Abacre Retail Point of Sale version 2.3
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Abacre Retail Point of Sales is a new generation of retail management
software for Windows. It is a complete solution of the retail: taking
orders, billing, purchasing, inventory and labour management. The user
interface is carefully optimized for high speed input of a client's
order and prevention of common mistakes. It's designed for using on
multiple computers, and contains reliable and secure authorization
levels.

It works with all commonly used hardware: touch screens, POS printers,
line displays (poles), cash drawers and barcode readers (bar code
scanners). The layouts of the client bill can be customized, and the
program can be set up for any currencies, taxes, and number formats.
Payments can be accepted by cash, credit cards, or checks.

For managers, there is a rich set of reports that shows a complete
picture of retail operations: sales by given period, hours of high
load, Z-Out, on hand inventory, the most active employees, payment
methods, and automatic tax calculations.

By standardizing the entire retail management process, the software
makes better use of your employees' time and energy radically
improving your turnover and profit margins.

It's easy to install and easy to use. Very affordable licensing allows
this software to be used in any environment from small single-computer
retail shops to large retail chains with multiple checkout lanes.

Requirements
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Program works under Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
Microsoft ADO (MDAC) components are required. They maybe freely downloaded 
from Microsoft.com web site.

Installation instructions
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Simply run setup.exe file.

Download and install CCO OPOS drivers from this location:
http://www.monroecs.com/files/OposCCOs-1_12_000.exe

What's new
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ARTPOS 2.3
* Feature: added new field Currency Denominations located on menu
Configuration - Property Settings - General. Now it's possible to
define which currency denominations do you want to use and which do
you want to omit (for example, rarely used denominations).
* Feature: Added new option: Show Backup Data option. This option is
located on menu Configuration - Preferences - End of Day.
* Feature: Added new option: Show Upload Sales Data option. This
option is located on menu Configuration - Preferences - End of Day.
* Feature: added currency denominations for Maldives.
* Improvement: Grand Total field was removed in Collected Tax report
for Taxable Sales column. Because it it did not pay much sense.
* Bug fixed: on some printers the last line of z-out reports was cut.
* Bug fixed: taxable sales could be calculated for items with apply
tax parameters even if calculate tax parameter was unchecked.
* Bug fixed: order number was not correctly updated during Divide
Order in equals parts operation.

ARTPOS 2.2.1
* Feature: possibility to save all icons for Items as separate bitmap
files on disk. The exported image files as saved into the folder:
\My Documents\Abacre Retail Point of Sale 2\Icons\
* Bug fixed: error message was shown on Take Payment window:
"Cannot close order: amount paid does not match to amount due."
for currencies without cents.

ARTPOS 2.2
* Feature: Take Payment window displays payment methods as buttons.
* Feature: new button: Order Type.
* Feature: new window: Order Types.
* Feature: new button: Client Type.
* Feature: new window: Client Types.
* Feature: new option: Show Order Type button.
* Feature: new option: Show Client Type button.
* Feature: new option: Client Type order number format.
* Feature: new parameters for bill's template: <ordertypename>,
<clienttypename>, <clienttypecode>, <clienttypeno>

ARTPOS v2.1
* Feature: new option "Show Choose Item Quantity" located in menu
Configuration - Preferences - Order - Order Details tab.
Check this option if you want to do specify quantity of item when
adding it to an order.
* Feature: Automatic order number reset and following. Now if you
delete all orders from the database then new order will be started
with order number 1. Although if you remove last order from database
then for new order will be used order number of previous order + 1. In
other words order numbers will follow in line without interruption.

ARTPOS v2.0
* Feature: for better Microsoft Vista compliance database and
configuration files are located now in the following folder:
My Documents\Abacre Retail Point of Sale 2\
Backup files are located now in the subfolder:
My Documents\Abacre Retail Point of Sale 2\Backup\
* Feature: Login using Employee Swipe Card.
* Feature: Login using Employee Barcode Card.
* Feature: on Items window located in menu Configuration now it's
possible to scan barcode of an item and it will be automatically
entered into Barcode field for selected item.
* Feature: automatic resizing of icons for items and categories. Just
press Load button, select icon's file and ARTPOS will resize it into
standard-size icon.
* Feature: in addition to BMP files for icons it's possible to use now
JPG, JPEG, ICO, WMF, EMF file types.
* Feature: automatic reset of order number upon deleting of all
orders.
* Feature: added currency denominations for Malaysia, Philippines and
Indonesia.
* Bug fixed: virtual keyboard (for touch screen) did not work for Delivery
Address field on Order window and for all fields of Clients window.
* Bug fixed: error message was shown when adding a component to just
created item.

ARTPOS v1.4
* Feature: added additional verifications on actions with workers. Now
when you uncheck Is Admin option or delete worker from database ARPOS
verifies if this is the last administrator in database.
* Feature: improved database upgrade mechanism.
* Feature: new option: Print Z-Out report on Bill Printer having the
following values: Ask, Yes, No.
* Feature: Z-Out reports were automatically printed after pressing
Print button on preview window. Now pressing Print button will show
printer selection dialog.
* Bug fixed: error message after pressing Log Off button when option
"Automatically Clock Out after Log Off" was checked.
* Bug fixed: cost of inventory was not correctly calculated for items
with ingredients when ingredient quantity was different from 1.
* Bug fixed: it was not possible to enter decimal separator comma (,)
into Discount field on Order window.
* Bug fixed: error message was shown when "Automatically Clock In on
Log On" options was checked.

ARTPOS v1.3
* Feature: possibility to lookup logical device (LND) name for
printer, cash drawer, pole and bar code reader. LDNs are shown in drop
down lists now.
* Feature: new option: "Group the same items when adding item to
order".
* Feature: new option on Bill Configuration - Parameters: Show Time
Added. This option prints date and time when item was added to order.
* Feature: added new option: Show Item's Name for fiscal printers.
* Feature: added new option: Show Discounted Prices for fiscal
printers.
* Feature: if Show Menu Items is unchecked for fiscal printers it
prints all items as one item.
* Feature: added <subtotal> parameters for Bill Configuration.
* Feature: improved activation algorithm. Now you can automatically
reactivate software after HDD formatting.
* Feature: added support for SplFp fiscal printer.
* Feature: added new option: Show More button on Preferences - Take
Payment window.
* Feature: added new option: Print bills only for orders paid by cash.
* Bug fixed: <totalnet> parameter included taxes and tips for "Taxes
and Included" calculation method.
* Bug fixed: Print Notifications, Print Bill, Close Order and other
buttons were not visible for screen resolution 800x600.
* Bug fixed: it was possible to enter several items with the same code
or barcode into list of items.
* Bug fixed: Some countries were missed in country list located on
Property Settings window.
* Bug fixed: Some states were misspelled in states list located on
Property Settings window.
* Bug fixed: sometimes workstation name was not assigned for orders.
Therefore Z-Out (cash drawer reconciliation) was not possible in such
cases.
* Bug fixed: cost of inventory was not correctly calculated for items
with ingredients when ingredient quantity was different from 1.

ARTPOS v1.2
* [Pro] Feature: Price Schedule now also works with modifiers.
* [Std, Pro] Feature: support of serialized items (items with serial
number).
* Bug fixed: it was possible to type discount for an order using
virtual keyboard even if "Can manually type discount" option was
unchecked.
* Bug fixed: Price Schedule did not work correctly when adding new
items out of given time range.
* Bug fixed: sometimes wrong caption was shown on Purchase Order, 
Receiving Voucher or Return Voucher windows.

ARTPOS v1.1
* [Pro] Feature: Price Schedule for items. Now it's possible to specify
prices in advance, setup prices for given hours or days of week.
http://www.abacre.com/retailpointofsale/manual/priceschedule.htm
* Feature: Delete Orders button located on Orders window.
* Feature: added new parameters for Bill Configuration template:
<orderdateclosed> and <ordertimeclosed>. These parameters show moment
of time when order was closed.
* Feature: default decimal separator (dot or comma) is now used for
virtual keyboard.
* Bug fixed: Update button did not work property on Physical Inventory
window.
* Bug fixed: after Print Bill sometimes bill was saved with incorrect
totals (modifiers were not included into bill).
* Bug fixed: after Print Bill it was not possible to add modifiers to
a new item.
* Bug fixed: item price was not properly formatted on list of
available menu items located on Order window.
* Bug fixed: on hand quantity of item was set to zero when item had
zero cost.
* Bug fixed: Cash Drawer Reconciliation did not work when there was
no countable media (cash, checks etc).

ARTPOS v1.0
 Official release.

Installation/Unistallation
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Create appropriate directory, for example, c:\ARTPOS\, and unzip ARTPOS.ZIP 
file. Then run SETUP.EXE program and follow to standard installation 
instructions. 

To uninstall Abacre Retail Point of Sale, Run Add/Remove Programs from Control 
Panel and choose ARTPOS.

Purchasing information
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The registration fee is $299.99 US dollars or equivalent amount in EURO
for each workstation.
www.abacre.com/register.htm

Company's address
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http://www.abacre.com
e-mail: support@abacre.com
