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evail:
From old forum.
--- Quote ---Hello Evail. First of all thank you for you feedbacks. All very valuable.
1. The trace.log error happens because of a user role without a default department. I'll validate that on next release.
2. I couldn't find a reason for that allignment issue. Can you paste exact footer template into a txt file and send us?
3. You can use last line of the header template for line headers.
4. You'll create receipts to match Products with inventory items. SambaPOS calculates consumption from receipts.
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2. The footer template you can find below.
--- Quote ---<F>=
<EB>
<J10>{SERVICE DETAILS}
<J10>
<J10>Total:|{TICKET TOTAL}
{IF PAID}
<DB>
<F>=
<C10>T H A N K Y O U
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3. Line Headers works fine like that. Can you tell me what are the first few letters used in the templates. (<EB>,<J10>, <DB>, etc)
4. I did not quite understand what you mean by that. Please explain how to match Products with Inventory Items.
Q1. What does the "Tax" in the new Product do?
Q2. How to make custom table views?
Q3. How to make adjustments for ingredients consumption? Which is not matched
Sorry for the late feedback. Took a little holiday :D
EDIT: I think you meant recipes in number 4. It works, but what if we want to "adjust" ingredients items rather than making recipes. Some items can be matched and others without matching.
And the items not matched can be adjusted when consumed.
This is because some restaurants does not have exact recipes with up to milligrams of items added. Like how can salt be added as? "pinch of salt"?
So some items should be able to manage by adjusting without matching them to products.
EDIT2: When i sold a tax inclusive product. The following was generated. Totals do not match. How is the item price calculated in the receipt print?
When i sold a product without tax inclusive. The following was generated correctly.
emre:
Hello evail. I hope your holiday went fine.
1. For the alignment error you can try removing <J10> from {SERVICE DETALIS} line. {SERVICE DETAILS} creates multiline output so it already adds <Jxx> commands before lines. While converting HTML additional <Jxx> command causes of this problem. At first I didn't realized you used HTML formatting :)
Visit http://doc.sambapos.org/doku.php/en/guide/printformattingcommands for more information about formatting commands.
2. Latest release (5.25) should solve tax included calculation issue. SambaPOS supports both item based tax and ticket based tax. Use item based tax if tax amount differs by product types. For example %8 for food, %10 for alcholic drinks. In this case instead of using service templates you'll create tax templates and choose tax rates from product cards individually.
Service templates contains different calculation methods like "rate from ticket amount" and "rate from tax included ticket amount". This tax is not the tax you created from service templates. This tax is item based tax. If your prices are tax included and you used item based tax calculation you might want to calculate service amounts from tax included ticket amount.
3. To create a custom table view in table view settings set View Mode as Custom and enter a background image. When you restart SambaPOS you should see your background image in table view and all table boxes stacked on screen corner. Right click on screen and select Design Mode. When design mode activated you'll be able to click boxes, change their size and drag them on screen. Right click again and disable desgin mode to save your changes.
4. Umm my language limitation is a problem. I hope I'll be able to tell you how.
When you create inventory items, recipes and transaction documents SambaPOS will create a special document named "End of Day Record" at the end of each Work Period. This document will contain all periodic consumption and cost values. You can't create these manually. SambaPOS should create them automatically. After ending a work period, open latest "End Of Day Record". You'll see two columns at the end of main table. One of them titled as "Inventory Prediction" and the other one is "Current Inventory". Inventory prediction column will display final inventory numbers based on recipes. You can adjust these numbers by typing real inventory to the Current Inventory column. For example at the end of day "Coke" inventory prediction is 10 and you adjusted it to 5 for a reason. For this work period SambaPOS will calculate cost and other values from adjusted inventory. All product costs which uses Coke inventory will change accordingly.
So you can enter an avarege consumption amount for "pinch of salt" and adjust real inventory periodically from "Current Inventory" column. Alternatively instead of entering Salt on every product recipes you can create a single dummy recipe and enter similar inventories inside.
I hope I could answer your questions.
evail:
Emre,
1. The template is working great, only problem is i cant seem to center any text. Even the "THANK YOU" in the footer which was there in default is not in center. How do I enter text which are bold and is in center.
2. Tax inclusive is calculated the same as before. i have installed the latest update which is 2.56. And I am not able to remove "Tax" from product edit, from a product which I had selected "Tax" before.
3. Table view can be designed perfectly. :D
4. Basically, I do not need to match products with inventory, I can adjust them in the "End of Day Record" by entering in the "Current Inventory". Ingredient Items can be adjusted like this while items like drinks can be matched.
Great I dont need any "pinch of salt" now. :P
You answered them clearly Emre.
My only query is that its hard to enter transactions. An easier format will be preferable.
Regards
emre:
--- Quote from: evail on October 10, 2011, 10:19:36 pm ---Emre,
1. The template is working great, only problem is i cant seem to center any text. Even the "THANK YOU" in the footer which was there in default is not in center. How do I enter text which are bold and is in center.
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Centering will work fine on ESC/POS compatible printers because printer does centering itself. We translate these commands to HTML to display them properly on previews. There might be a small issue while converting to HTML. I'll check that.
If you need to use HTML format you can try positioning them properly by adding spaces in front of lines.
--- Quote ---2. Tax inclusive is calculated the same as before. i have installed the latest update which is 2.56. And I am not able to remove "Tax" from product edit, from a product which I had selected "Tax" before.
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I tried with both tax inclueded and excluded templates but I couldn't find the reason of that false ticket calculation issue. I'll be happy if you can reproduce the issue and send us a copy of your database. So I can understand which configuration is the cause of it.
Well .. I'll fix that tax removing issue :)
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You answered them clearly Emre.
My only query is that its hard to enter transactions. An easier format will be preferable.
Regards
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We'll try to improve it and if you have, I'll be happy to hear your suggestions about creating an easier usage.
Thank you very much for your feedbacks friend.
evail:
Morning Emre,
Tax1:
"Always excluded TAX" is enabled in the "Print Jobs>Print Bills".
"Tax included to Price" is enabled in the "Tax Template".
"Rate from ticket amount" selected in "Calculation Method" in "Service Templates"
Product is Tax included.
Calculation method differs from POS and Print.
In POS Service Charge is calculated from tax inclusive. And in Print it is calculated as tax exclusive.
Therefore tha calculation is wrong in POS
Tax2:
"Always excluded TAX" is enabled in the "Print Jobs>Print Bills".
"Tax included to Price" is enabled in the "Tax Template".
"Rate from TAX included ticket amount" selected in "Calculation Method" in "Service Templates"
Product is Tax included.
POS and Print is both showing correctly as Service Charge is calculated from tax inclusive.
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Transactions:
First of all "Transaction" is located in a difficult place. "Transaction" and "End of day Records" will be used very frequently therefore they can be located in a different place which is more easily located.
The box for entering the items is very small, and for each new item we have to "Add Line".
Instead you can have a spreadsheet like format with a longer box.
You can have the lookup field separately above the box. So when you enter the item in the lookup field that item will go to the spreadsheet below.
The transaction should not be editable. It should be so that it is reversible.
When editing a transactions quantity the"inventory report" does not change, but the "inventory purchase report" changes.
Both "Transaction" and "End of day Records" column widths' changes are not saved.
How is the "Average Cost" in "Cost Report" calculated?
You are most welcome Emre, to me SambaPOS has all the necessary features required for me. It is my pleasure to keep testing and give you feedback in order for SambaPOS to be better. :D
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