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Alphine Web Based
Setup guides and operating procedures for the ALPHINE WEB POS system.
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POSWEB
Browser-based account, access, and back-office guides for POSWEB.
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Zentyal POS (Retail)
Retail POS setup, inventory, sales, customer, and reporting procedures.
35 articles
Sparky POS (Restaurant)
Restaurant POS configuration and operating procedures for Sparky POS.
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POS Setup & Troubleshooting
Shared Windows, network, and printer setup for supported ZANK POS products.
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Sparky POS (Restaurant)
Add or update restaurant categories in Sparky POS
Maintain menu categories and synchronize the restaurant category configuration.
Read guide Zentyal POS (Retail)Create and manage Zentyal POS user accounts
Add a user and assign the correct administrator, supervisor, cashier, or ordering access.
Read guide POS Setup & TroubleshootingEnable the required .NET Framework features
Turn on the Windows components required by supported desktop POS applications.
Read guide POSWEBSet up POSWEB super users and user rights
Assign POSWEB database access and mark trusted accounts as super users.
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Sparky POS (Restaurant)
Add or update restaurant categories in Sparky POS
Maintain menu categories and synchronize the restaurant category configuration.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Create and manage Zentyal POS user accounts
Add a user and assign the correct administrator, supervisor, cashier, or ordering access.
POS Setup & Troubleshooting
Enable the required .NET Framework features
Turn on the Windows components required by supported desktop POS applications.
POSWEB
Set up POSWEB super users and user rights
Assign POSWEB database access and mark trusted accounts as super users.
Alphine Web Based
Sign in to ALPHINE WEB POS and use the dashboard
Access the system, select your account, and understand the dashboard indicators.
Alphine Web Based
Navigate the Items Listing page
Find products, choose visible columns, and use bulk and export controls.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Set or change the Zentyal DBA password
Secure the DBA account and replace its password from User Manager.
POS Setup & Troubleshooting
Troubleshoot a LAN receipt printer
Check network connectivity, IPv4 settings, and the configured printer port.
Alphine Web Based
Add a new item to the Master List
Register a product, assign tags and branches, and save its starting information.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Change cashier passwords and security PINs
Update cashier credentials, administrator PINs, or reset a locked PIN.
POS Setup & Troubleshooting
Set the correct USB printer port
Identify the active USB virtual-printer port and assign it to the receipt printer.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Create a new retail item
Register an item with its barcode, prices, supplier, category, and inventory settings.
Alphine Web Based
View, edit, or delete an individual item
Use the row-level Actions menu to maintain an existing product record.
Alphine Web Based
Check an item's history and current price
Trace product movements and perform a quick selling-price lookup.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Understand Item Listing totals and computations
Read item counts, unit cost, selling price, and balance-based inventory totals.
Alphine Web Based
Record beginning inventory
Set initial stock quantities before regular inventory transactions begin.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Resolve a duplicate item code
Find the existing product before changing or creating a barcode record.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Maintain retail departments and categories
Add or edit the classifications used for item lookup and sales reporting.
Alphine Web Based
Use specialized Master List tools
Understand centralized items, expiry monitoring, wholesale pricing, packages, and promos.
Alphine Web Based
Monitor stock with Running Inventory
Filter inventory by store or item and understand stock movements.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Set beginning inventory
Enter opening stock balances before normal inventory movements begin.
Alphine Web Based
Find and review receiving transactions
Filter incoming deliveries by date, store, supplier, machine, or reference.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Perform and post a physical count
Record actual quantities, review variances, save progress, and close the count safely.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Generate the product expiration report
Find items approaching expiry and review their quantities and dates.
Alphine Web Based
Record a new supplier delivery
Create a Receiving Entry, add delivered items, and post or print it.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Create a stock pull-out
Remove returned, transferred, damaged, or expired stock with a traceable record.
Alphine Web Based
Create and review a stock transfer
Move inventory between branches and check transfer variances.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Add and maintain suppliers
Create supplier records for item assignment, receiving, pull-outs, and reports.
Alphine Web Based
Create and review a stock pullout
Remove items for supplier return, damage, expiry, disposal, or another approved reason.
Alphine Web Based
Generate a Detail Sales Report
Filter transaction-level sales and understand the net-amount calculation.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Receive inventory and edit received quantities
Record a delivery, enter item quantities and costs, then verify the receiving record.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Create an inventory adjustment
Correct an approved stock discrepancy while preserving the old and new balances.
Alphine Web Based
Use Daily Sales and Sales Summary reports
Review aggregated sales for reconciliation and management reporting.
Alphine Web Based
Configure System Setup feature tags
Enable or disable major ALPHINE WEB functions from Tag Config.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Import all or additional items
Prepare a CSV file, preview its columns, and import product records safely.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Export a filtered list to Excel
Save the current Zentyal list or report as an XLS file.
Alphine Web Based
Set item defaults, store information, and receipt headers
Choose defaults for new products and configure printed business details.
Alphine Web Based
Configure email, schedules, and expiry alerts
Set SMTP delivery, OTP recipients, scheduled time, and advance expiry warnings.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Configure the four retail price types
Maintain retail, wholesale, discounted wholesale, and special prices.
Alphine Web Based
Customize quotations and upload the store logo
Configure quotation branding, headers, labels, signatories, and terms.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Process a charge transaction
Select a customer and post an authorized sale to the customer's charge account.
Alphine Web Based
Configure taxes, kiosk options, and PARROT settings
Manage tax formulas, self-ordering appearance, table options, and PARROT limits.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Void a transaction
Cancel an eligible transaction with authorization and an audit reason.
Alphine Web Based
Configure POS tags, visibility, PIN security, and printers
Control terminal behavior and decide which sensitive actions require approval.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Process a product return
Enter return mode, record a reference and reason, and verify the negative transaction.
Alphine Web Based
Add, edit, delete, or secure a user account
Maintain users, passwords, roles, OTP settings, and quick-access PINs.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Use other payment modes
Record approved non-cash tenders with their required references.
Alphine Web Based
Assign module permissions to a user
Grant only the required menu, edit, delete, and feature access.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Record cash in and cash out
Document non-sale cash drawer movements without changing sales totals.
Alphine Web Based
Add and manage cashier profiles
Maintain cashier accounts authorized to process terminal transactions.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Set or correct the opening fund
Record the cashier's starting drawer amount and correct an authorized mistake.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Create and maintain customer records
Register customer identity, account, card, credit, and sales-agent details.
Alphine Web Based
Export operational and accounting reports
Download one report or a complete report set using shared filters.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Configure and verify loyalty points
Set earning thresholds, enable customer points, and check the resulting balance.
Alphine Web Based
Review and filter Raw DTR logs
Inspect unprocessed clock-in and clock-out records from terminals or biometric devices.
Alphine Web Based
Generate Daily DTR and Summary DTR
Compute daily attendance details and employee totals for a selected period.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Set up sales representatives
Create a sales representative and make the record available to customer and sales workflows.
Alphine Web Based
Add, import, or remove employee records
Maintain employee identity, rates, schedule, location, and status.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Post and collect payment credit
Use the cashier credit function, record back-office payment, and reconcile X-Reading.
Alphine Web Based
Review payroll and print payslips
Filter a payroll period, verify totals, and print selected payslips.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Run X-Reading and Z-Reading correctly
Review shift totals with X-Reading and close the business date with Z-Reading.
Alphine Web Based
Add a payroll adjustment
Record an employee add-on, deduction, or correction in the proper period.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Reprint an X-Reading or Z-Reading
Retrieve an existing reading by date and machine without posting another cutoff.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Fix a shift that was not properly cut off
Close the correct cashier shift when the POS reports an unfinished prior sales date.
Alphine Web Based
Maintain payroll calendars, periods, and adjustment categories
Configure payroll dates and reusable adjustment classifications.
Alphine Web Based
Add and manage customer records
Maintain customer identity, loyalty points, credit limits, terms, and discounts.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Export the gross sales report
Filter gross sales and save the verified report to Excel.
Alphine Web Based
Add and manage supplier records
Maintain vendor identity, tax information, terms, address, and contacts.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Print reports on a bond-paper printer
Preview a report, select the correct Windows printer, and print to bond paper.
Alphine Web Based
Maintain departments, categories, brands, and units
Create classifications used for item setup, reports, POS buttons, and quantities.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Set the retail receipt printer name
Match the printer configured in Zentyal POS with its Windows printer name.
Alphine Web Based
Design the restaurant table layout
Add and position tables, chairs, and custom floor-plan elements.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Turn off the customer pole display
Disable the configured pole display without removing other POS device settings.
Zentyal POS (Retail)
Enable X-Reading and Z-Reading print options
Turn the configured X-Read or Z-Read printing tags on or off.
Alphine Web Based
Maintain branches, warehouses, printers, and reference lists
Manage additional location, assembly, signatory, and printer records.