Users are the individual accounts associated with your staff members. Each has specific permissions that allow them to undertake task-specific permissions to their user role (Cashier, Manager, and Admin).

Switching between users allows you to record and review which user has processed sales and completed certain tasks.

User switching is available for Retail POS on both computer and iPad, for steps on using user switching, select the platform that you are using from the tabs below:

Switching user in Retail POS

• Switching user on Computer

  1. Click the current username in the top right corner of the screen

     

  2. Click Switch user

     

  3. Type in the user's name or find the user profile you want to switch to. Click on this to switch to the user.

     

  Depending on what your User switching security is set to in general setup (Setup > General) you may be prompted to enter a password to switch users. Refer to the User switching security section below for more information on this setting.

• Switching user on iPad

  1. Tap the Menu (☰) icon

     

  2. Tap the user name at the bottom of the menu bar

     

  3. The user window will open. This window shows you which users are currently logged in and which are logged out, with logged-out users greyed out. Only users that have been granted permission to access the outlet you are logged into will be displayed and users are listed in alphabetical order. To switch to another user, tap the name or icon.

     

     Depending on what your User switching security is set to in general setup (Setup > General) you may be prompted to enter a password to switch users. Refer to the User switching security section of our Retail POS (X-Series) general setup guide for more information on this setting.

Quick switching with barcodes

Users in Retail POS can quickly switch to their profiles by scanning a unique user barcode into the sell screen.

Printing user barcodes

1. Navigate to Setup > Users and click on an existing user.

   

2. Scroll down to the Switch users faster section in Security and ID.

   

3. Click Print barcode

   

If a Quick Switch barcode ID becomes compromised, manager and admin users can generate new barcodes for other users by clicking Generate new Quick Switch ID on the user's profile.

Switching users using quick switch barcodes

Once you've printed out user barcodes, you can scan them on the sell screen to quickly switch between user profiles.

• Switching users using quick switch barcodes on Computer

  1. Navigate Sell > Sell
  2. Scan the user barcode for the user you would like to switch to. The unique barcode will be entered into the product search automatically. You'll notice that your active user profile has now changed.

  If you aren't able to scan a user's barcode, you can also enter the barcode manually into the product search field.

• Switching users using quick switch barcodes on iPad

  1. Tap the Menu (☰) icon and navigate to Sell screen
  2. Scan the user barcode for the user you would like to switch to. The unique barcode will be entered into the product search automatically. You'll notice that your active user profile has now changed.
  If you aren't able to scan a user's barcode, you can also enter the barcode manually into the product search field.

User switching security settings apply to quick user switching. Quick user switching will always require a password when switching to an account with higher privileges. Refer to the User switching security section of our Retail POS (X-Series) general setup guide for more information on this setting.

User switching security

This setting dictates the security requirements when switching users. The user switching security setting covers the entire Retail POS account and cannot be applied to individual outlets or registers. For more information on selecting your preferred user switching security settings, refer to our User switching permissions and user barcodes article.

Signing out of Retail POS

Sometimes, a user has to sign out completely from Retail POS, such as at the end of a shift. To sign out of Retail POS, click the current username in the corner and click Sign out.

If you are using the time clock feature for time tracking, this will not clock the user out. They must clock out first, then sign out of Retail POS.

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