POS Integration Settings – Overview

POS Integration Settings – Overview

The POS Integration is governed by several settings in Restaurant365.  These settings reside on various screens and can be accessed and updated by a User with the ‘Accounting Manager’ Primary Security Role and ‘User Setup’ Secondary Security Role.  The following articles detail the screens where POS Integration Settings can be accessed and updated as needed Preferences Screen Location Record POS Groups     *Click here for more information on all settings located in System Preference
Fiscal Period/Year Setup

Fiscal Period/Year Setup

Overview Fiscal periods must be setup for each year by creating a Fiscal Year for each legal entity.  Different legal entities can run on different fiscal years.  Within each legal entity you can have a Financial Year different from your Operational Year if you want to run operations reports using different setup than you might report to the bank or investors.  This is common for companies that run financials on a calendar year but want to do operational analysis on weeks and across equal periods.  To accomplish this, setup your fiscal year as Calendar and operational year as 13-4 week … Continued
Legal Entity Setup

Legal Entity Setup

Legal Entities are companies that own locations.  Each location must belong to a legal entity.  Many reports can be run by legal entity which will show results for all locations that belong to that entity.  A legal entity usually has a corporate tax id.  Legal entities aren’t selected on transactions because the location is selected and whichever legal entity that location belongs to is associated with that transaction automatically. To edit an existing legal entity, go to the Legal Entities list (Accounting – Administration – Legal Entities in the left hand navigation), click a the row of the legal entity … Continued
POS Integration Settings – POS Groups

POS Integration Settings – POS Groups

  Overview POS Groups are groupings of Concepts or POS Systems.  POS Groups are exclusively used as a form of POS System Payment Type Separation and POS System Sales Account Separation.  Separating Payment Types / Sales Accounts by POS Group is particularly useful for large organizations with multiple concepts.  In place of managing several hundred Payment Types or Sales Accounts from across the entire organization, now Payment Types and Sales Accounts can be managed by Concept through POS Groups.  Click here for more information on POS Integration Settings   Steps to Create and Assign POS Groups Step 1 – Select ‘POS Group’ in … Continued
Color Theme Builder

Color Theme Builder

To customize the user experience, organizations can set the color theme of the system.  The system comes with various saved color theme options to select from and new custom themes can also be created by the user. Access The theme builder is available in the top ribbon under Administration – Theme Builder for users who have the User Setup security role.  Setting a color theme as default will change the theme for all users in your organization (not just the user who makes the change). Using Theme Builder The theme builder window will be displayed near the top right hand side … Continued
Profit & Loss Formatting

Profit & Loss Formatting

There are two aspects to Profit & Loss report formatting: Column layout Row format  Which column layout you use is selected from the dropdown when you run the report.  Column layouts are not customizable and examples are a column that shows period totals, another might show YTD, another might show locations side by side, etc.   The row format is customizable by your organization and this article will describe the customizable options and the steps to customize it. Elements of Row Format on P&L GL Account – Accounts make up the majority of rows on the P&L.  They will be indented different … Continued
Email Settings: Common Webmail Provider SMTP Settings

Email Settings: Common Webmail Provider SMTP Settings

Various functions within Restaurant365 allow the User to Email different records, or transaction links.  In order to utilize the Email functionality, the Email Settings on the User Record must be completed.  The following is a list of Common Webmail Provider SMTP Settings.  Click here for more information on Email Settings in Restaurant365    [table id=13 automatic_url_conversion=true automatic_url_conversion_new_window=true /]