Digital signature of orders is mandatory in several European countries like France, Germany and Austria. In France, all signatures are stored in a single transaction log (for a given VAT number). In Germany and Austria, a separate transaction log has to be created for each point of sales accepting cash payments. Sometimes, you may want to create orders for testing purpose on a "personal" box-office or back-office point of sales (that means, not on the official counters used for productive sales) and cancel the orders once the tests are finished. This isn't an issue from a compliance standpoint (as cancellation orders are also digitally signed) but it creates unnecessary transaction logs that increase management work and costs. The purpose of this improvement is to avoid such unnecessary transaction logs.
Geographical scope
This change is only relevant for our German and Austrian customers.
Solution
Set-up at sales channel level
As before, it's possible to enable or disable the digital signatures at sales channel level (in menu institution context > Initialisation > Sales channels). The previous check box has just been replaced by two radio buttons.
Set-up at point of sale level
A new tab (Other parameters) allows to define if:
- The digital signature should be disabled for this point of ale → Yes
- The digital signature should not be disabled for this point of sale → No
- Reuse the setting at sales channel level → Same as sales channel
As a result, if you want to perform some tests on a dedicated point of sale belonging to the back-office, you should;
- Keep the digital signature enabled at sales channel level → No
- Disable the signature at point of sale level → Yes
Getting started
You don't have anything to do right now. All the points of sale are set by default to same as sales channel, meaning that they keep by default the same behaviour as before.
