[RetailEdge Moderator]

The following features and minor fixes have been added to Version 8.1.3. All RetailEdge Silver and Gold customers will be able to automatically download this update. This is a major release and includes over 40 new features that RetailEdge users have asked for.

Hopefully you will like what you see. Keep the suggestions coming!

New Features

1. Ctrl-Alt-X can now be used on the sales screen to change departments for a particular item on the sales screen. This is particularly useful for Canadian customers who need to change departments for adult items when they are sold to children but can be used for an easy way to change sales tax on an item with multiple or exemption sale taxes. More about it can be found here http://www.retailedge.com/phpBB/viewtop ... =120#p2257

2. The exact change key in RetailEdge has always been the plus (+) key on your keyboard. However, there are so many people who did not know this that we added an Exact Change Label On Payment Screen

3. Customer, Vendor and ToDo activity. We have started the implementation of CRM (Customer Relation Management) into the program. As of this release we have an activity tab on the Customer and Vendor managers as well as a ToDo activity manager. This feature will allow you to assign Clerks to particular tasks and to allow you to better document customer and vendor contact history (CYA). This is only the beginning of a pretty sophisticated CRM/VRM and Activity functionality that will allow you to more efficiently and effectively run your business.

4. New Summary Sales Report button on Customer Items Tab to allow you to quickly view consolidated information about a customer's purchase history.

5. Added On Order Column and changed order to TO Order on Reorder reports to allow you to see more quickly if automatically generated purchase orders based on sales and minimums and maximums need to be adjusted for on order quantities.

6. Created a new export of sold items. This is a CSV with one sales_items per line. It is a combination of Sales_Items, Inventory, Customer (CustID), and a few other fields.

7. Inventory Export now includes both Notes1 and Notes2. CR/LF pairs are replaced with HTML <BR> tags to allow for better import into a web store.

8. There is now a checkbox on the Purchase Order and Transfer Order Managers that will allow you to view deleted POs and TOs. If you select one and edit it, it will allow it to be undeleted.

9. Pole Display will now display a changed price on a direct price override.

10. RetailEdge comes preinstalled with three databases (RetailEdgeData, RetailEdgeData_Demo, RetailEdgeData_Train) You can switch between the databases to allow employees to train on real data or run demos. Now if you switch to the Demo or Train database, RetailEdge will list on the main for the Database being used to prevent users from inadvertently using the wrong database or worse yet restoring the training database information into the real data (yes this has happened).

11. You can now copy and paste a matrix parent into receiving and POs to create a new one. Copy pasting should now work with pasted matrix parents. When a matrix parent is pasted and then the SKU is changed, the matrix field will be enabled and set to --None--.

12. Customer Export now can be filtered by Last Action Date.

13. Gift Card Report will now show Last Issued Customer and tickets. This is helpful for people who are reissuing/reusing gift cards.

14. Added Birthday Filter to Customer Reports and Export.

15. Improved speed of Gift Card Status viewer.

16. Removed allowing RetailEdge to talk to PCCharge by the file method. For security reasons RetailEdge will no longer communicate with PC Charge by the File Method. PCCharge will most likely be removing this from future versions anyway, so we are just getting the jump on this one.

17. Added warning to customers when changing costs in inventory that if the on hand quantity is non-zero, that the user might want to manually reset the average cost. The average cost is used for tracking cost of goods sold and many customers would forget to adjust the value when making pricing changes.

18 Added Ctrl-Alt-G hot key to display the Issue Gift Card Manually form.

19. Start-up Time Check On start-up RE will compare the server's time to the local data server's time. If the difference is more than five minutes, then a warning will be displayed to the user.

20. Improved display speed of Customer Manager Form.

21. The inventory editor will now have focus on Price 1 on the Local location (the normal selling price of an item) to make editing pricing faster.

22. Changed the way inventory updates work. Currently the Inventory pricing and costs do not update for a particular location if there Inventory Update - Update/Set Prices for All Locations
Adding Item to Receiving Updates Last Inventory Cost

23. Matrix Parent Pricing. When we re-receive an item through a matrix parent on a PO or Receiving, the pricing on the parent never gets updated. So on a price change someone has to go into the inventory and make the change there.

24. Added a Gift Card Balance Receipt so that when checking a balance of a gift card for a customer, you can now give them a receipt for their records.

25. Added the ability to charge interest on late House Charges.

26. Change Double Click Action on Customer Column in the Sales Manager. Double clicking the CustID field will now display the Customer Manager. Double Clicking the Customer Name will display the Customer Editor.

27. Audit Log now has entries to track changes to Security and Clerk Fields.

28. Added Remote Support menu item to make it easier to perform Customer Technical Support.

29. Gift Receipt button option on the sales manager allow you to select which item(s) you want to print on the gift receipt.

30. Receipt quantity now shows to 3 decimal places instead of rounding to 2 places.

31. Layaway Receipt now shows payment type on history

32. The promotion code will now reset to -- None -- after every sale.

33. New CSV option exports the Sales_Items to a CSV file. I also added a vendor column (to the CSV).

34. Added filters for Location to and Location From to Receiving history by TO report to give better ability to see transfer information on report.

35. Added Ave Tkt Item Qty column to Sales Performance By Date report. This is different than the Ave SKU Quantity value reported. The Ave SKU is the average number of SKUs sold per ticket. The Average Ticket Item Qty is the average quantity of items.

36. Added support for new devices from Bixolon BCD1000 display, SRP 770II label printer (fast) and the TPG A798/A799 Receipt Printer.

37. Added number of records to bottom of PO Items Tab list to make it easier to receive items off of a packing slip.

38. Total items for a sale will now show on the bottom of a receipt. This total does not take into account negative items on the sale to allow someone to more easily check the quantity of items leaving the store.

39. Added new export option called 'Customer - Sales Summary (No Cost Info)'. This is the same function as the customer sales summary export but does not include cost information (nor profit).

40. The customer sales summary export will now consolidate customers into one record (no separate lines for each location).

41. Printing labels from the Receiving form and the PO form will now follow the grid order. POs do have a couple of exceptions (e.g. discount).

42. In order to be securely process credit cards using PCCharge, you MUST use the TCP method to talk to PCCharge. RetailEdge no longer supports using a file method. To see how to setup RetailEdge to talk to PCCharge using the TCP method check the following link: http://www.retailedge.com/phpBB/viewtop ... f=4&t=1759

Bug Fixes

1. Register ID filter now remembers its settings.
2. OPOS scales now work with Metrologic Stratos Scanner/Scales.
3. Transfer Order Status now properly displays in list pressing Copy to TO from Inventory Manager.
4. RetailEdge barcode labels will now properly scan into receiving with Version 7.5 tags.
5. Updated Convert To 8.0 program to convert data from 7.5 to 8.1.
8. Memo Field in Customer Manager Sales and Sales Items now displays properly when switching tabs.
9. Inventory Reports Quantity Filters will not properly filter inventory with zero quantities.
10. Sales Journal Report now shows No Sales
11. Summary Closing Report will now correctly group when customers are closing late at night (near midnight).
12. The sales screen no longer asks for a clerk password when moving from the Items tab to the Pmt tab. This happens when RE is attempting to display the house charge balance.
13. Voiding a return sale now properly resells the Serial Numbers.