| Below are listed
the new features of Version 9.0. The official release date of
Version 9.0 of the Rocket POS will be
January 1st, 2008. Over the next few months we will be adding
many more new and exciting features.
By purchasing version 9.0 or upgrading to
version 9.0 now, you will be able to upgrade
for free thru the entire year of 2008. As soon as a new
feature is ready, the download will be updated with the new feature.
The new feature will be flagged as
Ready. Many features below are complete and are
currently in testing at various sites around the country and will be
flagged as Ready as soon as testing is completed.
Items highlighted in
Red are considered major new features. |
|
New Features |
Released |
| Improved the way Mercury credit
cards are processed. |
11/12/2008 |
| Added number touch pad to
Mercury Credit Card Screens |
11/06/2008 |
| Tweaked the Exploding Kits
printout on receipts when reprinting an invoice. |
10/22/2008 |
| You can now setup to 4 buttons
on the Pro-Invoice screen to run 4 different external commands or
custom programs. |
10/22/2008 |
| Full Customer
Loyalty Program Added to the POS |
10/22/2008 |
| A User-Defined tender type added
to the Pro-Invoice screen Tender Screen. |
10/22/2008 |
| When Auto-Select Tender type is
turned on, backing out of Credit Card tender now allows other
tendering types. |
10/22/2008 |
| A HOLD invoice now honors the
single line delete rule. |
10/22/2008 |
| Startup position of the program
can be changed if moved from one computer to another |
09/11/2008 |
| New Credit Card Void feature
added to Mercury |
09/11/2008 |
| Enhanced the Customer Mailing
report / CSV output by sorting on Contact and adding email to the
Excel output |
09/11/2008 |
| Support for Topaz Signature
Capture Pad |
09/11/2008 |
| Easy Internet
Posting (one click) of your Inventory to the World Wide Web for
resale. |
09/11/2008 |
| The Inventory Activity report
can now be filtered by Taxable sales, Non-Taxable sales or Both. |
09/11/2008 |
| Entering an In-Active item into
the Non-PO Receive screen will now give you a notice that the item
is In-Active. |
09/11/2008 |
| In-Active Items Report added to
the POS |
09/11/2008 |
| Vendor Part Number is now blank
when "Cloning" an inventory item. |
04/17/2008 |
| Can now add a separate sound
file for Under-Age checking |
04/15/2008 |
| If in Tips Mode - the Qty and
SKU does NOT printout on the Alternate Printer |
03/07/2008 |
| There is now a pop-up window to
select an invoice to apply a return on a customer's charge account. |
03/05/2008 |
| You can now reverse an
accidental aging over-charge posting |
03/05/2008 |
| The Restaurant Tips mode has
been enhanced with the new Credit Card requirements from Visa, MC
and AMEX. |
03/05/2008 |
| A counter for Item count added
to invoice printout |
03/03/2008 |
| Mix and Match routine has been
enhanced. |
03/03/2008 |
| Inventory Vendor field added to
Fuzzy Search routine. |
03/03/2008 |
| You can now select the Inventory
Photo within the Quick-Add screen. |
03/03/2008 |
| Mercury VeriFone 1000se is now
supported through the Standard Invoicing screen tenders. |
02/26/2008 |
| Customer Payments screen tweaked
on the Standard Invoicing screen. |
02/26/2008 |
| You can now clone a Station
settings to another Station. |
02/25/2008 |
| Within the invoice printing,
they EBT function has been enhanced if you are using EBT |
02/20/2008 |
| The reprint of an invoice
enhanced and editing of an item from within the invoice screen now
honors the new tax tables if they are setup |
02/22/2008 |
| Ctrl + F9 will now show the tax
breakout within the invoice screen. |
02/20/2008 |
| Tweaked some behind the scenes
ways the invoice internals are handled. Greater reliability of doing
saved invoices and some other data reloads. Tax tables now also
honor the Never Round function. |
02/19/2008 |
| Enhanced the Tax Table function
to now include five different tax levels |
02/15/2008 |
| Billing Statement area enhanced |
02/15/2008 |
| Enhanced the Pro-Invoice screen
Secondary screens when doing multiple items on one screen level |
02/15/2008 |
| When clicking the Second Credit
Card button - the POS now ask if you're doing a Credit Card or Debit
Card |
02/12/2008 |
| More pcCharge Pin Pads supported |
02/12/2008 |
| Customers Who Bought One report
has been enhanced |
02/04/2008 |
| The Emailed invoice now has the
Credit Card expiration data removed like all the rest of the
invoices within the POS |
02/04/2008 |
| Put a Print button on all the
Notes fields found within the POS - example; customer notes,
inventory, etc. |
02/04/2008 |
| Made the default output for
printer an option instead of automatically to PDF when the PDF
option is setup |
02/04/2008 |
| Inventory Value report can now
filter out all Zero (0) quantity items. |
02/04/2008 |
| Selling an Open Department item
will not pop open the Back-Order screen when the Qty On Hand level
is zero or below. |
02/04/2008 |
| The clerk that starts a Purchase
Order as well as the clerk that receives in a PO will now show in
the PO history popup. |
02/04/2008 |
| Customer Returns screen has been
enhanced. |
02/04/2008 |
| Inventory Import routine now
writes out exceptions as a DBF and a CSV file so the data can be
manipulated and then it and then re-import it again. |
02/04/2008 |
| You can now set the width of the
pole display for more accurate showing of your company name. |
02/04/2008 |
| You can click a checkbox in the
PO and set the order grid to a natural Entered order instead of by
SKU order. |
02/04/2008 |
| When applying a discount
(CTRL+F5), the cursor now jumps to the discount field on screen
entry. |
02/04/2008 |
| New Customer Flag screen
enhanced. |
02/04/2008 |
| A routine has been added to
strip extra commas and quote marks out of the description when doing
an inventory export. |
02/04/2008 |
| You can now set the order of the
export of data from the inventory file. |
02/04/2008 |
| The Inventory Update screen has
been improved. |
02/04/2008 |
| When entering a decimal place on
secondary screen and pop it on the pro-invoice screen the decimal
place is now honored. |
02/04/2008 |
| The Variance screen and variance
report has been greatly enhanced. |
02/04/2008 |
| A Discretionary Sales Surtax
option has been added to the level three (3) type of customer tax.
This allows setting a maximum for Surtax levels to tax. |
02/04/2008 |
| The Inventory Value report now
has the ability to filter out items with no quantities on hand. |
01/03/2008 |
| Double-Verify data returned from
Credit Card processor is accurate and matches the amount sent in for
approval. |
01/03/2008 |
| Remove Credit Card expiration
date from all receipts. |
01/03/2008 |
| Added a Results Counter to the
Fuzzy Search routine. |
01/03/2008 |
| Modified installation and setup
routines to handle loading and reliable operation on
Microsoft Windows Vista |
11/09/2007 |
| The printing of the SKU field on
a Purchase Order has been expanded to show any long SKUs from the
inventory screen. |
12/13/2007 |
| Can now print a Gift Receipt as
well as Re-Print a Gift Receipt. |
12/14/2007 |
| New Report - Credit Card Detail
report with a date range. |
12/19/2007 |
| Be able to show broken out taxes
on receipts for customers |
12/19/2007 |
| Can now delete a Vendor from the
system. |
12/17/2007 |
| The Gift Card (non-mercury) on
the Standard invoice screen will now search the Multi-store for a
gift card from another store |
12/14/2007 |
| When signing into the POS and
entering your starting cash values, a button has been added that
will allow you to pop open the cash drawer if you have the correct
rights. |
12/14/2007 |
| When scanning a serialized gift
card in the Pro-Invoice screen and if the gift card was previously
sold, a message box pops open to let you know that gift card has
already been sold. |
12/14/2007 |
| Added 2 new reports - Serial
numbers associated with one item that have been sold within a date
range. 2nd Report - All Serial numbers sold within a date range. |
12/12/2007 |
| Fixed problem with Credit Card1
not filling in the Expiration Date if
using a VeriFone 1000se and Mercury |
12/06/2007 |
| Inventory Invoicing Discounter
Tweaked |
12/05/2007 |
| Next and Previous buttons have
been added to the Invoice Line Item Notes to scroll through the
notes. When scrolling the new routine will stop on only those notes
with a comment within it. When exiting the notes, you will be placed
upon the invoice the notes apply too. |
12/14/2007 |
 The
Pop-Up paste option previously available on the customer screen is
now available on the Vendor and Salesperson screens. |
12/05/2007 |
| An Email field has been added to
the Salesperson screen. |
12/05/2007 |
| Added Coupon tenders to 40
column Graphical Receipt |
12/05/2007 |
| You can email customers,
salespeople and vendors directly from the POS now. |
12/05/2007 |
| When invoices are put on Hold
and then taken back off of Hold, you cannot delete line items unless
you are a manager. |
12/05/2007 |
| An Email Test button was added
to the Company Setup Screen |
12/05/2007 |
| Special Orders Transaction
closing problem corrected. |
12/04/2007 |
| Integration of VeriFone 1000se
with Mercury Payments |
11/09/2007 |
| New install routine - more
reliable and easier to use |
11/09/2007 |
| Setup an Automatic Super End of
Day report that will output selected reports to PDF files. Then at a
certain time you pre-define, these files are automatically emailed
to an email that you pre-assigned. |
11/20/2007 |
| All reports can now be sent out
to PDF file format. |
11/14/2007 |
| Food stamp tenders will default
to the amount of food stamp sale amount |
11/09/2007 |
| Gift Cards
with Mercury Processing - You must use the Pro-Invoice screen and
you can order Gift Cards directly from Mercury.
Rocket POS is now Certified by Mercury as a
PCI Standards Certified software package. |
11/26/2007 |
| When in Return mode, will
be able to exit the Credit Card tender screen and return back to the
invoice screen without having to process the credit card first. |
11/15/2007 |
| RA's per customer report with a
date range |
01/15/2008 |
| Ability to setup a second
invoice (text style) to automatically print to a different port for
camera or recording device. |
01/15/2008 |
| Billing statements will be
changed to include open invoices before the actual due date |
12/19/2007 |
| Add a date filter to the
Customer Refund Log report |
11/09/2007 |
| Add the Selling Below Cost
report to the Super End of Day and PDF Email report features |
11/15/2007 |
| Security settings from one clerk
can now be cloned over to another clerk - this makes it easy to
setup the clerks rights from another existing clerk. |
11/12/2007 |
| When using the Pro-Invoice
screen - if you pull up another customer besides CASH and that
customer has a Saved invoice or Quote on file, the system will ask
if you want to see this customers Open invoices |
11/09/2007 |
| Add a date of check printing to
the Checks Printed report |
11/09/2007 |
| If clicking Credit Card 1 and
not using a processor, you will be able to return to the sales
screen to add additional items. |
11/09/2007 |
| Clerk can now change their
password without having access to the Salesperson menu selection
area |
11/09/2007 |
| When selling a Matrix item, the
size and color will be added to the notes section of the line item
detail for easy lookup on the customer screen |
11/09/2007 |
| Matrix item quantities can now
be manual adjusted through a grid on the Matrix screen. This helps
speed the entry or adjustments of the quantities on hand field. A
history record is created of any adjustments through the Matrix
grid. |
11/14/2007 |
| When doing a Matrix item on a
Purchase Order - once you enter the Matrix Base number - a window
pops open to allow you to enter the quantities to order within a
grid. This then carried over onto the PO when the window is closed. |
11/28/2007 |
| Enlarged the Notes field screen
on the customer screen when right clicking on a line item. Also
enlarged the Notes field screen on the line items notes within the
invoicing screen. |
11/09/2007 |
| When doing an override on a
charge account - if required - a manager must enter in his code
before the credit limit can be overridden. |
11/12/2007 |
| When doing a credit card return
- if you do a miss scan - the ability to retry your scan or back out
of the screen |
11/12/2007 |
| Multiple Instances of the POS is
now blocked from running on the same computer at the same time. |
11/12/2007 |
| If no entry is made in the
Customer Search screen the search will now default to the
CASH customer |
11/09/2007 |
| The Check Writing search routine
now opens in Company Name order for easier searching. A button has
also been added to the Checks search routine to find any un-printed
checks. This aids in finding the first check to print without
knowing the Company name. |
11/15/2007 |
| You can now set a
timer to determine how many seconds the Make
Change
screen stays open after a sale. |
11/15/2207 |
| If using pcCharge, debit
transactions now show up within the Daily Money reports |
11/15/2007 |
| If entering the Stations screen,
warning to Re-enter the POS will only show if you actually make a
change to any field. |
11/15/2007 |
| Other small tweaks and
adjustments to numerous to mention will also be included as they are
done. |
11/09/2007 |
|
Send us ideas if you have them -
we will try our best to incorporate them if they are valid. |
|
Features from Previous
Versions you may have Missed. |
