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29 Jul 2010

TrueCafe 4.5 is released

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TrueCafe 4.5 is released.

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26 Jul 2010

Lock screen when disconnected

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Lock a terminal screen when network disconnection detected.

Available in the latest beta version

10 Jun 2010

Scan customer documents

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Scan customer documents such as a photo, passport, driving license, etc. Click on the customer icon to scan a photo or use the Documents tab to scan any other documents.

Available in the latest beta version

02 Jun 2010

Game console billing

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Use TrueCafe with your game consoles such as XBox, PlayStation, etc. (X10 modules are required).

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19 May 2010

Payload report

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Analyze your cafe computers payload using Web Reports > Payload report.

Available in the latest beta version

19 Apr 2010

Ping monitor

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Monitor your Internet cafe terminals state and get a notification when a terminal is off or TrueCafe Client is not running.

Available in the latest beta version

25 Mar 2010

Reports by email

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Receive your Internet cafe reports automatically by email every day, every Monday or every 1st day of month.

Open TrueCafe Web Reports, Mail options, specify which reports you would like to get and select time period (last month, last week, yesterday). Enter your email address and your mail server parameters. Click the Send now button to test mail sending.

Available in the latest beta version

15 Feb 2010

Club map

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Setup the info display at your shop or cafe receiption so that an incoming customer can locate an available terminal himself.

Use your Internet browser to open TrueCafe Web Access and select Club Map main menu item. Click the Edit link to change options and move the terminal icons on the map. Upload your club map layout picture.

Available in the latest beta version

09 Feb 2010

Wi-Fi billing setup on Windows 7

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There are some issues when you setup Wi-Fi billing on Windows 7 different from Windows XP.

Wireless billing setup instructions on Windows 7

09 Dec 2009

Web Access

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Sell tickets and top-up customer accounts remotely from your web browser.

This is useful when you have an operator who sells tickets/tops up accounts from a separate computer (e.g. hotel reception) and doesn't have access to your TrueCafe Server computer.

TrueCafe Web Access must be installed on your TrueCafe Server computer. Use Web Access Windows Start menu shortcut to run Web Access. Copy the address to your remote computer and replace 127.0.0.1 in the address with your actual server IP address.

Available in the latest beta version

01 Dec 2009

Session rounding

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Round total session amount using TrueCafe main menu > Tools > Options > Rounding option. For example, if Rounding = 0.5 and the session total = 1.30, it's rounded to 1.50.

Available in the latest beta version

16 Nov 2009

Ticket printer

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Select a ticket printer if it's not your Windows default one. For example, you can select your POS printer as your ticket printer.

Available in the latest beta version

09 Nov 2009

Auto-login when Windows login = TrueCafe login

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Start TrueCafe customer session and unlock a terminal screen automatically when Windows user login is found in your TrueCafe customer list.

This is helpful when all your customers have personal Windows user names so they don't need to login to TrueCafe when then login to Windows.

Available in the latest beta version

28 Sep 2009

Web Reports. Staff report

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If you use TrueCafe shift management, you can build the staff report, which displays the amount of tickets sold and cash received by every operator.

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27 Jul 2009

TrueCafe 4.4 is released

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TrueCafe 4.4 is released.

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19 May 2009

Top-up and ticket receipts

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Print a receipt when you top-up a customer account, sell a ticket or extend a session.

Available in the latest beta version

10 Apr 2009

Wi-Fi/Desktop tickets

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Create tickets which your customer can only use on either Wi-Fi terminals or desktop PC. This is useful when you provide different charge rates for Wi-Fi and dekstop sessions.

Available in the latest beta version

20 Mar 2009

Bandwidth management

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You can now limit Internet bandwidth usage for every customer terminal. Depending on a pricing package, a bandwidth limit can be 64, 96, 128, etc. kbps or unlimited.

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Available in the latest beta version

07 Feb 2009

Wi-Fi white list

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Specify wireless billing exceptions: website names or terminal IP/MAC addresses. You can add your employees' laptops addresses here so that they have free access to the Internet. It makes sense to specify your network printers IP addresses as well so that wireless billing doesn't stop printing.

Available in the latest beta version

05 Jan 2009

Close programs delay

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When a customer session is stopped you can now close running programs with some delay. Meanwhile the customer can add the extra time to his session and continue working with his programs.

Available in the latest beta version

11 Dec 2008

Valve Steam support

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TrueCafe now supports Steam game delivery system (by Valve Corporation). Register your Steam accounts (login/password) in the TrueCafe CD-key management system and create shortcuts to your games on the TrueCafe Client program panel.

When a customer double clicks on a game shortcut, the CD-key management system takes an available Steam account from the stock and use it to start and login Steam.

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Available in the latest beta version

01 Dec 2008

Web Reports 2.0 update

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New design and date filter selection.

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06 Oct 2008

TrueCafe 4.3 is released

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TrueCafe 4.3 is released.

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18 Sep 2008

Scripts

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Run external programs when TrueCafe Client logs on/off. You can use customer_id, terminal_id, pricing_package_id command line parameters, which are replaced with actual values when the script is called.

Available in the latest beta version

03 Sep 2008

Hide drives

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Hide logical drives on your customer terminals, for example the system drive (C:). Use main menu > Tools > Options > Security tab to select the drives to hide.

Available in the latest beta version

26 Aug 2008

Customer programs

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Create a list of programs which your customers can start from TrueCafe Client. Use a customer pricing to select a program list for the corresponding customer type (main menu > Setup > Pricing > Pricing packages).

Available in the latest beta version

21 Aug 2008

Select data folder

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Select a folder where TrueCafe saves your data (database, logs, etc.). If you re-install the program, the setup detects your current database and copies it to the new location. Use Tools > Data folder menu to open your data folder.

Available in the latest beta version

19 Aug 2008

Sales report

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View your sales and filter the list by a customer name, service, terminal name, operator name (main menu > View > Sales).

Available in the latest beta version

15 Aug 2008

Cleanup: sales data

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In order to optimize your database you can delete the following sales data: unused customers, sales, customer sessions, top-ups and shifts.

Available in the latest beta version

14 Aug 2008

Shift management

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Use shift management to control your operators. Turn on Shift control option (main menu > Tools > Options) so a shift must be started in order to collect any payment (close a customer session, top-up account, sell a ticket).

When an operator starts/stops a shift, he enters his cash desk initial/final cash amount for the moment. You may compare these actual cash values to the calculated initial/final amounts.

To start/stop a shift use main menu > Setup > Start shift or Stop shift items.

Available in the latest beta version

21 Jul 2008

Promotional tickets

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Create a number of tickets for the promotional purpose. When you sell a promo ticket, its amount is added to the "promo totals" in the daily report.

Available in the latest beta version

18 Jul 2008

Wi-Fi sessions timeout

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Stop a Wi-Fi session automatically when it's inactive for a few minutes or a customer leaves your shop not logging out.

Available in the latest beta version

16 Jul 2008

View customer sessions

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You can now click on the Sessions button on the customer window to get the list of the customer sessions.

Available in the latest beta version

11 Jul 2008

Continue Wi-Fi session

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When your customers log in they can now see their original redirected website links on the session info page and click them to continue their sessions.

Available in the latest beta version

20 Jun 2008

Connection wizard

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When you run TrueCafe Client the first time on your customer terminal, connection wizard starts and helps you connect your terminal to TrueCafe Server.

It also adds a new terminal icon on the server side so you don't have to add your terminals manually from the server side any more.

Available in the latest beta version

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