Abacre Home > Abacre Retail Point of Sale Home

Bill configuration

To set up bill configuration click Configuration -> Bill Configuration. Note that you should have an administrator's access rights to access bill configuration.

If you want to configure your printer, pole or cash driver read How to set up OPOS Drivers for POS Printers, Poles and Cash Drawers

In Abacre Retail Point of Sale the layouts of the guest bill can be customized.

To adjust paper size for your bills, please use chars count parameter. It specifies number of chars in one line of paper-bill. You may print test bill and then count how many chars it can print. After that you may enter this number into chars count parameter.

Bill configuration is a bill's template where you can edit bill configuration using template syntax. Using syntax is the most powerful feature of bill configuration. Moreover you can use plain text in bill configuration.

Syntax:

<propertyname> - Property name, is a name of a retail.
<propertyaddress> - Property Address, is a street address of a retail.
<propertystate> - State, is a state, where a retail is situated.
<propertyzip> - Property ZIP, is a postal code.
<propertycity> - City, is a city where a retail is situated.
<propertycountry> - Property Country, is a country where a retail is situated.
<propertyphone> - Property Phone, is a phone number of a retail.
<propertyfax> - Property Fax, is a fax number of a retail.
<orderno> - Order number.
<ordertypename> - Order type.
<chitno> - Order chit number.
<date> - Date, is a current day, month, year (defined by Windows settings).
<time> - Time, is a current time (defined by Windows settings).
<orderdate> - Date, is order's day, month, year (defined by Windows settings) when order was started.
<ordertime> - Time, is order's time (defined by Windows settings) when order was started.
<orderdateclosed> - Date, is order's day, month, year (defined by Windows settings) when order was closed. Empty string will be printed for open orders.
<ordertimeclosed> - Time, is order's time (defined by Windows settings) when order was closed. Empty string will be printed for open orders.
<server> - User name (login), is a user name of a current worker.
<address> - Delivery Address.
<itemscount> - Number of items in order.

Information about client:
<clientfirstname> - First name.
<clientlastname> - Last name.
<clientphone> - Phone.
<clientfax> - Fax.
<clientmobile> - Mobile.
<clientemail> - Email.
<clientstreet1> - Street 1.
<clientstreet2> - Street 2.
<clientcity> - City.
<clientzip> - ZIP.
<clientjobtitle> - Job Title.
<clientcompany> - Company.
<clientnote> - Note.
<clienttypename> - Client Type's name.
<clienttypecode> - Client Type's code.
<clienttypeno> - Client Type's number.
<discname> - Discount name.
<discrate> - Discount rate.
<disctotal> - Discount total value.
<taxname> - Tax name.
<taxrate> - Tax rate.
<subtotal> - Sub total, is a total price of the items.
<totalnet> - Sub total, is a total price of the items without taxes.
<total> - Total price, includes tax.
<payment> - Information about payment methods (cash, credit card, check etc).

Additional settings:

Show Property logo - this feature allows to show retail's logo in bill. Check the show property logo box if you wish to include retail's logo in bill. Uncheck the box if you wish to exclude retail's logo from bill.

Calc Qty for Categories - by default ARTPOS calculates number of items for category. If you want to calculate quantity of items for category check ON this parameter.

Examples of using template syntax:

By default you have the next bill's configuration:

<propertyname>
<propertyaddress>
<propertystate>
<propertyzip> <propertycity>
<propertycountry>
Phone: <propertyphone>
Fax: <propertyfax>

Table <tableno> <date>
--
Total net <totalnet>
<taxname> <taxrate> <taxtotal>
Total <total>

When you click on Preview tab, you will see the next:

<propertylogo>
McDonalds
High Road, 57
New
73527 New York
United States
Phone: +1444555666
Fax: +1444555777

--
Total net <totalnet>
Sales tax <taxrate> <taxtotal>
Total <total>

It means that all of syntax fields will be replaced by its values, for example syntax field <propertyname> will be replaced by its value "McDonalds". Note that syntax elements like <propertylogo> or <tableno> , <couverts> , <totalnet> , <taxrate> , <taxtotal> , <tipsrate> , <tipstotal> and <total> will be replaced by its values only when you print bill, but not in preview mode.

See also:

Pole Settings |Getting started

Awards:

View all awards