New Feature
- ‘ALL program data’ option added to Automatic Extract Program Options in POS Terminals
Author: Lynx Software
Version 9 Release
We are pleased to announce the release of Version 9!
What’s New in Version 9?
- 10 New Programming Options
- Tare Table, Sort PLUs, Menu Levels
- Modifiers, Discount, Percentage
- Adjustment, Tip, Discount Coupon, Paid Out
- New Sales Reports
- Meal Deal Report
- Item Sales by Modifier Report
- Period Sales Reports
- Item Sales by Period Reports
- Enhanced Data Entry
- Redesigned data entry screens
- More range editing
- More powerful screen layout editing
- Performance Improvements
- And much more … click here for details
Upgrade to Version 9
Uniwell Lynx v9.00.0080
New Firmware Support
- HX-4500/4000/2500/1500-03 v3.30
- HX-4500/4000/2500/1500-03 v3.40
New Programming Options
- Tare Table
- Sort PLUs
- Menu Levels
- Modifiers
- Discount
- Percentage
- Adjustment
- Tip
- Discount Coupon
- Paid Out
New Sales Reports
- Meal Deal Report
- Item Sales by Modifier Report
- Daily Sales Report replaced by Period Sales Report with Daily/Weekly/Monthly options
- Item Sales by Period Report with 7 Days/7 Weeks/7 Days of Week/7 Months options
New Listings
- Promotional Prices Listing
Report Style
- Report colour scheme option added to Preferences
Data Maintenance
- Range editing of Groups
- Item data entry screen redesigned
- ‘Auto-populate PLU Code with Item Code when adding new Items’ option in Preferences applied without the need to tab to the PLU Code field
- ‘Synchronise item POS Description with Description’ option added to Preferences (Always/Auto/Never)
- ‘Synchronise item PLU 2nd Name with Description’ option added to Preferences (Always/Auto/Never)
- Sort PLU filter and column added to Items grid
- ‘Copy selected item’ option added to Add Range feature of Items grid
- Modifier Prices added to Item Selling Prices grid
- Clerk data entry screen redesigned
- Menu Level, Location and Destination columns added to Clerks grid
- Range editing of Clerks
- POS Terminal setup screen redesigned
- Location filter added to Sales Terminals grid
- Range editing of POS Terminals
- Range editing of Customers
- KP File Names, Security Level Names, Location Names and Destination Names added to Customize, Extract Program and data entry drop-down lists
Screen Layouts
- Support for programming Button Layout 2
- Options to Add New Item or Modify Item while editing Screen Layout
- Option to Update Clerk Captions
- ‘Set PLU button captions automatically in Screen Layouts’ option added to Preferences
- ‘Set Clerk button captions automatically in Screen Layouts’ option added to Preferences
Communications
- Location filter added to Communications Test, Send/Extract Program, Collect Sales, Backup/Restore Sales Terminals and Journal Monitor
- Communications Test extracts Configure file so that Windows Firewall prompt is triggered and also checks and updates Firmware setting if it is a supported firmware version
- New Automatic Extract Program Options added to POS Terminals for Groups, PLUs, Barcodes and Customers with option to extract New Items Only (These options replace the previous ‘Automatically extract new items during Collect Sales’ and ‘Automatically extract all program during Collect Sales’ options)
- Scheduled Jobs setup screen redesigned
- Option to print saved reports added to Scheduled Jobs
- Option to send batch reports to cloud drive/s added to Scheduled Jobs
- Price Levels added to Extract Program and Send Program
- Recovery files saved during Collect Sales communications in case of power failure or other abnormal shutdown (Recovery files are automatically deleted after the sales batch has been created and batch tmp files created)
Sales Batches
- Location, Sales Terminal and Date Range filters added to Process Sales Batches, Unprocess Sales Batches and Delete Sales Batches
- Day of Week column added to Sales Batch grids
- Cloud option added to Sales Batch Reports
Stock Control
- Modify Item button added to Stock Purchases
Customers
- Customer Invoices added to Customer Reports
- Customer Receipts added to Customer Reports
- Option to include Customer Receipts added to Email Customer Statements
- Option to include Customer Invoices added to Email Customer Statements
- Option to include attachments added to Email Customer Statements
Manager Reports
- Item description added to Delete Item entries in User Log
Export Data
- Option to include Inactive Items added to Export Items and Export Barcodes
- LastUpdated column added to Export Items
Data File Management
- Optimise Data File option added to Backup Data File
User Security
- ‘Prevent user from modifying PLU codes or barcodes when modifying items’ option added to Users
External Data Access
- Read-Only user login added to data files to allow data to be used in external applications like Microsoft Excel
Performance
- Purge Data – ALL Transactional Data and Totals up to 23x faster
- Archive Data up 1.5x faster
- Screen layout editor load time reduced for databases with a large number of items
- Minor performance improvement throughout application due to removal of old features
Old Features Removed
- Support for DX/SX/TX/QX series ECRs
- Note: Version 9 will be available with downgrade rights to Version 8 if support for the above models is required
- HASP Licence Key support
- MYOB Link Add-On
- LiquorFile Add-On
- MacromatiX export
- ‘Automatically extract new items during Collect Sales’ and ‘Automatically extract all program during Collect Sales’ options removed from Preferences and POS Terminals
- Maximum number of Price Levels reduced from 236 to 99
Version 9 Preview – New Reports
One of the keys to a successful retail business is in-depth sales analysis so you know what you are doing well and where you can improve. The sales analysis reports in Uniwell Lynx have been designed to help you do exactly that. Consider some of the new reports that will be included in Version 9 …
Period Sales Reports
The Daily Sales Report has been replaced by a new Period Sales Report with Daily/Weekly/Monthly options. These reports provide a way to quickly analyse sales trends over time and the optional charts make it easy to visualise the trends.
Item Sales by Period Reports
These new reports allow you to compare sales of particular items across 7 days, 7 Weeks, 7 Days of Week or 7 Months. Sales quantities, sales amounts or both can be shown on these reports and the summarise report option can be used to get an overview by supplier, location, POS terminal, group or price level.
Report Colour Scheme
As seen in the reports above Version 9 will also include a new Report Colour Scheme setting with three different colour options and one grayscale option.
Contact your Uniwell Lynx Reseller for more information about Version 9 or submit an enquiry via our Contact Us page.
Version 9 Preview – Data Entry Screens
The data entry screens for Items, Clerks and POS Terminals have been redesigned in Version 9.
Items
Removal of support for old Uniwell POS terminal models has made it possible to simplify the Item data entry screen considerably …
- Programming options that are no longer relevant have been removed
- Commonly used options have been moved to the General tab for quicker access
- Tabs and layouts have been reorganised for more intuitive data entry
Clerks and POS Terminals
The Clerk and POS Terminal data entry screens have also been redesigned.
Version 9 Preview – Screen Layouts
In this post we will consider some of the improvements to Screen Layout programming that will be included in Version 9.
Button Layout 2
Version 9 will include support for programming Button Layout 2 and other settings for the Transaction Area of the display.
Add/Modify Items and Clerk Captions
Version 9 will also include support for Adding or Modifying Items while editing Screen Layouts and an option to Update Clerk Captions.
Automatically Update PLU/Clerk Button Clerk Captions
Two new options have been added to Preferences that can be used to Update PLU Button and/or Clerk Button captions automatically. If you enable these options then whenever you edit an item description or a clerk name the buttons in your screen layouts will be updated automatically.
Version 9 Preview – Modifiers
Welcome to the first in a series of posts that will provide a preview of some of the new features that will be included in Version 9.
The Modifiers feature of Uniwell AX/HX POS Terminals provides an elegant way to handle product variations. For example, a café may use modifiers to allow for small, regular, large and extra-large drinks – giving each variation a different price.
Modifier Messages
Version 9 will include support for programming the modifier messages used to identify variations of a product.
These modifier messages will also be shown in the drop-down lists when editing items making it much easier to setup modifiers for your products.
Item Sales by Modifier Report
An Item Sales by Modifier Report will also be included in Version 9 so that you can analyse your sales of product variations.
Uniwell Lynx v8.07.0007
Release Date: 21/10/2017
New Feature
- Date included after each Z counter on consolidated batch reports
Uniwell Lynx v8.07.0006
Release Date: 15/10/2017
New Feature
- ‘No sales data found’ assigned an error code so it can be included in the Communications Log when viewed with ‘Show errors only’ option enabled
Uniwell Lynx v8.07.0005
Release Date: 11/10/2017
New Features
- HX-4500/4000/2500/1500-03 v3.20 support
- Start Hour option added to Attendance Report
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