<p>Welcome to the September 2017 edition of New on Shopfront, this month we&#8217;ve adjusted customer statements, added support for additional decimal places and have made a huge number of fixes.</p>
<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Adjustments to Customer Statements</li>
<li>Cost Variance Report</li>
<li>Reorder Report Printing</li>
<li>Additional Decimal Place Support</li>
<li>Fixes</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p></p>
<h2>Adjustments to Customer Statements</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-224" src="http://shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Customer-Statements-1024x513.jpg" alt="" width="525" height="263" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Customer-Statements-1024x513.jpg 1024w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Customer-Statements-300x150.jpg 300w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Customer-Statements-768x385.jpg 768w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Customer-Statements.jpg 1382w" sizes="(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px" /></p>
<p>On Thursday (the 28th of September), we released our rewritten customer statements. The new customer statements are quicker, more predictable and easier for the customers to use.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve removed the due date column and have merged the invoice total column with the paid column into a single &#8220;total&#8221; column. We&#8217;ve also adjusted the balance column to show the current outstanding balance rather than the balance at the date of the transaction. This lets customers see at a glance which invoices they are currently owing so they can make payments easier.</p>
<p>As part of merging the invoice total column with the paid column, we&#8217;ve added additional payments whenever an invoice was partially or entirely paid at the point of the transaction.</p>
<h2>Cost Variance Report</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-225" src="http://shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/CostVariance-1024x231.jpg" alt="" width="525" height="118" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/CostVariance-1024x231.jpg 1024w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/CostVariance-300x68.jpg 300w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/CostVariance-768x173.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px" /></p>
<p>As requested by one of our stores, we now provide a cost variance report which shows how product costs have changed over a period of time. It allows you to compare previous costs with changed costs for every price point to ensure you&#8217;re making the profit you expect.</p>
<p>Access the cost variance report by going to Reporting &gt; Actions Reports in the menu.</p>
<h2>Reorder Report Printing</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-226" src="http://shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ReorderPrint-1024x354.jpg" alt="" width="525" height="181" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ReorderPrint-1024x354.jpg 1024w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ReorderPrint-300x104.jpg 300w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ReorderPrint-768x265.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px" /></p>
<p>Like to print out our dynamically generated report to walk around your store and check your stock? Well it&#8217;s now become a whole lot easier. Previously you could have attempted to print the table out, however it wasn&#8217;t really designed to be printed so you&#8217;d likely end up with a huge amount of pages for a small order. Another way stores previously printed it out was to attempt to copy and paste the table into another application, however for large orders this was a tedious process.</p>
<p>Now you can just click on options in the top right and corner and press &#8220;Print Order&#8221;. The page will automatically be rearranged to be printable and then it will print out to your selected printer.</p>
<h2>Additional Decimal Place Support</h2>
<p>As part of supporting the growing requirements of our stores, we&#8217;ve expanded the amount of decimal places that we support in several locations. For example, prices now support up to four decimal places and cost when receiving orders now supports four decimal places.</p>
<h2>Fixes</h2>
<ul>
<li>EFTPOS Cashout no longer prints out when sale completed without products</li>
<li>Negative account balance payments no longer apply to sales with incorrect amount</li>
<li>Several display issues on mobile devices have been fixed</li>
<li>Deleted products now appear in sales history</li>
<li>Attempting to apply customer payment no longer freezes screen when no payment receipt applied to customer</li>
<li>Float amount no longer rounds in manage takings (when restored from a previous day)</li>
<li>Shelf tickets export now removes extra spaces in middle of product name</li>
<li>Applying family to product no longer prevents profit percentage from working</li>
<li>Toggling the on hand stock only in stock list before searching now works as expected</li>
<li>Socket server no longer randomly rejects clients</li>
<li>Live profit for products with a base quantity other than one (e.g. 10 packs) is now correct</li>
<li>Emailed reports no longer display link as text</li>
</ul>

New on Shopfront: September 2017

<p>Love travel and customer service? We&#8217;ve got the perfect opportunity for you. Shopfront requires someone to go to new and existing clients to install the hardware and train the clients on how to use Shopfront.</p>
<p></p>
<p>We develop a point of sale system ready to take on the world. We&#8217;re a small, fast moving, agile team, passionate about developing the best products for our customers.</p>
<p>Travel all over the country to help our customers get up and running with our software so they can look after their customers. Your job is largely training our clients how to use our system and setting up the hardware. Technical knowledge is not required and we will fully train you. We will also provide you with a car to go out to our clients in.</p>
<p>Shopfront is currently in the beta stage with more than 50 customers and growing rapidly, with full readiness to market planned late this year. We want someone to grow with the company in this full time position.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re looking for applicants who have previously worked in retail or hospitality, have a valid driver&#8217;s license, are happy with travelling interstate and love making customers happy.</p>
<p>Your responsibilities will include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Setting up hardware for our system,</li>
<li>Training clients in person how to use our system,</li>
<li>Identifying, reproducing and documenting bugs found,</li>
<li>Ensuring customer satisfaction,</li>
<li>Contributing to the ongoing learning and success of the team, by sharing knowledge through mentorship, collaboration and aiding in documentation.</li>
</ul>
<p>Sounds good? Send us an email at <a href="mailto:careers@shopfront.com.au">careers@shopfront.com.au</a> including both a cover letter and a résumé. Having experience in operating or managing a business is a bonus (but not required).</p>

Customer Experience Agent Required

<p>Do you want to be a part of a growing energetic business that is ready to deliver awesome products? Come and join the team at Shopfront!</p>
<p></p>
<p>We develop a point of sale system ready to take on the world. We&#8217;re a small, fast moving, agile team, passionate about developing the best products for our customers.</p>
<p>At Shopfront we use the following (and more) tools and technologies to deliver fantastic user experiences:</p>
<ul>
<li>PHP (Laravel Framework),</li>
<li>Node.js,</li>
<li>MariaDB,</li>
<li>SASS,</li>
<li>GIT</li>
</ul>
<p>Shopfront is currently in the beta stage with more than 50 customers and growing rapidly, with full readiness to market planned late this year. We want someone to grow with the company in this full time position.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re looking for applicants able to demonstrate either work experience or project experience (we love open-source software here at Shopfront). The position is based in Tullamarine, Victoria.</p>
<p>Sounds good? Send us an email at <a href="mailto:careers@shopfront.com.au">careers@shopfront.com.au</a> including both a cover letter and a résumé. We&#8217;d love to hear about some of the projects that you&#8217;ve worked on and how you would like to grow with our business. Retail or hospitality experience is also a big plus (but not required).</p>

Full-Stack Developer Required

<p>Welcome to the first edition of New on Shopfront, in this series of blog posts we will be showing you some of the new features that have occurred this month.</p>
<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>New Branding</li>
<li>Components and Packages (Beta)</li>
<li>Xero Integration (Beta)</li>
<li>ILG Promotions</li>
<li>Held Receipt Printing</li>
<li>Deli Barcodes</li>
<li>User Dashboard (Alpha)</li>
<li>Fixes</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p></p>
<h2>New Branding</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-109" src="https://shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Shopfront-LOGO-no-slogan-300x94.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="94" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Shopfront-LOGO-no-slogan-300x94.jpg 300w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Shopfront-LOGO-no-slogan-768x240.jpg 768w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Shopfront-LOGO-no-slogan-1024x320.jpg 1024w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Shopfront-LOGO-no-slogan.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>As you may have noticed over the last few days we have been updating our branding, we&#8217;re now called Shopfront. We will continue to slowly make changes over the next few weeks &#8211; let us know what you think!</p>
<h2>Components and Packages (Beta)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-110" src="https://shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Components-1-300x95.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="95" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Components-1-300x95.jpg 300w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Components-1.jpg 505w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve just released Components and Packages. Components and Packages allow you to sell products that are made up of other products and then edit them live on the sellscreen &#8211; what no lettuce and extra cheese on that burger? No problems!</p>
<p>To enable this new feature, head to the general settings and flick the switch for Components and Packages.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-111" src="https://shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Components-2-300x187.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="187" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Components-2-300x187.jpg 300w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Components-2.jpg 619w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<h2>Xero Integration (Beta)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-28" src="https://shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/xero-logo-hires-RGB-300x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/xero-logo-hires-RGB-300x300.png 300w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/xero-logo-hires-RGB-150x150.png 150w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/xero-logo-hires-RGB-768x768.png 768w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/xero-logo-hires-RGB-100x100.png 100w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/xero-logo-hires-RGB.png 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>Use Xero for your accounting package? You can now send sales and purchases directly to Xero, reducing the time required the enter invoices twice and preventing keying errors! Contact us to get started.</p>
<h2>ILG Promotions</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-112" src="https://shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ilg_46.gif" alt="" width="46" height="46" /></p>
<p>Part of the Independant Liquor Group? We now automatically download and distribute promotions without you needing to do anything.</p>
<h2>Held Receipt Printing</h2>
<p>Want to provide customers with a copy of what products they put on hold or need to keep a seperate record from the POS? Well now you can &#8211; simple hold a sale and print the receipt as per normal.</p>
<h2>Deli Barcodes</h2>
<p>Shopfront is now supporting even more barcodes &#8211; print barcodes that incorporate a price? No more needing to manually change the price. Simply enable the &#8220;Use Price / Weight Labels&#8221; in the general settings, find the product, turn &#8220;Use Price / Weight Label&#8221; on and then add the barcode under the barcodes tab.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-113" src="https://shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Price-Weight-Label.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="50" /></p>
<h2>User Dashboard (Alpha)</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-115" src="https://shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/User-Dashboard-1-1024x300.jpg" alt="" width="525" height="154" srcset="https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/User-Dashboard-1-1024x300.jpg 1024w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/User-Dashboard-1-300x88.jpg 300w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/User-Dashboard-1-768x225.jpg 768w, https://wp.shopfront.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/User-Dashboard-1.jpg 1905w" sizes="(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px" /></p>
<p>Ready for a new insight into your store? Introducing the User Dashboard. Fully customisable for each user, it allows you to view all the data you require at a glance. More details coming soon &#8211; want to test it early? Contact us now!</p>
<h2>Fixes</h2>
<p>This section displays a preview of some of the major fixes that were completed this month.</p>
<ul>
<li>Multiple promotion fixes</li>
<li>Fixed sales keys not loading on occasion when offline</li>
<li>Multiple rounding issues</li>
<li>Increased speed of reporting dashboard</li>
<li>Sales on hold now fully work when offline</li>
<li>Cost percentage products now display correct costs and profit percentages in the register</li>
<li>Inventory reports now email as expected</li>
<li>Push notifications for register closures no longer include cancelled sales</li>
<li>Rebate report now displays correct products when consolidated</li>
</ul>

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