Salespoint configuration
The final setup step is to configure salespoints with the necessary settings for selling and redeeming In-House Cards items.
To configure a salespoint for selling and redeeming In-House Cards items:
1. If selling In-House Cards items configured to retrieve card numbers from the server data, salespoints are configured to store a local supply of card numbers to be used during the sale of In-House Cards items. This setting is used in situations where the salespoint may be running off-line. (In order to assign card numbers to In-House Cards items while off-line, the local salespoint needs to have a local supply of numbers to assign to the In-House Cards items.) Do not store too many numbers locally, because, once these numbers are issued to the local salespoint, they cannot be re-issued back to the server for use at another salespoint. The setting used to store card numbers locally for off-line situations is:
AssignNoQty=(0,25)
See the Salesware .INI Settings Reference document for more information. In this example, 25 card numbers from num_source 0 are stored locally. This allows In-House Cards items to be sold while disconnected from the server up until the local supply has been assigned.
Note: AssignNoQty setting is only necessary if using the server assign_no table to issue card numbers. If all In-House Cards programs use cards that have been pre-printed and pre-encoded outside of Salesware, this setting is not necessary.
2. The SysManager > Preferences > Miscellaneous > Global Salespoint INI settings contain the following setting within the <defaults> [Preferences] section in order to speed searches associated with In-House Cards items: CardActionDigits=6. See the Salesware .INI Settings Reference document for more information.