March 24 Enhancements
Penny Rounding
Penny rounding is available in the POS for cash payments. If enabled (via the service settings for a POS Location setting), the following occurs for cash transactions:
- Amounts ending in 1 cent and 2 cents are rounded down to the nearest 10 cents;
- Amounts ending in 3 cents and 4 cents are rounded up to the nearest 5 cents;
- Amounts ending in 6 cents and 7 cents are rounded down to the nearest 5 cents;
- Amounts ending in 8 cents and 9 cents are rounded up to the nearest 10 cents;
- Amounts ending in 0 cent and 5 cents remain unchanged.
| Original Total | Rounded To | Customer Pays | Difference |
| $10.01 | $10.00 | $10.00 | Saves $0.01 |
| $10.02 | $10.00 | $10.00 | Saves $0.02 |
| $10.03 | $10.05 | $10.05 | Pays $0.02 more |
| $10.04 | $10.05 | $10.05 | Pays $0.02 more |
| $10.05 | $10.05 | $10.05 | No change. |
Example:
- Customer selects cash payment.
- System rounds $12.78 up to $12.80
- Customer pays with $15.00
- Change given: $15.00 - $12.80 = $2.20 (easy to count).
- No pennies needed!
March 17 Enhancements
One Less Step when Assigning Diners
When assigning a diner to a table, the Search a Diner field is automatically selected and the onscreen keyboard is shown for you to begin to immediately enter the diner name. Previously, you would have to tap into the Search a Diner field.
March 12 Enhancements
Firing Orders Automatically Upon Payment
A new POS setting allows orders to be automatically fired to the KMS upon payment. This setting is especially useful for POS Quick Service locations to prevent the server from having to manually fire orders.
The setting is labelled Automatically fire order to kitchen upon full payment (excludes scheduled orders) and is enabled in the Touch Admin software via the POS location (POS Settings > Locations > click Edit button of the POS location), as per screenshot below.
Note that orders with a scheduled pickup/delivery time are automatically excluded from auto-firing (i.e., they fire at their scheduled time instead).
Note: With this option selected, the Fire button on the POS front-end is still available for the server to manually fire an order. However, if they forget to tap the Fire button, then it is no concern because the system will automatically have done it.
March 4 Enhancements
Automatically Applying Credit Card Processing Fee to a Credit Card Transaction
A credit card processing fee can now be configured to be automatically applied to credit card transactions. When a payment is made by credit card, the fee is automatically applied "in the background", and when reviewing the transaction the fee will be listed, as per screenshot below.
To have the CC processing fee created, please reach out to MealSuite Support. If you are Support, please see the Internal article Implementing a Credit Card Processing Fee (INTERNAL).
Note: The CC processing fee is only applicable to MealSuite-supported payment card processors (TranCloud™, Stripe, DCDirect) that allow POS transaction amounts to be automatically submitted to the payment terminal for processing. For non-supported payment card processors (Clover, Square, etc.) that require manual entry of the transaction amount, the CC processing fee does not apply.
Defect Fixes
March 26
- Resolved issue with PointClickCare meal plans mistakenly re-activating mid cycle. (Internal reference: DEF-11663)
March 10
- For the Meal Plan Balance By Date report, resolved issue with the export function mistakenly adding dollars signs as text in the file, thereby preventing the data from being from being worked with. (Internal reference: DEF-11936)
- Fixed performance issues that were causing a lag on POS front-end devices. (Internal references: DEF-11894)
March 9
- Fixed issue with inability to add items to a guest ticket. (Internal reference: DEF-12107)
March 3
- Resolved loading issues when assigning diners to seats. (Internal reference: DEF-11707)