Once you have signed up to Hike and entered in your store details, the first thing you’ll want to do is configure your store settings. This means, going through the various settings as set by Hike, to get your store ready.

This includes things such as importing your store’s logo to applying general rules like whether or not your business will incorporate Layby sales. Customizing the settings so that they are suitable to your retail operation, is essential and will largely shape how your business will perform.

On this page, we’ll go through the various sections of the General Settings page, and explain step-by-step what each field means.

• Your Store Details
  
• Locale Settings
  
• Activate or Remove Features
  
• General Rules
  
• Inventory Notifications
  
• Store Logo
  
• Web Addresses
  

To begin, simply select Store Setup from the Hike menu and navigate to General.

Clicking this will take you directly to the General Settings page, where you’ll be able to edit the fields as you deem necessary. We will run you through the page, by their sections.

Your Store Details

Trading Name

This is the trading name of your business, and will be added to your receipt printing and emails issued from Hike POS. Your trading name can be edited at any time, however you will need to separately update your receipt template, to reflect the changes.

Cloud Address

This is your store’s web URL that you use to sign into Hike, and it is the reference against which we store all your data on the cloud.

New: A new feature in Hike allows you to change your cloud address, should you so desire.

By selecting Change, a new pop-up will appear explaining that by changing your store’s login address, the new address will be applicable for all users, you currently have in Hike. Click on Yes, Please to continue.

You will then be able to change your store’s login address to something new. If the name has not yet been taken, you will see that it is Available, and will be free to select Continue. If it is unavailable, a red-cross will appear, with the Continue button unable to be clicked.

Locale Settings

Language

Use the drop-down menu to choose your preferred language. Hike is available in Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), English (AU, UK, US) & German.

Currency

Use the drop-down menu to choose your currency.

Note: You can only choose one currency, as Hike does not currently process across multiple currencies.

Time zone

Use the drop-down menu to choose your time zone.

This is a key component of the General Settings screen, as Hike will use the local time on your device, to record the payment time and date of a sale. Ensure that time zones are the same across all integrations with third-party applications as well.

Tip: The time-zone helps confirm time periods across a range of areas, such as rosters or reports. Especially useful if you have multiple stores located in different time zones

Activate or Remove Features

This section allows you to activate or deactivate various features in your Hike store.

Activate tips/surcharge

Ticking this box will display tips/surcharge on the Enter Sale screen in the sales cart, where your cashier can add tips to the final price.

Activate 'on account' sale

‘On account’ sales are when a sale occurs, but the payment is not collected at the time of the sale, yet the customer is still able to take the goods with them. The arrangement will then be made for the customer to pay off the transaction at a later date.

By ticking this box, you will enable your store to have ‘on account’ sales as an option.

Activate layby

A lay-by agreement allows your customers to pay off a product in instalments before they can take their goods.

Ticking this box will allow your customers to purchase via lay-by. You can learn more about how to process layby sales in your Hike store over here.

Activate loyalty point rewards

This option allows you to enable the loyalty points program in your Hike store. A customer loyalty program is a great marketing strategy that rewards loyal customers to continue shopping at your store. Find out more about this Hike feature in this handy support article

Activate gift cards

This option allows you to enable or disable the gift card feature in your Hike store. You can sell such gift cards and your customers may also use them to pay for their purchases. Find out more about this Hike feature in this handy support article

Activate customer welcome emails

Ticking this box will activate a welcome email being sent to every new customer that is added to Hike. You can edit this email at any time.

Delivery docket print option in sales detail view

Ticking this option allows you to print delivery dockets for your sales from the Sales History tab in Hike.

Activate Weighted Average Cost for purchase cost calculation

You can activate the weighted average cost feature in your Hike store by ticking this option. We have a support article which explains you in detail how weighted average cost option works in Hike.

General Rules

When you first log into Hike, you will have the ability to select various settings that may be applicable to your business.

Simply tix the box to the corresponding feature to active it, or un-tick to deactivate.

Display line item discounts on receipt

By ticking this box, if any of your products are being sold with discounts, the discount total will show on your receipts.

By not ticking this box, the discount total will be hidden.

Tax inclusive prices

Tax inclusive prices refer to whether your in-store prices include tax in the final sales. Tick this box, if your store requires inclusive tax prices.

Not ticking this box will result in tax being added to the sale price at checkout.

Round-off totals to nearest 0.05 or 0.10

Ticking this box will round up sales totals to the nearest 0.05 or 0.10 (as per your preference).

Users to enter PIN for every sale.

By ticking this box, any user using Hike to conduct a sale will have to enter their PIN to complete the next sale. This is to ensure greater security and is relevant in situations where staff are paid by commission, ensuring the right user is linked to the right sale.

Apply tax after discount

By ticking this box, Hike will prompt a merchant copy of the receipt for every sale. You will then be offered to select an email or printed receipt of the customer copy.

Send ‘sync log’ notifications by email.

Ticking this box will trigger Hike to send an email to the account creator daily to confirm the sync to third party programs took place.

Park paid orders for fulfilment.

By ticking this, all completed orders will appear in the Sales history, with the status Awaiting Fulfillment. This may be relevant when a store sells items, but the customer returns later to collect, and the store needs to confirm the collection.

Allow selling 'Out-of-Stock' items

By ticking this box, the last 3 digits of sold gift card numbers will be hidden. This is so as to prevent any card frauds that may take place.

Hide product type (category) if it has no products

By ticking this box, the product type having no products under them would be hidden from your POS screen thus freeing up space so that your POS screen looks more concise.

Inventory Notifications

With this option, you can select exactly how Hike will notify you of low inventory. Your options are:

• Do not set low inventory notifications.
  
• Send notification as soon as an item reaches re-order level.
  
• Send a consolidate low-inventory notification, once a day.
  

You can specify who receives inventory notifications based on their user roles. There are three options to choose from to send inventory notifications to:

• Admins only
  
• Admins & managers
  
• All users
  

‘All users’ mean no restrictions and ‘Admins & managers’ mean that Cashier users will not receive low inventory notifications and the first option as the name says, only Admins will get inventory notifications.

1. Product Name
   
2. SKU
   
3. Supplier code
   
4. Re-Order point
   
5. Current inventory
   
6. Date
   
7. Re-order Qty
   

Store Logo

1. To insert your store logo into Hike’s receipt template, clicking on the blank image box and you will be prompted to select a file image from your computer.
   
2. Hike allows you to select an image in JPG/JPEG/PNG file formats, with a maximum of 1MB in size.
   
3. Use the capture box to crop your image in the way you want it to appear on your receipt.
   
4. Click on the SAVE button when done.
   
5. If you need to change your logo, simply click on the remove button to delete the logo image.
   

Note: All thermal receipt printers print in black and white, so make sure you consider how your store’s logo will look in the grey render.

Web Addresses

With web addresses, you can record your applicable social media and website links, for personal reference.

Note: Hike is fast working on a new feature so that you can soon integrate all your social media line. Stay tuned for updates.

Once you’ve made the relevant changes to your General Settings, ensure you’ve clicked SAVE.

After setting up your General Settings rules, it’s time to also apply the tax rules you will be using with Hike.