In this blog, I am going to showcase how to resolve the error while printing the X/Z report from POS. In the store, go to payment methods. Select the tender Remove/ Float payment method. The payment method configuration for “Tender remove/float” was incorrect. If you don’t want to have the same problem be sure to unmark all the “tender declaration options” at this payment method. If you need to unmark after saving it you need to do it at RetailStoreTenderTypeTable.counting required there will be a record per payment method per store, so update as many as you need. After performing these steps, run Full sync from Channel Database. Refresh the POS link. You will able to see the start amount in both X/Z report. Hope this helps!

In this blog, I am going to showcase how to resolve the error while returning invoice orders in Retail POS. When a customer will come to the shop and want to return the order which already invoices then getting following error on the POS This error was occurred because the return reason code setup is missing. Steps to Configure Return reason code. Set up return reason code groups Go to Sales and marketing > Setup > Sales orders > Returns > Return reason code groups. Select New to create a line for a new return reason code group. In the Return reason code group field, type an identifier for this group. In the Description field, type a brief phrase to explain how this group will be used. Set up return reason codes This procedure helps you set up return reason codes that you can use to indicate why a product was returned by the customer. Go to Sales and marketing > Setup > Sales orders > Returns > Return reason codes. Press CTRL + N to create a new return reason code line. In the Return reason code field, enter text to identify this code. In the Description field, enter text to describe the return reason code. Use the Return reason code group drop-down list to add the code to a return reason code group. Once all setup complete. Run 1030, 1070, 1090, and 1110 and refresh the POS link. Now you will get the below info code to enter the reason for the return and you will successfully return the invoice order. hope this helps!

As of now as a POS user if you want to check the inventory of an Item , you will need to click on the inventory lookup button on homepage and you will have to then enter the item number to display a list of store wise inventory. While this feature is useful, there is a need to check inventory directly from the cart itself. Microsoft has finally made this feature available. However, this will be available from 10.0.19 release. Once this feature becomes operational, you will need to add an ‘Inventory lookup’ button to the button grid. After adding a line to the cart you can select the any line and then click on inventory lookup button to check the stock for that particular item. If you select no lines and click on the inventory look up button you will see an empty form Hope this helps!

This particular error ‘A database error has occurred’ took a very long time to resolve for us as neither us or Microsoft were able to figure out what was causing it. We verified and double checked following to resolve the issue but to no avail. I suggest you to first ensure the below things before you escalate it to Microsoft support team. Validate the created products Make sure product has category assigned. Ensure product is added to store assortment and assortment is published Process the assortment and all the jobs are in applied state If the issue still persists, then its possible the issue is with scheduler sub jobs. Check the InventTable. There should be 1040 job in the scheduled by Tab If its missing then go to 1040 jobs and then scheduler jobs and add Inventtable to it. Hope this helps!

In Retail store you will need to assign address books i.e. One for store staff/employees and the second one for customers. If you fail  to do that then on POS you will not be able to login or see/search for customers The above setup is the ideal for the store to function properly. However, some employees you want to create as customers too. You can do this manually or you can keep it automatic. The meaning of automatics is, you will be able to search for store employees on POS and as soon as you click on their names, a customer with the same employee name will be created in the system. To do this automatically on POS the below setup is required. As you can see ‘Houston’ address book is common in the store Customer address book and Employee address book As a result of this setup, whenever you search for any employee on POS and select it, it will be created as customer in the system. Here, I have searched for Eric who is an employee and his customer ID field is blank as he is an employee. As soon as I click on it, it will create the customer in the system. Hope this helps!

Loyalty programs can help increase customer loyalty by rewarding customers for their interactions with the retailer’s brand. In Dynamics 365 Commerce, you can set up simple or complex loyalty programs that apply across your legal entities in any commerce channel.  You can set up your loyalty program in many ways so that it includes options such as: multiple types of rewards, incentives, earning rules, manual point adjustment. Some customers will also require to setup multiple loyalty cards for every customers. For example as you can see Stuart has 2 loyalty cards associated with his account. The provision to allow customers to have multiple cards is a useful feature but it makes the loyalty card process a bit complex. Complex in a way that loyalty card will not be selected by default hence cashiers will need to be careful and choose a loyalty card during every transaction. If you do not select a loyalty card, then points will not be earned for the customer while making a purchase. To avoid this from happening, what cashier can do is always search for the customers with their loyalty card numbers. This way the loyalty card would be selected automatically while customer is making a purchase. However if the customer does not have the card number handy then the cashier will need to select a loyalty card I hope this helps!

In this blog I am going to showcase how to resolve the real time service error in Retail POS. Once you have refreshed the database or you are reconfiguring the retail environment , you may run into below error If the real time service is not working then you will not be able to activate POS and any POS which are already active will stop working. To resolve this you need to reset IIS from the VM and then check if real time service is up. You can check the status of real time service by entering this URL in the browser https:// << D365 Environment URL/healthcheck?testname=ping You should see below result which indicates the real time service is ok If the service is still showing as failed or not started then ensure all the services are running properly from services in the VM. Try restarting the environment Lastly you can seek help by raising a ticket with Microsoft Hope this helps!

Email receipts are an environmentally friendly option for processing retail sales. The customer can decide whether to receive a printed receipt, an email receipt, or both. This topic explains how to set up email receipts in Dynamics 365. Prerequisite To get started, we must Install/configure a SMTP server to send an emails. Steps:  1.Connect Dynamics 365 to the SMTP server. Path to go —- System administration > Setup > Email > Email parameters. Set the values of following fields: 2.Email Template setup for receipt Path to go Organization administration -> Setup -> Email templates. Create a template for Email receipt. Click on “Edit” and upload email template for the body of the email messages to be sent. Insert the placeholder %message%. 3. Set Email Notification Profile Path to go Retail and commerce -> Headquarters setup -> Parameters -> Retail parameters. Click on General tab and select the value for “Email Notification”. Click on the value selected for “Email Notification”. 4. Set default options for email receipts Path to go Retail and commerce -> Headquarters setup -> Parameters -> Retail parameters. Click the Posting tab, and expand the “Email receipt”. After this open Store where you need to configure Email Setup. And select email notification profile. Click on functionality profile of Store Select Email receipt id Run below jobs 1070 – Channel configuration 1090 – Registers 1110 – Global configuration Now you will get pop up of email receipt from POS after Sales done. Hope this helps!

Info codes to use to capture data at the point of sale when a worker performs various actions, such as product sales, product returns. By using info codes, you can track data such as the  reason that a product was returned or  postal code.. Prompt provided in info codes not show as expected on POS. Use following steps. Open info code add prompt. Click on translation tab enter the same prompt in translation . Run 1030 Job and refresh the browser link and Login. Now you will able to  see the expected prompt on POS. Hope this helps !

Dynamics 365 Financial and Operations uses the unit of measure to calculate the amount of product that its purchased, sold, or stored in inventory. When you perform sales or purchases, it’s important that you select the correct unit that is being sold or purchased, as the cost and price of the item is dependent upon it. When  products can be added in cart, but unit of measure showing blank/Null  on POS I recently came across an issue where the unit of measure I created in HQ and add in Products unit but this was not showing up on POS. Following are steps to resolve this issue. Click on Unit which showing blank on POS. Check the description it must be filled Click on Translated Unit description. Check the language it must be match with store language. After preforming these steps, run 1040,1070, 1090 job. Refresh the POS link. You will able to se Unit of measure on POS. Hope this helps!