37820 Transfer Rates for Non-Inventory Items can now be picked up from the Delivery Challan itself

Module(s) Affected:

Sales & Distribution - Consignment - Transfer Out
Sales & Distribution - Delivery - Delivery Challan (Adhoc or Against Order) - Auto Transfer Out

Enhancement Summary:

Previously, whenever any transfer used to be done, the rates for such transfers were always picked up from the Price List in Transfer Out irrespective of what was provided in Delivery Challan. However, in case of non-inventory items, the transfer rate cannot be fixed in Price List always. So for non-inventory items,the rates shall be picked up from the Delivery Challan itself.

Case Study: Procurement & transferring non-trading items to stores/other organization sites

• Process
  1. Create a non-inventory Item with Ledger defined in it.
  2. Procure the same using GRC - Purchase Invoice.
  3. Move the goods to stores using DC - Transfer Out process.
• Output
  • Ledger (item) wise detail will be available for in-out transactions.
  • No impact on the inventory.

38836 Now image of item can be seen in POS as per Policy

Module(s):

POS - Normal POS - Item (Menu) - Search Item (option) > View Image (button)
POS - Collection Centre - Item (Menu) - Search Item (option) > View Image (button)
POS - Normal POS - Scan Item > View Image (button in Billing Area)
POS - Back Office - HO Control (Menu) - Item Master (option)  > View Image (button)

Enhancement Summary:

Item Image at store end is required specially in designer chains to address certain scenarios like when there is no stock available, the cashier/manager can refer to the image for reference and communications to the customer.

How to enable the same in Retail Management?

You will find a new System Policy setting, i.e., "Display Item Image at POS based on".

• None - On clicking on the Image option, the user will be shown a message to contact the administrator for enabling this option.
• Local - Image will be shown directly from the application folder at store end. Images should be saved manually to store server.
• HOAPI - Based on the API configuration done for accessing Head Office, system will automatically show the image from Head Office.
  Note: In case no image is available for the Item or Image convention is not set for the Item, system will show "No Image found" by default.

For more details on configuring Web API or how to store image at store, you need to follow the details specified here: Setting Up the Web API

38763 User defined fields introduced for Goods Return from Store

Module:

Ginesys Web - Admin - Utilities - Manage - User Defined Field (UDF)
Ginesys POS - Back Office - Transactions - Goods Return

Enhancement Summary:

User defined fields have been introduced for goods return documents getting generated from the store. The same can be configured in head-office and allocated to stores as per the requirement.

At the store, while preparing goods return transactions, the system shall allow the user to input any UDF if it has been enabled and assigned from Head-Office. If any UDF is made mandatory at HO, the user will have to mandatorily input the same while doing such entry.

38760 Configurable user wise option for Policy driven GRT Advice behavior for Settlement post expiry now available

Module:

POS - Back Office - Transactions - Settlement

Enhancement Summary:

A new user policy has been introduced, i.e., "Settle with expired GRT Advice" with Allow, Warn and Stop options.

Scenario:

Currently the settlement is restricted, if any incomplete but expired GRT advice exists. Now, consider a scenario where the goods are packed in the store as per the goods return advice; but, it cannot be moved towards the destination - the logistics company being unable to pick up the same. In such situation, the user is unable to do settlement. In turn this leads to the billing process being stopped.

38843 Now reason can be provided for voiding Deposit / Refund Bill

Module:

Retail Management - Setup - Configure - Reason
Retail Management - Setup - Manage - Master Policy
Retail Management - Setup - Manage - Site Policy

Enhancement Summary:

Now the head-office user can configure the applicability of void reason for deposit & refund bills so that the cashier is forced to enter a reason while voiding the Deposit / Refund bill. The name of the policy applied - Void Deposit bill reason entry required & Void Refund bill reason entry required.

38873 Customer addition and tagging have been made easier

Module:

POS - Normal POS
POS - POS as Collection Centre

Enhancement Summary:

Customer addition and tagging have been made easier by auto population of some of the data. The customer will now be auto-tagged after selecting the return bill then the customer need not be manually selected, reducing the time spent on each bill. 

Also, customers can be directly created from the search customer window so that the mobile number of the customer need not be asked again. The scenarios given below are handled by this enhancement.

Scenario:

• When the cashier is searching for a customer by his mobile number and the customer is not found, then he needs to add the customer. However, for doing that, he needs to go to the add window and retype the details. Due to this, the customer might be irritated with the cashier.
• When the cashier is selecting a bill against a customer, then the customer and card details are not auto-populating. But while pressing F8, the cashier is mandatorily asked to tag the customer to whom this bill was done.

38821 Reprint bills will be printed as single copy only

Module:

Normal POS - POS (module) - Bill (menu) - Reprint (option)
Normal POS - POS (module) - Bill (menu) - Reprint Last Bill (option)
Normal POS - POS (module) - POS Taskpad - Bill Reprint (option)
POS as Collection Centre - Collection Centre (module) - Bill (menu) - Reprint (option)
POS as Collection Centre - Collection Centre (module) - Bill (menu) - Reprint Last Bill (option)
POS as Collection Centre - Collection Centre (module) - Collection Centre Taskpad - Bill Reprint (option)
POS as Delivery Slip - Delivery Slip (module) - Slip (menu) - Reprint (option)
POS as Delivery Slip - Delivery Slip (module) - Tasks (menu) - Reprint Last Slip (option)
POS as Delivery Slip - Delivery Slip (module) - Delivery Slip Taskpad - Slip Reprint (option)

Enhancement Summary:

Previously, on reprinting any bill, the system used to reprint the no. of copies specified in the policy to print. However, reprint is required rarely and study suggests that reprint is ideally required only for a single copy. So, now at the time of bill reprint only a single copy will get printed. The number of copies of Sale or return bill Bill at the time of creation and save, provided in the Master policy, will not be considered here.

38825 Technical upgrades have been made to Paytm wallet for smooth functioning of the e-wallet feature

Module:

POS - All transactiosn with Mode of Payment

Enhancement Summary:

New technical upgrades have been made in Paytm e-wallet feature for smoother integrated functioning.

38782 Technical upgrades have been made to ensure that Document Numbers do not skip in POS

Module:

POS - All transactions

Enhancement Summary:

Technical upgrades have been made to ensure that Document Numbers do not skip at POS.

Scenario:

In a few cases, we had observed that in POS stores (specially a multi-brand outlet), POS Bills would often skip a few document number and again start working. Suppose if the POS Bill document no. was defined as POSBL/<n>; sometimes the POS Bills would often have numbering like POSBL/1, POSBL/2, POSBL/3 etc. But the continuity would sometimes be broken at POSBL/16,  and instead of the next bill being  POSBL/17 it would take the numbering to be POSBL/18.

Although the scenario is explained with the example of a POS Invoice the same is perfectly applicable on all POS Transactions.

38772 User policy settings for stores has been regrouped for better visibility

Module:

Ginesys Web - Retail Management - Setup - Manage - Master Policy

Enhancement Summary:

New grouping has been added for organizing the user policies for stores.

• Common
• Delivery Slip & POS Bill
• Other Bills
• POS Order
• Goods Receive & Return

38775 Data Sync Dashboard will allow filtration Event Data wise

Module:

Ginesys Launchpad - Data Sync

Enhancement Summary:

Currently, during the support process, if a particular event data's last receive status needs to be checked, the support executive has to open in descending order each and every record in the Sync list. Some quick filtration option was required for the same, it has been provided. 

A field called EVENTS has been introduced in the Send and Receive tabs, it will show distinct events that are packaged in the particular Send or Receive records. Grid column filters will operate on records having a particular kind of events.

40533 Inventory Valuation Report showing wrong values

Module:

Inventory - Analysis - Inventory Valuation

Reported Version:

11.136.1                         

Scenario:

1. Run the Inventory Valuation Report
2. Observe that it is showing wrong values

40544 COGS performance has been enhanced

Module:

Admin - Utilities - Application Tools - Recalculate COGS

Reported Version:

11.136.1                    

Scenario:

COGS internal logic has been altered to enhance performance.

38831 Barcodes with preceding 0 (zero) can now be scanned in POS as Collection Centre and POS as Delivery Slip

Module:

POS as Collection Centre
POS as Delivery Slip

Reported Version:

1.136.1

Scenario:

Since Barcodes with preceding 0 (zero) are quite common in daily life; it has been made applicable for POS as Collection Centre and POS as Delivery Slip as it was already applicable in other modules.

Note: In Normal POS mode, barcodes with preceding 0 (zero) was already working fine.