Concepts

Concepts

The Concepts page shows the restaurant or business concepts for a company. A single restaurant concept can be composed of one or more individual sites. 

  • The user can add a concept or make changes to a concept. Any concept-level changes made here apply to all sites within the concept. 

To access the Concepts page, go to Sites > Concepts 

Item

Description 

Item

Description 

Web Deploy has moved to a new location

  • Click link to go to publish page for Concepts

  • Use Search field to search by concept name

  • Select concept(s) to publish; click Publish 

Add Concept

Click to open the Add Concept window

Save Changes

Click to save changes

Cancel Changes

Click to discard changes 

Search

Search for a concept (alpha/numeric entry)

Concept Name

  • Column can be sorted ascending or descending 

  • Column can also be filtered to show a subset of records 

Edit concept

Click edit icon (pencil) to open the Edit Concept window

Configuration

Add concept 

  • Click Add Concept

  • Enter the Concept Name in the window

  • Click Save to save the entry or Cancel to cancel the entry; both actions will close the window and return to the main screen 

  • Click Save Changes on the main screen to save or Cancel Changes to cancel any actions

Edit concept 

  • Click the edit icon (pencil) to open the Edit Concept window  

Concept tab 

Logo Settings 

  • Name - Add/modify name

  • To add a logo: 

    • Image file must meet the image requirements specified 

    • Click Select file to find and upload a file 

    • When the file has been uploaded, the status bar will show Done with a checkmark 

    • Click Save to save changes or Cancel to cancel changes

  • To delete a logo:

    • Select Delete logo

    • Save         

Deploy to add logo to receipt

  • After adding and saving the logo, publish to the site(s) with Deploy multimedia changes selected. The logo should then be displayed on the receipt. 

Settings tab

Check Settings 

Setting 

Description

Setting 

Description

Display on-screen checks in expanded format

Items with components, serving options, special pricing, etc., are expanded on the POS application to show detail on the check panel 

Print non-priced components and serving options

Non-priced (zero-priced) components and serving options are printed on the receipt

Print priced components and serving options

Priced components and serving options are printed on the receipt. (See sample above).

Print/don't print prices dropdown

Admin can choose to print or not print prices for priced components and serving options.

Reporting data

Setting 

Description

Setting 

Description

Send sales data when there are check changes

Account Feature Toggle Required

This setting will only appear when the account feature toggle is enabled:
4.3 Real Time Data to Data Services  

Contact your NorthStar representative to have this setting enabled for your account.

 

 

This setting allows data to be shown on reports in ECM in real time (as specified actions are made). 

  • When "Send sales data ..." setting is selected, transactional data is exposed in real time in the data service on the following actions in NorthStar Order Entry application: send, submit, print, pay, finalize and refund check.

  • When this transactional data is exposed in the data service, the data becomes available on the reports in ECM in real time

    • Example: 
      Order items
      Submit order
      Go into ECM > Reports > Items Summary Report 
      Result: The ordered items are reflected in the Items Summary Report in real time 

  • If the setting is NOT selected, the transactional data will be available in the reports after the end-of-day