In this month's newsletter, we're going over new optional features in 23.1.1
Shift Closeouts
ThunderPOS users typically run their shift closeout procedures outside of the software, using the sales totals report data for balancing. If you want to continue to do that, you can. If you are looking for a way to do this within ThunderPOS, our new Shift Closeout feature will allow you to do that. Now, you can log shift closeout information and any discrepancies for cash, checks and credit, view shift closeout reports, and edit/delete shift closeout information (if you’re an administrator).
At the end of each shift, you can enter your cash, check and credit information and the system will calculate the discrepancy between that and what was expected. To access the new feature, you can launch it from the register actions button. There is also a new Closeout Shift button that you can add to your register design.
 
We have made the shift closeout feature flexible. You can run it for a specific cashier or all cashiers, a specific register or all registers, and choose your start and end time. You will need administrative privileges to perform a closeout for any day other than the current day. Choosing Sales Report will show your sales totals report for the same criteria, and enter your amounts. Shift closeout is not a required process for using the system. It is simply a convenient way of keeping your closeout information within your store database.
Reporting will show you each shift and the discrepancies recorded, allowing you to easily find problem cashiers or offsetting errors.
Fees
We've added a new type of item you can create in ThunderPOS, Fees. Fees allow you to charge either a flat amount, a percentage or both, and apply to all other items on the transaction. To add or edit a fee, you'll go through Store and then Fees and reach the following screen.
Once you have at least one fee in place, you can add the new button for browsing fees to your register design to add it to a transaction. Alternately, you can simply scan or type in the item id of the fee. Fees add to your net sales figures. They are treated as service items, so the quantity in stock is always zero. They cannot be marked as trade in or used.
Physical Inventory
Most users will want to conduct a physical inventory with the new year, to make certain that your end of year inventory valuation is correct. As this is a process that many stores do infrequently, we would like to remind users of the tutorial video available on the topic, linked below, as well as the resources available in the manual.
The current version of the software, available for supported users, is 23.1.1. To get back on support, or to upgrade to phone support from email support, contact sales at (919) 387-7597 x100. If you are not on phone support, and you call, a response will be sent to the email address on file. You can also buy a support incident from our website.

If you are on a version older than 4.0 that has been sunset, you can contact sales for information on purchasing an update. All versions prior to ThunderPOS 5.0 will be sunset from support on December 31st, 2022.