New features and product improvements for Cash Register Plus, Version 1, Releases 3-5

This release includes all of the new features and product improvements from all previous releases.

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What's new?

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  Limitations include:
  - A limited number of items, customers, and departments.
  - No ability to import customer or item lists.
  - Some reports aren't available.

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  We've added a security question to your password assignment. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . If you forget your password, answer the question and you can reset the password.
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Improvements we've made--you spoke and we listened!

Resize the Cash Register Plus window.
View Cash Register Plus full screen or open it as a window, which you can move around or minimize.

Improved hardware setup.
You now have one tab for selecting the hardware one tab for testing it. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . We've added assistance to help you buy and install the correct hardware.

Fixed backup and restore problems.

• Cash Register Plus won't freeze when you do a backup or restore on a Vista system.
• Backup and restore screens now show the date of your last backup or restore.

Other issues we resolved

• When an order from a merchant account batch is returned, the original transaction is voided in the batch.
• To save you money on merchant fees for credit card transactions, we changed the way we handle returns that are made before you settle the merchant account batch that includes the original transaction. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . If the return is made before you settle the original transaction, no fees are charged. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . In previous releases, a transaction fee was charged for both the purchase and the return.
• Cash Register Plus now accepts input from the card swipe on the Ingencio 3070.
• A rounding problem on partial returns was corrected. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . Your actual data was always correct, but the data appeared in the cash drawer balance, end-of-day Z report, sales reports, and customer reports with a difference of $0.01 and $0.02.
• All receipts now print correctly (for compatible printers).

New features

Ring up retail tips, such as for a hair salon.
You can add tips to credit card sales if you use our Intuit Merchant Account. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . (You cannot add tips to debit cards, or if you use a different merchant service to settle your credit card transactions.) Here's how you set it up:

1. Click the ADMIN tab then click Edit Cash Register Settings.
2. Click the Payments tab.
3. Select the checkbox for adding tips to credit card transactions.

Other information about tips:

• You can only include a tip for a single, completed transaction with a single payment method. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . That is, you can't accept part of the payment from a gift card and the tip for that service on a credit card.
• A transaction can't be held open for the tip to be paid later.
• You can export tips then import them in to QuickBooks. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . They're recorded as a single total for each day in the Employee Tips Payable account.

Ability to set up items with a $0.00 amount.
Add free modifiers, such as “no ice” for a drink, or “gift wrap” to a sales receipt.

Ability to export formats in .csv format
For those users who want to read their data in programs other than Excel.

New reports

• Tips by Cashier
• Credit Card Transactions with Tips
• Sales by Customer
• Gift Certificate Balances
• Store Credit Balance Report

Improvements

Reports:

• All Date Range selections work correctly in all reports.
• You can sort on the receipt number.
• All Paid In/Paid Out amounts now appear in the Paid In / Paid Out Detail report, even when no reason was entered with the transaction.
• Fixed several problems with exported report formats.

Exporting data from Cash Register Plus:

• Paid In/Out entries are no longer exported.
• You can't export the current day transactions.
• Cost of goods sold (COGS) data is no longer exported.
• $0 amounts are no longer sent to QuickBooks. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . Previously they were sent as $0 sales receipts.Excel is now the default export report format.

Importing data into QuickBooks:

• Correctly handles a mismatch in the data, such as when a sale with a tip is paid by credit card but returned to cash or when a transaction contains a debit card cash-back amount.
• Transactions with no sales tax appear as sales receipts. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . Previously, they appeared as credit memos.
• The correct QuickBooks accounts get updated when importing cash payments.
• Debit card transaction amounts are no longer included in a merchant account batch if the order is canceled.
• Credit card transactions are assigned a card type name, such as MasterCard. release notes, new features, improvements, changes, what's new, . Previously, these transactions were labeled as Other, making them difficult to track.
• Department name is limited to 30 characters.
  
  Where is imported data recorded in QuickBooks?

Other changes

• When you add a new item, the information on the More tab is saved.
• Gift certificate items are tracked correctly.
• Cash Register Plus prevents you from accidentally canceling an order while processing a credit or debit card transaction.
• Change due no longer shows $0.13 when giving an item and order discount with a tip.
• Balance due no longer shows $0.01 after making full payment with a credit card.
• The cash amount now appears correctly in the End-of-Day cash tender category.
• The first user created after installation can now be edited or deleted.
• Items with non-default tax no longer get reset to default tax after being exported and re-imported into Cash Register Plus.

New features

• Sales tax now supports 3 decimal places
• You can sort the department buttons

Improvements

Reports

• Your store name now appears on printed or exported reports.
• The List of Debit Card Transactions report now appears correctly after a receipt lookup or return.
• The Receipts - Order Level Summary report data is now correct.
• Item discounts no longer appear as Order Discounts in the Receipts - Order Level Summary report.
• One transaction no longer breaks up into two on the List of Store Credit Transaction report.
• The Sales Report - Items Returned report now appears based on the date the item was returned, not the purchase date.

Returns

• During a return, if the return amount is issued as a store credit, the receipt now shows Change Due = 0.00 instead of Balance Due =0.00.
• The Store Credit amount no longer goes to Cash during a return.
• Customers are no longer attached to a return transaction.
• Order Discount appears correctly after a partial return.

Departments

• On the Manage department screen, the department name, department code, and tax code can no longer be edited while changing the Department order.
• The None and Gift Certificate departments can no longer be moved in the Department buttons list.

Other fixes

• After changing the item discount from a dollar discount to percentage discount, the discount amount now shows correctly as 0.00%.
• After paying the exact amount, the receipt no longer shows change due as $0.01.
• The cash drawer now opens when you click the Paid In/Paid Out button.

Look for additional help on the Intuit Community Cash Register Plus site, where Cash Register Plus users can ask questions and post answers.