Comarch Retail POS, it is possible to identify a scanned object based on a code format defined for it.

The section POS Workstations on the ribbon (in the tab POS Workstations available upon editing a center of the Company type) has been provided with a new button [Barcode Templates].

Selecting this button opens a list enabling the definition of code format templates for particular objects. Code formats have the form of a regular expression. The list is composed of three columns:

• Object Name – a selection field for the available types of objects: Item, Document, Customer, Voucher, Employee
• Code Format – a text field where a regular expression can be entered
• – this column is hidden by default

 Code format templates are defined within a company, and once they are saved, they are automatically sent to all POS workstations attached to centers subsidiary to a given company.

Except for defining code formats, it is also necessary to activate the functionality of context scanning by selecting a relevant parameter on the center form in the tab POS Workstations.

Context scanning of a customer

If a customer code is scanned:

• The indicated customer is added as Customer/Secondary Customer in a document (R, SI, SQ, SO, ASI, SCL, TF, or in a manual correction). Context scanning for the Customer object is deactivated in the case of export confirmations in TF documents
• The indicated customer is added to CD/CW documents as Payer
• The indicated customer should be searched on the list of customers
• The indicated customer’s form will open in any other place in the preview mode

Context scanning of an item

If an item code (or lot number) is scanned:

• The indicated item should be searched on the list of items
• In any other place, the application will open the list of items narrowed down to the selected item/lot
• The indicated item will be added as a document item in a document (it does not refer to TF documents)

Upon scanning a lot number in the window Select Properties (feature selection), the application will search for a relevant lot of a given item and substitute it on the list of document items.

Context scanning of an employee

If an employee/operator card is scanned:

• The indicated employee will be added in the field Handled By in R, SI, corrections, SO, SQ, WM-, RDR, CD, CW, ASI, SCL, TF
• The indicated employee will be added in the field Handled By in the window of starting/ending a day
• In any other place, this action will not give any results

Context scanning of a document

If a document number is scanned:

• The indicated document will be searched on the list of documents of a given type
• The document will be searched locally in any other place (also among parked documents). After the search, a window with the preview of a given document will be displayed. If the searched document is parked, it will be opened in the editing mode.

Context scanning of a voucher

If a voucher is scanned (as long as it is not associated with a customer as a loyalty card):

• In a trade document, the voucher will be added as an item for sale
• In CD/CW documents, payment form will be defined as Own voucher
• In the payment window the application will open the window of adding own vouchers and the indicated voucher will be added to it
• In other places of the system, the list of items narrowed down to the indicated voucher is opened

If a voucher associated with a customer as a loyalty card is scanned (in the same way as a customer code):

• In documents, the customer associated with the indicated voucher will be set as Customer/Secondary Customer
• In other places of the system, the application opens for preview the form of of the selected customer