Spring ’18 summary of what’s new in Retail

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April ’18 - General Availability

  • CDX and data management - Provides improved offline capabilities to ensure that point-of-sale (POS) terminals continue to function during updates or internet disconnects.
  • Deployment and servicing - Provides resource governance between transactional and back-office workloads to help ensure that long-running batch processes don't affect transactional system performance, and that peak store traffic doesn't impede back-office operations.
  • End-of-day processing - Enhancements include improved statement posting performance, the addition of rollback and recovery to prevent data corruption, and enhanced in-app diagnostics that show status, errors, and logs.
  • Globalization: Retail localization for India - Calculation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and value-added tax (VAT) in POS is implemented.
  • Globalization: Certified cash registers for France - New capabilities fulfill the requirements for NF525. The Retail solution is certified by an accredited body.
  • Payments - Improved tolerance when connecting to payment providers over unreliable networks. There is also a stateless payment stack to prevent payment failures from crashing the point of sale app, and improved extensibility for payment scenarios at the point of sale.
  • Extensibility (HQ, POS, CRT) - New extension points simplify the customization model, reduce the lines of code that need to be written by customers and partners, and reduce the effort required to upgrade.
  • Monitoring and alerting - Added granularity in monitoring the health of specific user operations.

August ’18 - General Availability

  • Add sales rep improvements - This feature improves the user experience and efficiency when adding sales reps to POS transactions.