The new version of the Positouch software is not just your regular update. It is loaded with features that push us ahead of competitive software. There are reasons for current and prospective Positouch-run operations to consider this upgrade, as our Implementations Manager and Special Projects Coordinator, Charles Reiser, shows in this article.

C.C. Productions and RDC are proud to announce the next major software release of POSitouch Version 5.3x. Functionality enhancements have been made to most aspects of the software such as programming, gratuities, credit cards, magnetic strip user cards, discounts and reporting. In this issue we will highlight the new features and enhancements and detail some features and how you can best utilize to meet your needs.

Menu Editor

We added new functionality to Edit Order Screens Copy, Clear, and Sort. If you regularly re-program menus these additions will ease your work and save you time.

• The Copy function allows you to copy multiple buttons from one screen to another.
• The Clear will remove the item number from a group/range of cells on an order screen. While it removes the item number the other attributes of the cell remain behind, this is useful to those of you who run frequent daily menus and need the same modifiers, but different items on a daily basis. Cells without an item number will not appear on a screen, so even if you are not reusing all of the cells on a particular daily special screen, your staff won't see anything to ring in from a terminal if you don't give it an item number.
• Sort is the best of these three programming changes. Sort allows you to change the order of the buttons on one screen, either a range or the whole screen, by major/minor category, prep sequence or even alphabetically.

Magnetic Card Enhancements

What we believe might be one of the best improvements with magnetic cards, is a change with manager login. When one of your staff members is logged into a terminal and sitting on a screen, and you want to perform a manager function all you need to do is swipe your manager card. Immediately you will be logged into the system. This time saver will allow you to eliminate several steps to get logged in and perform manager functions. After you have completed your manager functions and log out, the system will automatically return to the location the last person was logged into at the terminal.

Open Dollar Gratuities

Open dollar gratuity functionality has been added with Version 5.31. Now you can enter an amount as a dollar amount, instead of just a choice of three preset percentages. Also when you add in a gratuity, if you have setup suggested gratuities (a feature of 5.25 and up) the suggested gratuities will not appear on the check. Since you have a gratuity already added.

Credit Card Authorization

A new method for authorizing credit cards has been added. Now from an order screen, you can swipe a credit card. This feature is designed to capture the credit card data, with a $0 check. Once you have captured the card, you can go back when you are ready to pay the check and repeat the authorization from the authorization screen. This draft capture is similar to the pre-auth bar tab feature, but without the preset dollar amount.

Discounts

Discounts have incorporated several changes as well. You can now have the checks with coupons and comps (discounts from an order screen button), automatically printed out when they are applied to a guest check.

Also, if you use coupons in your restaurant, you can now serialize them to help reduce instances of misuse. Coupons can be tracked with either a number or a barcode printed on the coupon.

Front of House Reporting

Wait until you see what we did to the front of house reports! Now if you enter the opening bank for your bar/counter cash drawer, and/or take “drops” from your service staff these dollar amounts will be broken out in the cash out reports that you run at the terminals. Also, changes to menu categories have made it possible to exclude specific major categories from sales reports. This will be useful for items that are rung into the system but are not part of your sales. Additionally, if you do adjustments to your sales journal and wish to eliminate some of the adjustments from your sales journal adjustment screen, you now have that option. In earlier versions it was all or nothing.

This was just a start of itemizing the changes in Version 5.3x. In the next issue we will be sharing more. If you are interested in something you have seen here, please call our Help Desk @ 1-800-507-5554 x 1 and we will provide you with more details.