Release Notes - SkyTab POS v1.115.5

SkyTab POS v1.115.5 Release Plan

• Released to first half as optional on Tuesday, 5/13
• Released to second half as optional on Thursday, 5/15
• Released to International as optional on 5/15
• Released to all merchants, including Enterprise, as required on 5/20

New Features

• Added a new Employee permission named "Allow Receipt Reprints," which can be used to prevent a user from reprinting receipts
• Adjusted Set Margins values for SNBC S80 and R88 printers to improve print alignment. To view or update margin settings, go to Manager > Settings > Hardware > Printer/KDS, choose SNBC_BTP_S80 printer, then press Set Margins.
• Automatically set margins on save when configured printer is SNBC S80 and R88.
• We have added a setting called "Print Quantities Individually," which allows a Label Printer to print a separate label for each unit of an item ordered. This setting unrolls items with a quantity greater than one into individual print jobs for labeling.
  
• Canada Only: We now support the automatic application of Ontario’s Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) rebate rules based on item type, subtotal, and quantity thresholds once configured in Lighthouse Business Manager.

Improvements

• Changed the name of the “Filter Gratuity by Order Type” option to “Filter Automatic Gratuity by Order Type” and provided a new description for more clarity.
• Updated ability for a user to change Prompt for Tip on Payment Device tender setting.
• Added the “Loyalty Member” banner to an order received from SkyTab Online

Bug Fixes

Payments, Tips & Ticket Handling

• Fixed an issue where a cash discount was being applied to non-cash tenders when changing the payment of a ticket

• Fixed an issue where cash payments would not report to the Drawer/Bank in which the payment was taken on

• Fixed an issue where a Gratuity on a ticket that was transferred to a different employee stayed on the original ticket employee’s reports when the ticket was tendered on a [SkyTab Mobile] device

• Fixed an issue where a House Account payment would create an inaccessible ticket

• Fixed an issue where the Tax value is empty in the ticket footer when performing an Open Refund

• Fixed an issue where occasionally the Change Due dialog window would not be displayed

• Fixed an issue where some Tip Adjustments were not included in the Credit Card Batch

• Fixed an issue where a user would mark a transaction as resolved and add a $0 tip, but the transaction remained on the Adjust Tips > Pending screen.

• Modified the “open ticket by barcode scan” behavior to prevent it from displaying the Tip Adjust screen when the Tip Adjust feature is disabled

• Fixed an issue where the payment was not applied to a ticket

• Fixed an issue where an unnecessary dialog appeared when a debit payment fails due to the payment device being offline

• United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada Only: Improved the clarity of offline debit payment warning messages

User Interface (UI) & User Experience (UX)

• Fixed an issue where a long employee name would cover up the Pre-Auth text on an open ticket
• Fixed an issue where the Add Seat button was not working correctly in certain scenarios
• Improved paging arrows on the Caller ID list
• Improved the spacing of buttons on the employee dashboard

Menu & Modifier Management

• Fixed a situation where adding a modifier to additional modifier sets was causing pricing and display orders to be cleared
• Fixed an issue where the Save and Cancel buttons on the Menu Item Price Schedules screen remained active after editing and saving an update
• Fixed an issue where changing the colors of Departments, Items, or Modifier Sets would not update on the POS

Shift, Break & Employee Management

• Improved Break Time handling during background shift merge
• Fixed an issue where merged shifts were not synced correctly across POS terminals
• Fixed an issue where the ‘Duplicate’ button was not available for Jobs and Employees within the Manage > Settings > Users page

Caller ID

• Fixed an issue where Caller ID orders had an incorrect order type

SkyTab Online & Kiosk

• Improved handling of [SkyTab Online] orders with paired taxes

• Fixed an issue that caused printer groups to print incorrectly for SkyTab Kiosk orders

• Fixed an issue where users were not able to search for a customer’s name on the Ticket Grid > Online Orders page

Reporting & Localization

• United Kingdom Only: Fixed an issue where the Activity Summary report displayed as an “Offline Generated Report,” even though the system was online