What's New - ECM Release 2020-03-18

ECM Admin/Configuration

OE-13675

External Code: Add External Code column to specified grids 

External Code column added to the following grids to make codes more easily visible and not require each item page to be accessed to view external codes. 

Menu Item Categories grid

Open

Adjustment Reasons grid - External Code 1 and External Code 2 added

Open

Components grids) grid

Locations (Site > Area > Locations) grid - External code field can be edited by clicking in field

Reports

OE-14067

New report: Labor Summary Report - model after Payroll Summary Report without wage information 

In ECM Dashboard > Role > ECM Access, user must be permitted to run Labor Summary Report 

The new Labor Summary report is similar to the Payroll Summary report minus wage information. 

OE-13983

Time Records report: Add total to Total Wages column 

Added total to Total Wages column

For a single server: 

For total report: 

OE-13889

Time Records & Payroll Summary reports: Report time rounded to 6 decimals (from 2) 

Revise time records to round to 6 decimals for improved accuracy. 

For improved accuracy, time records are rounded to 6 decimals on Time Records and Payroll Summary reports.

Time Records 

Payroll Summary

UX/UI Design

OE-13686

Reports: Add sorting capability on all columns on Checks & Payments and Check Listing reports 

All columns on these two reports can be sorted to improve usability. 
Checks & Payments

Check Listing 

OE-12524

Component Category and Serving Option Category: Add option to sort display order alphabetically for display order tabs

Option added to sort display order alphabetically for the following: 

• Component Category

  • Component Display Order 
    
    

  • Kitchen Display Order 
    
    

• Serving Option Category 

  • Serving Option Dispay Order 
    
    

OE-10947

Menu Items grid: Make menu item checkboxes selectable in Active column 

To improve usability, the Active checkboxes on the menu items grid can now be selected to make items active or inactive. (Previously, checkboxes were static indicators.) 

OE-10826

Sites > Staff facing - Settings: Display menu item categories in alphabetical order (for Minimum Quantity feature)

On Staff Facing tab, the list of menu item categories (for Minimum Quantity feature) are listed alphabetically for ease of use. 

OE-10607

Users > External Code 2: Revise instruction format; make more clear and user friendly

Revised presentation of instructional text for External Code 2 format for clarity.

Uncategorized

OE-13940

Publishing Details: Display Schedule data client package type on Status Notification when deploying ECM Schedule API and pulling schedules from HotSchedules

N/A 

Improvement: Add Schedule data package type to the Status Notification page 

OE-13917

Web Ordering API: Expose Upcharges on Combos

Technical improvement to expose any upcharges on the qualifiers on combos through the Web ordering API for partners to be able to view values. 

• The following upcharges are affected:

  • Component upcharges on a specific menu item category

  • Serving option upcharges on a specific menu item category

  • Component upcharges on a specific menu item

  • Serving option upcharges on a specific menu item

  • Any upcharge criteria

OE-13741

Devices > Add Alternate Locations: Sort by "Area Name" column by default 

To improve ease of use, Add Alternate Locations is sorted by Area Name by default

OE-12949

Integrations - Web Ordering API: Add warning and prevent default area from being marked as unavailable 

N/A

Improvement: Prevent user from making default Web Ordering Area unavailable when selected as the default; display warning message.

OE-12593

Payment/Gift Card: Present error message when BIN range entry is greater than 6 digits 

N/A

Improvement: Added warning message when number of characters entered for BIN range exceeds the maximum number of characters allowed (6) 

OE-13500

DSR/Cashout: Add setting to map unfinished transaction to payment type at end of current business date.

Unfinished transaction payments are closed at the end of the business date. This improvement allows the site to specify the payment type to report to close these checks to.   

• Account feature toggle required to display setting: Finalize unfinished transactions to payment type

• Sites > Reports: Setting added to DSR/Cashout settings allowing site to select preferred payment type to apply unfinished transactions 
  
  

Features in progress

The following are ECM changes for features that are still in progress and not available yet in the POS app. Only the ECM portion of the feature is complete. 

OE-14081

Compulsory Cash Drawer: Add account feature toggle and printer-level setting  

The compulsory cash drawer feature (still in progress) will require that the cash drawer be closed in order to use the POS. The feature can be used with a single cash drawer setup. 

This feature will be available in an upcoming release.

• Account feature toggle: 4.8 Compulsory cash drawer

• Printer: When account feature toggle is enabled, Add Printer and Edit Printer pages will display the setting:
  Compulsory cash drawer 

OE-14059

Adjustment Reason/Combo menu items: Add setting to apply adjustment reason to all eligible items on a check when a coupon is scanned 

This feature (still in progress) will allow an item-based discount (e.g., 2 entrees for $25) to be applied to all eligible items on a check.
Example: A large party of 30 people order on one check. The item-based discount can be applied to all 30 order items at once, instead of scanning a coupon 30 times. A prompt will appear on the app to apply to the eligible items on the check. 

• Account feature toggle: 4.8 Enhanced adjustment, combo, coupon parsing

• When feature toggle is enabled:

  • Adjustment reason - Setting is added to adjustment reason page:
    Always apply to all eligible items on a check when coupon is scanned

  • Combo menu item - Setting is added to combo menu item page:
    Always apply to all eligible items on a check when coupon is scanned

OE-14011

Combos: Add setting to allow combo menu item qualifiers to be specified as default items in the combo 

This feature allows the user to specify default menu items in a combo. In the app, when the user selects the combo menu item, these qualifiers will be selected by default. (Still in progress)

• Account feature toggle required to display setting: Combos - Set default menu items 

• When feature toggle is enabled, the Qualifiers tab of a combo menu item displays a Default column, allowing the user to set one or more items (per requirement) as default items in the combo 

OE-13893

Area: Add setting to prompt for tip on external device 

For greater flexibility and improvement, user can specify the areas of the site that will prompt for a tip on the external PAX device. 

• Sites > Area - Under Payment Settings, add:
  Prompt for tip on external device

• Default: Selected

OE-13816

NorthStar Coupon Services: Add Batch Management and Offers page 

NorthStar Coupon Services (still in progress) will allow users to create and manage coupon offers. 

• Account feature toggle: Allow user to leverage NorthStar Coupon Services

• When feature toggle is enabled, the following are available in ECM:

  • Added to Financial dropdown list: 

    • NorthStar Coupon Batches

    • NorthStar Coupon Offers 

NorthStar Coupon Batches 

Users can add a batch, delete a batch or offers, import a compressed and zipped CSV file to the batch or export a batch for editing. 

NorthStar Coupon Offers 

The coupon offers page allows users to search for and edit an offer as needed.