This topic contains information about using the Aptify POS app interface.
Viewing the Order History
The order history can be seen by clicking the History button on the top left. The order history provides information about all the orders placed through POS app for that event irrespective of their status.
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Additional details for each order can be seen by selecting that order.
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An email receipt can be sent for any order that has not received a receipt. |
Figure 9: POS Order History
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Disabling Camera Scanning
If you are not using camera scanning, you can disable this feature by pressing the camera On/Off button.
Setting Inactivity Logout Values
The POS app has a Timeout value in its Setting menu. This value is the amount of time, in minutes, that the user can be inactive before the app displays a popup menu offering the choice to continue the session or logout. If no selection is made from this popup menu
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, the user will be logged out.
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The app must contact the server to register as activity. That is, if you are not making a service call, but are just touching the screen to keep the app active, then you will still be considered inactive and the popup menu will appear, to let you refresh and continue your session. |
- Inactivity logout time can be changed by changing the Token Provider Attribute 'Timeout' for the Token Providers record 'Database Token Providers'. This service is located under Web Services application.
- Note that there is Idle Time-Out (minutes) advanced setting for all IIS app pools. This time setting needs to be more than or equal to the value set for 'Timeout' attribute in the last step. It needs to be updated for both POS and Framework app pool. If this setting is not set as per the requirement, then the app can have some unexpected behavior.
- Note that, not calling the server is considered as inactivity. i.e. if you are not making a service call, but are just touching the screen to keep the app active, then you will still be considered inactive and the popup menu will appear, to let you refresh and continue your session. The
Viewing Reports
Clicking the Reports button on the top left provides the list of web reports available for the POS app. The reports available by default are:
- Sales Report
- Inventory Report
- Cash Reconciliation Report
- Cash Reconciliation Report – Payment Type
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If you encounter problem in sorting reports data by date, perform the following steps:
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