POS: the cashier's day
From signing in and opening the shift to selling, taking payment, printing and handling returns: everything a cashier does in the Sahl app, and what happens behind it in the books.
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Signing in and opening the shift
The first two minutes of a cashier's day: signing in, attaching the device to a POS seat, then opening the shift on the cashier's cashbox and warehouse. Read it when you start on a new device or want to understand the opening float.
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The sale screen: from scan to invoice
Everything on the sale screen: how to add an item by scanning, searching or from quick items, how to edit quantity, price and discount within your limits, and how to pick a customer or hold the invoice.
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Payment: cash, card, cheque and on account
How to close the invoice with any payment method or a mix of them, when credit sales and partial collection are allowed, and which documents and entries the server creates in each case.
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Printing receipts and setting up the printer
How to connect and test the thermal printer, how the app prints the receipt from the panel template even without internet, and how to reprint an earlier invoice.
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Returns and cancelling an invoice
The difference between cancelling a wrong invoice and creating a return for goods brought back, the permissions each needs, and what happens to stock, the cashbox and the books.
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Receipt voucher and defining an item or customer from the screen
Three operations outside the normal sale that the manager allows trusted cashiers: collecting a payment on a customer account, defining a new item from an unknown barcode, and defining a new customer.