📋 Release Overview

🎁 A smarter rewards program

• Points Rate Schedule — pay double points from 4 to 6, half points on a slow night, or a special rate for one weekend only. A top-bar banner tells everyone at the register what promo is running.
• Word your own reward texts — write the message on your Welcome coupon and your birthday texts, with a live preview of the exact SMS your customer will get.

💰 New customer & money tools

• Add money to a virtual gift card — credit a customer’s VGC with a reason, counted as $0 in sales.
• Design how every item looks on the sale screen — a full WYSIWYG button editor: your wording, your picture, dragged and sized exactly how you want.
• Track cutters, lighters & more — give a category its own detail fields, or build your own.

🎨 A fresh, consistent look

• A cleaner palette — buttons stand out from the screen, one consistent teal everywhere, an easy-to-spot Save button. Nothing to turn on.
• Display & Accessibility — fine-tune your own brightness with a live preview and one-tap high-contrast presets.
• Rearrange Header, refined — snap-to-grid alignment, every tile visible while you arrange, and a protected spot for your logo.
• Crop your receipt logo in TORO — frame it exactly right with a drag-to-crop window, no photo editor needed.

⚙️ Run it your way

• Choose when the Purchase Order verification screen appears, line up custom label sizes by printing, decide how the sale list behaves, and turn expiring-card reminders on or off.

📥 Bring in your data, find your charges

• TORO Portal Account — one web login for torocigarpos.com you can create or link right from a staff profile, with live username & password checklists.
• Import Wholesale Accounts — bulk-create wholesale accounts from a spreadsheet, with a full preview and skip/update/create for names you already have.
• A smarter Contact Import — a live count strip, a warning when the rows don’t add up, and opening balances you can load per account.
• Credit Card Batch Analysis, refreshed — card last-4 and name up front, and one click narrows a missing charge to its likely twin.

📖 Detailed Updates in This Release…

🎁 Pay Different Points at Different Times

💳 Add Money to a Customer’s Virtual Gift Card

🎨 Design How Every Item Looks on the Sale Screen

✂️ Track the Details That Matter — Cutters, Lighters & Anything Else

📱 Word Your Own Reward Texts

🎨 A Cleaner, More Consistent Look

👁️ Fine-Tune the Colors to Your Own Eyes

🧭 Rearrange Your Header, Refined

• Gridlines and snapping. You now get a grid over the bar, plus three controls under the Lock Header button: turn the gridlines on or off, make them finer or coarser with a slider, and turn snapping on or off. With snapping on, each tile you drag lands neatly on the nearest line, so the clock, weather, date, and status tiles line up evenly instead of by eye — turn it off any time to place something exactly where you like.
• Every tile you own — plus the ones you don’t. Tiles that only appear at certain moments, like Messages during a sale or the Points Boost banner, now show up while you’re arranging so you can give them a permanent home. Underneath, a new section lists tiles you can’t place — ones you’ve switched off in your settings and ones that aren’t part of your plan — and tapping any of them tells you what they do. Humidor Health even shows a picture of its tile as it would look on your bar, with buttons to learn more or set it up.
• Your logo stays readable. Drag a tile toward the far left and it now stops at a marked line, so nothing can be dropped on top of your logo.
• Tidier status tiles. The Messages tile is now the same width as the SMS tile, and CigarLink, TORO Insight, SMS, Messages, and Store Phone each lost a little height — so you can stack them three rows high and reclaim width across your top bar.

📦 Choose When the Purchase Order Verification Screen Appears

🏷️ Line Up Custom Label Sizes by Printing, Not by Typing

🛒 You Decide How the Sale List Behaves

• Highlight an item when it is added — leave it on and each item you add jumps to selected like before; turn it off and items just drop into the list without changing what’s highlighted, which some shops prefer so the screen stays still while they scan.
• Tap items to select more than one — no Ctrl key needed — leave it on and you can tap several items to select them all with no keyboard; turn it off and it works the classic way, where a tap picks one item and you hold Ctrl to pick more.

💳 Turn Expiring-Card Reminders On or Off

🖼️ Crop and Zoom Your Receipt Logo Right in TORO

🔑 One TORO Portal Account for the Web

📈 Import Your Wholesale Accounts From a Spreadsheet

👥 Import Contacts Got Smarter

💳 A Refreshed Credit Card Batch Analysis Tool

🔧 Under the Hood

• The + and − quantity buttons respond instantly. Tapping the plus or minus stepper on a sale line no longer pauses while TORO re-checks your discounts and records the change on each tap — that work now happens in the background, so the buttons keep up even when you’re tapping fast.
• Scanning is ready the moment you tap a button. After you tap a button on the sale screen, the search box takes focus back automatically — so your very next barcode scan drops straight into the cart instead of going nowhere.
• A silent humidor sensor now says so on your top bar. If a sensor hasn’t sent a reading in 24 hours, its tile turns black — black outline, black droplet — and reads “[OFFLINE]” next to the humidor’s name, with the date and time of the last reading it did send underneath. Before, the tile kept showing the last temperature and humidity it ever received with a green dot, so a sensor with a dead battery or an unplugged gateway looked perfectly healthy.
• Linking an existing card charge now checks the amount. When you use “Find & Link Existing Transaction” to record a charge you already ran, TORO shows you the sale total, shows you the charge total once you click Locate, and only lets you link the two when they match. If they don’t, it tells you the exact difference to add or remove — for example, “This charge is $15.00. This sale is $18.25. Remove $3.25 from the sale.” Previously the amounts were never compared, so a charge could be linked to a sale for a different total and your batch wouldn’t balance at the end of the day.
• Replaying a drawer close now updates the Difference as you step. When a manager steps through how an employee counted down the drawer, the “Total Moved” total and its “Difference” now change together as each bill count is entered. Before, Total Moved climbed but Difference stayed at $0.00, which could make a perfectly balanced count look wrong.
• Reward notes no longer blame discounts for zero points. When a sale earned no points, the reward note used to always say “Rewards not given on discounted items” — even when nothing on the sale was discounted. It now only says that when a discount was actually the reason.
• Reprocessing an old sale’s rewards warns you first. Recalculating points on an old sale uses today’s points-rate rules, not the rules that were in effect back then — TORO now tells you so before it changes anything.
• The Item Importer now honors your Transaction Sku Retail column. If your file sets a price for the transaction sku when updating an existing item, that price is now saved and the sku is marked as manually priced — previously the preview showed the new price but the import left the item on automatic pricing. A Transaction Sku Manf Sku change on an existing item is saved as well, and updating the master sku’s retail no longer overwrites a price you set by hand on the transaction sku.
• The outside-weather tile now comes through TORO’s own service. The temperature and conditions on your top bar are served directly by TORO instead of a third-party weather website, so the tile loads faster and keeps working even when that outside service is having a bad day. Nothing changes in how it looks or what you do — and your weather history keeps recording the same as always.
• Barcode changes now record the employee who made them. When a barcode is linked to an item — from Price Check, the register, Item Lookup, and similar screens — TORO now asks for the employee’s login and records that person, plus which screen it came from, in the barcode history. Before, these could show up under a generic system user. On Price Check, the Linking Barcodes Mode and Show QOH checkboxes, and the Print Labels button, now ask for a login the first time you use them.
• The Online Store button opens your store, not the signup screen. If you have the Integrated Online Store (the integration-only plan), clicking Online Store now takes you straight to your store dashboard instead of the “Learn More” signup page. Before, only the full build-out plan opened the dashboard.
• Gift Card Import now reads dollar signs and quotes. A balance written as $25.00 or “$1,250.00” now imports as the right amount instead of failing. If a balance can’t be read, that row is flagged in the preview with the reason (and the bad value shown) rather than quietly importing the card at $0.00.
• Product labels now use the brand’s short name. The medium and metadata labels print the brand’s short name — the same one on your receipts — instead of the full brand name, so long brand names fit cleanly on the label. And the Short Name box on the brand screen now stops at 18 characters, matching what actually fits, so a slightly-too-long short name saves instead of throwing an error.
• The TORO SYNC shortcut is always in your TORO folder. If you run an online store, the sync tool’s shortcut now sits in your TORO install folder on every station, not just the one already set as the Sync Station. Setting up a new store’s sync no longer means hunting for a way to start it.
• A report you requested is yours to run. If we built a custom Advanced Reporting Module report for your shop, you can now open it on your plan even if it’s normally a higher-tier report — before, it could show as locked behind an upgrade. Locked reports above your plan are tidier too: a single, clearly-labeled “Upgrade” button in the corner and a clean gear icon for settings.
• Gift cards import for customers with an old phone number. When you import contacts, a Virtual Gift Card now loads for an existing customer even when their number on file is a legacy 7-digit number with no area code. Before, the card was silently skipped for those customers.
• Opening a brand-new Purchase Order no longer errors out. Creating a fresh Purchase Order now opens the editor cleanly instead of throwing an error.
• Credit card charge times show your store’s local time. Times coming back from the processor now display in your store’s local time. Before, if a station’s Windows time zone didn’t match the store’s location, processor times could appear off by a couple of hours.