Orchid POS has built-in support for sending email to your contacts.

The most common uses of email are sending invoices to customers, and sending Purchase Orders to vendors.

By default, all emails are sent from the built-in Orchid POS default email server: noreply@alerts.ds360.biz
You can change this setting by adding a custom SMTP server.

Customizing system emails

The contents of each email type (invoice, purchase order, etc) are predefined in the form of email templates.

Email templates and other settings can be managed from the Back Office > Settings > Email Options

For each type of email (invoice, purchase order, etc) you can edit:

• From Name: The name that will appear in the recipient's inbox.
• Reply To: The email address that will populate the "To:" field when your recipient clicks reply.
• Subject: Appears in the subject line of the email.
• Message: The body contents of the email.

Variable Data

Email messages and subject lines support variable data through the use of "tags". A list of supported tags is shown on the right-side of the Email Options page.

Variable data tags allow the email to auto-populate certain pieces of information, such as the contact's name, the invoice number, or the current date.

By default, all system emails are sent from the Orchid POS default server: noreply@alerts.ds360.biz

If you want the emails to be sent from your own domain, you can configure the system to send email from your own SMTP server.

1. Go to Back Office > Settings > Email Options
2. Click SMTP SETTINGS
3. Enter your SMTP server's information
4. Click UPDATE to save your changes.

1. After logging in to your gmail account go here: https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and set Allow less secure apps to ON.
2. Then go here: https://g.co/allowaccess and enabled gmail account access.

It is recommended that you send a test email to verify that your SMTP settings have been updated successfully.

The Orchid POS SMTP settings can be reset back to defaults at any point.

1. Go to Back Office > Settings > Email Options
2. Click SMTP SETTINGS
3. Click CLEAR to remove your custom settings and restore the Orchid POS defaults.
4. When a popup appears, click to confirm the reset.
   • Tip: Make sure popups aren't blocked.

It is recommended that you send a test email to verify that the SMTP defaults have been restored successfully.

If you suspect an issue with your SMTP server, you can send a test by generating a dummy invoice.

1. Navigate to the point of sale, and start a new invoice.
2. If you have an existing customer record for yourself, pull up that record in the POS.
   • If you don't have a customer record for testing, you can use Guest Sale.
3. Ring up a miscellaneous, non-inventoried item.
   • Description: Email Test
   • Price: $0.00
4. Select the Cash option to bring up the payment screen.
5. If the email address field is blank, enter your email address.
   • Make sure the "Email" option is selected.
   • It is not necessary to print a copy of the invoice, so that option can be deselected if preferred.
6. Click to generate an invoice.