Release Notes
Release 18.0.3
F38588-02
August 2021
This document highlights the major changes for Release 18.0.3 of Oracle Retail Xstore Suite.
Oracle Retail Xstore Suite 18.0.3 includes the products below.
Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service is a point-of-sale application that provides the capabilities to carry out day-to-day transactions and conduct daily store activities. Tasks such as scanning items, applying price adjustments, tendering, and printing receipts as well as processing returns and web orders can be performed. Store operations including opening the store, managing registers and tills, and closing the store can be handled through Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service.
As part of Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service, these release notes include information about Xstore Point of Service Mobile and Xenvironment.
Oracle Retail Xstore Office is a central web-based management console that provides for the facile management of the data and configurations that empower your associates. The user interface within Oracle Retail Xstore Office provides streamlined functionality that guides users through configuration changes, data changes, and deployments. Granular security access can create a custom experience for users of all access levels. Multiple support tools and alerts enable IT leaders to take a proactive approach to managing multiple installations.
See the Oracle Retail Xstore Suite Implementation and Security Guide for information about the following:
Hardware and software requirements
Oracle Retail application software compatibility
This section describes the functional enhancements that have been added to Xstore Suite 18.0.3:
An additional check for tax free shopping has been implemented in Xstore POS so that tax free invoices can not be issued for Northern Ireland residents, since Northern Ireland is not eligible for Tax Free Shopping.
The following functional enhancements have been implemented for the Country Pack France.
Changes have been implemented to comply with INFOCERT version 2.1. The changes include:
Event Logs
Data Purging
Displaying certification category, NF252 version, software name
Duplicates
Legal Entities
Invoice Duplicates
Receipt Archiving and Printout
Invoice Archiving and Printout
Invoice Signature
The following functional enhancements have been implemented for the Country Pack Germany.
The following functional enhancements have been implemented for the Country Pack Italy.
The Lottery function has been implemented in Xstore POS. This function enables retailers to offer customers the possibility to join the lottery. Additionally, a sanity check has been implemented for the Lottery function.
Xstore POS has been updated to comply with fiscal printer Registratore Telematico (RT) version 2.0.
The following functional enhancements have been implemented for the Country Pack Poland.
The following functional enhancements have been implemented for the Country Pack Portugal.
The Customer Good Category field has been implemented in the request TFI message to Fintrax, against each item. The new legal requirements for Tax Free in Portugal have been implemented.
Xstore POS verifies the series validation code (ATS) during fiscal transactions, so that the code can be printed on the receipt.
Xstore POS prints the ATCUD code on receipts (standard and luxury receipts) for both fatura simplificada (FS) and fatura completa (FT) as well as returns (Nota De Credito CB) and shipping documents.
Additionally, Xstore POS generates and prints a QR code on receipts (standard and luxury receipts) for both fatura simplificada (FS) and fatura completa (FT) transactions as well as return (Nota De Credito CB) transactions.
This section addresses the technical enhancements included in Oracle Retail Xstore Suite System Release 18.0.3.
Oracle Retail Xstore Suite Release 18.0.3 is supported for use with the following Middleware components:
Tomcat 9.0.40
Jetty 9.4.35
A defect fix is a modification to the base Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service code (for example, a bug fix, a performance enhancement, a functional enhancement, or a technical enhancement). The file named DEFECT MODULE XREF Xstore Suite 18.0.3.xls lists every defect number and the modules and scripts that are added or modified in the release. The file is posted to My Oracle Support at the following location: Oracle Retail Defect Document Listings (Doc ID: 2021275.1).
The following noteworthy defect fixes are included in this release. The following is not a complete list. See DEFECT MODULE XREF Xstore Suite 18.0.3.xls for a complete list of the defect fixes for Xstore Suite 18.0.3.
Affected Component | Fixed Issue/Defect | Defect Number |
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Order Transaction | Fixed an issue with Xstore POS sending shipping fees multiple times in delivery transactions. | 32345075 |
Verified Return | Xstore POS uses the original tax rate in a verified return. | 31716254 |
Order Transaction | When shipping calculation type is Per_Transaction and there is a maximum threshold for the shipping fee tier, the shipping fee is calculated correctly when the transaction is over the threshold. | 32050166 |
Xadmin | Fixed an issue with an error being generated in Xadmin when searching for a user by role when there are more than 200 users in the database. | 32083360
31689311 |
Xstore POS/Xstore Mobile | Xstore POS/Xstore Mobile displays item images correctly when setup as URL to a remote server. | 31907125
31939080 |
Country Accelerator Germany/Fiscal Report | The GoDB Fiscal Report shows the correct tax information. | 31943114 |
Xstore Mobile | Reports can be saved on Xstore Mobile tablets again. | 31530938 |
Xadmin | ReportDeployStatusServlet messages from non-lead registers no longer consume connection pool resources for the Xadmin database. |
31496598 |
Order Transaction | Verified returns on Customer Delivery orders can be completed using the transaction details from the shipping transaction. | 31412119 |
Order Transactions | Fixed an issue with orders showing deposit amounts twice when submitted at a later time. | 31834332 |
Discounts | Xstore POS applies tiered percentage off discounts for all applicable items in a transaction. | 31833238 |
Return | When configured for currency rounding, fixed an issue with refunds when there is a split tender and cash is the first tender. | 31306819 |
Tax Exemption | The tax exemption applied when creating an order is now also reflected when cancelling the order. | 31357367 |
RTLog | Alpha-based employee IDs no longer cause RTLog generator fails. | 31001450 |
Register Close | The total cash deposit is shown correctly on the Till End Count Receipt. | 30102639 |
Shipping | Shipping documents cannot be created for items with no stock on hand in INV_STOCK_LEDGER_ACCT. | 32231187 |
Country Accelerator Brazil | Number of installments are not saved correctly in the CardServiceResponse's MiscellaneousData field of Brazil accelerator.
Note: When EFTLink sends the installments parameter is read by the Brazil CA |
32587256 |
Work Order | During completion of a work order, Cancel button can be clicked.
Note: Modified the query |
32537505 |
For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Retail Xstore Suite 18.0.3 documentation set:
Oracle Retail Xstore Suite Implementation and Security Guide
Oracle Retail Xstore Suite Country Accelerator User Guide
Oracle Retail Xstore Suite Country Accelerator Technical Guide Germany
The following documents are available through My Oracle Support. Access My Oracle Support at the following URL:
https://support.oracle.com
Transfer of Information (TOI) Material (Doc ID 732026.1)
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(ii) the Wavelink component developed and licensed by Wavelink Corporation (Wavelink) of Kirkland, Washington, to Oracle and imbedded in Oracle Retail Mobile Store Inventory Management.
(iii) the software component known as Access Via™ licensed by Access Via of Seattle, Washington, and imbedded in Oracle Retail Signs and Oracle Retail Labels and Tags.
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