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Function documentationPOS Peripheral Equipment Activation

 

The SAP Point-Of-Sale (POS) supports peripheral devices such as MSR devices, scanners, scales, and price verifiers. Depending on the manufacturer, some devices may require specific POS drivers to work properly. SAP POS currently supports the following peripheral devices. You can use manager code 2 to select and activate any of the specific types listed below:

  • MSR devices — Generic MSR wedge

  • Scanners — Generic keyboard wedge, Simple RS232, RS232 ICL

  • MICR Readers — Checkmate keyboard wedge, Checkmate serial, Scanteam 8310 wedge

  • Keylocks — Generic wedge keylock

  • Scales — NCI 67xx scale, Toledo Mod1, RS232 Toledo, RS232 ICL

  • Keyboards — Standard keyboard, Gertec65 keyboard

  • Signature Capture devices — NCR 5991 Serial, Penware 3100, ICE6000, iPosTC, Optimum L4100

    The Hypercomm ICE6000 and ICE6000plus are multifunctional devices that can work as a signature capture device, pinpad, MSR, and customer display device. The customer display portion of this device can run a slide show featuring ads or images recorded in PCX format. The image files download automatically to the POSWIN\PARM directory of the POS and then to the ICE6000 device when you open the terminal or when you issue a new parameter trigger. Alternately, you can force them to download immediately by running manager code 414 (Copy Parms), and then redefining the peripherals using manager code 2.

  • Price Verifiers — NCR 7800

  • Card Reader/Writers — Octopus

Activating the Scale Display Feature

The on-screen scale display feature provides a small rectangular window on the POS screen to display the weight of an item when the POS terminal is configured with a weigh-scale. This eliminates the need for pole-display hardware. When activated, this feature displays the weight of an item in pound or kilogram units until the item is removed from on the scale. The weight can be displayed up to three decimal places.

You can set up and activate the scale, as other POS-related peripheral hardware, by using manager code 2.

As for any screen element, you can activate the on-screen display feature, or make changes to the format or appearance of the screen by using the POS Advanced Layout change window. If the feature is turned on but no scale hardware is defined in manager code 2, the 'No Scale' message is displayed on the Display Options and Peripheral Devices 46 screens. If required, you can also activate a secondary scale display window for a customer CRT configuration.

The procedure to access the POS Advanced Layout change window is the same for the on-screen scale display feature as for other window elements.

Currently the following scale brands can be supported by this feature:

  • NCR 7870, 7875 and 7880

  • PSC Magellan

Note Note

The Magellan scale beeps each time the POS terminal polls the scale for the weight of an item when an item is placed on the scale. This beeping can be turned off by scanning the scale barcode settings. This procedure must be repeated at each terminal with a scale.

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Initializing pin pad debit devices

Pin pad devices can be initialized on terminals with debit software by entering a designated manager code. Generally, you need to initialize pin pad devices only once during installation of the pin pad device.