• Managing EPoS Tills During Lock-down

    If for any reason you have to close a site for any length of time, please see below tips on what to do with your EPoS tills. Preparing tills before lock-down: Please if possible leave your tills online at all times, so that they continue to receive important updates and…

  • Managing VAT rate changes

    On occasion, the government announce a change in VAT rate for certain situations. This guide uses the change to 5% VAT rate as an example. To change the VAT rate of any applicable products, press your edit product button in tengoPOS or type in \\PROD and press enter – you…

  • Raising purchase orders and booking in

    On tengoCloud under purchasing, there is a re-order report – this shows all items that you need to order to maintain your stock levels. Stock levels are set by going to a given product’s stock tab, choosing the location, pressing ‘Edit reorder’, and setting the level at which to re-order,…

  • Stock ratios and assemblies

    For various scenarios, especially in a catering environment, you may wish to sell smaller amounts of stock from a larger stock holding – for example, buying a loaf of bread and selling in slices. You may then also wish to sell an assembly, which is a product made up of…

  • End of tax year annual HMRC Gift Aid letters

    Each year, you must send an email or letter to every donor who’s donated items have generated £20 or more of sales (and each 3 years for those who have sales but not £20 or above). At the end of the tax year, we will send you a spreadsheet which…

  • Epson receipt printers, Roll Setting

    If you find that long prints such as at the end of the day seem to be cut short, it could be due to a setting in Control Panel. To vcheck / change this, open Devices and Printers in Control panel. A quick way to do this having closed the…

  • Dymo Labelwriter 450 / 550 – Roll type setting

    If the roll type is not set correctly your label printer (barcode printer/ticket machine) will not print barcodes in the correct place on the roll, or you may get an error telling you you have the wrong label type installed. To check / change the setting, proceed as follows –…

  • Strange characters when typing (Num Lock)

    Our tills are usually supplied with a compact keyboard which has no separate number section on the right-hand side like full-sized keyboards – if when typing, you are getting numbers where you would expect letters, then it is likely that you have ‘num lock’ switched on – to turn this…

  • Buying replacement label rolls and receipt rolls (consumables)

    All label printers and receipt printers supplied by Tengo Software use the same till rolls, we have found Amazon to be the cheapest and quickest supplier – see below paid links to each: Dymo label rolls: https://bit.ly/tengoLabels Receipt rolls: https://bit.ly/TengoReceiptRolls For the label rolls, if you have the newer 550…