Introduction
Getting started
Work with the APP
APP features
Settings
Legal issues
SimplePOS (in the following termed "APP") is a cashier application which is simple to use and runs completely autonomously on your tablet. It has following features:
Before you can use the APP, you need to configure it to fit your requirements:
The main work is done in the main screen. Here, you can type in the ordered articles which are then listed in the grouped order list on the right side. The APP automatically calculates the total amount for the current order. When the order is complete, tap on the 'Pay' button, enter the received amount, and the APP calculates the change money. Then, the order is saved to the sales log and the order list is reset to be ready for the next customer.
You can delete the last entered article from the order list by tapping the 'Clear (1) button'. You can also delete the entire order list (without saving it) by tapping the 'Clear (all) button'.
To access more functionality of the APP, tap on the Menu button and choose the function from the main menu. On Android (with Native_Theme), the menu button is shown when you press the hardware menu button. If you want to leave the main menu without choosing a function, just tap somewhere outside the menu.
From the main menu, you can access
The free version of the APP is a demo which is restricted to 3 articles. You can define as many articles as you want, but only the first 3 articles are functional. To remove this restriction, please buy the BASIC feature. Other functionality can be added by buying further features:
| BASIC | Use as many articles as you want. |
| COLOR | Allows you to define the background color of an article button. |
| SPEED | Allows you to work faster by adding the 'Speed pay' button and buttons for the bills on the decimal keyboard. |
| VOUCHER | Allows you to register voucher payments. In the sales log, voucher payments are marked as such. |
Once you have bought a feature, you can use it on all your devices by using the 'Restore' function in the 'Info' screen.
In the 'Settings' screen you can choose the theme. Normally, you would want to use the Native_Theme which has the standard look-and-feel of your device. But if you want the iPhone look-and-feel on Android, you can choose the iOS7_Theme.
You can choose the app language from a dropdown.
You can Activate debugging, which will add the 'System log' function to the main menu. Activating debugging might be helpful, if you want to get information about what the APP is actually doing.
With 'Width of order list' you can change the default width of the order list. This might be needed if your article names are very long and don't fit on one line in the order list.
You can define the font size of the 'Total' shown above the order list.
And, most importantly, you can define your articles with the Add article screen or by entering them manually. You can tap the 'Send' button to send the article list off by e-mail for backup reasons or to use it on a second device.
Articles can be defined by tapping the 'New article' button and using the 'Add article' screen. Here, you can enter:
Below the input fields there is a preview button, which shows you how the article button will look like in the main screen.
You can also define your articles by entering the article definitions directly into the article text area. This is useful, when you need to re-arrange your articles or if you want to create your article list on your PC and send it to your tablet.
Every article is defined on 1 line in the following format:
article ID;article name;price;article short name;color
For example
A321;Coca Cola;2.50;Coke;FF0000
defines the article A321 with name 'Coca Cola', price 2.50, name on button 'Coke' and background color red.
To find out the color code, you can search the Internet for 'HTML color picker' which will lead you to websites where you can choose a color from the complete color palette and find out its HTML color code. The HTML color code is a string of 6 characters where the RGB values are in hexadecimal format.