ROBOTILL News and Updates

  ROBOTILL now supports PiggyZen POS Imports. That means you can now quickly and easily import all your accounting data into the PiggyZen accounting system . PiggyZen is an easy to use online accounting system. All your accounting data including sales, inventory purchases, refunds, sales tax, and customer account payments will be imported. Note that although PiggyZen has a free edition, you will need the Basic edition to import data from ROBOTILL. To see how to export the data from ROBOTILL and import it into PiggyZen, see  https://poshelp.robotill.com/Accounting.aspx

  A new version of our point of sale software system is available. You can download ROBOTILL version 9.05 from the our website .  If you are upgrading, follow these steps to upgrade . What is new in version 9.05? ROBOTILL can now export accounting data that can be imported into accounting systems. The export format is in the correct format for PiggyZen online accounting software .  The supplier for a product can now be specified in the bulk import file. You can set the supplier for new products or update existing products. The supplier field is also available for export. Product cost added to the export version of the price list. A couple of quality fixes were done in some of the reports.  A problem with the barcode generator that sometimes caused duplicates when used in conjunction with the head office module has been fixed.  More safety checks were added to bulk price change screen to catch user errors. 

  Although we will not have our yearly price increase this year, we were required to register for VAT. VAT will be added to our current prices from the 1st of March 2022. 12 month licence: R 1357.00 (including VAT of R 177.00) 24 month licence: R 2507.00 (including VAT of R 375.00) Our USD prices on PayPal will be updated on the 1st of March 2022. Our website will also be updated so that our invoices that are generated online will comply with the VAT requirements.  We would like to thank all our customers for helping our business to grow.

  ROBOTILL Point of Sale Software is supported on Windows 11. If the PC where ROBOTILL is installed is giving you the option to upgrade to Windows 11, you can go ahead and upgrade (if you want).  You will not need to register again or do anything else - ROBOTILL will just continue to work. ROBOTILL is committed to stay up to date with the latest technology. 

  ROBOTILL Version 9.04 is available. We would like to thank all our customers for their feedback and for helping us make ROBOTILL the best point of sale software system ! The following is new in version 9.04: You can now force stock codes to be unique. See #1 in General Settings . A problem in the 'Profit and Tax Per Item' report has been fixed. A double click in the product search screen sometimes caused a fatal error - this has been resolved. Lay-by contracts are now added in the 'sales per day' report on the day the contract is completed. You can now view customer statements for deleted customers in the report section. Customer account statements have been improved according to accounting standards. When changing a price tier after an item was added, and then you add the same item to the sale, it caused the receipt to display the correct totals but the unit prices did not correspond to the item sub totals - this has been resolved.  Account payment receipts now allow...

  ROBOTILL is a client-server system where you can have multiple computers linked to a server. If you aleady have ROBOTILL installed on your server PC but you know want to use one of the other computers as the server, then you can follow the steps in this article.  Choosing your server PC When using the ROBOTILL Point of Sale System you can choose a POS Computer (till point) or a back office PC as the server. Have a look at the minimum requirements of a server PC . If your back office computer is a laptop and the laptop will not always be connected to the network, then you will have to choose one of your till points as the server. Changing an 'additional PC' to be the server PC Do a database backup on your current server PC:  https://poshelp.robotill.com/Backup.aspx On the PC that you now want to use as the server, go to All programs > ROBOTILL and open ROBOTILL Database Setup. Follow these steps:  https://poshelp.robotill.com/ServerNameChange.aspx (even if...

The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) came into effect today in South Africa. As a registered company based in South Africa, ROBOTILL needs to be POPIA compliant. It however required very little change on our side as the privacy of our customers has always been important to us. You can view our Privacy Policy here .