System Options

System Control

Enable Short Cut

for checkin

If you don’t use Touch Screen you may enable this option to assign shortcut to menus, items, services, departments through checkin process.  Use the short cut code# to access the menu.

Enable Previous Closing Store Clerk

If this option is enabled, the system would disable any transaction to be entered if the previous day process in not completed. See the End of Day Report in the Reports section.

Enable Multi Shifts

Enable this option if your store has multi shift operation and you like to balance your till and the end of each shift.

Put Account Payment, Over payment as credit note

Enable this option if you like to auto issue a credit note for customers who make payments that exceeds the account balance. Otherwise overpayment is rejected. Credit notes is auto  used by the system over next account payment.

Phone Format

Change the format to fit your regional phone format settings, which is used through reports.

Royalty Commission

If this is a franchise operation add royalty commission that is used to calculate amount owing to head office when doing Sales Journal report.

F2, F3 Shortcut

Use this shortcut to load your favorite program from TMS when F2 is pressed, like Outlook, MS Word etc.

Default Area Code

Default Are code to be added when adding a new customer, or searching a customer using phone#.

Greeting On Statement

Add your own Greeting, advertising to your customer account statement.

½” Inch Tag

Make ½” tag when printing tag

QWERTY Keyboard

Use QWERTY on screen keyboard format instead of A-Z keyboard

Tag Paper rolls back

This is mostly used on Star/Samsung tag printers to save paper

Invoice

Allow Updating Previous Invoices

Disable this option if you like to disallow your staff changing   previous invoices for security reasons.

Allow Voiding Previous Invoices

Disable this option if you don’t want your staff to void previous invoices.

Enable Printing Invoice Detail on Manifest Report

Enable this option if you would like details of the invoice to be printed on the delivery manifest report.

Enable Printing Grand Total on Invoice

Enable this option if you would like the customer’s grand total outstanding balance to be printed on the invoice.

Enable Printing Bar Code on Invoice

Disable this option if you don’t want the bar code to be printed on the invoice.

Enable Printing Balance on Invoice

Enable this option if you would like the Invoice balance to be printed.

Printing Compressed Details

To save paper, select this option to compress multiple colors/upcharge option on the same line of the invoice.

Print Schedule Name

If you have multi schedules, printing schedule name on invoice might help you during sorting process.

Print Big Font Invoice

Prints larger font on Thermal Format invoice

Print Zero Balance Statement

To save paper, enable this option to avoid printing statements with Zero balance.

Print Name on Invoice or Report

If you don’t wish to print your associates name on invoice, disable this option, That’s print employee number

Increase quantity while selecting colors

Enabling this option increases the qty of items every time a color is selected during checkin. There are some unknown bugs with this feature and is not recommended.

Alert $0 items during checkout

Enable this option to alert you for any $0 price items to avoid losing revenue on some items that are to be priced later. You may use $0 report  under Misc for this purpose.

Print Barcode on Top

If you are using Windows Printing format, you may enable this option to have barcode to be printed on the top.

Print Wash & Fold Chart

Enable this option to print the Wash&fold chart on wash & fold invoice. Refer to Wash & Fold Section for more info.

Print Store address at the bottom

If you are using Windows Printing format, you may enable this option to have store address o be printed at the bottom.

Enable Date Selection ..

Enable this option to be prompted for payment date during customer account  payment in Invoice Utility.

Print Store# on Barcode

This option adds store id on the barcode for those who have multi store operations to avoid scanning wrong invoice during ready or other scanning process. It also adds special barcode to quick ticket,  when scanned from invoice utility it bring up invoice update function auto to save time and avoids errors.

Next Lot Tag Color

If you are using Lot Tag, you may override the next  Lot tag color

Next Lot Tag Number

If you are using Lot Tag, you may override the next Lot tag Number

Enable Package Order

Use this option if you like TMS to auto break your invoice into multi orders if exceeds max items per invoice in schedule. For example setting Max items per invoice to 6, an invoice with 17 pieces would break the invoice to order 1 with 6 pieces, order 2  with 6 pieces and order 3 with  5 pieces. Customer receives one invoice with all pieces. There are some unknown issues  with Stock reports when this option is in effect.

Enable multi Change Type

Allows you to select different change type during payment processing in Tender Screen

Enable Multi Invoice Checkout

Allows you to checkout multi invoices during checkout process

Disable Quick Checkin

Enable this option if you don’t like  your associates use Quick checkin.

Set Invoice Status to Out in Manifest

Enable this option to auto checkout invoices when manifest is created,

Show Coupon List At Tender

Enable this option to show you all predefined  coupons in Tender Screen.

Use Store Default Pickup Time as..

Use Management -> system -> Store hours to Setup your store hours and default pickup time for each day and enable this option to print on Invoice Pickup time.

Highlight Special Request Items in checkin

Customer’s preference on Starch, Folded would make items with this wordings highlighted.

Location is Not Required For Ready

Enable this option if you don’t wish to scan location# during Ready Process.

Set Invoice Status to Ready in Production

Enable this option to make the Invoice Status Ready when processed in Production. This is useful for Alteration and Shoe Repair Process.

Use Tracking Tag for Ready Process

Enable this option if your system is using Tracking Tag, so that particular item is set to Ready not the entire invoice. This is most used for Garment Rental operation.

Associates & Stores

Prompt For Security Pin#

Enable this option to be prompted for Pin# for every transaction to increase your system security.

Conveyor# Validation

Enable this option to check the location# against the predefined Conveyor Locations. To set your conveyor locations go to Management -> Management -> Conveyor

Enable Security Camera

Enable this option for the system to use the Webcam to take snapshots when No Sale is used or Checkout is canceled. To see the pictures go to  Reports -> More -> History Tracking

Don’t Return to Main Screen

Enable this option to avoid returning to main screen after each checkin/checkout transaction to avoid entering Security pin#

No Scanner

Enable this option if your system is not equipped with Scanner to use the keyboard to enter Invoice#/Location# whenever a scanner is required (e.g.  Ready, Manifest etc. )

Don’t show Scrolling Status Bar

By default TMS shows your current operation status like Not Ready, Quick Invoices scrolling on the top. Use this option to disable this feature as it might speed up your system performance.

Include Customers without Delivery in Manifest

Use this option to include all Delivery customers in the manifest report even there is nothing to deliver.

Enable Customer Account Payment At The Front Counter

Enable this option if you want to allow your staff to process payments for your charge customers. This option is usually disabled for stores with central payment processing.

Enable Working Stores

This is mostly used for operations with Central Database when associates work on different stores

Enable Assigning Customer ID

Use this option if you would like to assign your own customer ID to the customer at the time of creating the customer profile.

Only Checkout Scanned Invoices

To enhance your system security and reduce human error enable this option to force your staff to scan all orders during checkout process. No invoices are checked out without scanning.

Allow Partial Checkout

Enable this option if you like to allow your staff do a partial checkout for items that are not ready.

Allow Unpaid Quick Checkout

You may use Quick checkout to avoid going through checkout process. This is most used for prepay operations or Delivery Invoices. In this case enable this option so system allows quick checkout for invoices with Balance.

Mappoint Integration

If your system is equipped and licensed with Microsoft Mappoint program enable this option to allow you sort the delivery customers base on the address auto and create manifest with Delivery Instructions. See Pickup/delivery manual for more info.

Marketing

Enable Points Feature

Use this option to enable system royalty point system. Refer to Marketing section for more info.

Enable Customer Classification

Enable this option if you wish to classify your Royalty Points customers base on the collected points for higher rewards.

Reset Points

If you only have one type of Reward Coupon, enable this option to reset the collected points after coupon is printed.

Include Tax in Point Calculation

By default taxes are not included in Points calculation.

Misc

Reverse Search Phone#

Enable this feature if you like to use the specified website to find additional info using reverse search to find name, address of the person.  .

Phone Search

Enter the http link of the website you like to use for Reverse Phone lookup. For example 411.com can be used for USA phone numbers. Find out what is the website that provides such reverse phone# lookup for your area.

Use this option when adding/updating customer profile

Zipcode Search

The same ad phone search