RetailEdge Changelog

What's new in RetailEdge 8.2.47

Oct 22, 2020
  • Receive All button when receiving a Purchase Order is no longer disabled when security is turned off.
  • Credit Card History report no longer displays declined transactions. Keeping a record of declined transactions is a requirement for EMV (chip card) transactions, but the history report is showing totals and so declined amounts are artificially inflating credit card totals.
  • Pressing F10 when entering a house charge payment no longer prevents RetailEdge from properly posting payments.
  • Item that prompts for price will apply discount rules to the entered amount and not the value in inventory.
  • Multi-location businesses that were merging data from different stores will now include Images and Package Items in the merge.
  • Reprinting closing report now properly shows starting cash values for closings performed for another register.
  • Reordering items onto a Purchase Order will now properly load third dimension for 3 dimensional matrix items.
  • Reordering matrix items will no longer save pricing to children when the checkbox to update prices is unchecked.
  • Reordering matrix children on a purchase order will not longer modify the parents pricing to match the new pricing on the child.
  • Undeleting an item on an Open Order through re-receiving will now correctly adjust allocated quantities.
  • Summary close reports for multiple register closes, will now show the lowest start ticket for all registers closed and will show a reprint date.
  • Updated Shopify integrator to properly update weights and allow fractional weights.
  • Purges will no longer be counted in the purge warning to prevent warnings from occurring after a large purge of sales.
  • Miscellaneous form resizing issues corrected.
  • Export of weighed items no longer creates a separate row in the CSV file.
  • The traditional sales screen no longer shows incorrect payment total when using integrated credit card processing, receiving a partial approval and pressing the plus key (exact change).
  • Shopify integration now properly populates the Ship To and Bill To State when importing a sale.
  • RetailEdge now truncates quantity values on some reports and Manager views to 4 places after the decimal.
  • Removed references to Fax number and updated copyright dates in documentation.
  • Tendered amount on Touch Sales Screen can display to more than two places after the decimal.
  • Items converted to a matrix parent and received off of a purchase order are no longer permanently deleted.
  • Fixed access violations that can sometimes occur on client workstations caused by updating caches (vendors, departments, etc.)
  • Printing large amount of customer labels (1000 +/-) from the Customer Manager will not longer cause an access violation.
  • Under rare circumstances where Cayan device receives a partial approval and the connection to the device breaks, RetailEdge will now poll the Cayan server for the correct amount for approval.
  • Batch Recurring Billing to a house charge account, will now fail to bill the account if the customer no longer has an an allowable house charge or their limit has been exceeded.
  • RetailEdge will now select receipt printer when Windows 10 does not have a default printer selected (Windows 10 Update issue typically).
  • RetailEdge will now automatically apply discount rules for imported CSV file items.
  • Customer Editor now properly closes after editing an e-mail and closing the form by pressing the x in the upper right hand corner.
  • RetailEdge will no longer display an error when entering 00 into the minutes on a discount rule start time.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.45 (May 30, 2016)

  • ENHANCED FEATURES:
  • Modified database server to allow for larger filesA maximum file size of 128 GB for any physical file (data, indexes, or BLOBs) that is part of a logical table and a maximum of 1 billion records within a given logical table.
  • Added new error checking to prevent licensing from being disabled when running multiple copies of RetailEdge.
  • Added new workstation setting to disallow running multiple copies of RetailEdge
  • Added new caches that automatically update lists so that they are available in other parts of the program (department, vendor lists).
  • Implemented Shopify product requests to handle large numbers (1000s) of items.
  • Implemented checks on Item Imports from existing Shopify site into RetailEdge.
  • Added the ability to filter other adjustments by receiving date range on Sell Through Report.
  • Added a third dimension to matrixes (size/length/width, waist, inseam, color, etc.)
  • Added form positioning to allow for better display when using multiple monitors.
  • Added options to allow posting of Min/Max, Pricing, UPC1 and UPC2, Vendor and MFR Part Numbers, Bin/Shelf when editing a matrix parent.
  • Gift Card, Store Credit, Loyalty purges are now allowed for less than 90 days
  • RetailEdge will now display a message when it is the customer's birthday on their birthday.
  • Implemented better error checking of Modern Retail orders to ensure that sales brought down are not duplicates.
  • Implemented better error messages with Shopify Integration.
  • Added NOT and OR/AND filter to many of the filtersThis will allow users to better get information out of the program(i.e., where Department = A and NOT SKU = 12345).
  • Added colors to the Quicklist.
  • Added new Business Name option to the receipt options to allow this to be removed if the receipt printer is using a downloaded logo image.
  • Added Clerk Commission report option to include returns in calculations.
  • FIXES:
  • Items no longer getting unassigned discount rules associated with them under certain conditions.
  • Modern Retail Order Acceptance now working properly (soft release)
  • Discount Summary report now properly handles items that have a $0 suggested retail (typically Gift Cards).
  • Vantiv integration Initialization button will now properly test the correct port after changing settings without re-displaying the form.
  • The Touch Sales Screen will now properly allow entering of a customer on a new sale after posting an account payment, layaways or open order.
  • Shopify Integration no longer downloads orders with 0 price and 0 quantity line items.
  • Added error checks to prevent program updates when multiple users are accessing the program.
  • Added checks for new ticket numbers and new customers for Modern Retail order acceptance when in a multi-location or Island environment.
  • Multi-location RECON no longer populates packages with deleted items.
  • Can no longer purge audit log once a purge has started.
  • Added additional error checking with Shopify order downloads to prevent gaps if there is a bad order in the group.
  • Re-implemented server side procedures to help with multi-store synchronization.
  • RetailEdge will no longer display an error when entering the quantity tab when creating a new matrix item.
  • When adding a matrix children to a parent item, matrix children will no longer be created when you select the option not to create them
  • Payment Method report will no longer freeze when run with a customer filter.
  • Improved loading of Display settings after making changes to the settings.
  • Changed device settings to allow proper cash drawer opening with long driver names.
  • Changed RegID filters to allow for filtering out registers with similar IDs (e.g., 1, 10, etc.).
  • Sales by Date - Comparative report Day of Week, now properly aligns from year to year.
  • Bin/Shelf report now properly displays data when an item has never had a quantity adjustment.
  • Modified REDI import to allow 3rd dimension.
  • Convert Quantity from Extended Price Option with a $0 no longer displays an error.
  • Quotes in RetailEdge items will no longer cause problems with Shopify integration.
  • Gift Cards and Store Credit Stock Type items will no longer be discounted automatically with customer discount rules.
  • Displayed sales screen prices when discounting items that require 4 decimal places after the discount are now consistent.
  • When the workstation settings are set to suppress quantity lookups, the on order and location quantity options on the find form are no longer displayed.
  • Inventory price calculator will no longer allow a discount greater than 100%.
  • RetailEdge will now truncate RetailEdge's quantities when pushing up values Shopify since Shopify does not support non-integer values.
  • Exact change option no longer works when using a gift card for more the amount of the sale, to prevent issuing change for the remaining balance.
  • RetailEdge will properly display the security form when user clicks on the main form prior to the form being displayed.
  • RetailEdge will no longer allow entering a negative process and a manual override on the Sales Screen.
  • Failed request to Modern Retail integration will no longer cause an application error.
  • A voided House Charge receipt will now have Voided printed at the top of the receipt.
  • Inventory items no longer allow circular case parents (A from B, B from C, C from A).
  • Item modified date is now being properly updated when performing a PICs Zero and PIC UpdateThis can effect web integrations.
  • Improved CSV import so that spaces in the descriptions are not considered delimiters.
  • RetailEdge no longer ignores clerk information when a clerk receipt name is the same as a deleted clerk.
  • Price level discounting modified to ignore items that prompt for price or have a $0 price in the price levels.
  • Gift Card report run with an as of date filter, will include cards that had a balance on the as of date even if the current balance is $0 and would be normally excluded from the report.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.35 (Sep 4, 2014)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • New Inventory and Customer CSV Importer. Allows you to more quickly perform vendor imports of new product and price changes. This importer will also allow new users to more easily import existing data from other POS systems and allow them to get started more quickly.
  • F6 key Activates Discount Screen on Touch Based Sales Screen.
  • Added better messaging for RetailEdge Island synch issues.
  • Changed receipt title to Refund when amount of sale is less than zero.
  • Fixes:
  • Epson printers printing a new tape style receipt no longer truncate left side of receipt.
  • RetailEdge now better handles transactions with multiple credit/debit cards when the cards are processed out of order when using the Mercury and Merchant Warehouse out of scope solutions
  • Trailing spaces on clerk receipt name are now truncated to allow RetailEdge to properly display names.
  • RetailEdge now properly prints tape style - windows printer receipts when the reprint option is set to the serial via the windows printer driver.
  • Changed the way credit card numbers are masked to enhance security.
  • Buy X Get Y at Z % OFF Rule no longer discounts the higher priced item when the Z% is set to 100%.
  • RetailEdge now properly commits transactions after importing files, purging sales data and applying discount rules.
  • Customer notes search now properly displays search results in the grid.
  • Pressing the Modify Item button on the Sales Manager no longer performs any action if an Open or Close line is highlighted.
  • Items will no longer allow addition of itself as an addon.
  • When editing a discount rule, changing the discount rule type will now trigger the reapplication of the discount rules to the Inventory items.
  • Genius device with Merchant Warehouse integration will now allow handle negative tax amounts (exchange with return or a taxable item and sale of a non-taxable item).
  • Transfer orders no longer change other location pricing when copying an Item to a TO from the Inventory Manager.
  • Better Audit Log reporting when importing inventory items.
  • Receipts for Voids and Refunds will now print on appropriate transactions for new tape style and credit card receipts. Returns will now indicate negative dollar amounts on credit card receipts.
  • With the Out of Scope solutions, when using the Use Last Card option, RetailEdge will properly credit the card.
  • When backdating a layaway payment, the layaway payment no longer gets returned as change on the sales record and the layaway properly reflects the payment.
  • A deleted clerk will now display when associated with a prior sale.
  • Purchase order export filter now filters out line item locations.
  • RetailEdge automatically changes lower case characters into upper case when pasting values into inventory stock number field.
  • UI changes to the package item editor.
  • Change to how Genius timeouts are handled.
  • Fixed package item rounding issue with items with pricing to 4 decimal places.
  • Update transfer order total cost labels after posting the transfer order.
  • Added validation to Store Credit and Loyalty Dollars and House Charge Credit Limit fields in Customer Editor to make sure they are positive values.
  • Fixed miscellaneous Typos.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.34 (Jul 2, 2014)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • Improved Purchase Order Searches. Purchase Order search screen now searches on PO Number, Ordered by, Terms, Vendor, Date Order, Date Ship, Date Cancel and Payment Date.
  • Increased Customer Import performance (~10x) when importing large customer databases.
  • Increased Matrix Parent Item Quantity View performance. Significantly increased performance when viewing children inventory quantities summarized for each location on a matrix parent item.
  • Fixes:
  • Status bar for store credit and loyalty purges now correctly displays the purge progress.
  • The tape style receipt now correctly re-prints a receipt with a signature.
  • Various changes to RECON to improve stability for systems that have been disconnected for longer periods of time or have made a large number of data changes while being off-line.
  • Better RECON error message reporting.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.33 (Jul 2, 2014)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • Improved Purchase Order Searches. Purchase Order search screen now displays purchase order cost and retail totals, ordered by and dates.
  • Increased performance (~10x) when viewing parent items with large matrixes in multiple locations.
  • Signature Capture. Implemented new procedure to reduce stored image file size for captured signatures.
  • Alphabetized Discount Rule Order for better ease of use.
  • Fixes:
  • Gift card storage and transmission functions now allow gift cards that begin with a 26.
  • Buy X, Get Y and Mix and Match discount rules now properly allow exchanges.
  • If RetailEdge times-out waiting for Genius device input, RetailEdge will now force the Genius device to cancel.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.32 (Jul 2, 2014)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • Weekly Incentive Discount Rule. This rule allows you select a day to apply tiered coupon discounts based on a customer's sales history for the previous six days.
  • Improved Buy X, Get Y at Z Discount - Group rule to allow better grouping of discounts. Discounts will now apply to the lowest price item for each Buy X quantity on the sale.
  • Fixes:
  • Changed when the modified date is set for functions that take a potentially long time to complete. Including Update, Discount Rules, Purging Customers and Inventory and PICs Imports to improve Island and multi-location synchronization.
  • Miscellaneous text and UI changes and improvements.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.30 (Jul 2, 2014)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • New Discount Rule for Buy X, Get Y at Z Percent Off - Group. This gives added functionality to allow any item in a selected group to have the discount applied. The previous discount rule applied only to a specific item within the selected group. . The existing Buy X, Get Y at Z Percent Off has been renamed Buy X, Get Y at Z Percent Off - Item.
  • New Maximum Clerk Discount. Clerks now have a maximum discount field that can be set to prevent clerks from discounting below a certain percentage. This can be overridden by another clerk/manager with a higher discount percentage.
  • New Sales Tax After Discount (Net Sale) checkbox for a Coupon Discount Rule. This will allow a taxable and non-taxable coupon to be added to the sale. You should check with your tax authority to determine how coupons are to be applied in your area.
  • Improved performance of PICs import. PICs import will now import records about 7 times faster.
  • Improved performance of PO REDI import. PO REDI import will now import records about 30 times faster.
  • Added new SMP server to allow better management of time controls and to add new features for future enhancements.
  • New PO-Status Export. New PO-Status Export that shows On Hand/On Order values by location.
  • Transfer Order security now has an option to prevent viewing of costs.
  • Mercury Out of Scope Integration will now save the Invoice number on the Process Card form to better prevent chance of duplicate transactions when using same credit card number for the same transaction amount.
  • Added non-sales type transactions to Customer Sales tab on the Customer Manager. This will allow you see manually issued loyalty and store credits and house charge, layaway and open order payments.
  • Fixes:
  • RetailEdge will no longer display an error when program is in Workstation Mode and running in Sales Only Mode (/Sales in the shortcut).
  • Editing the loaded sales tax on the Sales Screen and canceling the edit will no longer un-check the Tax Exempt Checkbox for a tax exempt customer.
  • Fixed security tag for Packages.
  • Reduced restriction for updating Transfer Orders so that errors are only for TOs being received into the updating location.
  • Receipts for Saved Sales now properly show VAT inclusive pricing.
  • Modified RECON server (4.0.12) to allow the server to better trap for errors to be returned to the client.
  • Changed default for printing debit cards receipts to Off.
  • Loyalty balance for a customer on the Payment Screen will now only display once.
  • Providing better error messages for RECON and rounded clock offset to nearest second.
  • Allow price of items sold with a quantity based discount to be adjusted/discounted.
  • Credit Card History report no longer displays incorrect charges on some recurring billing sales.
  • Changed validation when setting workstation settings from another location's workstation so that it will not longer require a report printer to be selected when saving the changes.
  • New Windows Tape Style Receipt printer will now correctly print debit transaction receipts.
  • New Mercury Out Of Scope integration will now prompt for a Clerk ID if security/clerk tracking is turned off.
  • RetailEdge now properly prompts for quantity for items that are set to prompt for quantity when the sales screen is set to consolidate.
  • Added warning for systems running Windows XP after April 8, 2014,
  • If actual deposit is less than the calculated deposit during an export to Quickbooks, Quickbooks will no longer create an unnecessary balancing adjustment.
  • QuickList and Touch Screen now better allows display of special characters.
  • Label on Item Price Levels Grouped by Location Price 4 column now correctly labelled.
  • Quicklist and Touchscreen now properly allows adding of packages.
  • Disabled Run Loyalty Batch button after a batch until user goes back to the Filter tab to minimize the chance of running a duplicate loyalty batch.
  • Now properly checking to see if the Clerk is authorized to change dates on the Sales Manager when double clicking on a ticket from the Customer Manager.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.29 (Feb 18, 2014)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • Added Mercury Payment Systems Out of Scope Solution. This option is a more secure solution for credit card processing and supports use of a signature capture pad. The new out of scope solution for Mercury helps increase system security since it removes RetailEdge from the process of transmitting and storing sensitive credit card data.
  • Merchant Warehouse Out of Scope Solution now works with encrypted magnetic stripe swipers for customers who do not want to use the Genius device.
  • Updated Database Server Version to 4.37.
  • Payment Screen will now show debit cash back as change due after the sale is processed.
  • Clerks can now print a purchase order (PO) status from the PO Editor without seeing item costs.
  • Closing reports now default to the last printed closing style setting to allow easier closing for clerks that might not have access to a default Windows
  • New Hot Key (Ctrl-Alt-P) that shows sales profits and margins included on Sales Screens and Sales Managers. Security is controlled by Show Inventory Costs Action Item.
  • Added new method for out of scope credit card processing options to handle partial card approvals (to handle VISA/MC gift cards with amounts less than the amount of the sale).
  • Changed process for entering negative numbers on sales screen for faster bottle redemptions and returns.
  • New and improved and simplified Toolbar and Welcome Center icons and colors.
  • Disallow overpayment of sale to credit card. This feature now only allowed as debit cash back.
  • Major changes in QuickBooks Export. Changes to the way loyalty dollars and gift card redemptions and number of adjustment records that are added to the general journal entry. Shipping is now part of the gross profit calculation.
  • New Weight Report that will display items that have weight values in the Export Weight Value field for the item located on the Weight and Age Verification tab.
  • VAT mode no longer supports rounding up sales tax rounding rules (Normal Rounding (Ex: $1.123 rounds to $1.12)).
  • Ability to print labels for all items in Receiving for All locations not just current location. This can be accessed from the Inventory|Receiving menu item. This can be useful for operations that might be managing other locations from a central location.
  • Added new report option for Compound report that allows "Exclude Shipped Sales". This allows the compound report to show a more accurate sales restocking information where items are being fulfilled from a warehouse.
  • Sales By Customer Report will now display information relevant to the Sort Order selected.
  • Reports generated from the Manager Screens will now display only based only on exact pattern matches and so will provide only information about the item or customer selected. Filters used in reports are still based on partial matches.
  • New security feature to allow users to add a new inventory item through a PO and/or Receiving while still being restricted from adding directly to Inventory.
  • Implemented Store Credit - Issued at POS stock type. This allows customer's to pre-pay and issue a store credit to their customer account. Useful for businesses that the customer needs to pre-pay for services or users who use prepayment as a way to minimize credit card transaction fees.
  • Added the following new Recurring Billing Changes. Added new columns for Last Name, First Name, Company in batch list, now remembers the last search fields for customer and inventory lookups, added new "Ship sales using customer's shipping address." checkbox option, added ability to print receipts (only one per sale) during batching process.
  • Program will now properly detect running on Windows 8.1.
  • Added new timeout values and error messaging to Merchant Warehouse integration to allow program to better escape out of processing in the event of server and internet connection errors.
  • Fixes:
  • Modern Retail Orders processed with a deleted customer will now undelete the customer in RetailEdge.
  • Shipping labels that have no labels to print based on filter selected will now display an error message.
  • Full page Receipt will no longer show House Charge or Gift Card balance when this Advanced Receipt Option is turned off in the Workstation Settings.
  • Discount Rules will now properly strip hidden characters to prevent discount rule failure after multiple edits.
  • Items on the Quick List (Touch Screen Buttons) will now properly warn the user if it has been deleted if the item is added to the sale.
  • Audit log correction to transfer orders XML tag.
  • Include sign line (non credit card) advanced receipt option is now implemented for full page and tape style receipts.
  • Sales imported from Modern Retail will now get an encrypted regID to prevent key violations.
  • Miscellaneous VAT label printing fixes.
  • Very small fractional item adjustments will no longer show in reports and exports as a exponentially small quantity and will be rounded.
  • Transfer Order Editor now summarizes price value on Price 1 and not Suggested Retail to be consistent with other program areas.
  • Sales items totals properly displayed in black on touch sales screen when returning from processed return.
  • Reseting the Sales Screen now properly refreshes the button names on the touch sales screen.
  • Deleted sales tax with same name as an active sales tax jurisdiction no longer gets applied to the sale under certain circumstances.
  • The inventory sort order for the Inventory Add-on Report now works correctly.
  • VAT sales tax now supports selling non-taxable items.
  • With Inventory QuickLookups on, Qty Allocated and Qty Available now properly refresh when the search no longer finds an existing inventory item.
  • Selling a matrix parent item in traditional sales screen now properly displays only a list of matrix children associated with the parent.
  • Canceling a layaway or open order with no refund in a closed sales session will now properly open a new sales session.
  • Pressing Esc on the Welcome Center will no longer open help and will close the Welcome Center screen.
  • Gift Card Summary - Balance As Of and Summary - Issued Date Range now properly displays last customer who purchased the card.
  • Label Printer Slip now properly adjusts slip to adjust for different types of paper/labels.
  • Sales By Items Grouped by Stock Number now properly displays the quantity at each location.
  • Automatic switching payment methods for AMEX now works with Merchant Warehouse integration.
  • Canceling open orders on different register from the originating register no longer improperly applies the refund to the originating register ID.
  • New security tab and checks for exiting Customer Store Credit and Loyalty $.
  • Fixed editing/modifying Buy X Get Y Percent Off discount rule that would display error.
  • Customer Last Action Date is now written in UTC to allow for consistency across multiple time zones.
  • Matrix Definitions now force all capitals definitions.
  • New mechanism to handle debit cards that don't have track one data.
  • Better trapping of Ctrl- key strokes that can cause the program to close prematurely.
  • Better detection of debit card processing with Merchant Warehouse integration to allow for refund to a debit card.
  • RECON changes to allow for synchronization to more quickly synchronize data when server clocks are incorrectly set to a future date/time.
  • Miscellaneous typos.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.28 (Aug 7, 2013)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • Added check box to allow displaying of gift cards with zero balances on the Summary- Balance As Of and Summary- Issued Date Range gift card reports.
  • Fixes:
  • Island and RECON synchronization modification to better handle to currency conversion and special character parsing.
  • Disallowed fractional ages on inventory age verification.
  • Added further changes to allow future mobility solutions.
  • Miscellaneous changes to help file.
  • Fixed printing of unit prices on tape style windows receipt.
  • Added clerk security warning when editing workstation credit card processing options.
  • VAT mode detailed item information on receipts now show unit pricing VAT inclusive.
  • Customer merge now merges customer loyalty carryover values.
  • Sales tax collection reports now properly display taxes collected using rounding up.
  • New tape style receipt showing unit pricing, house charge and store credit balances will no longer show on a gift receipt.
  • Warning for duplicate UPC codes no longer checks against completed items.
  • Allowed viewing customer credit card data if credit card processing is set to none in the workstation settings.
  • RetailEdge no longer automatically restarts as an admin after an updateRetailEdge now requires manually restarting and entering of admin credentials if a service restart is required.
  • Receipt count will now save settings for receipt count values other than 1 if other workstation settings are edited.
  • Task_del file now properly formatting the CSV for the deleted temp items.
  • The loyalty batch settings now limits the minimum qualifying dollars spent to $1.00.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.27 (Jul 10, 2013)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • Added Merchant Warehouse as an integrated credit card processorMerchant Warehouse provides the ability to have a customer facing credit card and debit card device and also additional payment options (like Level Up)Merchant Warehouse also provides easy future migration to future payment options like NFC and Chip/Pin technologiesMerchant Warehouse helps increase system security since it removes the computer and RetailEdge from the process of transmitting and storing sensitive credit card data.
  • Modified the RMSA and Management One Export to allow users to map the export from RetailEdge Classes and Departments to RMSA/MO Classes.
  • Customer - Shipping Labels (Including Weight Info) now includes a Ticket Number which allow for better importing into UPS WorldShip.
  • UI Abstraction of Discount and Gift Registry for future enhancements
  • Added Tax Exempt ID to FOB field on full page receipts as required by Canadian regulation.
  • Unit costs added to receipts detail section (S# ABCDEF, I# 123456, @ $12.34).
  • Added Retail Price to Detailed Wish List Report.
  • Enhanced scale support for Canadian customers to meet local weights and measures requirements.
  • Fixes:
  • Package and Coupon discounts will no longer allow discounting to a negative $ value.
  • Sales Manager pressing V disabled for past sales to disable voiding.
  • New Validation to limit matrix definitions to 15 characters.
  • Find in Wish List now searches properly and only finds active Wish Lists.
  • Multi-Location and Island RECON will now check and account for discrepancies between server and local clock times and adjust modified dates to allow more accurate posting of modified dates and prevent older data from being downloaded from master server.
  • Temporary items are now properly added to task_del file when deleted so that they can be cycled by RECON in a multi-location environment.
  • Wish List items are now properly added to task_del file when deleted so that they can be cycled by RECON in a multi-location environment.
  • Vendor and Customer TODO manager display issue fixed.
  • Serial number grid now properly allows selection of newly added serial numbers.
  • Selling a serialized item with an add-on will now properly assign the serial number to the item sold.
  • Changed Wish List Editor to allow scanning of RetailEdge barcodes to add items to a Wish List.
  • Modified Quicklist to allow adding of items with quotation marks in SKU.
  • Wrapped Edit/Post for Transfer Orders into a single transaction to prevent RECON from cycling older data to master server.
  • RetailEdge now properly asks for starting cash when opening and closing multiple versions of RetailEdge on same workstation.
  • Discount Summary Report will now get department information from sales record instead of inventory information.
  • Now properly posting return payments downloaded from Modern Retail website.
  • Physical Inventory Report by Department/Vendor now runs properly.
  • Customer Interest Checkbox now displays over 100 interests on customer editor.
  • Updating Transfer Orders from PICs with new Control Settings now properly allows creation of the TO (soft)
  • OPOS pole displays now properly handles scrolling messages and better handles long descriptions (soft)
  • Editing of Quicklist from Touchscreen no longer displays an error message (soft).

New in RetailEdge 8.2.25 (May 2, 2013)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • Added Ability to update a Wish List via PICS
  • Added Physical Report w/ Unit Cost
  • Added a Clerk Sales Commission Report that allows commissions to be calculated based on set rates, minimum sales amounts and partial percentage discounts.
  • Added Inventory Value (Items by Category) report
  • Added a discount rule for a quick dollar amount off sale.
  • Added RegID to Automatically Generated POs Notes.
  • Added the ability to print UPC-A barcodes labels.
  • Removed Amount Saved on Gift receipts.
  • Modern Retail: Added the ability to map all RetailEdge prices to any Modern Retail Pricing to allow more flexibility in web pricing and discounting.
  • Modern Retail: RetailEdge will no longer send matrix parents to Modern Retail.
  • Modern Retail: Modern Retail Product Request now sends Vendor Part Numbers.
  • Modern Retail: New Modern Retail Option to allow users to select locations to be used to calculate quantities in a multi-location operation.
  • When using the As-Of Filter on Inventory Reports title will now display (Estimated Value).
  • Added Vendor and Manufacturer Number Filters for inventory exports.
  • Visa/MC Gift Cards now handle partial payments to handle future Visa/MC mandates.
  • Loyalty $ pre-batch report now sorts by Last Name, First Name.
  • Now can take 100% deposits on Open Orders on the traditional Sales Screen.
  • Added key press triggers for A/Add, M/Modify, D/Delete in PO LinesUsers will no longer have to press the Alt KeyThis is more consistent with other screens and can speed up the PO creation process.
  • Added a balance filter to House Charge Balance Summary Report to allow users to track when house charges are above or below a desired value.
  • Added a new Tape Closing Report option that includes Summary Item Sales.
  • Security: New security tag for deleting a PO after receiving
  • Security: Added new security options for the Detail Gift Card, Detail Layaway Payment, Detail Open Order, PICs Differential, PICs Differential with Costs reports.
  • Security: Added a new security tag that controls the ability to change the date range in the Sales Manager.
  • Security: Added new security tags for customer activity, vendor activity, and TODO.
  • Security: New Security Action to prevent seeing item costs in the inventory manager if a user is authorized to view the inventory.
  • Added All and None buttons to allow the option to select a large range of closing reports when running the Summary Close report
  • Receive from Inventory Manager now allows fractional quantities.
  • Added a receipt printer delay for the new Windows style receipt.
  • Edit Todo Activity, Device, Clerk, and BST, Quicklist and Interest editor changes to allow future mobility options.
  • Payment Method Report now sorts the payments in the same order as the sales screen.
  • Added Transfer Order Control ModeTOs can now set to only be controlled by the central location or set to only be created by the central location and received by the receiving location.
  • Fixes:
  • Tape style receipt now displays change given after last payment on open order.
  • Now checks for card swipe errors before posting Gift Cards
  • Security set to 0 on Inventory List no longer prompts for user name and password.
  • Discount Rule percentage discount now showing properly on receipt.
  • Pressing Esc on Sales Touch Advanced Screen no longer closes Sales Screen.
  • Tape Style closing report right side no longer cutting off.
  • Modifications to RECON and Island to prevent potential issues during connection/connectivity failures.
  • Posting Sales to the Sales Tax Table will now post truncated sales tax values (2 decimal places)This will keep different reports more consistent when reporting taxes.
  • Tape style receipts will now properly display payment method types for layaways with special payment types store credit, house charge payment, debit, and gift card.
  • The filter field for closing Reports are no longer using UTC Time but will use local dates.
  • Removed leading space when scanning RetailEdge labels for PICs, Alias and Package barcode labels.
  • RetailEdge will now properly lookup items by the RetailEdge ListID.
  • Separated Delete and Exit buttons from rest of button stack on Inventory Manager.
  • House Charge Payment Screen location names now display properly.
  • Workstation mode security can no longer be turned on without clerks being setup.
  • Changing item price on by direct price override on Touch Sales Screen will no longer display an error.
  • RECON Discount Rules will now properly convert special charactersThis was allowing discount rules to be different in each location.
  • Inventory Editor Notes 2 Field now retrieves values from Notes 1 DB field.
  • Changed Currency Symbol procedures to allow for period non-standard period characters in the currency symbol.
  • Line Items of a Discount PO now shows % symbol instead of a $ symbol.
  • Customer Editor now properly displays LD Carry Over
  • In a multi-location environment you can no longer add duplicate payment methods with same name for different locations.
  • Transfer out of a Non-Stock Item will no longer adjust inventory quantities.
  • Adding age to age verification now works in receiving.
  • Department Import no longer fails on a blank database.
  • Changes to QL Page Titles now properly post.
  • Update From Receiving now properly takes into account items on a Transfer Order when calculating average costs.
  • Update From Receiving now properly uses the location's last cost to update inventory.
  • Miscellaneous UI changes.
  • New Tape Style Receipt change label now displays correct amount.
  • Can now delete a payment method with no conversion rate associated with it.
  • Reduced number of warnings when an item is priced below cost(soft)
  • Can now properly delete vendor (soft).
  • Payment Grid no longer shows 4 decimal places showing when tendering payment.
  • Sales Screen refinements to prevent mistakenly posting a sale.
  • Edit Inventory Information Screen now shows Last Action correctly.
  • Add Vendor now works when entering Contact Name(soft).

New in RetailEdge 8.2.24 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • Added Age VerificationRetailEdge will now automatically prompt for a customer birthdate on the Sales Screen and compare it against the minimum age allowed for an itemRetailEdge will prevent the sale of the item if the customer birthdate entered does not meet the minimum requiredAge verification supports multiple verification ages and will allow for a manual overrides.
  • Improved performance of Aging Report.
  • Improved performance of Payment Distribution screen display for house charge payment application.
  • Improved performance performance of Sales tab on Vendor manager.
  • Improved performance when editing a matrix parent with large numbers of children.
  • Improved PICS List display speed when a large number of items are loaded into PICS file.
  • Added ability to change the promotion code on a posted sale.
  • New Vendor Manager Architecture for planned future modifications.
  • Added final Sales Screen discount scan that will test if stock items on the sale have been discounted below cost.
  • Fixes:
  • Posting a customer after an edit will now properly update the Last Edit date.
  • RetailEdge will no longer display error 'Can not turn off "Allow House Charges"' when posting record under certain circumstances.
  • RetailEdge Error Log posting will now properly post the call stack.
  • Creation of duplicate Customer IDs is now prevented under certain circumstances.
  • When opening the traditional Sales Screen to the Items tab and changing to the Customer Tab, pressing the New Cust button will now only require one button press.
  • When posting the Location Editor and Allow Credit Card data is off but there is existing credit card data, the validation screen will now be properly displayed.
  • Adding a customer to the Sales Screen will now properly automatically add the customer to the Sales Screen.
  • Reprinting of a sales receipt using Crtl-Alt-R now works properly.
  • Printing of multiple purchase order from a sorted purchase order list will no longer give an access violation.
  • Gift Card Detail report As of Date no longer duplicates gift card transactions.
  • Fixed text spacing on touchscreen tab/section buttons.
  • Fixed jumping focus problem when Receiving List is sorted.
  • Fixed issue with date/time picker on PO searchDays with single digit days will now hold search value when pressing enter key.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.23 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • Added buttons to bottom of main RetailEdge form to better initiate and report errors with RetailEdge's iPhone Dashboard, Web Integration and IslandThese buttons can be pressed to initate the Web Integration, Dashboard and Island and will now better indicate activity (On, Off, Error)If there is an error pressing the Island button will start Hamachi to check Hamachi's VPN status if you are running Hamachi VPN.
  • Forums Link now accesses RetailEdge forum and remote access with LogMeIn Rescue from Help menu item in all browsers.
  • Added Purchase Order (PO) number to transfer order (TO) when TOs are auto generated by receiving a POThis allows you to reference the PO the product on the auto generated TO came from.
  • Increased performance of Sales tab on Vendor manager.
  • Added a discount % column on Sales Manager.
  • Improved performance of Purchase Order Manager when displaying large quantities of POs or working on a slower network connection.
  • New Customer Manager Architecture for planned future modifications.
  • Modification to Modern Retail Integration to check that the customer exists in the RetailEdge data and does not create a new customer if the customer is found with similar Last Name, First Name, Street1 and Postal Code.
  • Purchase Order List now shows Vendor and Store Note columns.
  • Added warning for customers using 6 digit UPCs and SKUs that they might create a conflict with the ItemID.
  • Changed customer editor to allow better viewing of Notes and Interests.
  • When merging items RetailEdge will now bring over UPC values in the from item to the Alias field of the To ItemThis allows old items to continue to be scanned as the new item in the sales screen.
  • FixesL
  • Customer List reports will no longer give a Report in Progress error after quitting out of the report filter screen without running the report.
  • RetailEdge will no longer display an access violation after filtering a Customer, Inventory, Vendor, Todo or Gift Manager and editing the final record so that it no longer matches the filter criteria.
  • Ctrl-Alt-R does not work on Sales Manager for old transactions without encoded RegIDs.
  • Detailed Receiving by PO report no longer truncates the column showing the PO number when using Auto-assign.
  • When updating Receiving from PICs RetailEdge now defaults the item vendor to the inventory VendorID valueIf there's a PO, we'll use the PO's VendorID value.
  • The Customer Layaway Payment Detail Report no longer displays incorrect information when there are two different layaways with the same number from multiple locations.
  • Customer Statement - Dating now displays correctly when having a credit on account.
  • Conversion program that converts 7.5 data into Version 8.2.22 now starts properly.
  • Removed extra Custom User 5 field in Customer Report Filters.
  • Modern Retail import now allows better importing of blank values.
  • Sales button on Inventory Manager now works properly.
  • Fixed receipt issue when selling non-taxable items in VAT sales tax mode.
  • When finding items in any Manager screen, Manager will automatically scroll to selected item for viewing.
  • Fixed button sizing on Touch Sales Screen for page selector buttons.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.22 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • Enhanced Features:
  • New Receipt TypeAdded a new Receipt Type (Tape Style Windows Printer)This allows more control over tape style receipt formats (e.g., barcodes on tape style receipts) and reprinting to secondary tape style receipt printers.
  • Receipt Exports to Quadrox Video Recording SystemsRetailEdge now works with Quadrox US (www.quadroxus.com) Video Recording SystemsSecondary receipts can now be sent to the video recording system and attached to the video for searching and reporting purposes.
  • Puerto Rican Debit SupportAdded feature to allow Puerto Rican debit cards (Banco Popular ATH) to work with RetailEdge.
  • Windows 8Added settings to allow RetailEdge to recognize Windows 8 installations.
  • Preview Full Page ReprintsRetailEdge now will automatically preview full page receipts when reprinting.
  • Matrix Posting Performance OptimizationRetailEdge will now post Purchase Orders with large matrixes 20 times faster.
  • Fixes:
  • Reprinting full page receipts will no longer print on a tape style receipt printer under certain conditions.
  • Added additional check for RECON and Island to prevent skipping downloaded data during interrupted synch cycles.
  • Disabled button on Inventory Manager Sales Tab that allowed editing a customer for a sale without a customer.
  • Fixed Sales Screen Error: Could not find field Inv_Alias_Name.
  • When adding an item to Receiving by scanning or typing an Item Number, RetailEdge will now display the Stock Number on the form caption after pressing the enter key.
  • RetailEdge will now properly print a Pick List to a full page receipt regardless of which printer (tape style) is selected.
  • Changing Matrix Definitions on a Purchase Order now works properly.
  • Fixed occasional errors during program exit reported by the Error LogsThanks for submitting these.
  • Fixed security tag problem when editing customer interests.
  • Improved Modern Retail integration when handling shipping fields with apostrophes.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.20 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • Features:
  • New secondary receipt printer settings to allow duplicate receipts to be sent to secondary printers for back office invoice printing and kitchen/order printers.
  • Added Package barcode label printing.
  • RetailEdge now allows printing of up to 15 receipts at a timeSaved settings only allow settings of 5 but value can be changed to 15 when printing at the time of sale.
  • Touch Sales Screen payment list will now display negative items in red.
  • RECON and Island now reports outages to technical support to allow us to provide proactive RECON and Island connection problems notifications.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed miscellaneous form names.
  • Fixed sort by week reportsBy week reports no longer reset the week on monthThis effects sales performance by date, sales by date comparative and closing summary reports.
  • Loyalty Summary Report sorted by Company and Last Name now correctly displays balances when carry over is 0.
  • Item focus no longer moves when viewing a filtered receiving list.
  • Receiving History Detail Report filter by receiving quantity now runs properly.
  • Illegal characters in RetailEdge data now properly trapped for in RECON XML.
  • Adding new locations no longer copies credit card processor token information to new location.
  • Page style receipt sign lines now match tape style receipt printing.
  • Negative Payouts (Pay-Ins) now will properly post when pressing the Enter key to post the payout.
  • Wish lists with apostrophes in the name now work properly.
  • Fixed pricing issue when setting items based on package price for packages with item quantities > 1.
  • Package grid order now longer changes item order.
  • Modern Retail order downloads now handle more than one order per cycle.
  • Numerous Island/RECON synchronization issues to better handle internet disconnects, computer restarts during cycles, and large data file transfers.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.19 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed access violation error when closing the inventory editor while partially editing a quantity.
  • Fixed integer conversion error in Customer editor when validating customer discounts.
  • Fixed parsing error with new XML parser for RetailEdge Report filtersParser now properly handles ampersand and apostrophe characters.
  • Fixed typo on vendor import utility.
  • Summary Closing Report and Quickbooks Export now properly check for the possibility of post-dated/pre-dated sales (from Sales, using Ctrl-Alt-D hotkey).
  • Confirmation warnings before the Data Update Utility now work properly.
  • Pressing Alt-V no longer causes an access violation when editing inventory quantities.
  • Fixed random access violation when deleting a vendor.
  • When loading an item by ItemID in receiving matrix children items will no longer strip matrix definitions spaces.
  • Improved performance of purchase order list when loading large amounts of records.
  • REDI imports will now strip leading and trailing spaces of the Taxable field.
  • Fixed transfer order error occurring when adding a new item via Find while on Misc tab.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.18 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • RetailEdge update auto-notification now works properly.
  • Inventory and purchase order quantity editors now work properly. Issue introduced in 8.2.16 with column fix.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.17 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Improved display speed of label preview when printing barcode labels.
  • Display of barcode on labels no longer overlaps other printed fields.
  • Full page receipt now properly prints serial numbers
  • The For Location drop down on the Quantity tab for matrix items is now displayed in alphabetical order.
  • RetailEdge will now properly select the correct item when searching on an item and then re-sorting the search results list.
  • Added check to prevent an error when exiting RetailEdge while a closing report is being displayed.
  • Added check to prevent errors during a backup and restore under certain circumstances.
  • Pressing enter while editing Purchase Order notes will now go to the next line instead of editing the purchase order item.
  • Pressing F1 when entering a Clerk ID will no longer display an error.
  • Fixed display error when generating a sales detail by SKU report.
  • Fixed error when writing to a display device.
  • Fixed error when printing and a default printer is not selected in Windows.
  • Added better error checking on Sales Screen to make sure user is entering a valid discount value.
  • Fixed access violation caused by Welcome Screen Sales button.
  • Pricing labels that have an @ symbol will now longer be displayed as hyperlinks.
  • Added new F4 and Ctrl-F shortcuts on Find Form.
  • A Summary Close report only will now properly show all register totals and not only the register that closed themAlso effected Quickbooks exports.
  • Quicklist grid highlights have been reversed to make it clearer which item is being selected.
  • Changed a number of lists so that the Alt key does not have to be pressed in order to have a button pressed (accelerator keys).
  • Y values in Quantity Grid for a matrix items now no longer scroll with the grid.
  • Sales Screen Payment Tab F9 Key Press now keeps the amount entered and then posts the sale.
  • Pressing Crtl-Alt L now properly allows adding of Labor to a Sales Screen.
  • Pressing the Sales Tab on the Inventory Manager when the Sales Detail is unchecked now properly displays the sales.
  • Performing a Find by department or vendor in Inventory Manager no longer causes an access violation.
  • Fixed PC Charge failure error.

New in RetailEdge 8.2.16 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • Recurring BillingRetailEdge now has recurring billing included in the program, This feature also has the ability to use the integrated credit card processing features to charge card on file.
  • Wish ListWish List/Gift Registry has been added to the programThis feature allows you to assign items to a wish/registry list for recall later for sale by gift givers.
  • Value Added Tax (VAT)RetailEdge now supports VAT for countries that support a Value Added TaxIn VAT mode RetailEdge will print labels and receipts with the tax amount included in the price and provide a calculator for calculating VAT included pricing.
  • Fractional Cent SupportIncluded support sales of items and discounts that require fractional centsThis was to help businesses that need low price large quantity discounts, have VAT and/or gas salesThis feature required the removal of the floating decimal feature.
  • Workstation Mode SecuritySecurity can now be set to only ask for a password when a workstation has had no activity for a defined period of time.
  • Payment Method CheckRetailEdge will recognize CC card type when processing sale and will warn the user if they are posting to the wrong payment medium.
  • New Sales Security ChecksRetailEdge will now check clerk credentials to enter their user name and password, when selling a 0 quantity, when doing a return and when changing the sales tax.
  • Purchase Order Find ItemThe purchase order find item function will now use an interior pattern match to find recordsIt is also case insensitiveThis makes it easier to find items on large purchase orders.
  • New Excel Report ExportsThere is now a new Data only Excel Export that will export the report data without header, footer and grouping informationNew Excel exports also support newer versions of Excel.
  • Sales Files PurgeNow RetailEdge has the ability to purge previous salesThis can be especially helpful for users with a large number of transactions that have increasingly large database files in a multi-location environment.
  • The traditional sales screen status panel at the bottom now shows the quantity of items and number of rows entered on the sales screen.
  • Added an F12 shortcut to touch sales screen
  • The "Activity Date" column in the Customer Activity has been replaced with the "Last Action" columnThis will allow for better clarification of actions' occurrence time.
  • Clerk for a sales line item can now be changed within Sales Manager.
  • Added a warning suggesting that users clear out quantities before proceeding when changing an item from a regular item to a matrix parent item.
  • Setup New Default Installer SettingsCC access turned off by default for new InstallationsNew users will have to turn this feature on before being able to store/access CC data.
  • After editing the workstation settings, the scrolling message will now take effect when the settings are saved.
  • PO Items tab have a column that specifies which department an item is in.
  • Touch Sales Screen Exact Change button changed to Exact Amount.
  • Added better error logging function.
  • Fixes
  • Recalling and posting of a deposit no longer displays available quantities.
  • Fixed DB engine error when attempting to get a gift status.
  • Gift Card OverpaymentWhen overpaying with more than one gift card, RetailEdge will put the remaining balance back on the last card scanned.
  • Invent Merge Fails When Both Items Have ImagesIf the target SKU has an image, the image copy is skippedIf the target does not have an image, then RetailEdge will attempt to copy the from image to the to SKU
  • Issuing a manual Store Credit will no create an open session in the register if the register is not open.
  • Package Editor Rounding Error - Set Pricing based on Package PriceRetailEdge will now properly calculate the package price for a packageRounding errors would sometimes
  • Filtering Customers by interests will no longer pick up customers associated with deleted interest with the same name.
  • House charge interest utility now properly rounds and truncate posted valuesThis could prevent proper zeroing of customers house charge balance.
  • Department and Class grouping of Reorder Sales report now works correctly.
  • Searching on Vendor e-mail from report viewer now properly searches for vendor id
  • Copy to PO Function now properly keeps the item quantities when switching Vendors or to an existing PO.