How to setup SellerDeck EPOS Head office

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Overview of SellerDeck EPOS Head office:

SellerDeck EPOS Head Office enables you to run any number of sites from a central location. These sites in turn can have multiple tills in operation. Normally one computer would be licensed as ‘Head Office’, whilst the branches have their tills licensed as ‘Network’ versions. Contact SellerDeck Sales for more details on licensing options.
For instance, products, branch users, promotions etc can be added on the head office machine, which in turn can be pushed out to each of the branches. In turn, branches can send their transactional data back to head office for reporting purposes.

The instructions below explain how to configure EPOS Head office and one branch. Once you have completed these instructions, you can setup as many branches as you want.

Configuration of EPOS on the Head office PC:

1. First, choose which PC you want to be the head office. Put the Head office Deskey dongle into the PC you want to make the head office. The license type for head office is “Central”
   
   
   
   
2. Open SellerDeck EPOS, and click on “Head office”.
3. Click on “Branches”, then click “Add”
4. Under “Branch Number”, select “2”
5. Given the Branch a “Branch Name” and “Branch description”
6. Leave all other settings as they are and click “Save”, then “Close”.
   
   
   
   
   Repeat this process for how ever many branches (separate shops) you are going to have.
   
   
7. Click on the "Head Office" button, then “Make update file”, then click on the “Settings” tab.
8. Untick the tick boxes for “Stock Movement”, “Transactions” and “Z details”. Leave all other tick boxes ticked.
   
   
   
   
9. Click on the “Schedule” tab.
10. Under “ftp details”, enter your SellerDeck hosting FTP details. (These will be provided by SellerDeck)
11. In “Remote folder:, copy and paste the path below*:
    
    //httpdocs/tostore/
    
    
12. In “Local folder”, copy and paste the path below:
    
    C:\checkout\Updates\
    
    
13. Leave all other settings as the default settings, as per the screenshot below:
    
    
    
    
14. Click “Close”
15. Click “Get branch updates”, then go to the “Update settings” tab.
16. Untick “Stock level” and “Use RRP as retail”. Leave all other tick boxes ticked.
    
    
    
    
17. Click on the “Schedule” tab.
18. Under “ftp details”, enter your SellerDeck hosting FTP details. (These will be provided by SellerDeck)
19. Under “Remote folder:”, copy and paste the path below:
    
    //httpdocs/fromstore/
    
    
20. Under “Local folder”, copy and paste the path below:
    
    C:\checkout\import\
    
    
21. Leave all other settings as the default settings, as per the screenshot below:
    
    
    
    
22. Click “Close”

Your Head office configuration is now complete.

Configuration of EPOS on a branch PC:

1. Open SellerDeck EPOS, and click on “Head office”.
2. Click “Send data to Head office”
3. Click on the "Settings" tab.
4. Un-tick "Clear Sales Data After Sending Data to Head Office" and "Clear stock movement data after sending to Head Office".
5. Go to the “Schedule” tab.
6. Under “ftp details”, enter your SellerDeck hosting FTP details. (These will be provided by SellerDeck)
7. Under “Remote folder:”, copy and paste the path below:
   
   //httpdocs/fromstore/
   
   
8. Under “Local folder”, copy and paste the path below:
   
   C:\checkout\transfer\
   
   
9. Leave all other settings as the default settings, as per the screenshot below:
   
   
   
   
10. Click “Close”.
11. Click “Update”.
12. Click on the “Update settings” tab.
13. Untick “Stock level” and “Use RRP as retail”. Leave all other tick boxes ticked.
    
    
    
    
14. Go to the “Schedule” tab.
15. Under “ftp details”, enter your SellerDeck hosting FTP details. (These will be provided by SellerDeck)
16. Under “Remote folder:”, copy and paste the path below:
    
    //httpdocs/tostore/
    
    
17. Under “Local folder”, copy and paste the path below:
    
    C:\checkout\import\
    
    
18. Leave all other settings as the default settings, as per the screenshot below:
    
    
    
    
19. After you have sent your first update from head office to a branch, and downloaded it at the branch, go to “Setup” | “System Options” and select “Branch ID” as “2” from the drop down list
    
    

Your branch configuration is now complete. Repeat this process for each branch (Shop) you setup, just make sure each branch has a unique “BranchNumber”.

*This article assumes the webroot folder of the web server is "httpdocs". The Webroot may be something else, like "www", you will need to check this with your server host. You also need to create two folders in the webroot of your web server called "tostore" and "fromstore".