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Submitted by tanderson on Fri, 21/11/2014 - 11:55

Development Project Status: Completed

Total cost estimate (ex-Tax): 
$1180
Due date for completion of this stage: 
21/11/2014
Release: 
1.8
Current Percentage Funded: 
100.00%
Project funding: 

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Project description: 

Overview

Many POS terminals support opening the cash drawer by sending a set of control codes to the receipt printer*.

This project will add support to open the cash drawer linked to a till:

  • when finalising a payment or refund
  • when clearing a till
  • administratively, from the Till Balancing workspace

Configuration

To configure a till to open the cash drawer, Till will be extended to include the following fields:

  • Printer - the name of the receipt printer
  • Drawer Command - a comma-separated list of decimal values. A value must be in the range 0-255

Both fields will be optional. When both are present, the open drawer command will be converted to a byte array that will be sent to the corresponding printer.

When editing the Till, the:

  • Printer field will be displayed as a dropdown list of the names of all available printers
  • Drawer Command will be displayed as a text field

Testing the Drawer Command

The editor for the Till will be extended to include a "Test" button next to the Drawer Command field. This will send the command to the selected printer.

Opening the cash drawer

The cash drawer will be opened when:

  • a payment or refund is finalised in Customer|Payments
  • a payment is made at Check-Out
  • a till is cleared in Workflow|Till Balancing
  • the "Open Drawer" button is clicked in Workflow|Till Balancing

 

 

 

* See Receipt printer control codes to open attached cash drawer

 

JIRA: OVPMS-1571

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Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by craigc (not verified) on Tue, 10/02/2015 - 11:53.

There also needs to be the ability to open the cash drawer on a casual basis rather than as part of receipting or balancing workflow. Would just need a button somewhere to send the open drawer command, perhaps in the till balancing workspace. 

Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by tanderson on Tue, 10/02/2015 - 12:06.

Is this button available only to users with admin role, or to everyone?

 

Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by Ben_Charlton on Thu, 26/02/2015 - 12:55.

Wouldnt you only want the cash draw to open on CASH or cheque payments?  

EFT payments wouldnt need to trigger the draw?

 

Regards
 
Ben 
OpenVPMS Installer and Helper 
Ph: +61423044823 
Email: info[at]charltonit.com[dot]au

Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by tanderson on Thu, 26/02/2015 - 15:13.

EFT payments with a non-zero cashout need to be supported.

Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by PeterG on Sat, 28/02/2015 - 00:13.

This has been fully funded by one of our user community. Thanks very much!

Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by rath79 (not verified) on Fri, 12/02/2016 - 10:42.

Has anyone had any success firing the till drawer via a USB printer server if so what steps were needed?

 

Cheers in advance

 

Garry

Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by gretalloyd on Tue, 19/07/2016 - 16:56.

Has anyone successfully installed a USP or Ethernet cash drawer trigger.

I've tried so many now that it's completely beaten me. Perhaps I need to buy a different brand to the UMD models I have. Anyone have one that's easy to install on a Windows Server?

Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by EastsideVetEmerg on Tue, 19/07/2016 - 19:08.

We have tried and failed. Linux cloud server. Tried with a printer network switch connected to one of those dongles that you had. I gave up.

Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by tony on Wed, 20/07/2016 - 11:27.

Hi,

We have succesfully used UMD Ethernet Till drawers at all of our sites, model GC54-E.

https://umd.com.au/itd/products/m319.html

Setup as a CUPS generic text printer to the Ip address and then configure the Till to send the following:

80,65,83,83,13,7

Hope this helps.

Cheers Tony

Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by EastsideVetEmerg on Mon, 12/09/2016 - 11:06.

Hi,

Thanks - we got it working. Well, i should say our IT people did.

Thanks,

Adrian

Re: Open Cash Drawer

Submitted by EastsideVetEmerg on Wed, 04/01/2017 - 16:52.

Hi, is it possible to add an option for the till draw NOT to open when credit card or eftpos payments without cash out are put through?

Thanks,

Adrian

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