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Update 1305 18 September 2025	POS Change - "Confirm Sale" | Thermal Ticket Updates Hello CONFIRM SALE BUTTON A change will soon be made to POS so that, if it can, the 'Confirm Sale' button presses itself. This avoids the need for the clerk to remember to press it (which it is accepted is possible to forget if no further action is expected, such as the printing of tickets or receipts). There are some circumstances where it won't press itself, such as if payment hasn't succeeded, or for zero-value total orders (to ensure that the order isn't completely unexpectedly). The POS will proceed with its follow up actions (eg printing tickets or receipts) as if the 'confirm sale' button had been pressed by the clerk. A picture can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HOPSAdmins/posts/24749390104699996/ or here: https://www.hops.org.uk/library/retail-systems --- THERMAL TICKETS The format of thermal tickets has now been changed. The headline of the ticket, eg, "Adult Return" is now printed in larger text at the top of the ticket. Underneath this is a new "public friendly" description of the journey being made. Eg for a railway with three stations called AAA, BBB and CCC, the description will show: For a single: (eg) BBB - CCC For a return: (eg) BBB - CCC - BBB For a circular: (eg) BBB - CCC - AAA - BBB For a ranger: nothing at all. Some of the other items on the ticket have been re-arranged for clarity. The "issued" information is now shown along the bottom of the ticket, and is still in the same format: (location name) YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (order number Lxxxxx). As before, "ADV" is only shown if the ticket is purchased in advance, and "(Members)", etc - the fare type - is only shown if it is not a "normal" fare. Space has been kept available on the right hand side of the ticket for a future development... watch this space! A photo of the old and new formats can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HOPSAdmins/posts/24749222348050105/ or here https://www.hops.org.uk/library/retail-systems If you are a user of HOPS Retail Systems but not yet printing your tickets in this attractive and highly-Instagrammable way, please get in touch and we will tell you the details - steve.morris@hops.org.uk or 0118 225 0021. Thank you
Update 996 17 July 2023	Work has taken place today to allow Train Crew / Loco diagrams to be created on Base Timetables. (This has been available for a while on daily timetables.) I believe I have updated the relevant places where the base timetable is copied on to a specific date to copy the diagrams as well, but over to you all to test! Contrary to the work that went on over the weekend, THIS will get us closed to assigning specific locomotives (and people) to DIAGRAMS (rather than TRAINS), to facilitate traincrew/loco chagnes etc mid-journey. Note, this work is to enable "Steam 1", or "Turn 2" or "Shift 3" to be built and the times of trains being worked to be recorded for each. The next stage will be the allocation of specific turns and locomotices to "Steam 1" on a specific day, etc. When editing a diagram it is possible to state whether the diagram can be assigned to a turn and/or allocation of a locomotive. A steam/diesel/DMU can be specified if required, or 'any loco'. If, at your railway, the driver and fireman stay with the same locomotive all day long, you can create one diagram and use if for both purposes. If a driver changes loco part-way through the day, or is relieved by another driver, then separate diagrams can be created for each driver and the locomotive. In readiness for the next stage of work, attributes have been added to Asset Types to specify whether assets of each type count as 'Steam Locos', 'Diesel Locos' or 'DMUs', which will interlock with the type of loco required for each diagram. Those admins that are keen to test things, here are the things to test: * Setting an asset type to Steam, Diesel, DMU, none. * Creating a diagram on a base timetable Adding work to the diagram * Copying the base timetable to a date and checking the diagrams copy too. * Checking the diagrams on daily timetables can still be edited correctly. Thank you to everyone who tests new HOPS developments!