What's New on Release 21.1 - Epicor

LaserCat with ImagesYou can now display thumbnail images within various LaserCat grids. This feature is optional forthe four primary grids – Part Expert, Interchange, Product Expert, and Item Expert. Pleasecontact support for information on setting up LaserCat images.Cash Drawer Balancing Enhancements• <strong>New</strong> option 9797 “Cash Drawer – Cash Drop Warning Threshold.” This option controlswhether the system generates an alert to the manager and a warning to the clerk(optional) when the cash in their drawer is high and a cash drop should be donebecause the drawer’s cash has reached or gone over the threshold amount. This alertand warning will continue to be given at the start of each transaction until the amount ofcash in the drawer is below the threshold. Set this option to zero if you do not want thesystem to generate this alert or warning.Use option 9799 “Cash Drop Warning given to clerk (alert always issued)” to tell thesystem to display this warning to the clerk (you may not want them to be aware ofexcess cash). The alert is always generated regardless of whether you want the clerk toreceive the warning.Use function PDO to define a Paid Out to use for performing a cash drop from adrawer, and to define a Paid In for adding change to a drawer.If the warning is ignored, then once the drawer’s cash has reached the maximumamount entered in option 9798 “Cash Drawer – Maximum Cash Lockout Amount” amanager override will be required to do a cash drop in order to continue using POS.Notes:• Maximum cash is calculated using the drawer’s total cash less the beginningcash.• This option only applies if you are using Cash Drawer Balancing (option 5419 isnot set to “Not Using”).• You can use both this excess cash warning and maximum cash lockout (entervalue in both options 9797 and 9798), or excess cash warning only (enter valuein option 9797 and set option 9798 to 0), or maximum cash lockout only (setoption 9797 to 0 and enter maximum in option 9798).• <strong>New</strong> option 9798 “Cash Drawer – Maximum Cash Lockout Amount.” This option controlsthe threshold at which the clerk is prevented from starting a new transaction becausethe cash in their drawer has reached this maximum amount. Once the drawer’s cashhas reached or gone over this maximum, a manager override by a user that hassecurity bit 1018 “(MO) Ability to do cash drop after maximum cash lockout” set to Yesis required to do a cash drop to reduce the drawer’s cash to an amount below thismaximum.Set this option to zero if you do not want to lockout a POS station when a maximum isreached. An alert is also generated when this lockout maximum is reached.What’s <strong>New</strong> on Release 21.1--Eagle for the Aftermarket Page 8