Commerce Suite 4.17 Release Notes

About This Release

The Commerce Suite is integrated with LS Central providing simplified apps and service with real-time connectivity through web services. This version was released along with LS Central version 17.4

The Commerce Suite includes:

  • Commerce Service – version 4.17
  • Mobile POS (Android) – version 4.17
  • Mobile Inventory (Android) – version 4.17
  • App Shell – version 2.8

Note: All released clients connect by default to a central Commerce service that is hosted in the cloud. This server is connected to LS Central (17.xx), which is populated with demo data and acts as a source of data suitable for demonstrations and software evaluation.


To request a local installation of the Commerce Service for any of the solutions that you wish to privately host and connect to your LS Nav or LS Central solution, please contact LS Retail through Support on the LS Retail Partner Portal (log in required).

Commerce Service is unit tested against LS Nav 2018 (11.xx) and LS Central (13.xx, 14.xx, 15.x, 16.x, 17.x). 

The apps are only tested against LS Central (17.xx).

 To use Commerce Service against LS Nav 2016 (9.xx) and LS Nav (10.xx), use LS Omni version 3.xx.

To use Commerce Service against LS Nav 2015 (8.xx), use LS Omni version 2.3.3. 
LS Nav older than version 8.x is not supported.

To run an older version of the apps, downloaded from mobiledemo.lsretail.com against our demo server, the URL must be set to:

  • Version 2.4.x and up:
    http://mobiledemo.lsretail.com/LSCommerceService/appjson.svc
  • Version 2.3.x and older:
    http://mobiledemo.lsretail.com/LSOmniServiceOld/json.svc

These release notes cover new features and changes implemented in the Commerce Suite for this release. For more detailed information about the functionality, read the Install and User Guide documentation for each solution on the Partner Portal.

The release documents are also available on the LS Retail Portal.

Minimum System Requirements

Requirements for LS Commerce Service Host running on IIS:

  • 80 GB disk space, depending on the LS Nav/LS Central database size
  • 4 GB Ram
  • Windows 7/8/10 Professional/Enterprise
  • Windows server 201x
  • IIS 7 and above
  • SQL Server 201x
  • SQL Server Advanced Express 201x

Note: The Full Text Search feature in SQL Server is optional but strongly recommended.

Compatibility Version Matrix

Commerce Suite LS Central/LS Nav LS One
4.17 Central (17.x), Central (16.x), Central (15.x), Central (14.x), Central (13.05), 2018 (11.05) 2021 (Inventory and POS)
4.10, 4.11, 4.12. 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16 Central (17.x), Central (16.x), Central (15.x), Central (14.x), Central (13.05), 2018 (11.05) 2020 (Inventory and POS)
4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.9 Central (17.x), Central (16.x), Central (15.x), Central (14.x), Central (13.05), 2018 (11.05) 2019.1 (Inventory only)
4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 Central (14.x), Central (13.05), 2018 (11.05) 2019.1 (Inventory only)
3.7 Central (13.05), 2018 (11.05), 2017 (10.10), 2016 (9.10) N/A
3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 Central (13.04), 2018 (11.05), 2017 (10.10), 2016 (9.10) N/A
3.0, 3.1, 3.2 2018 (11.05), 2017 (10.10), 2016 (9.10) N/A
2.5.0 2018 (11.05), 2017 (10.10), 2016 (9.10) N/A
2.4.x 2017 (10.10), 2016 (9.10) N/A
2.3.x 2017 (10.10), 2016 (9.10), 2015 (8.08) 2017

The LS Central version mentioned in the list is the highest version within a major version that an Commerce Version supports.  Each LS Central minor version, lower than the one mentioned in the list, is also supported. For example: Central (13.05) means that 13.04, 13.03, 13.02, 13.01, and 13.0 are supported, too.

Note:
iOS apps have been discontinued from further development and no updates have been made to those apps since release 3.0. These include:

  • Inventory (iOS)
  • Mobile POS (iOS)
  • Hospitality Mobile POS (iOS)

Loyalty apps have been discontinued from further development and no updates have been made to those apps since release 4.0. These include:

  • Retail Loyalty (iOS and Android)
  • Hospitality Loyalty (iOS and Android)

The source code for the Loyalty apps is available. Contact licenses@lsretail.com for access.

Features and Fixes in This Release

Suite name change from Omni to Commerce. Omni name will not be used from now on.

Mobile POS (Android)

  • Bug fixes

Inventory (Android)

  • Bug fixes

Commerce Service

  • Cloud replication fixes

  • ReplEcommItems include items with distribution status "Not purchased again"

  • Variant update replication fix

  • Add ReplEcommCollection function (Unit of Measure Collection)

  • Add HospOrderEstimatedTime, HospOrderCancel, HospOrderKotStatus functions

  • Add ReplEcommValidationSchedule function (Schedule for Hierarchy validation)

  • ReplHierarchy object change: Add Priority, SalesType, ValidationScheduleId

  • ReplHierarchyLeaf object change: Add ItemUOM, SortOrder

  • SalesEntryLine object change: Add ParentLine

  • DocumentIdType Enum change: Add HospOrder

LS Central App (Android)

  • Bug fixes

LS Central App (iOS)

  • Bug fixes

LS Central App (UWP)

  • Bug fixes