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Rearranging Buttons at Bottom of POS

We are a smaller retail garden center that does not perform a lot of complex operations on our POS. I also have a lot of computer illiterate people working for me. There are 3-4 sets of Buttons at the bottom of the POS that you can use either by clicking on them or pressing the F-Keys. We only use about 1/4 of them and I would like to gather them all together instead of having my employees have to hunt through each set of buttons to find the one they need. How can I rearrange my buttons into a more logical order?

It would be most logical for my business to have these 12 keys on the main screen when you are working in POS: Set Customer, Clear Customer, New Customer, Lookup, Discount, No Sale, Payment, Hold, Return, Secure, Tender, Recall. This is very important to the efficiency and ease of using this program. Please help!!

Thanks, Ryan

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Ryan/Van Wingerden
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Ryan,

You cannot rearrange the buttons at the bottom of the screen. What you can do is this:

First, use Security to disable all of the buttons you don't want your cashiers to have access to. If you don't know how, refer to your help file. It's not particularly difficult.

Then, go to this page:

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and download everything in the Alt Keys directory. Read. Use the Alt Keys program to access macros from custom buttons. You'll need to record the macros on every machine. Use keystrokes, not mouse clicks.

The factory buttons will still be there. The only ones that will work are the ones you leave available through security. I believe that you will have to permit access to all of the functions you plan to call with macros.

Conveniently, there are 12 F-keys you can assign macros to.

Also, some functions (CreateHold, for one) are available as custom buttons without using a macro.

It will take some time, but you'll only have to do it once.

HTH, Tom

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Terrible Tom

No, you can't remove or reorder function keys. As Tom said, you can disable keys using the security settings.

You might consider using a touchscreen keyboard (it works fine with a regular monitor and mouse). This won't really hide any keys, but you can create your own custom set of keys and make these appear first. Check out the help for touchscreen keyboards to get started.

You will have to resize the transaction screen (Ctrl-F6) to get the display right. You can also turn off display of the default function keys in the screen settings...

Glenn Adams Tiber Creek C> We are a smaller retail garden center that does not perform a lot of complex

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Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]

Or you can use our solution its a full touch screen with 30 buttons all on one screen that are total customizable including having pictures and different button colours have a look at the link below. If you like it call us on +4420 8275 3838

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