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iOS App 

The following new features and improvements have been made to the NorthStar Order Entry app on iOS.

Feature AreaDescriptionDocumentation Reference
App Support

Allow CBS Support to to remotely connect to a site's iPad via Bomgar

Bomgar Remote Support via iPad
Banks/Drops

The banks and drops feature enables sites to set cash threshold limits for cash drawers; when cash limit is met, management is prompted to pull cash from drawers and record the amount pulled. Includes: 

  • Add early warning functionality when a cash drawer approaches the cash drawer limit
  • Allow input of starting bank amount and cash skim amount
  • Implement job permission for Banks/Drops button access
  • Revise limit warning messages 
  • Cashout and finalizing a drawer resets banks/drops amounts for that drawer
  • Audit Log (ECM) - Display when drawer cash limit met or exceeded

Banks/Drops User Guide

Cheetah

Cheetah Digital is a loyalty program and coupon service. Customers sign up on Cheetah's website and can receive rewards based on spend activity on NorthStar. Includes: 

  • Highlight Surprise and Delight rewards (Cheetah Digital)
  • Show attached customer’s current loyalty tier
  • When reward is set to exclusive and only 1 can be applied, allow reward to be applied to only 1 item on the redeem screen.
  • Display Cheetah Digital rewards

Payment#CheetahDigital-Loyalty

External Code & External Code 2


Dispatch

The dispatch dashboard is a web application that offers an above-store view of orders and communication with customers. It can be used to view and manage online/phone orders for delivery and pickup or orders from any area of the site configured to use dispatch dashboard.

  • Allow access to Dispatch Dashboard
  • Add Kitchen status to Dispatch Check when any item on the check is submitted to kitchen
  • Windows App: Allow access to Dispatch Dashboard from app (Username dropdown menu)

Dispatch Dashboard User Guide

Hourly Sales/DSRUpdate the application DSR Report to display Sold and Advance (sent and unsent) sales data.

Daily Sales Report (App)

Hourly Sales/DSRUpdate the application Hourly Sales Report  to display all hours and sales/labor grid

Hourly Sales and Labor Report (App)

iDynamo 6Allow iDynamo 6 contactless payment

Contactless payment - iDynamo 6

Payment processing

Quick Chip: Allow for "Insert Anytime" of credit card on PAX devices through EMV Quick Chip to speed up the check payment process. The customer can insert the credit card and it will be captured before the cashier completes processing the check.

Using "Insert Anytime" on PAX card reader (Quick Chip)

ReportsPush payment devices' serial numbers to the cloud

World View

Shift4 Credit CardsCreate new payment processor adapter for Shift4 integration

Online Ordering 

Text Loyalty

This optional feature allows Allow staff to text guests a link to join the company's loyalty/reward program. Includes: 

  • Display or hide "Text to join loyalty" button based on ECM configuration
  • Display a popup view for mobile number entry
  • Create a web service that sends out a text message to the entered mobile number

Text guest to join loyalty program


Text NS Pay

Improvements to the Text to Pay feature

  • Enable text to pay button when orders are not yet added to a check. 

  • After successful text sent from guest identifier screen, the guest identifier closes and returns to Location manager or resets the orders and remains on ordering, based on settings.

Text to Pay

TruCommerceNorthStar integrates to TruCommerce to pull menu items and their barcodes into our system; items are not required to be set up individually in the ECM portal. When a barcode is scanned the items are added to the order. 

/wiki/spaces/ORDERENTRY/pages/2480406529 

UX

Loyalty program

  • Allow customer to provide date of birth during new member registration 

Customer Loyalty/Redeem Member Rewards




Other Print loyalty rewards summary information on the guest receipt 

Receipts - General


Drive Thru

  • Send order on submit (Set by Area) 

Drive Thru Order Workflow

Add an Area  


Advanced Customer Display 

  • Show default components removed from order on customer display
  • Do not display screen saver on customer displays during ordering, check review or payment process 

Advanced Customer Display (iPad as a Customer Display



Advance Orders

  • Send advance orders automatically to the kitchen on date/time scheduled 

Advance Orders


Combo orders

  • Setting added Add setting in combo menu item configuration to use auto combo in the staff UI.
  • When selected, ordered qualifying menu items are combined to create a combo automatically on the payment screen that will provide the best value to the guest.

Combo: Auto combo (Best value discount)

Questions re: best value. Angel said he'd review doc. no response since 11/30. 


Guest Identifier

  • Allow guest identifier pop-up to display first 
  • Change "Person" label to "Shirt" label 
  • Control guest identifier speed screens by area
  • Add icons for guest identifiers

Guest Identifier Speed Screen 


Also do something (question) with 2017 doc Guest Identifier


Area icons

Add an Area


CC Pre-Auth

  • Allow the CC Pre-Auth window to pop up when the user starts a tab

Start Tab - Credit Card Pre-authorization


Drive Thru Check search  

  • Add ability to see closed checks in drive thru 
  • Add "All" filter to allow display of all drive thru checks regardless of status; set as default

Drive Thru Order Workflow


ECM Reports

  • Display and round at N decimal places for time records. 

Employee Reports


Guest Facing

  • Disabled Disable "Place my order" when there are no items to send to kitchen
FULL REWRITE/NEW DOC - Significant LOE

Time Clock

  • Added Add Log out and Return buttons to Time Card Details 
  • iOS App - New Time Clock UI - Auto-fill selected user name when adding a time record (CFG)
  • IOS App - New Time Clock UI display current user instead of all users on time record details (CFG)

Time Clock - UI Redesign


Scanning

  • Added ability to Can use Bluetooth HID scanner (in addition to external scanner and iPad scanner) to scan QR/barcodes for logging in, menu item ordering, adjustments, coupons, gift cards, etc.



Barcode scanning

  • Support type 2 barcode scan support 

Scan Type 2 Barcodes (iOS app) - Videos


Components and serving options

  • Added a new New setting on component category and serving options category configuration: 
    Automatically add menu item to check when component requirements/serving option requirements are met
  • When setting is selected, menu items are automatically added to the order when the minimum component and serving option requirements are met 

Add Component Category

Add Serving Option Category


Time record reports - App 

  • ECM: Added New setting on Reports page to allow user to set number of decimal places (2 - 6) to round and display hours 
  • The decimal place setting applies to:
    Time Record report
    Payroll Summary report
    Labor Summary report
    Tip Distribution report

Employee Reports


Drive Thru Locations

  • Previously, in a Drive Thru location, after the order taker tapped Payment Complete, Parked or Finalized, the Drive Thru Orders check search screen displayed.
  • New option: A Locations setting has been added
    • Add Locations setting (for Drive Thru
    location
    • locations only) that provides the option to either display the Drive Thru Orders check search
    screen automatically after these actions or
    • screen or to display the ordering screen
     
    • after tapping Payment Complete, Parked or Finalized 

    Locations (Edit an Area)


    Loyalty account privacy 

    • To comply with local laws and provide greater enhance user privacy, a feature toggle and setting have been added to allow allows a site to mask 
      loyalty mask loyalty member info by area (app/receipt) Mask member info on guest receipt, kitchen chit, and app screens

    Add an Area


    Survey codes 

    • Provided Provide ability to print survey codes on all guest receipts in SMG format 

    Receipts - Codes


    Kitchen printing

    • When the Order Type of a menu item is changed, print the new order type on the kitchen chit (more than one order type can be printed on the chit) 

    Order Types for Locations

    Kitchen Chits


    Scheduled orders

    Significant operational Improvement made to

    Operational Improvements on scheduled orders (advance orders, take-out orders and web orders):

      Instead of a scheduled order remaining attached to a location
    • When an order is scheduled, the check
    • will be
    • is parked and available in check search and behind the take-out button
    • . Operationally, this means the staff will tap
    • (no longer attached to a location)
    • Tap Open instead of Go to Location to access a check
    • . The staff member can work from a single location to open checks when a guest arrives.
    • quickly 
    • This reduces/eliminates the need to create multiple locations for scheduled orders. (
    • Majority of
    • WOAPI users
    • won’t
    • may no longer need the Area setting: Finalize when sent to kitchen.)


     Advance Orders 

    Not done: 
    Check search - Doc is long and focuses on screen components; needs to be updated. 

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    Windows App

    NorthStar Order Entry on Windows 4.9.1 release highlights:

    • Improve Menu Manager (Item quantity countdown)
    • Apply ECM scheduled price changes
    • Improve page load time for ordering, menu item customization, adjustments, payments and navigation between pages
    • Show only clocked-in users by default and add toggle to show all users for:
      • Cash drawer assignment
      • Table assignment (Assign Server)
      • Team assignment
      • Session Owner assignment
    • Add functionality to refund gift card and alternate payments
    • Pre-Auth
      • Allow Pre-auth (start tab) 
      • Allow Pre-auth with eDynamo/iDynamo
    • Loyalty
      • Allow customer to provide date of birth and password during registration
      • Allow member information to be masked onscreen
      • Allow phone entry and/or email to be hidden on loyalty search
    • Reports:
      • DSR Report - Display Sold and Advance (sent and unsent) sales data.
      • Hourly Sales and Labor Report - Display all hours and sales/labor grid
    • Allow user access to available menus (job permission setting) 
    • Require tips to be declared at clock-out (job permission setting) 


    Tickets added after build was frozen: 

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    OE: Windows 4.9.1 [staging Sprint 24] - JIRA (atlassian.net) - done -clocked-in users

    OE: Windows 4.9.1 [staging Sprint 25] - JIRA (atlassian.net) - done - mask members; hide phone entry/email on search

     OE: Windows 4.9.1 [staging Sprint 26] - JIRA (atlassian.net) - done - access to menus; require tips declaration 









    ImprovementOE-1582486Win App: 86’ing components – UI ImprovementsClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [develop];Windows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 7];4.9.1 Windows
    ImprovementOE-1586786Win App: Countdown 86'ing items - Split Order ItemsClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 8];4.9.1 Windows
    ImprovementOE-14617ECMWin App: Apply ECM schedule price changes in the AppClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [develop];Windows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 6];4.9.1 WindowsWrite Schedule Price Change doc with examples from ECM config to iOS and Windows workflow 
    ImprovementOE-16195Windows PerfWin App: Adding item from Full Customization page is slowClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 13];4.9.1 Windows
    ImprovementOE-16196Windows PerfWin App: Adjustments page loads slowlyClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 12];4.9.1 Windows
    ImprovementOE-16197Windows PerfWin App: Applying payment takes longer but busy indicator is no longer displayedClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 13];4.9.1 Windows
    New FeatureOE-16267Windows PerfWin App: Expose AddCheckAndSubmitItemsWithComboCheck ApiClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 13];4.9.1 Windows
    ImprovementOE-16188Windows PerfWin App: First load of pages with menu is slow (Staff Main page & Menu Item Customization page)ClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 12];4.9.1 Windows
    ImprovementOE-16190Windows PerfWin App: Navigating user back after tapping the back button takes a whileClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 12];4.9.1 Windows
    ImprovementOE-16225

    Win App: Show only clocked-in users by default for cash drawer assignment, table assignment (Assign Server), team assignment and Session Owner assignment. (Add toggle to show all users)

    ClosedDone
    Windows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 18]
    4.9.1 Server

    ImprovementOE-16988

    Win App: Open the NS Pay link corresponding to the site's environment when using admin command

    Ready for QAFIxed4.9.1 Windows
    ImprovementOE-16517

    Win App: Refund Gift Card and Alternate Payments Implementation

    Ready for QAFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 17]
    4.9.1 Windows

    ImprovementOE-16450

    Win App: Allow Pre-auth with eDynamo/iDynamo

    Ready for QAFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 16]
    4.9.1 Windows

    ImprovementOE-16328

    Win App: When Refunding a credit card you cannot choose the credit card to refund to. [Implementation]

    Ready for QAFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 17]
    4.9.1 Windows

    ImprovementOE-16061

    Win App: Allow Pre-auth (start tab) in windows [Implementation]

    Ready for QAFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 15]
    Windows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 18]
    4.9.1 Windows
    Windows 4.9.1 [staging Sprint 22]
    Create Windows doc based on Start Tab - Credit Card Pre-authorization
    ImprovementOE-15453UXWin App: Synergy - Allow customer to provide date of birth and password during registrationClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 6];Membership 149.2;4.9.1 Windows

    NEW DOC; See iOS doc for reference: 
    Customer Loyalty/Redeem Member Rewards

    DOB appears for all loyalty providers not just Synergy per Eric. 

    TaskOE-15712Hourly Sales/DSRWinApp - DSR Report to display Sold and Advance (sent and unsent) sales data.ClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [develop];Windows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 6];4.9.1 Windows

    NEW DOC

    Reference: Daily Sales Report (App)


    TaskOE-15715Hourly Sales/DSRWin App Hourly Sales and Labor Report - Display all hours and sales/labor gridClosedFixedWindows 0.5.6 [develop];Windows 0.5.6 [staging Sprint 6];4.9.1 Windows

    New DOC


    New FeatureOE-16897


    Windows App: Mask Member Information on screens where they are displayedReady for QADoneWindows 4.9.1 (staging Sprint 25) Added to 4.9.1 12/1/21
    TaskOE-16972Loyalty Lookup

    Win App: Loyalty - Honor ECM setting to hide phone entry and/or email lookup on loyalty search

    Ready for QADoneWindows 4.9.1 (staging Sprint 25) Added to 4.9.1 12/1/21








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