v6.8 – November 2024
- New work docket routing rules! Optimise in-venue printing based on whether your customers are in-venue, collecting or at home, where your customers are sitting, whether the order has been placed from certain tills, or via our online ordering app, or a third party ordering app, and the time of day or day of week.
- Improved reservation editing – it’s now much easier to edit any reservation direct from your EPoS.
v6.7 – October 2024
- Time & Attendance restrictions – nominate which tills permit T&A to prevent fraudulent use on mobile POS or other devices that aren’t covered by CCTV.
- Improved Operating System monitoring and patching for improved compliance and security.
- Snazzy new Download Data gadget.
v6.6 – February 2024
- Added Guestline Rezlynx integration so baskets and tabs can be charged to rooms.
- Added smaller screen support (down from 800px to 600px minimum high) to enable compatibility with various Android devices.
- Added option to show either short or full EPoS item names on customer receipts and display screens.
- KDS – Add item count for duplicate items with exact same modifier options. Add a new button in the settings panel to toggle item count feature on / off.
v6.5 – January 2024
- Added option to remove the payment confirmation pop-up for faster service.
- Improved PDQ stand-alone payment mode.
- KDS: Added configurable automatic ticket removal time.
v6.4 – August 2023
- Euro currency support added for integrated card machines.
- KDS: Add table area and table name to the top of orders.
- KDS: Each station can now be configured to suppress orders based on origin.
- Support PDQ ad-hoc tips in multiple payments.
- PDQ standalone ‘other’ payment type now contributes to Card payments total.
- Increased postcode field storage for compatibility with Deliverect.
- Improved snow effect for December!❄️
v6.3 – May 2023
- Kobas Display System (KDS) is now sending detailed event logs to Kobas Cloud, which paves the way for KDS reporting and analysis in Kobas Cloud in the future.
v6.2 – April 2023
- Kobas Display System (KDS) now offers font size customisation and the option to waste ingredients when remaking an item.
v6.1 – February 2023
- Kobas Display System (KDS), including Kitchen Management System tools, now available to all clients.
- KDS now shows order level notes in the grid view.
- KDS now offers a view of recently completed orders allowing a user to browse and recall orders as necessary.
v6 – September 2022
- Kobas Display System, including Kitchen Management System tools, are available in Kobas EPoS v6 for beta test clients.
- Performance improvements when showing lists of tabs and lists of orders.
v5.11 – August 2022
- Following changes to Apple’s enterprise App guidelines, Kobas EPoS can now be installed as a Progressive Web App (PWA). This enhancement deprecates the now legacy iOS enterprise application.
- Thermal printing subsystem updated to support extended character sets for non-English languages.
v5.10 – June 2022
- EPoS now supports the addition of discretionary service charges direct to orders that aren’t on tabs.
- EPoS can be configured in Cloud to hide the “Pay Remaining On Card” button to encourage staff to accurately enter tip information into the point of sale.
v5.9 – January 2022
- EPoS now supports the redemption of Kobas Gift Cards.
v5.8 – November 2021
- The blue basket button previously labelled “Loyalty” has been changed to “Customers and Codes”. Use this to quickly access discount codes, to manually enter a retail barcode that won’t scan, to add a new customers or to reach the manual loyalty code interface that was previously behind this button.
v5.7 – August 2021
- EPoS and KDS can now print an order summary dispatch docket which includes allergens information – a single paper slip to be attached to orders / bags which contains all items required to be supplied, along with customer/delivery information.
v5.6 – June 2021
- Multi-venue ordering support added – Kobas now allows food hall and other multi-vendor sites with shared seating to have a single, unified customer ordering platform.
v5.5 – May 2021
- More behind the scenes architectural chances to support a kitchen management system.
- Sales tax rate breakdown added to Till X and Z reports.
v5.4 – March 2021
- Upload clock in and break times to Kobas Cloud immediately without waiting for Clock Out – so now all partial time information is available when performing your Closing Tasks.
- Deliverect integration improvements – the vendor is now displayed on all Deliverect work dockets, and we’ve improved the notifications sent when an order is rejected for any reason.
v5.3 – December 2020
- Behind the scenes architectural changes to pave the way for a kitchen management system.
v5.2 – November 2020
- Support for Deliverect Online Ordering.
v5.1 – September 2020
- Online ordering for a future time.
- EPoS page menu now scrolls if necessary to better support menus with over 10 pages.
v5.0 – Online Ordering – March 2020
- Order tracking support
- Online ordering support
- Online ordering to table support
- Eat Out to Help Out support
Older Kobas EPoS Change Logs
- Version 4 “Reservations” – July 2016 – February 2020
- Version 3 “Loyalty” – July 2014 – July 2016
- Version 2 “Responsive” – July 2013 – July 2014