The differences between uniCenta oPOS v4 and earlier versions keep growing with each new update.
Here is the list as of 5 January 2016 when it was first released.
Check the CHANGELOG page to see how it has evolved month by month since then.
OVERALL
NEW
- Look and Feel
- Stock level notification
- Multi-Database option – Primary + Secondary
- iButton (Dallas key) support
- JVM RAM monitor Widget
- Stock Maintenance
- Service Charge Option
- CAS-PDII Weigh Scale support
- Mettler weigh scale support
- Reprint last Receipt
- Add new Customer pop-up within sale
IMPROVED
- Overall performance
- Product Finder – with image
- Customer Finder – with image
- Category and Product load times
- Date and Time Clock to DefaultLocale
- Legacy Jasper Reports components – now v6
- All languages wrapped into run-time
- DB schema changes
- Configuration settings
DEPRECATED
- Substance/PushingPixels Look and Feel
- Databases – Apache Derby, HSQLDB and Oracle
- Database – PostgreSQL (temporary – will re-instate EOY)
- Stock Diary
- 800 x 600 pixels screens
- Java JRE 7 support
NEW MODULES
- Suppliers
- Vouchers/Coupons
- Products Units Of Measure (UOM)
- CloseCash reprint
- Stock Maintenance
- Web Reporting (separate app’)
LANGUAGES
FULL
- English UK – Default
- English US
- French
PARTIAL
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Brazilian
- Croatian
- Dutch
- German
- Greek
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Spanish – Spain
- Spanish – Mexico
DEPRECATED
- Swedish – 95% incomplete
CUSTOMER
NEW
- Image in Customer Finder
- Flag as VIP
- Set a Default Discount
- Create Customer popup from within Sales screen
- Add new create Customer to current ticket
IMPROVED
- Customer record load time
- Customer Product transactions
PRODUCT
NEW
- Units Of Measure (UOM)
- Assign main Supplier
- Create new Supplier pop-up
- View a Product’s stock movements
- View multi-location Stock
- Order in Catalogue
- Product Category over-ride
- Image in Product Finder
IMPROVED
- Barcode recognition
- Assign printer to Product
- Button display editor
TICKET
NEW
- Lock-out current ticket
- 6 x customisable ticket formats
- Create New Customer on the fly
- Reprint last ticket
- Check Product stock position
- Cannot refund a Refund
- Cannot refund a ticket more than one time
IMPROVED
- Product load time
- Customer load time
- Remote print only allowed on ticket change
- Change and delete permissions
- Print and re-Print permissions
- User ticket stack
- Barcode scanning recognition
RESTAURANT
NEW
- Table access lock-out
- Multi-part kitchen order print
- Ticket change and delete permissions
- Print, reprint permissions
- Assign number of diners to table
- Table plan auto-refresh
IMPROVED
- Ticket change remote print
- Reservations form
PAYMENT
NEW
- One-time use of Voucher/Coupon
DEPRECATED
- Card payment gateways (PCI compliance)
CLOSE CASH
NEW
- Close Cash preview
- Reprint previous Close Cash
REPORTS
NEW
- Supplier reports
- User reports
IMPROVED
- Jasper Reports engine upgrade to version 6
- Inventory reports
- Sales reports