upgrade to the full edition at any time. To upgrade is quick and you will not lose any data. There are no sale limit in the full edition and the full edition comes with a lot more features.  Download and start using your free point of sale system today. You can download from the ROBOTILL website. No registration required.

  ROBOTILL just released version 9.03 of their point of sale system. The new update has improvements for users of both the restaurant software and retail software .  The following is new: The cash withdrawal and cash drop functionality now prints a slip that can be customized in the print design tool of ROBOTILL.   The registration process has been improved so that the registration process is easier to follow. The till session report has been improved - more detail added. The cash up has been improved - required amounts for non-cash methods (card and other custom methods) are now taking refunds of the same payment type into account. The free edition no longer prompts the user to upgrade during log-in's. Stock take has been improved - attribute view was added and stock on hand for the scan option was added. The label printing screen displays more information for selected products.  The refund screens has been improved. Customer statements has been improved. With previous versions,

  It is the job of point of sale software to keep track of your inventory so that you know how much stock you have at all times. But what happens when the actual stock on hand, or the quantity that you think should be there, is different to what your POS system says? With earlier versions of ROBOTILL you had to look at several reports to figure out how the system came to the quantity it says should be there.  The reports included: Stock take report Stock receiving Product sales Discarded stock Returned stock You then also had to keep in mind that if you use compound items that the sale of one product can affect the quantity of other products. ROBOTILL now made it easy with a new 'Stock On Hand Trace' report. It will allow you to look at a specific product to see how the system got to the current stock on hand quantity.  The report is available from version 9.02.00 that can be downloaded from ROBOTILL .