by GrahamAuty on Wed Nov 04, 2020 5:24 pm
Hi Tom,
For X or Z sales reads from EPROM tills, the till only returns the consolidated sales and value per PLU number and Price Band.
The date and time information for these sales in Ecr Manager reports is derived from a combination of:
(1) The actual date and time that the job was performed (or scheduled to be performed) AND
(2) The system start of day time as defined in Ecr Manager options.
If Ecr Manager is nor reporting any sales in the PLU Sales History since a certain date, then possible causes include:
(1) The relevant Z Job has not been attempted since that date.
(2) The job has been attempted, but it failed.
(3) The job has been attempted, but the till was unable to report whether or not the Z part of the job succeeded.
(4) The job was completed successfully but the date and time on the back office PC was incorrect (rare, but not unknown)
(5) Somebody restored the system to a previous state from before the jobs were performed (again, rare, but not unknown)
In situation (3) the first part of the job (an X read) has succeeded, but the till did not send a success or failure reply for the second part (clear the data)
If we assume that the till DID clear the data when it did not then we will end up duplicating sales.
If we assume that the till did NOT clear the date when it actually did then we will end up ignoring sales.
Ecr Manager will add the totals from any such sales jobs to a special list, from where a user or dealer may decide to:
(1) Process them as though the till had confirmed that the Z job completed successfully, updating the sales history etc.
(2) Process them as though the till had confirmed that the Z part of the job failed, so we are left with an X read.
I should be able to get a clearer steer on what has happened when I am able to drop by via TeamViewer and have a look.
Best regards,
Graham