In this month's newsletter, we have a few new features available with the recent release of 22.10.2.
Coupon Codes and Buy $X Get $Y Promotions
Two of our new features are both tied into the promotions feature of the point of sale, our premier quality discounting feature.

First, coupon codes are an alternative to tying promotions to a customer or discount card. These codes can be scanned or browsed for at the register, and will grant the promotion they're added onto to the current invoice. You can scan multiple coupons if there are multiple promotions you want to grant the customer, but normal restrictions regarding promotions apply - you can only have one promotion applying to each line item.
Codes may be set up as being able to be used unlimited number of times, being able to be used once per customer, or only able to be used once by anyone.

The other addition to promotions is the buy $X get $Y promotion type. This will allow you to give a dollar amount off if enough money is spent on eligible items on the transaction, for example, $10 off a total purchase of $50.
This can be set up to combine with other, line-item promotions by checking the box to the right of the amount, but only one promotion of the buy $X get $Y will ever be applied per invoice.

These features can be combined, and a promotion of the buy $X get $Y may be set up as a coupon promotion.
Customer Pictures Changed
Some of our customers using the customer pictures feature have been approaching the limits on file sizes within Microsoft SQL server. As such, with this version, we're moving the customer pictures to work similarly to item pictures, where they can either be stored in the cloud or they can be saved locally.
When you start up the software for the first time with 22.10.1, if you have customer pictures stored in the database, you'll be prompted to convert them. This may take a long time if you have a large number of pictures stored. You can proceed without converting them, and do it later if you need to the next time you start the software. However, you will not have access to the old pictures until they are converted over.
Add-Ons Interface Changed
We've also adjusted the interface for managing add-on items to make it a little bit clearer whether you're enabling or disabling them on the current screen.
As before, this will set the addons for all items on your current search. Enabling will turn on that add-on item, and disabling will turn off that add-on item.

Add-on items will pop up with the items they are set on are sold, offering you the opportunity to add them to the invoice. The items that are available to be add-on items are controlled by checking the box in item maintenance marking them as add-on items.
The current version of the software, available for supported users, is 22.10.2. 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.

Windows 11 has been released. The current version of ThunderPOS does work with it. However, certain older printer models, such as some versions of the Bixolon SRP-770II, do not. Older versions of ThunderPOS and ExtremePOS have not been tested with Windows 11 and we do not guarantee functionality.

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.