Connection of cash registers without server

This option is not a Hypersoft standard, but project work that is subject to planning.

This topic concerns project work that is subject to planning.

The Hypersoft // system is a standard programme that can be used in many different configurations. The correct application of the topics described here requires expert knowledge and an alignment of expectations, and not all Hypersoft employees and partners are equally trained in all of the topics labelled in this way. For this reason, we characterise these topics as project work requiring planning, so that you can contact your Hypersoft sales partner or Hypersoft Support in good time with this necessary planning. This approach ensures that we record your requirements carefully and respond to them in a targeted manner.

If you use cash registers that are not connected via network, you can transport their booking data with an external medium such as a USB stick. The variant of transferring data via USB stick should be used as the last option of the available options for connecting independent cash registers. Please find out whether the use of web clearing or point-of-sale clearing is not a better alternative for the. In order to be able to use current functions such as customer accounts, web vouchers, bonus system, etc., an Internet connection is required anyway, which means that you should do without the manual transfer of data.

However, if you use this variant, the Webclearing programme actually acts on the basis of the configuration as described here: Configure Webclearing Client

Each stand-alone system requires its own Hypersoft customer number in order to correctly transmit Hypersoft portal data when contacting the Internet. This also applies to the stands that are connected in this way.

Do not use offline systems with the same customer number as your head office or other offline systems. This is a licence violation with legal consequences and technical consequences if updates are provided via USB stick or if a system does go online and then transfers data to the Hypersoft portal. If you have any questions about the changeover, please contact Hypersoft Support.

This data can then be imported into the head office via the Import booking data program.

In order to get the data from a cash register to the USB stick, the option Save transactions for the central must be activated in the report settings. At the end of the day you will be prompted to connect a USB stick to your computer.

In addition to the booking data, the time recording data is also exported (so that it can be imported into the head office).

Further documentation: Save postings for the head office

Special feature of licensing such funds

If this interface is used in the same way as a interface of Web Clearing or trading area clearing, then these corresponding licenses are also required. Even if these program parts do not check or query the licenses, the functions are used and the support can be used accordingly.

Use data medium for fixing

The use of the data medium at the POS terminal is largely self-explanatory. The following situations may occur:

Depending on whether a subsequent master data backup is then carried out, you will receive further messages:

Note 1: "The booking data for the head office has been saved on the USB stick. However, the final master data backup still follows. Please do not remove the USB stick until the master data backup has been completed.

Note 2: "The booking data has been saved to the USB stick. You can remove the stick now."

Transfer data again

To save a day on the stick again, the date of the opening day must be pressed in the form YYYYMMDD followed by cash register function reports. Example:

Result for entry 20120123 report", then this day will also be transmitted to the stick at the next cash balance. You will receive a confirmation:

If you use web clearing, the data will also be retransmitted at the next opportunity.

You will also be asked whether the time recording data should also be transferred again.

Import postings

With the program Import booking data, journals and payment information from other cash registers are inserted into the central journal.

This function is used, for example, to accept and evaluate postings from POS terminals that are not connected to the network.

After starting the program, the USB ports are monitored. As soon as information with the suitable files is recognized, their import starts automatically. Processing therefore takes place automatically.

The processing is displayed in a list (at the same time you can remove the USB stick and insert the next one for processing).

If data is imported that already exists in the system, this is recognized, displayed, and not re-imported.

Option without stock management

If you enter and transaction the merchandise management data in the head office (where the data is imported) and do not do this in the store, you must prevent merchandise management data from being imported from the stores (from data backup) in addition. These "wrong" stock management data would otherwise change the correct data in the head office.

To do this, choose the Data import without retailing postingdata option.

Variant Data from Backup

You can also import the data from a backup location.

To do this, activate the Data import from backup folder switch.

Element / Switch	Function / Description
directory	The directory in which bookings are searched for depends on the settings for the backup location of the data backup. Further documentation: backup location
Start Data Synchronization	When working with the USB stick, incorrect operation (e.g. premature removal) may cause the data to be incomplete. For this reason, a check program is available that can complete the data at the same time. Technical background: In the worst case, only a single table was submitted. A detailed data check can now be performed with the complete `F_` tables of the remote point of sale. To do this, the `F_` tables are copied to a separate directory on the central server: `\\Hypers-!\VKTransaktion\Verkaufsstellenname`. The sales outlet name is freely selectable for you and only serves as an overview in the list. All transactions from the point of sale postings are checked against those of the central server (from a freely definable date) and corrected automatically if necessary.

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