ROBOTILL News and Updates

  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.

Disaster Recovery (DR) involves a set of policies and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster. When last did you do a backup?  You might think that having a history of your sales is not that important for running your business, but how long will it take you to start from scratch? Remember it is not just stock that you will need to add - you will need to setup the print layout of slips, add employees, coupon deals, etc, etc. ROBOTILL uses SQL Server as the database engine. SQL Server is a very robust and secure server but that will not help you with disasters like a hard drive crash, computer theft, fire, etc. There is also the possibility of user error. Some bulk actions like bulk stock import can cause serious problems if not done correctly. Disaster Recovery Plan Having a good disaster recovery plan is important. Here are a couple of things to remember: Do regu...

Do you have a Retail Shop with a Coffee shop inside the store?  Do you have a Restaurant or Coffee shop but you also sell stock items? Do you want all the Restaurant Features (working with tables, keeping multiple sales open, waiters, etc) but also all the Retail Features (scan items, quotes, etc)? You now no longer need to choose between Retail POS or the Restaurant POS modules. You can use both.  In Version 4 of ROBOTILL , there is now a Switch button that will allow you to quickly switch between the Retail POS Module and the Restaurant POS Module. If you only want to use the Retail Module or the Restaurant Module, you can hide the new 'Switch' button. In Manager go to Setup > System Configuration > General Tab   and check the 'Hide Switch Button in the POS Modules'. For more information about this Point of Sale Software System please visit http://www.robotill.com There is a FREE Edition that you can download that does not expire.

Training Video that shows how to get started with the POS Retail Module of ROBOTILL. For more Point Of Sale Training videos ( Retail Software and Restaurant Software ) see the ROBOTILL Website .

Tutorial video on how to install ROBOTILL Point of Sale Software. To find out more about ROBOTILL visit: http://www.robotill.com

You can now continue with sales even if the network goes down or if there is a problem with the server. ROBOTILL Version 3.81 has an off-line mode for the retail modules. The new off-line mode is only available for retail modules and not the restaurant modules. Working off-line is only an emergency measure. The system will allow you to continue with sales but a lot of the features will be disabled in off-line mode. For more information about the off-line mode see the help file of ROBOTILL (the off-line mode help is in the retail section of the help). Note: You should only set up the off-line system if you have multiple tills and really need to be able to work if the network goes down. The off-line system requires additional resources so it is not recommended for customers who do not need it. The FREE edition of the Point of Sale Software can be downloaded from the ROBOTILL Website .

The POS Restaurant Module of ROBOTILL has been improved. Some of the new features of the ROBOTILL Restaurant Module (Version 3.8): Some layout changes on the user interface was done. A sale can now be moved from one table to another. The waiter that was allocated to a sale/table can be changed. In Version 3.8, only new items added to a sale are printed on the various department printers (kitchen/bar/etc). In previous versions, each department would have receive items for that department but all items would have been printed again if a new item was added. There is now a 'Resubmit Full Order' option to reprint the full order slip with all items for that order. It is now possible to allocate multiple printers to a Department. The order slip will be printed on all the printers for a department. Notice to existing customers: When upgrading to version 3.8, you will need to set up your Department Printers again. Previously this was done in the Departments Menu in ROB...

ROBOTILL has supported customers for some time (accounts, statements, etc). Version 3.77 has just been released with two new customer reports ( General Customers Report and Account Payments Report ). Other enhancements in version 3.77 include a new safety check to prevent cashiers from accidently adding a payment twice and some user interface enhancements. ROBOTILL has a Free Point of Sale Edition that can be downloaded from http://www.robotill.com

This video will show you how easy it is to customize your till slip in ROBOTILL . ROBOTILL is Point of Sale Software for Retail Shops and Restaurants. You can download the free edition at: http://www.robotill.com

Designing and setting up your till slips in ROBOTILL is very easy and flexible. The print design tool in ROBOTILL allows you to design all your printed forms with easy drag and drop. Now with version 3.5 it is even more customizable. ROBOTILL now added new 'table' items. The difference with the new items is that you can add any column in any order. Previously you could only choose from different column layouts. This is ideal if you are printing on pre-printed stationary or if you need to do something out of the ordinary. To use the new items, simply remove the standard 'detail' section that contained the items that was sold and replace it with the new 'table' items. You can add them in any order. They are 'grow' items so they will cause the items below to move down depending on how many items were sold (except for items that you have set as fixed height).  Unfortunately the new table items are not available in the FREE Point of Sale Sys...

Existing customers of the popular Point of Sale System ROBOTILL should take note of the following two important changes in Version 3.41: Change in how Cash Drawers work in ROBOTILL: If a cash drawer (shift) has not been opened for a cashier and the cashier logs in, the system will now automatically open a cash drawer (shift) for that user and allocate a default float. This feature can be disabled in Manager if required. The default float can also be specified in Manager.  When a cashier does a Cash Up, the drawer will not be closed (shift will be ended). The cash drawer can alternatively be closed from Manager.  In Manager, a Cash Drawer now needs to be Finalized. A Cash Drawer is Finalized to confirm that the cash counted by the cashier is the actual cash returned.  Change how 'Quantity Change' work in ROBOTILL: To change quantity of an item, the item now first needs to be scanned (or selected) before changing the quantity. With previous vers...

ROBOTILL released an urgent fix for their Point of Sale system . Version 3.24.4 is available for download. The urgent fix was for compound stock levels that where not calculated when selling compound items. A compound item is a stock item that consist of one or more sub items. For example a 6 pack of cokes is a compound item. It can be sold as a unit (6 pack) or the cokes (sub items) can be sold separately. Follow these instructions to upgrade to the new version . If you were using compound items you also need to do the following step once to fix any problems that where created with the previous version: Open Manager, from the Tools Menu select Database Tools and then ‘Recalculate Compound Stock Levels’. Other changes included in the new version: A fix was done in the Export Manager (used to export data to scale software and other programs). In the Restaurant Module, users sometimes accidently double clicked a button causing the item to be added twice. A new rule was a...

ROBOTILL has released version 3.24.1. The following features was added: The cash required and outstanding amounts can be hidden in the Cash Up Screen and the Cash Up print out. This can be selected in Manager > General Configuration. The account selection screen has been improved for quicker account selection. There is now a separate Print Design Layout for slips that are printed when an account payment was used. You can now add customer account information to the slip like account name, contact details and account balance. You can also add a place for the customer to sign on the slip. The new slip is available in the POS Retail and POS Restaurant modules. The latest version can be downloaded from http://www.robotill.com

ROBOTILL was able to read scale barcodes (barcodes that contain the weight or price) for quite some time. In the latest version of  ROBOTILL , it is also now possible to update your prices and stock on your scales (POS or Point of Sale scale) directly from  ROBOTILL . How it works: ROBOTILL  has an Export Manager that allows you to setup an export project for your Scale Software. You can set up the file in the format that your scale software will expect it. With the click of a button the file is exported and your Scale Software will pick it up and update your stock on the scale. Please note: Although  ROBOTILL  has developed the export system in such a way that it is very flexible and will work with most scales, we cannot guarantee that it will work with every single scale and its associated scale program. 

Version 3.22 of the Point of Sale System , ROBOTILL has been released and is available for download . The new version includes a faster stock search screen. The new screen will allow you to get to the desired stock item with the least amount of keys that needs to be typed. Although it can be used with a touch screen or mouse, any stock item can now be selected without the need to click on a single button. Other enhancements include: The stock selection (not search) screen was also enhanced. Short cut key (hot key) was added for stock search. Short cut keys (hot keys) where added to the restaurant module. Discounts was improved (how it is displayed in the POS screen, on the till slip and how discounts are calculated in reports). Please remember to follow these instructions when upgrading from an older version: Upgrade Instructions

When it gets to performance, ROBOTILL is one of the best choices. It doesn't matter how many POS points (tills) are connected to the system, it is still very fast. You can speed up the process (payments at tills) even further by removing one small step a cashier needs to do. It's just one button click (or ENTER key) less per transaction … but when a cashiers does a couple of hundred transactions in a day it will make a difference. By default when the payment amount is reached (there can be more than one payment method per sale), the 'Done' button becomes available and the 'Change' the customer should get is displayed in the pay screen (see below). You can change this so that the pay screen will close automatically when the required amount is reached. The cashier will then not need to click on the 'Done' button. The change a customer should get is also displayed in the main POS screen after the pay screen closes (see picture below). T...

The new version of ROBOTILL (Version 3.2) is available for download. Customers using the FREE Edition of ROBOTILL can also upgrade to the new version. With the new version it is much easier and quicker to set up compound stock items (stock items that consists of multiple sub items). Compound items are now specified on the same screen (Sub Item Tab). In the restaurant module waiters can now add notes to items. The notes will be printed on the Order Slips that are printed on the department printers (Kitchen, Bar, etc.) Other enhancements include: Reset Database Tool added. This is useful if you just played around with the system and want to 'start over'. Stock Search was improved. Reprint option added to restaurant module. More options to customize the till slip was added. Stock receiving improved (allow price changes, weighted unit cost and easy label printing when prices change). Stock received reports now include person's name who received stock as...

Upgrading to a new version of ROBOTILL ( Point of Sale Software ) is free for all customers including users of the free edition of the POS software. Before you upgrade, remember to do a backup first. Open Manager and click on Tools > Database Backup and Restore > Backup . After you have done the backup, follow the steps below: Open your control panel, go to ‘Uninstall Programs’ and uninstall ROBOTILL. Only ROBOTILL will be uninstalled, not the database or the dataset server. Download the latest version from http://www.robotill.com and run the install file. The new installation will detect that the database server and database is already installed. It will also automatically make the necessary changes to the database. Remember to upgrade all your tills (POS Retail and POS Restaurant) as well as your back office computer (Manager). 

New changes in Version 3.03: Categories can now be hidden from the Restaurant module . This is useful if you have categories that you only want to display in the Retail module or if you have stock items that are not sold like ingredients. Default Table Option added to restaurant module. This is useful for Fast Food shops that don’t have tables. If this option is chosen, the cashier will not need to select a table for each sale. The table option will still be there that can be used for telephone orders. Invoice Number / GRV Number added to Stock Receiving. The Stock Receiving report can also now be filtered with the Invoice / GRV Number. ROBOTILL is Point of Sale Software that can be downloaded from http://www.robotill.com Existing customers can follow these instructions on how to upgrade to a new version .

ROBOTILL Version 2.8 was released and is ready for download. The POS Cash-UP screen has been improved (click on the image below to enlarge it). The Cash-Up Break Down can now also be printed on the Till Printer. The layout of the print out can be designed in Manager in the Print Layout Section. The ‘More’ screen that contain your custom functions, shortcuts to stock items and other programs has been improved. Click on the image below to enlarge it. The screen now uses buttons instead of a list box. This makes it easier for touch screens. Other changes include: Stock levels can now go into negative. This has been requested by customers and would be needed if you didn’t have time yet to import the new stock into the system. A bug was fixed in the Account payments and the password is now hidden as some shops let their customers type the password instead of the cashiers. ROBOTILL can be downloaded from http://www.robotill.com Note for existing customers When upgrading to...