Point of sale (the till)

# Point of sale (the till)

The till is a selling screen for a shop, cafe or market stall. A cashier scans or taps items, takes payment and gives a receipt. At the end of the shift the till is counted and one summary goes into your books. Open it from Till in the left menu.

What it does

• Sell items by tapping them, searching, or scanning a barcode. A scanner that types like a keyboard works.
• Line and whole-sale discounts, and tax by tax code, worked out to the cent.
• Take cash with change, card, gift vouchers or store credit, alone or split.
• Refunds linked to the original sale, in part or in full.
• Receipts on a thermal printer, as a PDF, or as an email draft.
• Several tills and several stores. Stock leaves the store that sold the item.
• Tills that keep working without a connection and send their sales later.

What it does not do

• It does not take card payments. A card payment is only written down. Take the payment on your own card terminal first, then record it on the till. The till does not talk to the terminal or check the payment.
• It does not round cash to the nearest five cents.
• Vouchers do not expire.
• A till that is offline cannot refund a sale made on another till.

How the books are kept

Nothing is posted for each sale. When a shift is closed, one entry is posted for that store and shift. See pos-z-report-and-daily-summary.

Who can do what

• Till role: sell and open or close a shift.
• Changing a price, giving a discount, or selling more than the largest allowed quantity needs the override permission.
• Refunds, and setting up tills, have their own permissions. Owners have them all.
• Tills count against the field seats on your license, together with phones that send expenses.

Where to go next

• pos-tills-and-shifts: set up a till and run a shift.
• pos-z-report-and-daily-summary: reports and posting.
• pos-receipt-printers: receipts.

What has not been tried

• No real till machine has been used. The selling screen was run in a browser with sample data. Refund, close shift, reports and setup were not clicked through.
• It was not checked on a phone or a touch screen, and has not been tried inside the Mac or Windows apps.
• The Mac and Windows apps do not yet start the timer that sends a separate till's sales. They also do not yet pass your license's seat limit to the till. Until they do, Pop Books doesn't enforce the limit.
• Nothing yet creates and pairs a separate till's own file from the apps.