Welcome to LumenSoft’s monthly newsletter. Our newsletter aims to keep our customers in particular and retailers in general informed and involved. We look forward to your comments and suggestions for improvement.

1. Table of Contents
• Slide 2: Greetings from LumenSoft
• Slide 3-4: Buzz in the Forum
• Slide 5-7: It’s New
• Slide 8: Did you know
• Slide 9-10 : Ask our Techie
• Slide 11-12: Repeat after me
• Slide 13: This too is Happening
Quote of the Month
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of
posterity. Benjamin Disraeli

2. Greetings from LumenSoft July 2016
Hope everyone had a super happy Eid. The thing about festivities, and of course holidays, is
that you get back to work with renewed vigor and more ideas for the future.
Talking of the future, Cloud is where the future of retail is heading. To cater to the emerging
needs of retailers, our new flagship product, Candela Cloud POS, was rolled out in June.
Candela Cloud RMS mirrors Candela RMS in features but with enhanced freedom and
functionality while saving deployment costs and time. You just need a login in return for a
monthly subscription fee to take your business to the cloud…and the stars!
You can try it for free for 14 days. To get a free login and password send us an email.
Last month we also introduced many new features to make Candela the software for retail.
Upgrade your release and use the new features.
We look forward to your feedback on Candela Cloud and the other features introduced in our
retail software. Email us or find us on facebook, twitter, or forum.
Happy Retailing

3. LumenSoft Forum

4. Have a look at what created a buzz in the forum:
How can a retailer/wholesaler enter received goods in both packs and units while
How can one sell in both units and packs on the sales and return screen in
Candela POS?
How can you implement exchange rate of foreign currency on GRN and other
screens in Candela POS?

5. It’s New
Makeapoint
here.
• Do you make purchase orders? Do you want
to see details of the PO (s) made during a
certain time period? Well! You can do so
now. Our new report F-16 helps you keep
track of all your Purchase Orders
(Introduced in release 12008).
It’s a dynamic report (after all, it is F-16!).
You can generate item wise, PO wise and
supplier wise reports to see the prepared
purchase orders along with their delivery
dates and details of the products included in
the purchase orders.

6. it’s New
Makeapoint
here.
• Have you ever wished that you could track
your customers on the account transaction
screen? Now your wish is answered in our
release 12008.
On the account transaction screen you can see
customer name, receipt number, mode of
payment in the comment section against
Customer account.

7. it’s New
If you are using Nested barcodes to sell the same
product in different quantities and want that nested
names should appear on the sale receipt instead of just
the parent product, a new feature in release 12009
helps you do it.
Now when you sell nested products, the sales receipts
show these products by their names. For example, if
cigarette is your main product and you have defined
its different packs as nested products and given them
different names, the sales receipt will show the names
of nested products. This will help your customers see
what exactly they have purchased.

8.  Candela POS makes it very easy to use your sales receipt as a marketing tool. You
can use your headers and footers as marketing messages by regularly changing them
according to your requirements:
Did you Know?

9. Ask our Techie
Dear Techie,
I have been using Candela point of sale for quite a while now- in fact
last month completed my five years as Candela Point of Sale user. There
is one thing that I haven’t understood. It’s minor and it’s not an
impediment either. But it bothers me because I don’t know what purpose
it serves.
When I am defining size and color inventory a size a color grid appears
on the product definition screen. Along with the defined colors and
sizes, the grid also shows (999) Default checkbox. What purpose does
this checkbox serve?
Retailer who has been using Candela POS for over five years.

10. Dear Retailer who has been using Candela POS for over five years,
Happy fifth Candela-user Anniversary.
This innocent looking checkbox serves an important purpose. If you are defining your
inventory (products) under size and color line item but you don't want to define sizes or
colors for a particular product, mark the check-box 'Default Color and Default Size for it.' It
is important because the system will not let you save a product that's being defined under a
size and color line item unless you select sizes and colors for it.
If you want to define colors for some product but not the sizes, you can select the check box
'Default Size' for such products. While preparing GRN matrix for such products the quantity
of the product will be entered in the Default size or 999 column. All this is part of retail
management! Hope this clears the confusion. Stay Happy.
Yours in Retail
Candela Techie

11. Repeat After Me
• If I am using Candela pharmacy software, I will select ‘Pharmacy’ as Business Type on
System Configuration>General tab.
• If I am using Candela restaurant software, I will select ‘Restaurant’ as Business Type on
System Configuration>General tab
• To print company logo on barcodes, I will go to: Utilities>Setup &Configuration>Barcode
Label Designer. Mark the checkbox ‘Print Logo’ and browse the image you want to print on
barcodes while creating a new label design.
• If I want to create product assemblies, I will first select a supplier as assembly supplier on
System Configuration>Sale tab.

12. Repeat After Me
• If I want to enter vendor code while defining products, I will mark the checkbox ‘Display
Vendor Code’ on System Configuration>Product/STR tab.
• If I want to block sale for negative inventory, I will mark the checkbox ‘Block Sale for
Negative Inventory’ on System Configuration>Sale tab. Now if I try to sell products that
don’t exist in the stock, the system will not let me do it.
• If I want to change my password, I will go to: Utilities>Change Password screen.

13. This too is Happening
Think about it
In the good old days the user name and password were enough. As
long as your password was complicated enough and you changed
it regularly your account was safe. Or so you thought!
Things have changed. If stories of hacking are anything to go by,
hackers have become a lot smarter than your smartest passwords.
While biometrics is trying to take care of the problem, Professor
John Chuang, co-director of the university's BioSENSE Lab, is all
set to take biometrics to a new level with ‘passthought.’ This
means you will be using your thoughts aka brainwaves to log on to
your account. Technology is getting too close for comfort?