The current Retail process supported by LS Central is simply for the customers to collect the items and bring them to the POS for completing the transaction. LS Retail aims to change this process with the introduction of their new product ScanPayGo. Using this app customers will be able to select the items to be purchased directly from within the app or by scanning the barcode on the item, manage or share multiple shopping lists , pay directly from within the app or pay at the POS by simply scanning one QR code instead of all the items as was done previously. It also allows paying using loyalty points if sufficient points are available. As a security feature the app has random checks in which after a transaction the customer has to confirm with a Staff member to verify the purchased items. It maintains a purchase history so that repeated transactions need not be scanned repeatedly. It help customers find the closest Store by providing a list of all the available Store ordered by the closest Store. It also displays the current available offers in the Store. All of which adds on to the seamless retail experience with minimal interaction. Retailers can customize the color scheme and logo of the app however they wish. Retailers can also offer personalized ads to Users using ScanPayGo! This application is going to be available for both Android and iOS.

Retail Store Scale Unit allows retailers to sell products within store locations that have internet connectivity issues, where it fails to connect with headquarters (HQ). Retail Store Scale Unit support both Modern POS and Cloud POS within the store. MPOS with Retail Store Scale Unit allows users to perform cross-terminal scenarios across multiple POS devices, like Suspend Shift Close Shift Blind Close Shift Manage Shift Inventory Lookup Stock Count Print X-Report Print Z-Report whereas Cloud-based MPOS offline fails to perform these operations. MPOS with Retail Store Scale Unit fails to perform real-time operations such as Issue/pay Gift Cards Issue Loyalty Card Picking and Receiving Pay by Customer Account Credit Card transactions Order Fulfillment View/Create Time clock entries unless there is internet connectivity to HQ or a payment provider. If most of your transactions involve real-time transactions, then your Store Scale Unit will always need internet connectivity to enable the connection to HQ or payment provider.

“Run Jobs” – as the name suggests is a process between Retail Channels and Retail essentials through which we transfer data between channels and database. Please Note: Jobs Run at a specified time which may be different for every Retail Scheduler. Be aware of what the time is set for jobs to run automatically.  Running jobs at a specific time requires setting to be done so that we can schedule a specific job to run at specific time. It can be easily done manually. You’ll have to follow the below steps: Step 1: Go to distribution schedule or Channel database in Retail Dynamics 365. If the job doesn’t run from distribution schedule run it through channel database. Step 2: Go to download sessions and make sure your Job is available or in applied state. If it is in available state, go to “Batch Jobs“. Step 3: Now you will have to find the same batch job that you were searching and need to run it at a specified time. Step 4: Here, since the Job is in waiting state, you need to change it’s scheduled date and time to current time. This change must be according to the time at which you want your job needs to be run. The specified time will make your job run immediately.   Step 5: You can check if Job is being applied in “Download sessions” whenever required. Step 6: You can also change how often the job should run from going to Recurrence. Step 7: Only things highlighted in Red boxes should be checked. Hope this helps!!! Thank you! Please feel free to post any doubts you have.

Steps to Perform Transfer In in Dynamics 365 for Retail on POS Go to Picking and Receiving –> click on + icon and click Transfer In Select the store from where you want to transfer in, Delivery date and mode of delivery. Add or scan all the products and its quantity. Click on + icon to add more products to the transfer order You can save the products added by clicking on Save icon. The status of the order will be in Draft. You can continue adding products when it is in Draft state by clicking on + icon. Once you are done adding all the products click on commit icon. Once the order is committed the status will change to created and you will not be able to add products. Once the Order is created, the Order will reflect in the store from where the order is requested. Perform the following steps in that store. For example the warehouse. [Products can be shipped from Finance and Operations as well] Select the transfer In order and click the update icon. Click on ship all icon to ship the products. This will change the ship now column with values to ship. Then click on commit. This will change the status of the order to shipped. When the status is changed to shipped the same status will reflect in the store 101 as well. On store 101 User must click on the transfer order and click on update. Click on receive all icon and click on commit icon. This will complete the process.

Introduction: A “shared shift” configuration lets retailers have a single shift across multiple registers, cash drawers, and users. A shared shift has a single starting amount and a single closing amount that are summarized across all cash drawers. Shared shifts are most typical when mobile devices are used. In this scenario, a separate cash drawer isn’t reserved for each register. Instead, all registers can share one cash drawer. Steps to Configure: Go to Retail –> Channel setup –> POS setup –>POS profile –> Hardware profile –> Drawer –>Enable shared shift option. Go to Retail –> Workers–> Select the user and go to retail tab. Go to POS Permission and select the appropriate permission group and assign it to the user. Make sure that the  user must have “Allow manage shared shift and Allow use shared shift” permissions enabled Save the changes Go to Distribution Schedule and run the job for Register and Staff. Note: Only one shared shift can be opened at a time in each store.

Manual For closing Blind shift in POS: Blind shifts terminate the currently ongoing shift and when logged in a new shift opens. In this blog we shall see how to close the blind shift. Steps: 1. Login to the POS 2. Open a new shift or continue with the existing one. 3. Click on Show blind closed shifts. 4. Select the shift you want to close. 5. At the bottom click on declare. 6. Declare the starting amount and the tender amount. 7. Click on close shift. This is how blind shifts can be closed.