NorthStar Software Release 4.4 Summary of Features and Improvements
- Rose Eliff (Unlicensed)
- Daved (Unlicensed)
This document summarizes the major new features and improvements in the NorthStar 4.4 software release.
This document is intended to serve as a quick-start guide to these new items. For more complete information, please refer to the ticket number shown.
Detailed documentation will be available when completed.
New Features
Issue No. | Summary | Configuration | Operation |
|---|---|---|---|
OE-8926 | As a bartender, I can review and print/finalize other staff members' cashout | Jobs – Permission: Allow user to view/finalize/print others' cashouts | Bartender can review/print/finalize others’ cashouts, but not their own |
OE-8925 | As a staff member I can re-print an existing cashout. The printout will state that it's a re-printed copy at the top of the receipt. | Jobs – Permission: Allow user to view/finalize/print own cashout | Staff can reprint previous cashout; watermark prints on cashout receipt |
OE-8924 | As a staff member I can review my cashout, print, and finalize it. | Jobs – Permission: Allow user to view/finalize/print own cashout | Staff can view, print and finalize own cashout |
OE-10070 | Guest Identifier in Kiosk Mode Label Change | none | UI change only; revise text in kiosk mode to: Please enter your table tent number. |
OE-9968 | DSR/Cashout report: Add Cash Owed less tipshare amount (MD)
| Jobs – configure tip share % | On receipt and app, DSR/Cashout report shows: |
OE-9950 | Bar codes can print on receipts to represent an item's PLU and Price | Site > Receipts > Bar Codes | Bar codes print on receipt as configured |
OE-9447 | Allow Heartland PAX device to work alongside Heartland IDTech for manual entry. | Sites > Payment – Add Heartland (HeartlandService) card processor | Allows manual entry on PAX device with Heartland as processor. |
OE-9382 | Label receipt: If no available guest name it will display guest identifier on the label receipt | None | Take-out; Prints guest identifier on take-out label |
OE-9132 | Meal break: Display break notification pop-up window when manager/user logs in | See Employee Breaks for config; requires Acct. feature toggle | Break notification pop-up displays when manager logs in |
OE-8957 | Guest Facing Mode - Do not require payment tender; print receipt with barcode | Sites > Guest Facing – Setting: Payment not allowed | User places order, receipt prints with barcode to be scanned at register and paid. |
OE-8911 | Payment processing: MPPG integration using kDynamo/eDynamo swipe reader | Sites > Payment – select Magensa as card processor | Use kDynamo/eDynamo swipe reader for payment
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OE-8673 | As a restaurateur I want to process credit cards via an IDTECH swipe with HEARTLAND |
| User can swipe card on ID TECH device with Heartland processor to execute payment, refund, tip, void |
OE-8663 | Menu manager: When flagged in menu manager, do not display unavailable items | None | In Menu Manager, user can toggle to display unavailable items. |
OE-8131 | Multi-select feature - ability to select multiple items on a check to perform a function | None | User can apply an operation to several items by turning on multi-select (tap the icon; turn on multi-select) |
OE-8127 | Guest Identifier - name required in kiosk mode | Sites > Area - In Kiosk area, select Guest Identifier Required | Refer to OE-10070. When user is in kiosk mode and taps I want to pay, a pop-up prompts them to enter their "table tent number." |
OE-8040 | As an operator, I want to be able to use a ID TECH UniPay III Reader | (Unknown; no description on ticket) | Attach UniPay device to iPad audio port (volume turned up); order items. At payment, tap credit card payment and swipe card on UniPay device. |
OE-7751 | Alternate payment: Require member information on payment |
| When Alternate Payment is selected, a notice and a pop-up will prompt user to enter member information |
OE-6936 | Gift card payment: When remaining balance is 0.00, don't display tip line; use Balance line to show 0.00 balance | None | Receipt will show GIFT CARD BALANCE $0.00 instead of tip line for gift card (guest will need to use another form of payment for tip) |
OE-6935 | Gift card payment: Show remaining balance on authorization slip | None | Gift card balance is shown below Gift card payment tip line on guest payment receipt.  |
OE-4090 | Automatically cash out a user at end of day if they did not manually cash out | None | If not cashed out previously, users are automatically cashed out at EOD; cashout report does not print |
OE-3921 | Guest identifier: Display complete guest identifier text in Check Search | None | On Check Search, guest identifier name is shown in full (not truncated) |
OE-9088 | Guest Facing Payment Not Allowed (Epic) | Sites > Guest Facing - Under Settings, select Payment not allowed | Refer to OE-8957. With this setting, "I want to pay" button doesn't appear on guest-facing UI; guest checks print with barcode, which is used to facilitate payment |
Improvements
Issue No. | Summary | ECM Configuration | Operation |
|---|---|---|---|
OE-10565 | Payment Processors to use TLS 1.2 | None | N/A (Update Transport Layer Security protocol) |
OE-9952 | Limit Max Memo length for QSR to 14 ch. (QSR only) | Sites > Kitchen - Kitchen management engine = QSR | Memo length limited to 14 characters when QSR used for kitchen display. Applies to QSR only; others allows 70 characters max. |
OE-9868 | Location Map: Remove Detach Devices link from Manage functions | None | Removed "Detach devices" link from Location map Manage functions. To detach devices, press and hold location and select options. |
OE-9831 | Logic Control Kitchen System - Updates to an order appear in the same cell on the kitchen display | Sites > Kitchen - new option for Logic Controls:  | For sites using Logic Controls, selecting this option will add any changes/updates to the same cell on the KDS. |
OE-9627 | Meal Break: App show the column header as "Break" but the printed report shows the column header as "Brk Type" | None | Break Notifications printed receipt - Changed header from Brk Type to Break |
OE-9616 | Always print priced components and serving options on guest check. | Concept-level settings - "Print components and serving options on checks" | Priced components and serving options will always display on guest check. When setting is selected, all components and serving options (priced or not priced) will print; when not, will print only priced components nad serving options |
OE-9593 | Cashout screen: Change button to select current or previous cashout reports (multiple shift cashouts) | Account feature toggle: Reset Totals when Staff Finalizes Cashout | When multiple shift cashout is enabled, the cashout screen displays options to display current cashout (default) or previous cashouts |
OE-9547 | Credit card receipt: Emphasize "DECLINED" message in receipt | None | When credit card is declined, DECLINED is shown more prominently on receipt  |
OE-9536 | Assign invoice # to ref # instead of n/a | None | Back-end improvement to payment gateways: when no reference from processor, assign invoice number to the reference number of the payment |
OE-9507 | Heartland - Entry method "Use Device" should not be printed on receipt when using external card reader | None | Payment receipt improvement: removed "Use Device" from Entry Method line on receipt |
OE-9491 | Heartland WebService Enhancements for the new payment processors | Sites > Payment - Heartland selected as card processor | Backend improvement to use transaction IDs for Heartland transactions |
OE-9443 | Change guest identifier text field's default value | Account feature toggle: Enable Guest Identifier | Guest-facing - guest identifier prompt changed to "Please enter your name/number" |
OE-9435 | Heartland - Entry method printed on receipt should be swipe | Sites > Payment - Heartland selected as card processor | Improved receipt to show: |
OE-9429 | Serving option - Serving options "toast" should not pop up automatically when rule is minimum zero | None | Serving options prompt does not display when rule is minimum zero |
OE-9417 | Honor Job user permission: Enable/disable "Add Checks" and "Edit" buttons in staff-facing UI according to permission set | Jobs - Permission "Allow user to edit checks" | When permission is disabled, the Add Check and Edit buttons are disabled.  |
OE-9384 | Label printer: Print both guest name and guest identifier on separate lines of label if available | Account feature toggle: Enable Guest Identifier | When available:
Information does not print if empty/null |
OE-9355 | Label receipt suggestion: If there is no guest name or phone number indicated, do not display these fields on the label receipt |
| When guest name or phone number is not entered, these fields do not display on label receipt |
OE-9241 | Add break notification report to reports on iPad app | Account feature toggle: Enable Site Time Clock Breaks ECM: Sites > Time Clock Breaks - break times configured | Break Notifications report added to app reports |
OE-9234 | Time report reflects break information | Account feature toggle: Enable Site Time Clock Breaks ECM: Sites > Time Clock Breaks - break times configured | Break information added to Time Report on app |
OE-9107 | User is alerted of upcoming break (upon login and other key actions) | Account feature toggle: Enable Site Time Clock Breaks ECM: Sites > Time Clock Breaks - break times configured | User receives pop-up alert of upcoming break following key actions:
Pop-up options: Ignore, Time Clock |
OE-9104 | User is warned of upcoming breaks | Account feature toggle: Enable Site Time Clock Breaks ECM: Sites > Time Clock Breaks - break times configured  | Based on warning time configuration, user is notified of upcoming break via an amber-colored bar across the top of the device screen  |
OE-9103 | in Kiosk Mode Guest Identifier should update check Name | Account feature toggle: Enable Guest Identifier | At payment, guest user in kiosk mode is prompted to enter table tent number; this replaces check number for ease of delivery  |
OE-9032 | Time Clock - X (delete) overlaps the $ sign of a clock-out record | None | Corrected UI issue on deleting a time record to only display the shaking X (not the X on top of the $) |
OE-8981 | Open Checks request does not return all data. | Web Ordering API | For open checks request, use check data from the sessionstore. |
OE-8747 | Tip amount entered is not displayed in payment panel after swiping gift card balance that is less than the payment amount | None | Payment page displays tip amount applied from gift card; message notifies user of insufficient balance on gift card to complete payment transaction. |
OE-8660 | Check Search: Display quantity on check search results preview | None | Check search displays quantity ordered on check search results |
OE-8424 | Credit Card payment: After Apply Payment, card info shows "No card swiped" in check panel (4.4) | None | Fix: After applying payment, check panel properly shows "Card ending in ****" |
OE-8060 | Number keypad is not displayed on Old Card number field while on New Card Number number keypad is displayed | None | Fix: When exchanging gift card numbers, Old card number field used a full keyboard, while New card number used a numerical keypad. This is fixed to only use numerical keypad for both. |
OE-7592 | Gift card payment screen - suggested UI revisions | None | Updated gift card labels on payment screen to reflect gift card payment methods: swipe, enter number or use external card reader |
OE-7571 | Advance Orders: Remove the filter by table/location # | None | On Advance Orders search, check filter placeholder text suggests search by guest identifier or check number only; table/location # has been removed as Advance Orders do not have a table assignment. |
OE-7545 | Menu Manager: search for invalid item; remove item after search completed; menu list should reappear | None | Improve menu manager to clear search results and display menu list after removing search term |
OE-7515 | "Jump To" and "Scroll To" should be changed to "Go To" in the Adjustment page | None | Nomenclature revision on adjustment page; replace "Jump to" and "Scroll to" with "Go to .." for consistency |
OE-7499 | At cashout the system blocks the server with outstanding checks message | None | If user has unfinished transactions when they attempt to finalize a cashout, the system will display the unfinished transactions and allow the user to select and complete each.  |
OE-6993 | When manager 86's an item, item is disabled on menus immediately (not after finalization) | Job permission: Can 86 an item, component, or serving option from the menu | After manager publishes a change to make an item unavailable, devices are notified and the change is published to all devices. |
OE-6847 | Location Manager - Reopen check button should not be active when check is not attached to a table | None | User searches for a check by check number while on the location map (not attached to a table). When user taps Reopen check, a message advises user to attach to a location to reopen check. |
OE-6497 | Combo First does not support Quantity Ordering | Account feature toggle: 4.0 G1d Combo First ordering | Users can enter a quantity to order multiple combos at once instead of individually |
OE-6059 | Expire and remove device location attachments - Table Map is displaying devices as attached that are turned-off or no longer exist in the environment | Job permission: Allow user to detach all devices from a location | When job has permission, user can detach all devices from locations with one selection |
OE-4561 | Time clock: User cannot clock in early from break; must meet the duration time set in ECM for the break. End Rest button is disabled until duration time is met. | Account feature toggle: Enable Site Time Clock Breaks ECM: Sites > Time Clock Breaks - break times configured | When user clocks out for break, they cannot clock back in early; end break button is disabled until break duration is met. |