A new feature for Dine-In operations, to enable waiters to assign products in a dine-in order to a specific seat at the table. This allows waiters to know where every product should go and put the dishes in the right place in front of the customer, or assign a product to be shared across the table. 

When adding a product to the order, it can be assigned to "Table" which indicates that it's a shared dish. Or it can be assigned to a seat.

New Related Device Settings:

One new option has been added to the Cashier Device Settings that allows users to force selecting a seat when adding a product to an order.

If it's enabled, the waiter or cashier will not be able to add a product to the order without assigning the seat to the product.

Note: 

Seat assignment will be printed in the kitchen receipt for the waiter to know how to distribute the products.

This Update Requires Cashier 5.0.32 and newer versions.

For Dine IN and Table-Service restaurants, sometimes waiters hold a product in a dine-in order, such as the dessert after a meal, until the customers finish their appetizers and main course.

A new feature in Foodics Cashier allows waiters and cashiers to hold a product or an entire course from being sent to the kitchen and specify the waiting period to send (fire) the held products to the kitchen automatically. 

This will help waiters to manage their orders easily and never forget to fire a product.

In the example below, the Drink will be fired automatically to the kitchen after 5 minutes

We have made multiple enhancements to the Call Center ordering process, that will make it easier and more seamless for agents to place orders such as:

1. When creating a call center order, the call center agent can change the order type from the order screen after creating the order. This is helpful if the customer changed their mind during the ordering process.
2. For delivery orders, to help the branch know if a customer is paying in Card or Cash on Delivery, agents can choose the order mode (cash or card) and the customer’s preference will be shown in the order notes.
3. A new highlight for blacklisted customers will appear in the order creation screen for call center agents to be aware of blacklisted customers before sending an order to the branch.
4. You can now apply coupons to call center orders. This will help you promote coupons and offers for the call center to get more orders and more customers for your business.

Editing items in bulk has always been available through the import feature, where you can bulk import inventory items quickly and submit the transaction.

However, for users who want to edit the items on the console, we have added a new feature that will enhance the PO experience, which allows you to "Edit Quantities & Cost" in bulk before submitting the PO, instead of the current limitation that allows you to edit one at a time.

In the Console > Orders page, to help you filter orders to get more specific results, we have added 4 new filters:

• Filter by Customer: Search for the customer’s name, email or phone number to get all orders made by this customer.
• Filter by Device: To search for orders made on a specific Cashier device.
• Filter by Discount: To search for orders with a specific discount assigned.
• Filter by Due Date: Filter orders which are due on a certain date.

Head to the Orders Page > Filter > to use the new filters.

For all inventory transactions such as purchasing and production, etc. You can now filter closed transactions in a range of business dates, as opposed to the current one day filter. 

Head to your inventory transactions page and choose filter > business date to select a date range.

To help you communicate better with the suppliers, you can now create a PO and specify an optional delivery date for the supplier to deliver the inventory items.

The delivery date is available in the PO PDF that is emailed to the supplier, and available in the PO transaction page filters so you can find POs that are scheduled to arrive on a certain date.

The price tag is a new feature that allows you to have one product with multiple prices to avoid duplicating products for different order sources and order types.

Users can create multiple price tags and apply them to products, combos or modifier options.

How it works:

• From the Console > Manage > More > Price Tags.
• To create a price tag, it needs a name, and it can be assigned to a branch and an order tag for reporting.
• Once a price tag is created, you can add products, combos or modifier options to the tag, and can assign a different price than its original price.
• When a cashier applies a price tag on an order, it automatically updates the prices of the products in the order, and assign an order tag as well.

Once price tags are configured in the console, users can also utilize a new Cashier Device setting that allows the app to automatically apply a price tag to the orders. This is useful if a device is used exclusively for aggregators or 3rd party orders which have special prices.

Two new settings have been added in the Cashier Device Settings to allow for more control of this feature.

1. Default Price Tag:

This allows the cashier to apply a price tag automatically for all orders.

2. Force Select Price Tag:

This prevents the cashier from closing an order without applying a price tag.

Requires Foodics Cashier 5.0.32 or newer versions.

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.