Latest Features

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) is a supported operating system for use with CounterPoint V7.5.19.

NOTE: CounterPoint can be used in a 32-bit environment only; 64-bit environments are not supported.

The CounterPoint V7 pre-defined data has been updated to include certifed devices for the Radiant P1515, P1520, P1550, P1560, and P1760 Point-of-Sale terminals.

The pre-defined data also includes updated MSR device codes for the P1520, P1550, P1560, and P1760.

Pervasive discontinued the Pervasive PSQL v9 data management solution in July 2009. You can continue to use Pervasive PSQL v9, as it is a stable and reliable database platform that is fully compatible with CounterPoint V7.5. We will continue to support Pervasive PSQL v9 as long as it is feasible to do so

However, per the terms of our agreement with Pervasive, effective June 1, 2011, we will no longer distribute Pervasive PSQL v9 licenses, including new licenses and user count increases. If you are using Pervasive PSQL v9 and you are adding a new site or want to support additional users, you will need to upgrade to Pervasive PSQL v10.

NOTE: You will be changed a per-user fee to upgrade to Pervasive PSQL v10.

This version inlcudes a direct accounting interface for Sage BusinessWorks 2011. Direct interfaces for earlier versions of BusinessWorks are still supported.

This version includes a direct accounting interface for Sage Software's MAS 90 v4.4. Direct interfaces for earlier versions are still supported.

This version includes a pre-defined export interface for Sage Accpac 6.0. Interfaces for earlier versions are still supported.

In this version, in a Unix or Linux environment, when you complete a ticket in Ticket Entry, you can select the F4=E-mail option and enter the customer's e-mail address to send the receipt to the customer via e-mail. If the customer's e-mail address is on file, CounterPoint will use that address by default.

NOTE: This feature requires you to have sendmail configured and working on your Unix/Linux system.

See Inventory.

You can now specify a header file and/or a footer file for receipts that you send via e-mail. This feature allows you to print user-defined text before and after the body of the receipt, such as "Please do not reply to this message" or "Please visit our Web site at www.mystore.com."

NOTE: This feature supported in both Windows and Unix/Linux.

CounterPoint now supports the new tax laws for clothing and footwear in New York that went into effect April 1, 2011. These new tax laws include the following requirements:

• • Clothing and footwear that is $54.99 or less is not taxed
• • Clothing and footwear that is between $55.00 and $109.99 is taxed at 4.375%
• • Clothing and footwear that is $110.00 or more is taxed at 8.875%

NOTE: These tax rates must be applied to each item sold, not to the ticket subtotal.

To support these requirements, the Tax codes window (Setup > Inventory > Tax codes) now includes a Tax total amt ? fields for each Tax percent. These fields allow you to specify that the corresponding tax percent should applied to the total amount of each eligible item once the specified minimum amount is reached.

NOTE: This feature was released in a V7.5.18 Service Pack.

You can now log and track new open items and/or changes made to open items for A/R customers by enabling the corresponding settings on the new Transaction Log window in Setup > Customers > Control.

With these settings enabled, CounterPoint creates a log file (AROPITM.LOG) in your company directory that tracks new and/or changed open items for your A/R customers.

The open item maintenance transaction log file includes the following information:

• • Date
• • Time
• • User ID
• • Type of transaction (Add or Change)
• • Field changed
• • Customer #
• • Document type
• • Customer number

If you are registered to use CustomerConnect, you can now specify whether to include each customer in CustomerConnect mailings by selecting Yes or No from the Market list box that appears next to the Email field on the Customers window (Customers > Customers).

NOTE: This field only appears if there is an e-mail address on file for a customer.

In addition, if you upgrade from CounterPoint V7 to CounterPoint SQL V8.4.3, the Opt-out from marketing emails check box in CounterPoint SQL will be set appropriately for each customer, based on the customer's Market setting.

You can now send purchase orders and RTVs to vendors via e-mail when you post individual purchase requests, receivings, or return to vendor transactions.

NOTE: This feature supported in both Windows and Unix/Linux.

To send a PO or RTV to a vendor, simply select the new F4=E-mail option when the Print alignment ? prompt appears, and then enter a valid e-mail address for the vendor.

If the vendor's e-mail address is already on file, CounterPoint will use that address by default. You can enter a different e-mail address that does not overwrite the address on file.

In addition, you can specify a header file and/or a footer file for POs and RTVs that you send via e-mail, allowing you to print user-defined text before and after the body of the document, such as "Please do not reply to this message" or "Please visit our Web site at www.mystore.com."

NOTE:If you are using CounterPoint in a Unix/Linux environment, this feature requires you to have sendmail configured and working.

Previously, each vendor-item record in CounterPoint could only have a single Vendor's unit assigned to it. In this version, you can assign multiple purchasing units to each vendor-item record, each with a different minimum order quantity and unit cost. This feature allows you to purchase a particular item in multiple units from a single vendor on a single purchase order.

In this version, Receivings > Import has been updated to limit the use of purchasing units so that no item appears more than once with different units on a single purchase order.

When you import receivings using Receivings > Import, if any of the corresponding purchase orders includes multiple lines with the same item but with different purchasing units, CounterPoint sets the unit for all of those lines to the for that item. The user is then given the option to change the unit for those lines to the item's Stock unit.

This feature helps to ensure that merchants order items in the vendor's preferred unit on each purchase order.

CounterPoint V7.5.19 supports partial authorizations and full reversals through Paymentech.

NOTE: CounterPoint's default RCPT1 forms were modified as part of this enhancement. You must update pre-defined data to use the revised forms.

With this enhancement, CounterPoint now offers partial authorizations and full reversals for First Data North, RBS Lynk, TSYS, and Paymentech.

NOTE: First Data South does not currently support partial authorizations and full reversals.

NOTE: This feature was released in a V7.5.18 Service Pack.

CounterPoint now supports the Radiant P1560 and P1760 Point-of-Sale terminals, using Microsoft Windows Embedded POSReady and Windows 7 operating systems.

For more information about these Radiant POS terminals, refer to the Radiant POS Hardware area of the CounterPoint Web site.

The Epson TM-T88V thermal receipt printer has been certified for use with CounterPoint V7.

You can now log and track new open items and/or changes made to open items for accounts payable by enabling the corresponding settings on the new Transaction Log window in Setup > Accounting > Control.

With these settings enabled, CounterPoint creates a log file (APOPITM.LOG) in your company directory that tracks new and/or changed accounts payable open items.

The open item maintenance transaction log file includes the following information:

• • Date
• • Time
• • User ID
• • Type of transaction (Add or Change)
• • Field changed
• • Vendor #
• • Document type
• • Document number