Cash drawers and closing a shift

Each cash drawer runs in shifts: open it with a counted float, take sales, then count it and close.

Add drawers on the dashboard's Point of sale tab, under Cash drawers. Add one per till, at your business or at a stall's event.

1. On the point of sale, choose which drawer this tablet uses. It's remembered.
2. Tap Drawer, then Open shift. Count the float by notes and coins, or enter the total.
3. Take sales as usual. Cash needs an open shift.
4. To close, tap Close shift. Count the drawer, then add the card machine's batch total if you have it, and a note.

During the shift

• Money in, Money out, Drop to the safe, and No sale to open the drawer for change.
• Money out and no sale need a manager by default.
• The X report shows where the shift stands, without closing it.
• To use another drawer, close this shift first.

Closing and the Z report

• The Z report is the shift's final report: payments by method, refunds, giveaways, money in and out, card total, tips and who sold what.
• Closing is blind. Cashiers see only what they counted.
• Only managers see the expected cash and whether it's over or short. Cashiers' X reports leave out the cash figures too.
• Closing warns you about open tabs. Their payments go on the next shift.

Without signal

• Cash sales keep working. Opening, closing and reports need signal.
• A cash sale rung up offline before the close, and sent within 6 hours, goes on that shift as a late sale.
• Cash rung up after a shift closed goes on the next shift opened on that drawer.
• Until a shift opens, that sale waits on the tablet.

On the dashboard, Shift history lists every shift and flags any that ran past 4 AM. Open its X or Z report, or download it as CSV.