Dispense monitoring systems track the actual liquid poured out of the serving taps and compares that with the sales entered at the till. This is done "real time" and can show any disparity between entered sales and poured drinks.
The BEpoz interface to these systems comprises of the sales being sent to their monitoring databases as they are received at the Server. Additionally, some dispense systems also support sending dispense flow data back to BEpoz so we can report it it also and optionally decrement the stock based on the actual drinks dispensed. A Dispense Summary report will be available if this is setup.
The interface is done within Smartcontroller – not the individual tills. The connection to the interface must be available whenever sales are received by smartcontroller, as very little buffering is available.
Each Product that is being monitored should have the "Flow Metered" flag turned on in its product maintenance screen. Only sales, refunds and losses of these products will be sent to the dispense system. Additionally they should be setup as mills.
As each transaction is received by Smartcontroller (Online, Standalone or when a till returns from Offline), It is sent to the dispense queue. Here, a different thread will extract any products setup as Flow metered and send to the dispense system. It will also check any ingredients of cocktails (like Beer Wastage products) and send them. Only Sales, Refunds and Stock Losses are sent across.
When the transactions are sent, they need a "PLU Number" for individual product and size. To accomplish this, we append the size number (1-9) to the product's ExportCode1.
Therefore if a products ExportCode1 is set to 10 then its PLU numbers are 101=Size 1, 102=Size 2, 103=Size 3 etc.