Upgrading a current installation involves downloading the relevant version below. For a first installation there are a number of pre-requisite elements required. A note of installation background is provided to assist in this.

Note that Live EPOS works for single company installations of Vista but does not allow companies to be changed. Some assistance might be necessary to complete Vista installs.

Live EPOS Versions

Beta Version 1.3.3 Release 24 January 2008 Download under test

• Fixed problem with percentage additional discount
• Allow product code to be drag/dropped on the barcode maintenance form

Beta Version 1.3.2 Release 14 December 2007 - superseded by 1.3.3

• Switch off warning on negative stock
• Fixed problem with repeated use of customer search
• Allow input of sales price for products which have no sales price in Sage

Beta Version 1.3.1 Release 6 December 2007 - superseded by 1.3.2

• Improved search and load speed This version for Sage Accounts 2008 only

Version 1.3.0 Release 22 October 2007 Download recommended

• Support for Sage Accounts 2008
• Alternative Sage discount scheme
• Improved validation on additional discount.
• Report directory path fix.
• Must specify whether an item is despatched when full payment is made.
• Fixed problem when posting to demoData
• Allows import of an existing configuration file. Improved some other configuration messages

Version 1.2.2 Release 20 July 2007

• New Z Report by Till ID
• Improved configuration utility
• Sage V12 files included in install

Version 1.21 Release 22 December 2006

• A delivery must now be marked as fully despatched before it is moved up to 'invoice'
• Zreport revised to make clearer the difference between till totals and order totals
• Disallow discounts if unit price is zero (it won't work in Sage when posted through)
• Delivery Date now prints
• 1.20 Known Issues for Sage 12 additional files required is using Sage v12.

Version 1.20 Release 13 July 2006

• Report format is now selected using the layout button on the Reports form (Report chooser)
• Fixes problem with stock for negative items and cleared lines
• Can find customer by full name
• Beta version for Sage Line50 v12. see 1.20 Known Issues for Sage 12

Version 1.19 Release 26th April

• For this release only, you may wish to change the installed invoice layout by renaming files in your installation directory, which is normally c:\progam files\GMT\Counter Sales.
• The invoice layout actually used by the code is invoice_deliverNote.rpt.
• If you prefer an alternative layout, please overwrite it with one of invoice_deliverNote_compact.rpt, invoice_deliverNote_discounts.rpt, invoice_deliverNote_windows.rpt
• A layout chooser screen will be part of version 1.20 when it is released.

Version 1.19 Notes

• Fixed problem clearing out-of-stock error, which was causing S1/S2 codes to switch
• Added goods received boilerplate to invoice/delivery note layouts.
• Allow search for customer's order by orderid

Version 1.18a Notes

• Emergency fix to rounding error, affected invoice, and occasionally confused part and full payments.
• Sorted out problem with discounted orders to Sage Activity report.
• Also in this release: Allows more than one product code per barcode. Maintenance form will now sort by Product Code.

• Major problem outstanding: non-stock items sometimes switch from S1 to S2. Please tell us if you notice anything unusual you have done just before it switches. For example have you just cleared any error messages, changed from mouse to keyboard, cleared or removed line, followed an abandoned or difficult order.....

Version 1.18 Notes

• Invoice date to be set to delivery date on Sage and in LiveEpos
• If product code doesn't exist (some have been entered in error) it will be replaced by S1 or S2, and the description tagged to indicate this.
• Fixed problem if a customer/product discount is given and the record is amended on Sage.
• Removed unimplemented items from menu
• Sorted out error messages from Sage Maintenance screens

Version 1.17 Notes

• Tightened validation - it's no longer possible to enter an out of stock item if the sage 'allow negative items' is set.
• Allow keying of special codes S1, S2, S3 or M
• Added a discount report, now that discounts no longer appear on A4 invoices.
• Added method of payment display to CASH invoices (A4 and sage layout)
• More performance improvements

Installation notes

Run the file downloaded above on each terminal to install. Please use the invoice layouts released here. Do not save the old ones - they do not have the fields for payment type.

Error reporting

There have been some reports of rounding errors on discounts, please make note of order id, and contact support noting which reports it affects.

Message 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.' occurs on rare occasions, but it has nor proved possible to recreate this on the development machines. If this recurs, press the details button to prepare a screen print to send to support? This will then allow a better 'help message' and try recover the connection.

Version 1.16

Performance enhancements and tightened up on order entry validation.

If reporting rounding errors on discounts,please make note of order id, and let me know which report it affects.

'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.' Should be very rare, but if this recurs, could you press the details button before doing a screen print? I will then be able to send out a better 'help message' and try recover the connection.