ROBOTILL News and Updates

The POS Software System  ROBOTILL now supports Price Modes. Price modes can be configured and be used for things like 'Happy Hour'. While in the special price mode, the price mode button will remain red and indicate the active mode. The Price Mode feature is available in the Restaurant POS Module and the Retail POS Module. The Price mode will change all the prices to second or third tier prices and can be applied for a period (over several sales) or for a specific sale. Other changes in version 3.61 include the following: The Print Design screen has been improved to allow for easier design in larger size papers. The Price Maintenance and Specials is now easier to use. A Hot Key for price changes was added. Customer VAT Number added to 'Till Slip with account payment'. The new version of ROBOTILL can be downloaded from http://www.robotill.com

ROBOTILL has been designed to be easy to use. It is now even more user friendly with a new improved help file. ROBOTILL now uses a Windows Help File that is broken up into easy to use sections: General Help for general Point of Sale Software issues. A Retail Help Section if you are using the Retail Software Module A Restaurant Help Section if you are using the Restaurant Software Module. It also has Quick Start Guides if you only need help getting started and like to figure things out on your own. Context-sensitive help ROBOTILL Version 5.5 that is now available for download also include Context-Sensitive Help. There are now  Context-Sensitive Help buttons throughout the ROBOTILL Manager application that will open the new help file at the place you need help.

An urgent update for ROBOTILL is available for download. The following urgent fixes/changes where done: When finalizing a drawer before closing it (end of shift was done), it caused some problems. With version 3.51 it is no longer possible to finalize a drawer if it is not closed. You can now close a drawer (end a shift) and finalize it at the same time (optional). When updating a stock item, the stock count was set back to zero. This is now fixed. There is now a 'Not a counted item' option in stock item setup. When this is selected, everything related to stock count (stock on hand) for that item will be ignored. The 'Stock on Hand' for that item will always be zero. The above changes affected both the POS Retail Application and POS Restaurant Application . We would like to thank all our customers for their feedback and suggestions. The new version can be downloaded from 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 now supports a card reader for logging in users (cashiers, supervisors, waiters). If this option is selected, it will replace the default login where a user needs to select his name from a list and type a password to log in. Other new features in version 3.31 of ROBOTILL include: A refund can now be allocated to an account (previously only cash refunds were supported). The customer account will be updated and the customer statement will reflect the refund. New stock items can now be created during stock receiving. Tier prices can now be updated in the price maintenance screen and during stock receiving. Payment screen improved to speed up payments. ROBOTILL (as well as the FREE POS  Edition) can be downloaded from http://www.robotill.com

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...