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Arrange and colour your till category and item buttons
Arrange and colour your till category and item buttons
How to position and change the colour of your till buttons
One of the most commonly used features of Memsec7 is the Button Positions screen. This allows you to determine the layout of your till. There are various aspects you can alter, each applicable to one or more tills at your discretion. You can decide how many category and item buttons will be shown, in which order they appear and the colour of the button and its text. You save each combination as a layout template so you can have multiple configurations and switch between them.
To access the button position screen go to Tills>Till Setup>Button Positions in the back office program. There you can choose to edit an existing layout or add a new one. The number of buttons displayed under a layout is set using the number boxes at the top left just under the layout name, which you can of course also change. The default is 12 categories and 20 item buttons but these can be increased in steps of 2 or 4 respectively to 24 and 40.
At the top right of this screen you have 3 choices of button types to configure. Categories is the first and is selected by default. The second is Sale Items and the third is for Popular Items.
Click on categories to move and colour your category buttons. The Sale Items button will show a drop-down box underneath to allow you to select one category at a time and then move and colour the buttons in that category. Similarly Popular Items allows you to select different categories and then add items from those categories to your list of most commonly sold lines. Again, you can move and colour these to suit your requirements. If there are any unused items of the type you’ve selected these will appear in the unused items list on the right-hand side.
Some general tips on moving buttons:
It’s now possible to have different colour category buttons and different colour item buttons within each category. There are a number of reasons why you might benefit from doing this;
At the top right corner of the unused items list there’s a small colour palette. Click on this to switch from the list to the new colour selection tools.
Location of colour palette button
The selector offers you a range of 48 different colours for the button background and text colour. These are shades of red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue and pink, plus a greyscale from white to black. There’s a test button so you can see what your choices might look like before you apply them. Once you’ve set the colours simply click on the relevant button(s) on the layout to change them. There’s also a set all option and a reset button in case you change your mind. There’s also a button to restore the current colour choice to the default. Each button, once coloured, retains its colour no matter where it’s positioned.
Colour selector screen
The colours make up part of the till template just like the positions. This means you can have multiple layouts for different tills or times of day.