At the start of each business day, you must open your register and add the starting balance. When you close your register at the end of the day, you can balance your till and see any shortages or overages.
OPEN REGISTER
You can open the register by taking the following steps
• Go to Sale > Register > Open Register on the left menu bar
• Count and enter the amount of money currently in the cash drawer. This is opening float, add a
description if you want and click on "Open Register" .
Note
• The number you enter for your opening float should be the physical amount of cash you
have in the cash drawer.
• Please note that the opening float cannot be changed after you open the register.
• If you've miswritten the opening float, you can correct it by entering a payout or payin in
cash movement to account for the difference, adding a note the activity to explain why
money is being added to or removed from the register (for example, "Correcting the
starting count"). Read more about Cash Movement.
• At the end of the day, the total cash in the drawer will again be counted when you
CLOSE REGISTER
At the end of each business day, you should close the register and determine if you have any discrepancies in your count.
1. To close the register, navigate to Sale > Register > Close Register.
2. You are prompted to indicate how much cash you have in your drawer. Enter the amount have in
the cash fields.
3. Enter the total values for any of the other payment types you accept.
4. Click Close Register.
5. What's been counted and what should be in the register is displayed. Verify your count amounts
and if everything looks correct click Print .
NOTE : If there's an error click Re- Calculate to return to the count screen where you can make changes.