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Upselling – Info codes configuration recap

Upselling is one of the common requirements in Retail POS. In this post I would like to recap how this can be achieved using configuration and no code in Dynamics 365 for Operations using info codes.

Info codes is quite an old feature and I thought it would be good to recap how we can use it to achieve “Upselling”.

Lets say we want the cashier to remember to try to upsell a product B on purchase of a certain product A (association rules)- example to prompt cashier to ask customer if he or she would like to buy batteries with purchase of camera.

The first step would be to create an infocode that will show a prompt to the cashier in the Retail POS. Infocodes can be created in Dynamics 365 in the following path- Retail and Commerce-> Channel setup -> Info codes

The input type of the info code can be setup as subcode buttons.

The subcodes need to be setup as follows. Note the use of Trigger function and Trigger code in the setup.

The above setup means that on selecting Yes, the customer agrees to buy the product we are trying to upsell (batteries) and the product will be added to the transaction.

The next part of the setup involves linking this info code to the product the cashier sells in the first place to the customer (Camera). This can be done in the released products master under Commerce tab-> Set up-> Info codes.

With the above setup in backoffice and pushed to the POS (by running the 1030 job and 1040 job), the cashier will get a prompt as shown below

On clicking Yes, the upsell will be done by adding the Batteries product to the transaction.

Regards

Hitesh Manglani

PostEndTransactionTrigger – The trigger that may not trigger.

So here is an interesting tidbit from a recent incident in which I was supporting the customer on Dynamics 365 for Operations – Retail.

Few transactions were suddenly reported as “Missing”  by the customer. The customer provided transaction details including CCTV grab along with Credit Card Slip. I started my investigation the server logs and found that the transaction id seemed be used across two transactions. This meant that the cart was not got getting cleared. In my customization I needed to access the cart information post the cart checkout and my cart clearing code was written in the PostEndTransactionTrigger.

We also logged a support ticket with MS and over time understood from MS that the MPOS is being exited by the cashier without closing the Change Due Dialog, which resulted in the PostEndTransactionTrigger not executing.

Long story short, if you are using this Trigger, make sure it contains non -critical code as it may not trigger if user exits MPOS without closing the above change due dialog. 

This article is based on 7.1 Retail SDK but should be applicable to later releases too unless a fix for this has been released.

Hope this helps

-Hitesh Manglani

 

 

 

MPOS Package failed to deploy – Windows cannot install package because this package depends on a framework that could not be found

So recently I successfully build my Retail SDK and uploaded the installer to one of my D365FO environment, but when trying to install the package faced the below issue.

“Windows cannot install package because this package depends on a framework that could not be found”

Here is an extract of the MPOS installation error logs.

System.IO.IOException: Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CF3, Package failed updates, dependency or conflict validation.

Windows cannot install package xxx because this package depends on a framework that could not be found. Provide the framework “Microsoft.NET.CoreRuntime.1.0” published by “CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US”, with neutral or x64 processor architecture and minimum version 1.0.23819.0, along with this package to install

 

<Final Update 18 Apr 2018>

The solution is to build the package with configuration=release,

msbuild /p:Configuration=Release

thanks to MVP Kurt Hatlevik  

</Final Update>

 

-Hitesh Manglani

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