Release Notes
Updates will trigger an automatic update notification or you may manually update by navigating to Setup > Tools > Update. For HQ navigate to Setup > Update.
8.5.32 (April 25, 2023)
Pro & Back Office
New
- Added new Opening Cash Drawer declaration screen function and preferences. To learn more, see Setting Opening Amounts knowledgebase article.
Enhanced
- When issuing multiple gift cards in a single transaction the activation screen now shows “Card number x of x”, to assist the cashier.
Fixed
- Fixed problems when issuing multiple gift cards in a transaction, and then pressing the Cancel button on the payment device. Now, if the Cancel button is pressed, the loop for issuing further gift cards is cancelled. Any remaining unsold gift cards can then be sold again in the same transaction.
- The scanner-scale (if attached) would not reactivate after issuing or reloading a gift card, but now does.
- Fixed an issue with making data changes when the user’s name contained an apostrophe.
- When a Fuel Sale was made after the subtotal button was pressed, the screen & receipt did not display the gallons sold or the price per gallon.
- Price Formula option #2 (percentage off for multiples of an item) was not properly calculating the discount.
- The Quantity field in Price Formula option #7 (Scan Data customers only) has been modified to suppress entries greater than ‘3’. This is in compliance with the multi-pack quantities eligible for discounts via Scan Data.
- The POS “Tips (Out)” screen function was not opening the cash drawer, as it should.
HQ
Fixed
- The Quantity field in Price Formula option #7 (Scan Data customers only) has been modified to suppress entries greater than ‘3’. This is in compliance with the multi-pack quantities eligible for discounts via Scan Data.
8.5.31 (October 26, 2022)
Pro & Back Office
Fixed
- Fixed an issue during receipt consolidation that would cause the Price Formula discount line to be erased. The discount was still applied to the sale and the customer paid the correct price, but this would cause out of balance sales reports. Applied to regular price formulas only (options 1 – 6).
8.5.30 (October 17, 2022)
Pro & Back Office
Fixed
- Fixed issue with the PM Scan Data report populating with erroneous items. If you’ve failed a recent file submission please submit a support ticket once you’ve updated your POS computers.
- Fixed error when entering Reports > Inventory > Movement.
8.5.29 (October 12, 2022)
Pro & Back Office
Enhanced
- Updated error message when printing a Report and no Report Printer has been configured.
Fixed
- MID-RELEASE FIX (October 13, 2022): Fixed error when entering Reports > Inventory > Movement. If you encounter this error, uninstall StoreTender Online and reinstall from the setup file in the Client Area dated 10/13/2022.
- Fixed issue with Find grid not selecting the highlighted item upon pressing the Enter key.
HQ
Fixed
- Fixed issue with Find grid not selecting the highlighted item upon pressing the Enter key.
8.5.28 (October 11, 2022)
Pro & Back Office
New
- Added support for the new Verifone P200 PIN Pad. This lower-cost device supports all payment types and input methods, including chip, contactless and swipe. See Payment Devices.
Enhanced
- Added ability to use a barcode scanner on Products screen and Products search box. You can also scan the Alias UPC of a Product to load the primary Product.
- Added some indexes to a few tables to optimize database performance.
Fixed
- Fixed problem when tendering EBT more than once per transaction, when using EasyCheckout.
- Addressed issue with business credit card authorizations taking an extra day to settle under certain conditions, when using EasyCheckout. Business card tax line is now sent with each EasyCheckout authorization, even when no tax is due.
- The End of Day reporting (Reports > Accounting > End of Day) would not load an employee if their number began with a zero (0).
- Sale and TPR Signs now properly recognize the Sale/TPR dates. Previously could not load sale items for printing on certain dates.
HQ
Enhanced
- Added ability to use a barcode scanner on Products screen and Products search box. You can also scan the Alias UPC of a Product to load the primary Product.
- When using the Everyday Price Task with a Price Family, you’re now asked if you want to change both Price and Cost for the entire Price Family.
8.5.27 (August 3, 2022)
Pro & Back Office
New
Introducing the Inventory Upload addon module! With this addon, you can automatically send your inventory data to any number of online shopping services, using the FTP or SFTP file transfer protocols. Inventory data is uploaded every 30 minutes and includes everything needed by third-party online shopping services to get your products online. See the knowledgebase article for details about this addon: Inventory Upload
New
We’ve integrated StoreTender with the popular eGrowcery Online Shopping service! With eGrowcery you can sell your products online for delivery or pickup at your store. And, thanks to the eGrowcery Exchange addon module, you can send inventory data and receive sales transactions into your POS. Using ‘virtual lane’ technology, your eGrowcery Online Shopping sales are recorded and individual transactions recorded in the Electronic Journal. You’ll have full access to your online sales with a special cashier or register account (for filtering eGrowcery activity only). See the knowledgebase article for details about this addon: eGrowcery Exchange
Enhanced
- When adding a customer ‘on-the-fly’ from within the POS, you can now assign a Price Tier to that customer.
Fixed
- When an Altria/AGDC Scan Data merchant sold a tobacco product with a Price Formula that was deleted prior, the Scan Data file was incorrectly recording the final sales price. The price at the register was correct.
- Fixed an issue with voiding or error correcting a tobacco coupon.
- If you were an RJ Scan Data merchant and you suspended a tobacco sale after accepting a tobacco coupon, resuming the sale did not persist the coupon data for scan data.
- The search boxes in the back office area only allowed for a 14 character search. This has been increased to 50 characters, to allow for long product names.
- POS transaction upload routine optimized to better handle a communication disruption after the transaction has uploaded, but before the connection is closed.
HQ
Fixed
- The search boxes in HQ only allowed for a 14 character search. This has been increased to 50 characters, to allow for long product names.
8.5.26 (June 9, 2022)
Pro & Back Office
New
- Accept credit and debit card Donations on the Ingenico Lane series of Payment Terminals running EasyCheckout. Select either “Round up to next whole dollar” or “Suggestive donation amount”. You can track donations via the selected Donation PLU in Inventory & Department sales reports. Contact us for setup assistance.
- As a reminder, Ingenico Lane + EasyCheckout also support Tips with credit or debit card payment. Contact us for setup assistance.
Fixed
- Importing new Products now creates an initial entry in Inventory History, just like adding a new Product via the data entry screen.
- For Multi-Store, deleting a Product in Pro/Back Office was removing it fully from all stores. Now it only deletes the Product from the store that invoked the deletion.
- Note: If no other store(s) carry the Product, it is fully deleted so that it will not appear anywhere, including HQ.
- Fixed Permissions link error relating to Department Sales Report.
- Fixed loading of past Receivers into the Receiving grid (Tasks > Receiving > Find).
- Scheduled Reports criteria was incorrectly set if an existing scheduled report was edited and saved.
HQ
Fixed
- Importing new Products now creates an initial entry in Inventory History.
- Adding a new Product via the data entry screen now creates an initial entry in Inventory History, as it does in Pro/Back Office.
- Deleting a Product in HQ will permanently remove it from the database, for all stores.
- Note: If you only wish to delete a Product from one particular store, use Pro/Back Office instead.
- Fixed loading of past Receivers into the Receiving grid (Tasks > Receiving > Find).
- The Sales Summary Scheduled Report was not filtering for the day specified (Yesterday/Today).
- The Inventory Sales Scheduled Report was trimming the last character of a 14-character PLU Number.
- Restoring HQ after minimizing to the taskbar now refreshes the screen correctly.
RF Server
Fixed
- Internal code optimization and version number synchronization.
OLCC File Transfer Utility
Fixed
- To compensate for very large Inventory History tables, we optimized the query for daily and monthly inventory reports.
8.5.25 (May 16, 2022)
Pro & Back Office
Fixed
- Fixed Day of Week setting in Sale Pricing to correctly apply sale pricing on a specific day of the week.
- Product Import would fail if no Alternate PLU was specified.
- Removed Tax Summary report from Report Scheduler – should not have been listed.
HQ
Fixed
- Fixed Day of Week setting in Sale Pricing to correctly apply sale pricing on a specific day of the week.
- Product Import would fail if no Alternate PLU was specified.
- Fixed Product Import to apply to specified Store Number, Price Zone or Tax Zone. If not specified, the import will apply to all stores and zones.
RF Server
Fixed
- Fixed price change failure when looking product up via Vendor Item Number instead of PLU Number.