Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail : Retail Transaction Service

Retail Transaction Service, now known as Real Time Service is used by POS (Point of Sales) Terminal for the data communication with the Store Database.

The detail reference for the setting up all the configurations required for the Transaction Service is available on the click of the below link :

http://jbaileyinc.com/Downloads/Microsoft/AX/AXHeadquartersUserGuide.pdf

For setting up Retail Transaction Service:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh580631.aspx

Besides this the Transaction Service can also be customized:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axsupport/archive/2012/01/09/ax-for-retail-customizing-the-retail-transaction-service.aspx

Also, for the Transaction Service troubleshooting, see below:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axsupport/archive/2012/09/19/unable-to-perform-pos-operations-requiring-transaction-service-error-occurs-regarding-the-clientchannelsink-obtainkeysforclient-operation.aspx

Microsoft Dynamics AX POS 2012 Reference Documentation

Developer reference documentation for the .NET Framework classes that are used in our Dynamics AX for Retail Point of Sale application is now available: 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj132934.aspx

This documentation release represents a change in how we document and release developer reference documentation going forward. The content live on MSDN was generated from xml comments from our POS source code.

The retail overview of the point of sales is available on :

http://tecturahk.com/e/customize/images/What's%20New%20in%20AX%202012%20for%20Retail.pdf

Also, the Technical reference for the database and business solution developers is available on :

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29218

The following topics are covered:

• Bar code system
• Customer operations
• Rounding settings for item prices and balances, payment methods, and taxes
• Product dimensions
• Item discounts
• Item prices
• End-of-day procedure
• Infocodes
• Logging on and logging off
• Printer support
• Staff permissions