2025 January | Feature Highlights

Added the ability to configure an excluded order sources for a custom header from the Kitchen Screens Settings editor.

Xenial Cloud Portal → 4-Dot Menu → Data Management → Kitchen Settings → Kitchen Screen Settings → [Select a Kitchen Screen] → Cells → Print Item Label

When Use Header Template is toggled to Yes on the Cells → Cell Header section of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor, the Excluded Order Sources section is now hidden from the UI as expected.

Xenial Cloud Portal → 4-Dot Menu → Data Management → Kitchen Settings → Kitchen Screen Settings → [Select a Basic Kitchen Screen Configuration] → Audio

Added support to play an audio alert when an order exceeds the defined threshold for a screen's timer settings.

From the Timing section of the Cells page of Kitchen Screen Settings, define the following settings:

From the Audio page of Kitchen Screen Settings, specify the audio file to play for the following events:

For additional information, see Audio Files, Audio Settings, and Audio Alerts.

Xenial Kitchen Management stations play a audio notification for the following Elapsed Timer events:

Xenial Cloud Portal → 4-Dot Menu → Data Management → Kitchen Settings → Kitchen Screen Settings → [Select a Kitchen Screen] → Printing → Print Item Label

Added the following settings to the Printing → Print Item Label section of the Kitchen Screen Settings editor:

When enabled, the user is able to long press an item on the kitchen display and select Print Label or Reprint Label from the popup menu.

Added a new setting Suppress Items not claimed by Upstream Screen to the basic Kitchen Screen configuration form.

Xenial Cloud Portal → 4-Dot Menu → Data Management → Kitchen Settings → Kitchen Screen Settings → [Select a Basic Kitchen Screen] → General → Upstream Screens

This update adds the ability to suppress items that are not claimed from a Xenial Kitchen Management (XKM) station. An item claimed or completed on one screen that is not set as upstream screen, is suppressed on the current screen. When a claimed/completed item moves on to unclaimed state or is reclaimed on one of the current screen's upstream screen, the item is shown on the current screen.

An item that has been started displays separately from other items on a kitchen screen so that every item in an order can be individually addressed. For example: Two orders appear on the Kitchen Screen, Order A and Order B. When Order A is claimed, only Order A is displayed on the screen while Order B is suppressed until Order A is completed.

Updated the Xenial Menu Engine logic for Xenial Online Ordering to validate the current menu and verify if there are any updates since previous menu request by integrator. When there are no updates to the Menu, XME skips the Menu Creation process and returns the existing (current) menu to the integrator.

Enabled viewing of failed-messages details by adding new View Failed Messages (FailedMessages.View) permission for admin, XPRT-Admin, and PS-Admin roles.

Improved management of multi-lane drive-thru environment by adding support for user configuration of camera peripheral and associated devices with the following enhancements:

Added ability to capture vehicle in a multi-lane drive-thru system from a XKM terminal.

Added ability to capture vehicle in a multi-lane drive-thru system from a XPOS terminal.

Added a Drive Thru option to the Order Destination configuration that identifies the destination as a Drive-Thru.

Xenial Cloud Portal → 4-Dot Menu → Data Management → Ordering Settings → Settings → Order Destination → [Select/Create a Order Destination] → General

Added the ability to create drive-thru order destinations with a unique name and ID.

Use the Drive Thru toggle from the General section of the Order Destination editor to identify an order destination as a Drive-Thru destination.

Improved notification text for successful transactional data resend requests.

Order identifiers now included in EOD notifications when incrementing the business date of a terminal.

Users can now manually enter a card to a XPOS terminal based on the preferences defined for the Manual Card Entry preference located in the Ordering Application → Payments section of Company/Site Preferences.

Added support for closing pay periods at intervals unequal to payroll period length by enabling consumption of new payroll_period_closure field.

Added configuration to set closing payroll period length through creation of new Payroll Period Closure field to Calendar section.

Added the ability for two users to open and edit an order in SS or XCAT. The Menu page and Review Order page displays the shopping cart items of User 1 and the additional order items from User 2. The latest version is always displayed once a page is refreshed.

Example: Tom and Jerry are building the order for the same event, suite, and account concurrently. They enter the Review Order page simultaneously both see the same shopping cart items on the Review Order page. Jerry stays on the Review Order page for a while Tom submits the order, cleaning up the shopping cart and generating an order. When Jerry clicks the Continue button the system checks if the user's Review Order page is displaying the latest shopping cart and order info.

Updated the description verbiage for the following Transfer Group Template permissions:

Xenial Cloud Portal → 4-Dot Menu → Data Management → Venue Inventory Settings → Inventory Items → [Select a Inventory Item] → General

Added the ability to configure a cost type for a General Ledger (GL) Account.

Note: If a user edits an existing inventory item, a GL Account cost type must be selected from the drop down.

This update makes the following changes in Xenial Venues Inventory: