Epos Now 3.6 Release Notes
Released 22 October 2024
Included in this release:
NEW
- New tipping report helps to better manage service charges and gratuity
- Use Apple Single-Sign-On to log in to your Back Office
- Grateful integration helps businesses manage tips (UK only)
- Print clock in and out slips
- Stock management (Beta)
ENHANCEMENTS
- Non-taxable container fees
MINOR FIXES
- An overview of our minor fixes
GET TO KNOW
- Epos Now My Business
NEW: New tipping report helps to better manage service charges and gratuity
We’re excited to announce that you will soon be able to access a new tipping report that is designed to help you better manage service charges and gratuity.
The report will allow you to:
- Select a specific time frame
- View hours worked by employees over that period
- See a detailed breakdown of gratuity and service charges generated
You will find this new report under Reporting > Banking in your Back Office, and it will also be available for export as a CSV file for easy record-keeping and sharing with a troncmaster.
Please note: In the UK, this report will be called the Tronc Report; for businesses outside the UK, it will be known as the Tipping Report.
NEW: Use Apple Single-Sign-On to log in to your Back Office
You can now log in to your Back Office using the same credentials you would use to log in to your Apple products. This is made possible via Apple’s single sign-on (SSO) feature.
SSO ensures a speedier, more simplified user experience and prevents the user from having to remember additional usernames and or passwords.
NEW: Grateful integration helps businesses manage tips (UK only)
We’re excited to launch our integration with Grateful.
Grateful helps hospitality businesses manage their tipping. With tipping legislation changes coming into effect on 1 October 2024, employers must ensure that workers receive the full tip from customers.
Grateful collects and distributes tips transparently, ensuring that 100% of the tip goes directly to the individual. Grateful gives team members instant access to their funds without waiting until payday to receive their tips.
Grateful helps businesses:
- Be compliant – Have a managed and outsourced tronc to ensure compliance with the new tipping laws
- Direct cost saving – Save on National Insurance and end the stress of tronc calculations
- Reduce admin – Grateful automates tip management and distribution process end-to-end through the software
- Retain talent – give your team full transparency over their tips and tronc earnings through the Grateful web app
NEW: Print clock in and out slips
Clocking in/out slips is a new feature, available for any users that use the clock in/out feature on the till.
It gives users the option to print a record via the receipt printer when they clock in or out, and includes the staff name, location and total amount of worked hours.
NEW: Stock management (Beta)
After much feedback from our Epos Now Community, we’re excited to announce that our new stock management page will soon be going into beta testing.
Our revamped stock management page will help you to:
- See all products where stock is being tracked
- Easily adjust quantities, cost price, as well as minimum and maximum stock amounts
- Track total cost of products, quantities of on-order amounts, and much more
- Filter by low-stock items, suppliers, categories, and all of the other ways you track stock
We are looking for pilot customers to test the page, so if you are interested please let us know!
ENHANCEMENT: Non-taxable container fees
Container fees now support additional flexibility by allowing users to set container fees as tax exempt, and ensures that these fees remain unaffected by any promotions or discounts applied to the transaction.
This enhancement helps streamline the management of recycling charges while ensuring compliance with local regulations.
This feature can be accessed and managed through Epos Now Labs and is available under different names based on location (e.g. Container Fees in the US and Canada, Deposit Return Scheme in Europe).
Once enabled it can be found under Manage > Products > Container fees.
MINOR FIXES
- Transaction report end date and time: We have fixed an issue where the end date and time was not being correctly updated in the transaction report filters when using touch-screen devices. The date and time picker now accurately captures both start and end times.
- Stock report adjustment details: The stock adjustment details page now displays times in the local timezone instead of UTC, ensuring consistency across reports and eliminating confusion.
GET TO KNOW
Epos Now My Business
When it comes to your finances, Epos Now My Business puts you in the driver’s seat.
Quickly access your business bank account, powered by Adyen, on an app that brings all your data together.
Store money safely, make and receive fast payments, and provide automated end-to-end synchronisation with all your Epos Now financial data.
Take control of your business finances with total confidence.
With Epos Now My Business you can:
- Open a free business bank account, powered by Adyen, in as little as 24 hours
- Get a free business card to purchase all your business needs
- Use a free, easy-to-use app to view your business sales performance in real-time
- Sync your financial data from Epos Now Capital and Epos Now Payments for total transparency
- Quickly and efficiently pay suppliers and transfer funds
- Accept Capital loan funds with flexible repayments*
- Get paid out the next day for free, or upgrade to same-day payouts for a small fee
- No monthly fees!
