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Version 5.1 (Jun 2012)
Key new features:
- Wi-Fi setup wizard
- Terminal name on login screen
- New connection wizard
Minor improvements:
- Restart terminal and close programs delay when log off
- No re-login needed when Wi-Fi laptop IP changed
- Custom tickets: traffic limit
- Daily report layout
- Customer payment history
- Customer email
Bugs fixed:
- New customer incorrect balance value
- Custom ticket layout: image scale
- Daily report. Some sales are assigned to "system" operator
- URL log. Login empty for desktop PC sessions
Version 5.0 (Dec 2011)
Key new features:
- Ticket time of day limit
- Ticket traffic limit
- Cash drawer support
- Quick setup
- Import customers
- Customer search
Minor improvements:
- Use webcam to get customer photo
- Customer photo is displayed on the session info panel
- URL log: customer login and session number
- Free tickets
- Daily report: operator list
- Daily report access opitons for every operator
- Expiry date on Wi-Fi info page
- Change Wi-Fi billing port
- Minutes on printed tickets
- Scripts: customer_login parameter
Bugs fixed:
- Ticket unlimited time on Windows 7
- Wi-Fi billing blocks network sharing and printing
- Slowdown when starting a session from the server screen
Version 4.6 (Apr 2011)
Key new features:
- Advertisement
- Print options screen
- Export to CSV
- Custom ticket layout
- Wi-Fi/Desktop customers
- Cut tickets
- Terminal security
Minor improvements:
- Print monitor: correct copies number calculation
- New operator access options: top-up customer accounts, start/extend sessions
- No need to restart server any more when new tickets created
- "Run as Administrator" not required to register the software
- Sell items: fractional quantities
- Daily report. An operator only sees his/her sales
- WebReports. Printer friendly pages
- Options value field size increased
- Program error reports by email
Bugs fixed:
- TrueCafe Client sometimes doesn't lock the terminal screen
- "List index..." error when adding inventories
Version 4.5 (Jul 2010)
Key new features:
Minor improvements:
- Tickets are available on the expiry date and disabled the next day
- Ticket expiry date "today": sale/login date + 0 days
- Auto-close pre-paid sessions stopped from the server side
- Security options: change time/money and paid amounts
- TrueCafe Client. Press Shift when you double click on a program icon to start it via "Run as... (administrator)"
- Log outs list performance improvement
- Wi-Fi billing: proxy 8080 and 3128 ports are supported
- Copy application profiles
- Web Reports. URL log
Bugs fixed:
- Network driver can't be installed on Windows Vista/7/2008 64-bit versions
- TrueCafe Client session window doesn't show up sometimes
- Wi-Fi billing traffic counter resets when the info page refreshes
- Ticket login mask isn't applied to "login = ID" tickets
- Incorrect 1-minute rounding
- "User not found" error when customer types extra spaces before/after login
- Program registration on Windows 7 and Vista
- Duplicated Wi-Fi sessions when a terminal IP is changed
- Incorrect pre-paid amount starting a session for a terminal with the pricing coeff more than 1
- Printing tickets on some receipt printer models ("division by zero" error)
Version 4.4 (Jul 2009)
Key new features:
Minor improvements:
- Auto connect terminals with TrueCafe Client installed, which haven't been added on the server side
- Options. Change currency sign
- Start session window. Select customer
- Logouts list (instead of open sessions list)
- Client. Locate TrueCafe Server
- Client. Prevent starting a few Clients under the same Windows user account
- Client. Network communication improvements
- CD-Key management. Don't run program when no license available
- Taxes. All prices and amounts include taxes
- Receipt. Sale date section
- Client. Reconnect to server (button)
- Separate network channel for terminal data (screenshots / process list / etc.)
- Performance improvements
- Sales. Allow negative quantity
- Don't ask the password starting a session from the server side (option)
- Ticket top-up. Display customer as transaction owner
- Tickets recover: administrator only
- Wi-Fi. Display full redirect (domain + document + params) on the status page
- Sale window. Display prices + tax
- Sales report. Display shift operator
- Rename main menu > View > Shift report -> Daily report
- Client. Windows user name on the login window caption
- Discount column in Web Reports, Sales report and Daily report
- Hide private pricing packages on the customer window from non-Admin users
- Display pricing package ID (main menu > Setup > Pricing)
- Session & New session windows. Display terminal name in caption
- Auto-close sessions option: any pre-paid by default
Bugs fixed:
- Move session applies minimal charge more than once
- Add time/money doesn't work well with decreasing pricing table
- Server doesn't delete a wi-fi terminal when a session ends
- Shift end_fact becomes NULL. Causes startup exception
- Chat doesn't work well with dynamic IP terminals
- Pause session doesn't work well with post-paid time limited sessions
- URL log. URLs with more than 1024 characters corrupt the database
- Client. Program shortcuts mix up when a few shortcuts have the same CD-key group (useful for Steam applaunch)
- Client. Vista. Session info window isn't displayed sometimes
- Client. Default app icon is not displayed on Vista
- Client. Display "search path" programs icons (e.g. calc.exe, notepad.exe)
- Client. Connection lost switching unlock > lock
- Thin client terminals screenshots mix-up
- Start/stop session sometimes fails when using remote screenshot
- Setup fails on 64-bit Windows versions
- Setup doesn't add firewalls exceptions on Vista
- Vista. Restart server doesn't work
Version 4.3 (Sep 2008)
- Shift management
- Customer programs
- TrueCafe Client connection wizard
- Wi-Fi session timeout
- Create promotional tickets
- Get original website redirect link on the Wi-Fi login page
- Sales report
- View customer sessions from the customer window
- Security. Hide logical drives on your terminals
- Clean-up. Delete sales data
- Select data folder when you install TrueCafe
- Scripts. Run external programs when TrueCafe Client logs on/off
Version 4.2 (Apr 2008)
Version 4.1 (Nov 2007)
Version 4.0 (Jun 2007)
Version 3.2 (Nov 2006)
- Administrator: remote terminal screenshot, task manager, volume control
- Administrator: ticket face value in the customer/ticket list
- Administrator: terminal ping status in the list
- TrueCafe Client: log off a customer session when a screensaver starts
- TrueCafe Client: log off a customer session when Windows logoff/shutdown
- TrueCafe Client: clear Internet Explorer History and Temporary Internet Files when log off
- TrueCafe Client: connect/disconnect a dial-up connection when logon/logoff
- TrueCafe Client: protect options with an unlocking code in registered version
- Tickets: expiration date
- Printer Watcher: distinct charge rates for monochrome and colour printing
- Printer Watcher: extended terminal match: name -> ip -> name in LAN
- Power Management: shutdown idle or all terminals in your cyber cafe,
turn on a terminal remotely, automatically shutdown an idle terminal
- Point-of-sale: check the customer balance before making a sale
- Pricing: minimal charge, calculation improvements
- Customer: user access improvements
- Customer: highlight an account in the list with a background colour
- Database Workshop: backup schedule
- Cash and credit card payments accepted
- Set default ticket name in options
- Disable simultaneous login for any customer/ticket
- Receipt: customer name section is added
- Setup: add TrueCafe Windows Firewall exceptions
- Language Editor is disabled in TrueCafe Client
- Precise terminal icons movement
Version 3.1 (Aug 2006)
Version 3.0 (Mar 2006)
- Sessions: pre-paid and timers improvements
- Pricing improvements. Time zones, rounding, taxing, etc.
- Traffic calculation
- POS. Receipt printing: Customized receipt (fonts, graphics, etc.)
- Printer Watcher: automatically charge customers for printing
- TrueCafe Client: order services/products remotely
- TrueCafe Client: warn a customer when minimal time/money is left
- TrueCafe Client: (demo version), unlock password (closetruecafe)
- Main window interface improvements
- Session summary: time, taxes, totals
- Time/money left columns in the terminal list
- Active sessions in the session list are highlighted
- Move a customer from one terminal to another
- Session dialog is displayed when session is stopped
- Setup Wizard: helps you to configure TrueCafe at the first time
- Database Workshop: system backup/restore
- TrueCafe Server Manager is displayed if server is not running
Version 2.2 (Jul 2005)
Version 2.1 (Apr 2005)
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