Retail conditional graphics, Using the retail conditional graphics tool, Enable time/date – CognitiveTPG A776 User Manual

Page 13: Date & time formats

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Retail Conditional Graphics

The Retail Conditional Graphics feature of ReceiptWare gives your printer the ability to print stored graphics when text

triggers, that you define, are present in the receipt data. It supports up to 112 different Trigger Graphics as well as instruction

sets (i.e., justification) on how to print each one. With this ability, your imagination is the only limit when creating a unique

and customized receipt for every customer.

Using the Retail Conditional Graphics Tool

To print a Retail Conditional Graphic on a receipt, you have several text triggers to choose from. Before specifying the

triggers, you need to make a decision about the trigger that best suits the message that you are delivering. For example, if

you are printing a coupon that is printed when the customer spends $40.00 or more. You can create a trigger for ”$40.00”

Total – the printer will automatically print the coupon when ”$40.00” or more is present in the receipt data. You can also set

the trigger to print the coupon only if it is on ”Saturday.” In this example, if the customer spends $40.00 or more on Saturday,

the printer automatically prints a coupon for those customers that meet the criteria. You can specify another trigger to print

a different coupon if the customer spends under ”$40.00.”
There are seemingly endless combinations of triggers to print powerful customer-focused marketing messages that will help

bring your customers back again and again.
As with every other ReceiptWare tool, we recommend having a sample receipt present with you when creating Receipt

Formats. Available ReceiptWare text triggers are, Time-of-Day (i.e., AM or PM), Date & Time, Receipt Value, or Alternating

Days. ReceiptWare only recognizes strings that are present in the printed receipt data.

Enable Time/Date

The Enable Time/Date option allows you to specify the date & time that the graphic prints. You can specify if the graphic

prints in the AM or PM, and Every other day. You can also specify a Start Date and End Date to allow a graphic to print only

during the specified time, and it will stop printing the graphic after the End Date until the AXI file is changed.
The following chart shows information about the acceptable Enable Time/Date trigger formats.

Date & Time Formats

The following material represents the net result of a several hundred receipt audit taken over Grocery Retail, Specialty

Retail, General Merchandise and Hospitality. The next page contains a complete listing of the manners in which the Total

on a receipt was represented.

Time Formats:

a. 0:00:00PM

b. 0:00:00 PM

c. 00:00

d. 0:00 PM

e. 0:00 pm

f. TIME: 00:00:00

g. TIME: 00:00

h. TIME 00:00.

Combined Formats:

a. 00/00/00 — 0000

b. 00000000-0000.

Date Formats:

a. 00/00/00; 0/00/00

b. Date: 00/00/00

c. SEP00 00

d. SEP 00, ‘05

e. SEP 00 0000

f. 00.00.00.

Sample Date/Time Examples

from Common Printed Receipts:

Trans # 1234-5

9/7/2005 1:49am

2-223-224543

09112005-1321

Date: 09/10/05

Time: 13:21

Required Date and Time Locations:

a. Date, time on same line, date first

b. Date, time on same line, time first

c. Date, time not on the same line

Alternating Days:

Based on the identification of a start date is

present on the receipt. The graphic will toggle on

and off as days advance – until a new file is sent to

the printer.

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