November 2022 PrismPOS Release Notes

Application updates from September 24 – October 28, 2022

Release to production: November 9, 2022

PrismPOS is the preferred point-of-sale solution for PrismCore and Mosaic. As additional functionality is added to Mosaic, application APIs are expanding to offer expected behavior regardless of a store’s inventory management system. Along with essential data exchange, there is an ongoing initiative to unify POS configuration, content management, and transaction processing within Mosaic. This application makes use of enhanced Mosaic APIs to exchange data.

Department Charges (Mosaic)

PrismPOS with Mosaic now supports the collection of supporting data upon tender. If required, additional tender prompts are configure via Thunder Admin AR setup and entered at the cash register upon transaction tender. These additional prompts and any entered data are saved to the system’s transaction database to view, export or report. This changes is meant to be flexible enough to enable a variety of uses, but the first use case to be solved is the capture of transaction specific data for department charge tenders. Department charges are typically unique per transaction and have a virtually unlimited number of possible combinations of prompts, thus making them impractical to create as customers or accounts. To enable department charges, the following updates were made to PrismPOS.

Thunder Admin tool > AR Accounts - If the account type is set to “Department Charge” users may open the ‘Additional Prompts’ tab to configure prompts that will request inputs upon tender. This setup includes cash register prompts, receipt labels and a required or optional designation.

Miscellaneous Enhancements and Bug Fixes (all stores)

Logging - New exception logging has been added to capture failures to import transaction data. This information will assist in understanding the frequency and potential cause of periodic import failures.

Services - To reduce the number of services required to support PrismPOS, the NBC Encryption service is now a part of the Application Services. This change should go unnoticed, but simplifies the overall PrismPOS configuration.

Thunder Admin tool (all stores)

Customer Accounts - Customer numbers with special characters '&' or '*” may now be viewed. Prior to this update, attempts to view accounts with characters caused a 500 error.

AR Accounts - If the account type is set to “Department Charge” users may open the ‘Additional Prompts’ tab to configure the additional information that will be prompted for a upon tender. Prompts may also be marked as required to ensure that a value is entered before allowing transaction completion.