Retention Periods

RES lets you configure retention periods, or the amount of time that data is retained for inactive or historical data. You can configure the system to automatically delete data after going past the configured retention period.

RES does not let you configure a retention period for vendor information.

Inactive Customers in Guest Service Solutions

To configure the retention period for inactive customers in Guest Service Solutions:

1. In the POS Configurator, click GSS, and then click Restaurant.

2. On the General tab:

   1. Enter a maximum number of records to retain in Customer Totals and Customer Details.

   2. Set the Retain Inactive Customers (Days) field with the retention period for inactive Guest Services Solutins patrons.

      Enter 0 to prevent inactive customers from removal.

Table Management Reservations and Waiting List Requests

To configure the retention period for Table Management reservations and waiting list requests:

1. In the POS Configurator, click Table Management, and then click Table Management.

2. On the General tab, set the Days to keep field with the retention period in days for reservations and waiting list requests.

Terminated Employees

To configure the retention period for terminated employees:

1. In the POS Configurator, click System, and then click Restaurant.

2. For each store that you want to configure the retention period, click the Data Privacy tab, and then set the Prevent employee deletion(Days) field with the retention period in days for terminated employees.

   If you do not see this tab, make sure you have configurator access to the Restaurant form.