Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale version 5.

0 Copyright 2011 Abacre Limited All Rights Reserved ----------------------------------------------------------------------Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale is a new generation of restaurant management software for Windows. It represents complete solution starting from taking orders from clients and ending with billing and tax reports. User interface is carefully optimized for high speed entering of client orders and preventing mistakes from waiters. For managers it represents rich set of reports that shows whole picture about restaurant operations and life cycles: menus consumption, frequency of reservations, hours of high restaurant load, busiest tables, most active employees, payment methods, and automatic tax calculations. It's specially designed for using on multiple computers and it has reliable security authorization levels. Program can be setup for any currencies: USD, Euro and with possibility to collect custom tax and tips rates or no tax/tips at all. Payments can be made in cash, credit cards or checks. Layouts of bills any can be customized. The software radically improves serving speed by standardizing whole restaurant management process. It's easy to install and start to use. Very affordable pricing allows this software to spread not only in large chains, but also in small family-based restaurants or fast foods. Requirements ----------------------------------------------------------------------Program works under Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows 7. Microsoft ADO (MDAC) components are required. They maybe freely downloaded from Microsoft.com web site. Installation instructions ----------------------------------------------------------------------Installation instructions for the latest version: If you are first time user simply run setup.exe file. If you want to upgrade your existing software follow to the steps: 1. Install the software using setup.exe file and copy all *.mdb and *.cfg files located in old installation folder into new folder where the program will be installed. By default the folder is: C:\Program Files\Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale 2 2. Start the program. 3. On Login window press More button and setup correct location of your database file. By default it should be simply arpos-test.mdb or arpos.mdb (depending which databased you previously used). 4. Press OK button. 5. ARPOS will ask you to upgrade database structure. Press OK. 6. The program will be ready for use. Note: you may upgrade your database file but you cannot downgrade it. It means that you cannot use new database files in old version of the program (v1.x) These instructions are only for users of version prior to 1.9.6. Since v1.9.6 we changed product's name from Abacre Restaurant Point of Sales into Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale Therefore installation folders will be different for v1.9.6 and earlier versions. Please follow the steps:

1. Go to directory where ARPOS is installed. By default it's: C:\Program Files\Abacre Restaurant Point of Sales 2. Backup the following files: * arpos.mdb * arpos-test.mdb * default.cfg * billtemp.cfg * backup all others *.mdb files. Note: If you don't backup these files they will be removed on step #3. 3. In Windows go to "Control Panel" - "Add/Remove Programs" and remove Abacre Restaurant Point of Sales from your computer. 4. Download version v1.9.6 from the following location: http://www.abacre.com/download/arpos.zip 5. Install version v1.9.6 by default it will install into the following folder: C:\Program Files\Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale 1 6. Copy all files from step #2 into new installation folder (mentioned in step #5). 7. Start ARPOS. It should work now with your DB files. If you are registered user go to main menu - Help - Register and copy/paste there registration key you received from our purchase. Then restart ARPOS. It should be registered now. If you forgot your registration key you can always get it from: http://www.abacre.com/support/ If you are experiencing problems with printing bills in this ver sion go to main menu - Configuration - Bill Configuration - Parameters and check "Use alternative printing module" option. In this version we migrated from using EPSON OPOS drivers to using standard OPOS drivers provided by MCS (http://monroecs.com/). Since now ARPOS may work with POS devises from all manufacturers. You need to simply download and install latest version of CCO OPOS drivers: http://monroecs.com/oposccos_current.htm Direct download link: http://www.monroecs.com/files/OposCCOs-1_12_000.exe Then you should install OPOS drivers from hardware manufacturer, for example, EPSON, IBM, Samsung or any others. Resume: if you already use ARPOS and you have installed OPOS drivers of you manufacturer you don't need to change any settings in ARPOS. Simply download and install CCO OPOS drivers from this location: http://www.monroecs.com/files/OposCCOs-1_12_000.exe What's new ----------------------------------------------------------------------ARPOS v5.1: * Feature: Line Display (Pole) can work now via serial COM port. * Improvement: Increased speed of generation for several reports (Sales by item), Journal, Sales by Categories, Sales by Hostess, Sales by Hostess Details. * Bug fixed: Error message was shown on pressing Close Order button is Choose Client button is visible. * Bug fixed: "Transfer Order into Another Table" did not work in Firebird's version. * Bug fixed: Several minor issues were corrected related to conversion from Access into Firebird. * Bug fixed: corrected some End of Day issues in test database file. ARPOS v5.0:

* Feature: now Firebird database server is used instead of Microsoft Access. * Feature: possibility to use multi-level items categories. Now each category may have unlimited number of subcategories. * Feature: implemented search for items on Configuration Items window. Now it s more easy to handle thousands of items. * Feature: added new button on Order window: Print Invoice. * Feature: added new option: Show Print Invoice button. This option is located in menu Configuration - Preferences - Order - Order buttons. * Feature: Added possibility to sort clients by first name, last name and other columns on Clients window. * Feature: Added possibility to search clients by city, zip, street, email and job title on Clients window. * Feature: Added Russian and Arabic translations. * Improvement: improved start up time on most Windows operating systems. Now the program runs more faster. * Improvement: report window is now displayed in full window (instead of displaying as pop-up in previous versions); * Improvement: on Vendors window searching for vendor is possible now by pressing enter button. * Improvement: purchase orders, receive vouchers, return vouchers now display currency and quantities in correct (defined in program) formats. * Improvement: Improved detection of language file based on system's language defined in Windows. * Improvement: updated language files. * Improvement: added Save button on Email Sender window. * Improvement: changing alignment of control button to right on Client Types, Order Types and Discounts windows. * Bug fixed: quantity field was not printed correctly on bills for quantities having more than two digits. * Bug fixed: On Orders, Clients and Vendor window text to find was cleared in search panel when searching twice for the same text. * Bug fixed: Some versions of Windows blocked the program from running because of enabled DEP protection. Now the program can run on any Windows without any restrictions. * Bug fixed: error was shown on Order window for incorrect number of persons. * Bug fixed: error was shown on Take Payment window for incorrect Paid field. * Bug fixed: it was not possible to enter negative paid amount for refund order by computer's keyboard. * Bug fixed: it was possible to add zero as payment amount on Take Payment window. ARPOS v4.7: * Feature: displaying vendor's first name and last name on printing purchase order, receive/return vouchers. * Bug fixed: on Receive Voucher, Return Voucher and Purchase Order windows entering freight or fee fields caused program's crash. * Bug fixed: vendor's name was not properly displayed on Receive Voucher, Return Voucher and Purchase Order windows. * Bug fixed: corrected displaying of column names on Receive/Return Vouchers and Purchase Orders windows. ARPOS v4.6: * Feature: possibility to display total price on bills in second currency. Go to menu Configuration - Property Settings - General. Fill the parameters: Second Currency Sign and Second Currency Rate. Then go to menu Configuration - Bill Configuration - Template and add the following line: Total in EUROS <total2>

* Feature: added new option: "Apply waitress's individual tips rate". When using this option you should also check option: "Use individual tips from workers list" so tips will be applied based on waitress's own tips rate. * Feature: added new report: Tips by waitress; You may view this report when using "Apply waitress's individual tips rate" option; * Feature: new option: "Till is always assigned to server who started order". This option is located on menu Configuration - Preferences Shifts. When the option is checked no matter who closed order and who really took payment the till is assigned to the worker who started the order. So it will be shown on Z-Out report of worker who started order. * Feature: added possibility to export Purchase Orders, Receive Vouchers and Return Vouchers into PDF, Word, Excel, JPEG and other formats. * Feature: possibility to sort items on Physical Inventory window by Code, Name, Physical Qty and On Hand Qty by clicking on corresponding column. * Bug fixed: Orders window did not display open orders for all values of filter except for "all dates". * Bug fixed: it was not possible to print notifications when notification printer was defined as \\WorkstationName\PrinterName from WorkstationName. I.e. from workstation to which such notification printer is physically connected. ARPOS v4.5.2: * Feature: Implemented support of credit card processing with MSR without installing OPOS drivers. Read the details here: http://www.abacre.com/restaurantpos/manual/creditcardprocessing.htm * Feature: added new security role: Show Delete Order button. ARPOS v4.5.1: * Feature: added new report: Average serving time by server. * Feature: added new report: Average serving time by waitress. ARPOS v4.5: * Feature: Currency ($ off) discounts for orders. See also new "Allow Currency Discounts" option located on menu Configuration - Preferences - Order - Order Buttons. * Bug fixed: paid tips were not shown on Take Payment method for manual tips calculation method. * Bug fixed: in some cases credit card information was not captured by MSR for credit card processing. ARPOS v4.4.3: * Feature: new option: "Allow selling items with zero on hand quantities". When option is not checked it's not possible to add an item to an order if on hand quantity of item is zero (when there is no such item on stock). * Bug fixed: With checked "Worker can see only own orders" option it was possible to get orders from other workers via Tables Plan window. * Bug fixed: tips could not be added manually on Take Payment after release of previous version. * Bug fixed: the first sales tax was shown on Order window even if calculate sales tax option was unchecked. * Bug fixed: discount fields could be set to zero during upgrade procedure. This version automatically recover discount fields in such cases.

ARPOS v4.4.2: * Feature: possibility to set negative prices for items on Change Price window. See new option: "Allow negative prices" on Preferences Order - Item Buttons. * Bug fixed: duplicate payments could be occurred when taking payments at the same time on several workstations. * Bug fixed: when working with several workstations some payments could not be closed after closing an order. ARPOS v4.4.1: * Bug fixed: corrected z-out reconciliation issue when using multiple workstations. * Bug fixed: Error message was shown "setting focus on invisible window" when trying to go to outside of Order window for closed order. * Bug fixed: For some orders tables are not selected in this case Sales by Table report did not show such orders. ARPOS v4.4: * Feature: new feature: Security Roles. Read more: http://www.abacre.com/restaurantpos/manual/securityroles.htm * Bug fixed: an error was shown when clicking on status field on Orders window. * Bug fixed: Reports button on main window was not well-positioned in some cases. * Bug fixed: corrected numerous issues in Journal report. ARPOS v4.3.1: * Bug fixed: Client's, Cashier's, Waitress's names were not shown in some cases on Orders window. * Bug fixed: Worker's name was not shown sometimes on the following reports: Tips by server, Worker Hours, Sales by Hostess, Sales by Hostess Details, Sales by server, Sales by Waitress, Sales by Client, Sales Items by Client. * Bug fixed: Inventory was not updated after removing order using Delete Order button located on Order window. ARPOS v4.3: * [Std, Pro] Feature: Payments into In-House Clients Accounts. http://www.abacre.com/restaurantpos/manual/clientsaccounts.htm * Improved Z-Out and End of Day procedures. * New option: Auto-choose default payment method on Take Payment window. * Bug fixed: error message was shown when checking Count Media on Payment Methods window when adding new methods. * Bug fixed: "open" status was displayed for empty order on Orders window when there were no orders. ARPOS v4.2.1: * Improvement: Choose Client button will show selected client if client is already defined for order. * Bug fixed: virtual keyboard was shown outside of screens when clicking on discount field. * Bug fixed: bills were cut in the middle of paper on some printers. ARPOS v4.2: * Improvement: Added Use Event field as a checkbox on Pole Details window. * Improvement: user-friendly error messages were added for each hardware device (Printer, Cash Drawer, Pole, Barcode Scanner and MSR) to better handle state of the device.

* Bug fixed: End of Day command could not work for all workstations together in some configurations. * Bug fixed: in some situations MSR device could read data only once. * Bug fixed: in some situations Barcode Scanner device could work only once. * Bug fixed: on Preferences window it was not possible to automatically lookup MSR LDN in drop down list. * Bug fixed: error message was shown when logo file not found on Property Settings window and in reports. * Bug fixed: order's Chit Number was not automatically updated when printing notifications. * Bug fixed: Export button was not available in reports during trial period. * Bug fixed: Backup option was not selected End of Day procedure during trial period. ARPOS v4.1: * Feature: credit card processing module using Authorize.Net Payment Gateway. Configuration options are located on menu Configuration - Preferences - Credit Cards. * Feature: Added Italian and Bulgarian translations. * Improvement: now it's recorded into database when exactly each inventory item was changed. * Bug fixed: Items were shown on Order window even if Is Sale Item option was OFF for these items. * Bug fixed: on Orders window filter of orders did not work in some languages. * Bug fixed: Total line was not shown on some Windows computers having large system fonts. ARPOS v4.0: * Feature: Support of non-discountable items. See "non-discountable" option on menu Configuration - Items. * Feature: Added new button Tax Free on Order window. This button allows creation of tax free orders. * Feature: New option: Show Tax Free button located on menu Configuration - Preferences - Order Buttons. * Feature: New report: Sales by Modifier * Feature: New report: Sales of Modifiers by Category * Feature: New report: Sales by Order Type * Feature: New report: Sales by Client Type * Feature: Added new column Use Event to Pole Events window. Now you can specify do you need to use any message displayed on Pole (Line Display). * Feature: Added new event to pole: Add Item to Order. Now it's possible to display on pole information about item's name and price when adding the item to order. Note: by default this feature is switched off so you should switch it on Pole Events window. * Feature: New option: Show Print Bill button located on Configuration Preferences - Order Buttons. Some customers reported that their workers can take money, print bills and they do not close order. In order to avoid such situations you may uncheck Show Print Bill button option. And then check the option: Print Bill after Close Order. So the bills will be printed automatically after closing order. * Feature: New field added for items: alternative name. * Feature: Added new option: Show Alternative Name for parameters of notification printers. Therefore now it's possible to print alternative names of items on notification (kitchen or bar) printer. This is a useful feature when you need to print bill in one language

(for example, English) and print information about to kitchen in another language. * Feature: New button: Mark as Uncooked on Kitchen View. Now it's possible to change back cooked item into uncooked. * Feature: Added new options on Configuration - Order Types: calculate tax 1, calculate tax 2, calculate tax 3 and calculate tax 4. Therefore now it's possible do not tax order depending on their order type (for example, do not tax take out orders). ARPOS v3.4: * Feature: new report: Sales of items by client. * Feature: added new option: "Show item buttons on the left" located on menu Configuration - Preferences - Order - Item Buttons * Feature: added new option: "Show items and categories on the left" located on menu Configuration - Preferences - Order - Order Details. * Feature: added new option: "Clear initial item's quantity" located on menu Configuration - Preferences - Order - Order Details. * Feature: added new option: "Clear initial Amount Paid" located on menu Configuration - Preferences - Take Payment. * Feature: added new option: "Always accept multiple payments" located on menu Configuration - Preferences - Take Payment. * Improvement: empty Price field will be displayed on Change Price window for items with zero prices. * Improvement: on bill and notification printer items are printed now in the same order as they were added to order when Show Categories option is unselected. * Bug fixed: it was possible to add zero payments on Take Payment window. * Bug fixed: language was not automatically updated on some windows. * Bug fixed: error message was shown on Media Count window for countries where decimal separator is comma (,). * Bug fixed: an extra empty page was shown at the end of Journal report. ARPOS 3.3 * Feature: added new field Currency Denominations located on menu Configuration - Property Settings - General. Now it's possible to define which currency denominations do you want to use and which do you want to omit (for example, rarely used denominations). * Feature: Added new option: tips are discountable. This option is Taxes and Tips. If located on menu Configuration Property Settings the option is not checked then order's discount rate is not applied to tips. * Feature: Added new option: Show Backup Data option. This option is located on menu Configuration - Preferences - End of Day. * Feature: Added new option: Show Upload Sales Data option. This option is located on menu Configuration - Preferences - End of Day. * Feature: added currency denominations for Maldives. * Improvement: Grand Total field was removed in Collected Tax report for Taxable Sales column. Because it it did not pay much sense. * Bug fixed: on some printers the last line of z-out reports was cut. * Bug fixed: taxable sales could be calculated for items with apply tax parameters even if calculate tax parameter was unchecked. * Bug fixed: order number was not correctly updated during Divide Order in equals parts operation. ARPOS 3.2.1 * Feature: possibility to save all icons for Items as separate bitmap files on disk. The exported image files as saved into the folder:

\My Documents\Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale 3\Icons\ * Bug fixed: error message was shown "table is still in use" when deleting a table in Tables window. * Bug fixed: error message was shown on Take Payment window: "Cannot close order: amount paid does not match to amount due." for currencies without cents. ARPOS 3.2 * Feature: Take Payment window displays payment methods as buttons. * Feature: new button: Order Type. Now it's possible to define Dine In, Take Out, Delivery and other types of orders. * Feature: new window: Order Types. For each order type it's possible to specify "Charge Tips" parameter. * Feature: new button: Client Type. * Feature: new window: Client Types. * Feature: new option: Show Order Type button. * Feature: new option: Show Client Type button. * Feature: new option: Client Type order number format. * Feature: new parameters for bill's template: <ordertypename>, <clienttypename>, <clienttypecode>, <clienttypeno> ARPOS 3.1 * Feature: new option "Show Choose Item Quantity" located in menu Configuration - Preferences - Order - Order Details tab. Check this option if you want to do specify quantity of item when adding it to an order. * Feature: Automatic order number reset and following. Now if you delete all orders from the database then new order will be started with order number 1. Although if you remove last order from database then for new order will be used order number of previous order + 1. In other words order numbers will follow in line without interruption. ARPOS 3.0 * Feature: for better Microsoft Vista compliance database and configuration files are located now in the following folder: My Documents\Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale 3\ Backup files are located now in the subfolder: My Documents\Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale 3\Backup\ * Feature: Login using Employee Swipe Card. * Feature: Login using Employee Barcode Card. * Feature: on Menu Items window located in menu Configuration now it's possible to scan barcode of an item and it will be automatically entered into Barcode field for selected item. * Feature: on tables plan busy tables have red color and free tables have green color now. * Feature: automatic resizing of icons for items and categories. Just press Load button, select icon's file and ARPOS will resize it into standard-size icon. * Feature: in addition to BMP files for icons it's possible to use now JPG, JPEG, ICO, WMF, EMF file types. * Feature: automatic reset of order number upon deleting of all orders. * Feature: added currency denominations for Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia. * Bug fixed: virtual keyboard (for touch screen) did not work for Delivery Address field on Order window and for all fields of Clients window. * Bug fixed: error message was shown when adding ingredients to just created menu item. ARPOS v2.7

* Feature: added additional verifications on actions with workers. Now when you uncheck Is Admin option or delete worker from database ARPOS verifies if this is the last administrator in database. * Feature: improved database upgrade mechanism. * Feature: captions from inventory and purchasing were added into language file English.lng. ARPOS v2.6.3 * Bug fixed: error message was shown when For All Dates period was selected. ARPOS v2.6.2 * Feature: new option: Print Z-Out report on Bill Printer having the following values: Ask, Yes, No. * Feature: Z-Out reports were automatically printed after pressing Print button on preview window. Now pressing Print button will show printer selection dialog. * Bug fixed: error message after pressing Log Off button when option "Automatically Clock Out after Log Off" was checked. ARPOS v2.6.1 * Bug fixed: cost of inventory was not correctly calculated for items with ingredients when ingredient quantity was different from 1. * Bug fixed: it was not possible to enter decimal separator comma (,) into Discount field on Order window. * Bug fixed: error message was shown when "Automatically Clock In on Log On" options was checked. ARPOS v2.6 * Feature: possibility to lookup logical device (LND) name for printer, cash drawer, pole and bar code reader. LDNs are shown in drop down lists now. * Feature: new option: "Group the same items when adding item to order". * Feature: new option on Bill Configuration - Parameters: Show Time Added. This option prints date and time when item was added to order. * Feature: added new option: Show Item's Name for fiscal printers. * Feature: added new option: Show Discounted Prices for fiscal printers. * Feature: if Show Menu Items is unchecked for fiscal printers it prints all items as one item. * Feature: added <subtotal> parameters for Bill Configuration. * Feature: notes for items are shown now on Kitchen/Bar window. * Feature: improved activation algorithm. Now you can automatically reactivate software after HDD formatting. * Bug fixed: <totalnet> parameter included taxes and tips for "Taxes and Included" calculation method. * Bug fixed: Print Notifications, Print Bill, Close Order and other buttons were not visible for screen resolution 800x600. * Bug fixed: it was possible to enter several items with the same code or barcode into list of items. ARPOS v2.5 * Feature: added support for SplFp fiscal printer. * Feature: added new option: Show More button on Preferences - Take Payment window. * Feature: added new option: Print bills only for orders paid by cash * Bug fixed: Some countries were missed in country list located on Property Settings window. * Bug fixed: Some states were misspelled in states list located on Property Settings window.

ARPOS v2.4.1 * Bug fixed: sometimes workstation name was not assigned for orders. Therefore Z-Out (cash drawer reconciliation) was not possible in such cases. ARPOS v2.4 * [Pro] Feature: Price Schedule now also works with modifiers. * Bug fixed: it was possible to type discount for an order using virtual keyboard even if "Can manually type discount" option was unchecked. * Bug fixed: Price Schedule did not work correctly when adding new items out of given time range. * Bug fixed: sometimes wrong caption was shown on Purchase Order, Receiving Voucher or Return Voucher windows. ARPOS v2.3.1 * Bug fixed: on hand quantity of item was set to zero when item had zero cost. * Bug fixed: Cash Drawer Reconciliation did not work when there was no countable media (cash, checks etc). * Bug fixed: Cash Drawer Reconciliation did not work when Till's Location was set to server's change aprons and when server did not use Enter Begin Cash command. ARPOS v2.3 * [Pro] Feature: Price Schedule for items. Now it's possible to specify prices in advance, setup prices for given hours or days of week. http://www.abacre.com/restaurantpos/manual/priceschedule.htm * [Std, Pro] Feature: Barcode Reader (bar code scanner) maybe now used to scan items for an order. Read more: http://www.abacre.com/restaurantpos/manual/barcodereader.htm * Feature: added to option Till's Location. The possible choices: Workstation's Cash Drawer or Server's Change Apron. Therefore complete Z-Out and End of Day procedures may work now for restaurants where servers keep cash and other media in change aprons instead of common cash drawer. * Feature: Total tips are shown for each payment method (media) on Z-Out reports. * Feature: new option in Preferences: Show List Of Orders. This option will print list of orders on Z-Out Cash Drawer or Z-Out Restaurant Close report. The option is now used for manual tips calculation. * Feature: Delete Orders button located on Orders window. * Feature: added new parameters for Bill Configuration template: <orderdateclosed> and <ordertimeclosed>. These parameters show moment of time when order was closed. * Feature: default decimal separator (dot or comma) is now used for virtual keyboard. * Bug fixed: Update button did not work properly on Physical Inventory window. ARPOS v2.2.1 * Bug fixed: after Print Bill sometimes bill was saved with incorrect totals (modifiers were not included into bill). * Bug fixed: after Print Bill it was not possible to add modifiers to a new item. * Bug fixed: item price was not properly formatted on list of available menu items located on Order window. * Bug fixed: Error message was shown "Cannot convert Null to Boolean" on Menu Items window during adding new menu items.

ARPOS v2.2 * Feature: inventory module with Weighted Average, LIFO and FIFO calculation methods. * Feature: purchasing module supporting the following purchasing documents: Purchase Order, Receive Voucher, Return Voucher. * Feature: Email Sender to send customized emails to your clients, vendors or workers. * Feature: new Profit Margin reports: Profit Margin by Items, Profit Margin by Menu Categories, Profit Margin by Modifiers, Profit Margin by Modifier Categories. * Feature: improved speed of creation new order on Order window. * Feature: added Email field for Workers. * Bug fixed: error message was shown if first name or last name were not specified for client on Clients window. ARPOS v2.1.4 * Bug fixed: various issues concerning currency format with comma (,) as decimal separator used in most European countries. ARPOS v2.1.3 * Feature: added media counts formats for Australia. * Feature: new option "Print Notifications after Print Bill" located on Preferences - Order. * Feature: added new parameters for Bill Configuration template: <orderdate> and <ordertime> * Bug fixed: virtual keyboard did not popup on Orders and Clients windows. ARPOS v2.1.2 * Feature: added Tips Exemption Limit parameter on Property Settings Taxes and Tips window. * Bug fixed: NetBios error was shown during activation process on some Windows 98 workstations. * Bug fixed: Exemption Limits were not verified for taxes. * Bug fixed: vertical line was shown after clicking on columns in different grid s. * Bug fixed: it was possible to delete menu items by Delete button when user did not have such privileges. ARPOS v2.1.1 * Feature: added media counts formats for currencies of the following countries: Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, United Kingdom. * Feature: login name is displayed now in Status bar for person who is currently logged in. * Bug fixed: Media Count was shown in wrong position. * Bug fixed: Take Payment windows could not be closed for currency other than 0.00 ARPOS v2.1 * Feature: possibility to manually enter tips amount. See main menu Configuration - Property Settings - Tips Calculation Method. New "Tips" option will be available on Take Payment window (on Close Order button). Read more: http://www.abacre.com/restaurantpos/manual/tipsconfig.htm * Feature: new report: Sales by Hostess Details. * Feature: new button on Order window: Remove Modifier. * Feature: Import buttons for Workers and Clients windows. Now it's possible to select list of columns for import. * Feature: new option located in Bill Configuration - Parameters:

"Show Price" to print item's price on a bill. * Feature: new option located in Configuration - Order: "Window to show after Close Order" * Feature: new parameter for bill s template: <clientnote> * Feature: new parameter for bill s template: <itemscount> * Feature: Help - Deactivate command is visible only for administrators. * Feature: Height of Item Categories on Order window is saved now into configuration file. * Feature: First Name field on Client window may be empty now (it will accept empty values). * Bug fixed: Tables Plan window was called slower each time. * Bug fixed: "Choose for Order button" did not work on Clients window when "New Order button always create new order" option was checked. * Bug fixed: Choose Modifier window has been disappeared when adding an item by code. * Bug fixed: "invalid floating point" error was produced for "Sales by menu item ", "Sales by categories" and "Journal" reports for orders having zero subtotals. * Bug fixed: Inaccessible items were displayed on Order window. * Bug fixed: Conversion error was shown for menu items without specified prices. * Bug fixed: Make Log Off after Close Order option was not saved. * Bug fixed: Error "No value given for one or more required parameters" was displayed on some computers on Order window. ARPOS v2.0 * Feature: End of Day and Reconcile Cash drawer commands. X/Z-out reports. * Feature: new reports: Z-Out Cash Drawer and Z-Out Restaurant Close. * Feature: possibility to daily backup database in End of Day procedure. * Feature: new gradient interface. * Feature: possibility to use ARPOS in quick service mode. Go to main Preferences and uncheck Use Tables option. menu Configuration * Feature: possibility to search for orders on Orders window. * Feature: possibility to filter orders by date and status (open, closed etc) on Orders window. * Feature: new columns on Orders window: Cashier, Waitress and Workstation. * Feature: report list is shown now as a tree. * Feature: preferences are presented as a tree. * Feature: new tab of options Item Buttons in main menu Configuration Preferences Order. It's possible to control many aspects like: Show Remove Item button; Only admins can use Remove Item button. * Feature: virtual keyboard for chars. * Feature: new view style on Order window: Buttons * Feature: columns widths can be saved now for all windows. * Feature: new button Change Price on Order window. * Feature: new button Refund Item on Order window. * Feature: new button Note on Order window. Now for each item in an order it s possible to assign a note and print this note to kitchen. * Feature: configuration file is now encrypted. * Feature: data base is now protected with password. * Feature: new job role: Cashier. Go to main menu Configuration Workers and setup Is Cashier option for each cashier. * Bug fixed: View - Toolbar - Header did not work. * Bug fixed: Sales by hostess report did not include modifiers and showed zero totals for items with zero price. ARPOS v1.9.6

* Feature: Possibility to accept multiple payment methods on Take Payment window by pressing More button. Please add <payment> parameter into bill template. * Feature: using standard OPOS drivers * Feature: new option: "Ask for price" on Menu Items window. Use this option for menu items not having fixed price. * Feature: new option: Print Bill after Close Order. * Feature: possibility to print cash paid and change. (Add <payment> parameter into Bill Template) * Feature: FTP upload of daily sales report. * Feature: Search by phone, mobile, fax and company name on Clients window. * Feature: Added Recipe field for Menu Items (also visible in Kitchen View). * Feature: Added Waitress field on Kitchen View. * Feature: new option: Only admins can Close Order. * Feature: Cancel Order button on Order window renamed into Delete Order. Now you may hide or show this button in main menu - Configuration Preferences - Orders: "Show Delete Order button" and "Only admins can delete order" options. So: Delete Order button on Order window do the same job as Delete Order button on Orders window. * Feature: New parameter: Use alternative printing module. * Bug fixed: Corrected various issues on displaying waitress name on Order windo w. * Bug fixed: Corrected money rounding on Take Payment window for Total and Paid field. For example, 25.60 is displayed now instead of 25.6 * Bug fixed: Cut bill was used only after printing ALL copies. * Bug fixed: Corrected issue with "Sales by client" report. * Bug fixed: Corrected issue with "Sales by hostess" report. * Bug fixed: Reports displayed currency without using currency format from Prope rty Settings window. * Bug fixed: "Taxes are included" option did not calculate taxes correctly. Please verify your settings for taxes in Property Settings window. * Bug fixed: error message appeared in Configuration - Modifiers on creation of new modifiers. * Bug fixed: error message appeared in Divide Order window. * Bug fixed: in reports: Between condition did not work in some cases. ARPOS v1.9.5 * Feature: New main view: Kitchen/Bar. Now cookers can monitor incoming menu items and mask the items as cooked when ready. * Feature: Possibility to print order number in a bill using orderno parameter. * Feature: Added Order Number column to Orders window. * Feature: Added new report: Sales by client * Feature: Added new button: Import Items allowing importing of menu items from files. * Feature: Log Off button has been added on the main window. * Feature: Added new option in main menu Preferences - Orders - Worker can see only own orders. * Feature: New option in Preferences - Order - Make Log Off after Close Order. * Feature: Notification printers maybe customized now: it's possible to define template, number of copies, "print only new items" and other options. * Feature: New option: "Use individual tips from workers list" gives a possibility to define individual tips rates for each server. * Feature: New option: "Tips are taxable" on "Tips and Taxes" page. ARPOS v1.9 * Feature: Possibility to specify 4 taxes for menu items (used, for example, in Toronto). See main menu - Configuration - Property Settings - Taxes and Tips .

* Feature: New window: Clients. Now it's possible to assign a client for an order. * Feature: Possibility to choose discount from list of discounts. * Feature: New option: Show Discount Field. * Feature: New option: Show Choose Discount button. * Feature: New option: Can manually type discount. * Feature: New option: Hide main menu for non admin workers. * Feature: improved control in Take Payment window. * Bug fixed: Choose Modifier window did not show modifiers when an item was added to new order. * Bug fixed: exception was shown when clicking outside categories. ARPOS v1.8 * Feature: Possibility to save/export reports into Word, Excel, PDF and text files. * Feature: Possibility to choose tables by using "Tables Plan". See small button right to "table code" field in Order window. In order to arrange tables use main menu - Configuration - Tables Plan and drag-n-drop tables into needed positions. * Feature: Possibility to display icons for categories in Order window like it was done for Available Menu Items. Please go to main menu Configuration - Item Categories and load icons for each categories. Then in Order window you may change Views for categories into Icons. * Feature: New report: Sales by categories. * Feature: New parameter: State/Province tax. * Feature: Added Divide Order into equals parts action. Read more: http://www.abacre.com/restaurantpos/manual/actdivideorder.htm * Feature: Possibility to sort items by any column in main menu - Configuration Menu Items. Just click on column header to sort. * Feature: new parameters: Auto Cut Bill and Cutting Rate. * Feature: new parameter: Open Cash Drawer After/Before printing the bill. * Feature: Added code column to report Sales by Menu Items. * Bug fixed: Error message appeared when all menu items were deleted. * Bug fixed: Error message during removing menu item using -qty*code formula. ARPOS v1.7 * Feature: New action: Split order. * Feature: New action: Possibility to use food modifiers. * Feature: Enter count of items in Item Code field (for example, 3*106) or by typing 1..9 key on Available menu items list or in bill list. * Feature: new parameter: Sort menu items by name. * Feature: new parameter: Show Chart in reports. * Feature: new parameter: Number of Bill Copies. * Feature: Show Property Name in title of main window. * Feature: Show Property Logo in tool bar of main window. * Feature: Possibility to make discounts on order. * Feature: new parameter in Bill Config: Calc Qty for Categories * Bug fixed: Second correction: reports with period "This" were not displayed correctly. * Bug fixed: Quantity field was not correctly aligned in printed bill. * Bug fixed: Corrected again the issue with "This Day" reports. If in this version you have the problem with Close Order command please contact support@abacre.com ARPOS v1.6 * Feature: Support of serial and kitchen printers, poles and cash drivers. * Feature: Possibility to send notifications about an order to several printers, for example, kitchen, bar etc.

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Feature: Added menu item categories Feature: New command: transfer items to another table Feature: Added Currency Format field in Property Settings. Feature: Now any string chars may be used as table codes. Feature: Delete Order button in Orders window. Feature: Possibility to show only categories (without menu items) in a bill (Window Preferences - "Show Menu Items" option). * Feature: Possibility to log off. * Feature: New option: "Show Quantity" in Bill Configuration window. * Bug fixed: reports with period "This" were not displayed correctly. Here are the details about installation of the new version: 1. For very careful users: please make a copy of installation folder of old version of the program. By default it is: C:\Program Files\Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale. You may just put it into zip file. But keep also C:\Program Files\Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale with all files in it: installation file will update it. 2. Download the new version from http://www.abacre.com/download/arpos.zip 3. Start the installation file. 4. Install the program. 5. Start the program. 6. Program will ask you to update DB structure. Press [Yes]. This is obligatory step for running v1.6. We made a lot of changes so v1.6 works with some extended DB structure. 7. This is the obligatory step: In v1.6 we created Menu Item Categories. So go to main menu - "Configuration" - "Menu Item Categories" you should add categories like: STARTERS, MAIN COURSES, DRINKS etc. 8. This is the obligatory step: Then in main menu "Configuration" - "Menu Items" - for each item you should specify to which category it belongs. 9. That's all you may start working now. If you don't need printing of menu items categories in bills please switch it off in main menu - "Configuration" - "Bill Configuration" "Advanced". ARPOS v1.5 * Feature: selecting menu items by code. * Feature: Support of multi-language user interface. * Feature: Printing bills without using confirmation window. * Feature: new Cancel order button. * Feature: items table width is now resized dynamically. * Feature: corrected align of text in a bill. * Bug fixed: Report "menu items" now displays info about sales of items, not orders. * Bug fixed: Report "sales by payment method" now groups payment methods correctly. * Bug fixed: Corrected price formatting in bills. ARPOS v1.0 Official release. Installation/Unistallation ----------------------------------------------------------------------Create appropriate directory, for example, c:\ARPOS\, and unzip ARPOS.ZIP file. Then run SETUP.EXE program and follow to standard installation instructions.

To uninstall Abacre Restaurant Point of Sale, Run Add/Remove Programs from Contr ol Panel and choose ARPOS. Purchasing information ----------------------------------------------------------------------The registration fee is $299.99 US dollars or equivalent amount in EURO for each workstation. www.abacre.com/register.htm Company's address ----------------------------------------------------------------------http://www.abacre.com e-mail: support@abacre.com