CStoreOffice® Support & Learning

What's New in CStoreOffice®: Release 21.0.0

This page is intended to inform Petrosoft customers about new CStoreOffice® release features and improvements. It contains overviews of new features and improvements with detailed information in the form of screen shots, links to the corresponding Petrosoft University Portal sections and videos.

Production: 09/17/2020

Release Sections

Settings

Improved! It becomes easier and faster to select a location while assigning a tag to it.

Where: Settings > Tags > Location.

UI Changes: The search field has been added to the Set for Stations form.

For details, see Assigning Tag to Locations.

Improved! The way of submitting a request for changing existing functionality or implementing a new one has been enhanced and simplified.

Where: Settings > Admin > Tickets.

UI Changes: A new Change Request toggle has been added to the Submit a Ticket form to make it possible to submit a change request using familiar Tickets tool.

For details, see Submitting Tickets.

Improved Performance

Improved! The performance of the following forms and reports has been enhanced significantly:

  • The Reports form: The Reports form which is opened from the main CStoreOffice® menu loads now much faster than before.
    For more information on how to work with reports, see Reports.
  • Shift Reports > Pending Shifts: A process of shift acceptance is now performed six times faster than before.
    For more information on how to accept a shift, see Reviewing and Accepting Shifts.

Inventory

Improved! Two methods of item search are now supported when an invoice is entered manually:

  • Search by entire item's UPC code.
  • Search by entering the item's UPC code without leading 0s or without the final digit.

Where: Inventory > Receiving > Manual Invoice Entry.

UI Changes: The Zero leading UPCs option has been renamed to the Full Item Bar Code option. Two method of item search by its UPC code are now fully supported.

For details, see Merchandise Invoices.

Price Book

Improved! Car Wash items setup process in CStoreOffice® has been enhanced to eliminate additional configuration steps for such items on the cash register.

Where: Price Book > Items > Item setup  > Car Wash Settings.

UI Changes: A new CRIND Car Wash Position On Screen option has been added to the vendor item setup form at the station level to complete the list of car wash item settings required to be sent to the cash register.

For details, see Setting Up Car Wash Items.

Promotions

Improved! The External Promo # field in the promotion setup form is now populated automatically by the system.

Where: Price Book > Promotions.

UI Changes: None.

For details, see Promotion Setup Form.

Vendors

Improved! Costs in the invoices can now be rounded up to two decimal places, if needed.

Where: Vendors > Vendors List > select a vendor > View/Edit.

UI Changes: A new Round cost to two decimals option has been added to the vendor setup form at the account level.

For details, see Setting Up Vendors.

Reports

Improved! After five unsuccessful attempts for sending the report data, the report sending is turned off automatically and the location's manager receives the corresponding notification about it by an email.

The improvement is implemented for the following reports:
- Liquor Transaction Export Report.
- Tobacco Scan Data Supporting PMUSA Report.
- Tobacco Scan Data Supporting RJR Report.

Where: Reports > Accounting Reports.

For details, see Liquor Transaction Export Report, Tobacco Scan Data Supporting PMUSA Report, Tobacco Scan Data Supporting RJR Report.