LS Commerce Suite 4.24 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 19.0.

The Commerce Suite includes:

  • Commerce Service – version 4.24
  • Mobile POS (Android) – version 4.24
  • Mobile Inventory (Android) – version 4.24

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 (19.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 Central solution, please contact LS Retail through Partner Support on the LS Retail 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, 18.x, 19.x).

The apps are only tested against LS Central (19.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, refer to the LS Central Help (LS eCommerce, LS eCommerce Installation, LS Retail Apps).

Minimum system requirements

Requirements for Commerce Service Host running on IIS:

  • 80 GB disk space, depending on the LS Nav/LS Central database size
  • 4 GB Ram
  • Windows 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

LS Commerce Suite LS Central/LS Nav LS One
4.24 Central (19.x), Central (18.x), Central (17.x), Central (16.x), Central (15.x), Central (14.x), Central (13.x), 2018 (11.x) 2021 (Inventory and MPOS)
4.18, 4.19, 4.20, 4.21, 4.22, 4.23 Central (18.x), Central (17.x), Central (16.x), Central (15.x), Central (14.x), Central (13.x), 2018 (11.x) 2021 (Inventory and MPOS)
4.17 Central (17.4), Central (16.x), Central (15.x), Central (14.x), Central (13.x), 2018 (11.x) 2021 (Inventory and MPOS)
4.10, 4.11, 4.12. 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16 Central (17.4), Central (16.x), Central (15.x), Central (14.x), Central (13.x), 2018 (11.x) 2020 (Inventory and MPOS)
4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.9 Central (17.4), Central (16.x), Central (15.x), Central (14.x), Central (13.x), 2018 (11.x) 2019.1 (Inventory only)
4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 Central (14.x), Central (13.x), 2018 (11.x) 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

Mobile POS (Android)

  • Bug fixes

Inventory (Android)

  • Bug fixes
  • Changed scanning to also include item ID.
  • Fixed Customer Order Picking crashing in some scenarios.

Commerce Service

  • Bug fixes
  • Class Object Changes
    • StoreHours: StoreHourtype renamed to CalendarType
    • ReplStore: Add HospSalesTypes
    • OneList: Add ShipToCountryCode.

AppShell (Windows)

  • The Windows AppShell v2.x does not work with LS Central 19.0.
  • We released a beta version of the new v3 AppShell that uses the Edge Browser control.
  • This new beta version supports LS Central 19.0 but does not support Dual Diplay yet.
  • The beta version can be downloaded here.

AppShell (Android)

  • Bug fixes

AppShell (iOS)

  • Bug fixes