Heat Seals
How Do You Use Heat Seals?
What Process Do You Use In Your Store?
Dry cleaners and laundries use heat seal presses to permanently apply barcode and text labels to laundry and dry cleaning. This method allows to alert on operator error by supervisor auditing.
We see several use cases when using heat seals in different store, for example some love to add extra steps and some like to skip some. Sudzy POS supports all different workflows so you just need to see how to configure the system so it can work for you.
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Step 1. Add Detailing Step in POS
You can skip this step if you add your items when creating an order. If you create quick orders then later come back and detail the orders , you can add a Detailing step:
1. In your POS dashboard, click the hamburger icon in the top left of the dashboard.
2. Click Settings.
3. Select "Dashboard" on the left.
4. Click "Add Step". Name it Detailing. Make sure the page it is attached to is "search".
5. Drag and drop to move Detailing to after Dropoff so it will appear second in the POS dashboard.
6. Click Close in the top left to return to the home page.
In Settings -> Dashboard, optionally add Detailing step
How POS dashboard looks after adding optional Detailing step
Step 2. Configure Assembly Station Slots
1. In your Assembly Station dashboard, click the hamburger icon in the top left of the dashboard.
2. Click Settings.
3. Select "Assembly" on the left. Optionally edit number of available slots, starting slot, increments by, and whether to automatically print order when assembled.
Step 3. Configure Assembly Station Dashboard
1. In your Assembly Station dashboard, click the hamburger icon in the top left of the dashboard.
2. Click Settings.
3. Select "Dashboard" on the left.
4. Swipe left on the Dropoff and Pickup steps and click the purple trash can that shows up to delete them.
5. Click "Add Step". Name it Assembly. Click "search" next to your new Assembly step and change the page attached to it to "assembly".
6. Will you use the Assembly Station rather than the POS to mark orders as ready and rack them? If so, you can keep the Mark Ready step here. You should drag and drop the Assembly to before Mark Ready.
If you will use the POS to mark orders ready, you can swipe left on Mark Ready and click the purple trash icon to delete it.
Assembly Station -> Settings -> Dashboard is where you configure your Assembly Station
Your Assembly Station dashboard will look like this after adding the Assembly step
Assembly Workflow
POS
Step 1. Create order with heatseals
You can scan to add items in either the Dropoff or Detailing stages.
New Item: Select the item and add any upcharges/modifiers. Scan the heatseal to attach it to that item.
Existing item: If you've already saved an item with a barcode, scan the heatseal to add the item to the order.
Assembly Station
Step 1. Scan heatseals to assemble
1. Click Assembly on your Assembly Station dashboard.
2. Scan heat seals to assemble items. It will tell you what slot to hang the garments in.
Step 2. Unload Order
Option 1. Unload after scanning last item
When you've scanned the final item in an order, the background will be green instead of white and you'll see an Unload button. You can press Unload if you're ready to unload.
Option 2. Search to unload
1. Go to the Assembly page. Click the magnifying glass in the top right of the Assembly page.
2. You will see all the partially and fully assembled orders. Click Unload to unload an order.
3. Click Back in the top left to return to the Assembly page, then Close to return to the dashboard.
