General information on configuration

This chapter provides general information on how to create a configuration for fiscal units in the cloud. Configurations are downloaded and applied by fiscal clients during initialisation, via ConfigClient byCloud. For more information, see the article on initialisation.

In the RetailForce portal, configuration can be inherited downwards within the organisational structure. This means that a configuration can be used for a number of terminals at the same time and it is not necessary to create it for each terminal. It is also possible to overwrite some configurations in the inherited object.

The configuration object is always independent of the master data object, such as organisation, etc.

It is possible to transfer a configuration object to any level of inheritance. A configuration object can be transferred at each level (organisation, company, stores and terminals).

Important: It is not possible to share a configuration object between different organisations. A separate configuration object must be created for each organisation.

Cloud data inheritance structure:

Organisation
- Company - optional
  - Store
    - Terminal

Example:

Your organisation consists of 13 shops in Germany and is now planning a new branch in Austria. The POS system hardware used is the same in Germany and Austria.

You will need:

An organisation based in Germany (FiscalCountry = Germany)
An additional optional company resident in Austria (FiscalCountry = Austria)
13 Shops/branches with connection to the organisation
1 branch with connection to the organisation AND to the company in Austria

You need to define 2 configuration objects:

a configuration object with all configurations needed for Germany
- you can define the entire hardware configuration in the configuration object for Germany
a configuration object with all the configurations needed for Austria
- you do not have to define the hardware configuration in the configuration for Austria
- overwrite the FiscalCountry and the country-specific configuration for the configuration for Austria

Configuration Germany - [0] = Germany

Configuration Austria - [1] = Austria

Configuration France - [2] = France

Configuration Bulgaria [3] = Bulgaria

Configuration Denmark [4] = Denmark

Configuration Sweden [5] = Sweden

Configuration Slovenia [6] = Slovenia

Configuration Poland [7] = Poland

Configuration Serbia [8] = Serbia

Configuration Italy [9] = Italy

Configuration Croatia [10] = Croatia

Configuration Romania [12] = Romania