We have a few exciting enhancements to the Purchase Order cycle.

Starting off with the main enhancement: 

1. You can now edit the PO after it's been submitted (before approval).

This allows you to review the submitted PO and edit the items in the PO (quantity and cost), add new items, or add notes, etc.

This will be possible as long as the PO status is Pending, as well as the Draft status, and the user must have the authority to make these changes.

2. POs are sent as attachments to the supplier's email.

After approving a PO, the supplier will receive an email with the PO attached with all the details of the branch and the requested items, as well as the total cost of the items requested.

Make sure to update the branch address in the branch details page.

We added a new Branch Address field in the branch details, that can be used to help specify the directions to your branches in more details, and it will be sent to the suppliers if a PO has been approved from the branch to help the supplier locate the branch easily.

In the product details page, you'll notice a few changes related to the cost of the ingredients of the product. 

- Ingredients Cost: The total cost of the ingredients of the product, averaged per branch.

- Cost Percentage %: The cost of the ingredients in relation to the product price. This will help you to price your products profitably and efficiently.

- Cost in Ingredients Breakdown: a new column is available in the Ingredients table in the products details page. This will show you each ingredient's cost contribution based on the ingredient's quantity and cost history.

A couple of new settings have been added to the Console > Receipt Settings page.

1. Invoice Title: which allows you to specify the text title of the invoice that is printed from the Cashier App.

2. Hide Free Modifier Options:

This new setting allows you to hide or show the free modifier options from the product details in the order receipt, and this will not affect the kitchen print.

This feature will be supported in the coming Cashier Update 5.0.30

When starting an inventory count, items will be added in 0 quantity by default, and you'll get a warning when submitting a Count with 0 quantity items. 

This allows you to make sure the user who performs the count has reviewed the items carefully and that each item's quantity has been edited accurately to reduce mistakes when doing Inventory Count and reduce the need to do adjustments later on.

Now when creating or editing inventory items in the console, you will have the option to add the basic information of the item, or click on Advanced Options to add all the item's details such as the barcode, minimum and maximum levels, etc. which were previously available only during the item editing.

We have added a new page to help you manage your business' online ordering settings for receiving orders from API & Call Center, and manage availability of all branches.

You can find the page by navigating to the Console > Manage > More > Online Ordering page. 

In this page you can view all your branches, enable and disable online ordering (in bulk actions) and review the assigned device and/or its settings for each branch.

Here is what each color means in the branch status:

• Green: Online Ordering is enabled and a Cashier device is assigned to this branch.
• Yellow: Online Ordering is enabled but a Cashier device is not assigned to this branch.
• Red: Online Ordering is disabled for this branch.

We have added 3 new authorities to help you enhance and control your Cashier users operations. The authorities are:

a. Authority to Act as Waiter: Users who have this authority will be redirected to the tables page directly after accessing the register from the login screen. It is useful for waiters to be able to start an order by selecting the table first to open the order, then adding products to the order.

b. Authority to Edit Tables Layout: This allows the Cashier user to edit the Tables layout in the Cashier App. If a user does not have this authority and taps on the "Edit" button in the Tables layout, an authentication prompt will be shown to enter the password of an authorized user.

c. Authority to Close Till/Shift With Active Orders: To prevent users from accidentally or intentionally closing a till to leave their shift with active orders, an error message will be shown "No authority to close till with active orders" and the user must close or void the orders to close till.

This feature requires Foodics Cashier 5.0.28 (250) or newer versions.

We have a couple of new settings that are available in the Console that will help you enhance the Cashier experience. You can enable these features from the Console > Manage > Settings > Cashier App.

1. Mandatory Order Tags

If you require Cashier users to choose an order tag before closing the order, a new setting has been added that allows you to enable this requirement on the order types that you choose for your business operations. 

If this is enabled, cashier users will not be able to proceed to the order’s payment screen if the order has no order tag assigned. Once an order tag is assigned, the order can be closed normally.

2. Kitchen Sorting Method

A new setting has been added to control how order products will be sorted in the Kitchen Receipt. The setting by default is set to "As added in the Cashier" which will sort the products in the the same order they are added by the Cashier user. 

Or "Based on menu categories sorting" which will sort the products in the kitchen based on their sorting in the categories in the console.

This feature requires Foodics Cashier 5.0.28 (250) or newer versions.

A new field has been added in Business Settings that allows businesses to enter the official name of their company/business as it will be used to generate the QR code in the e-invoice in Cashier orders.

Business Settings:

Please update to Cashier 5.0.24 (229) or newer versions to benefit from this feature.

Note: This applies only in Saudi Arabia.