Cash register integration: enter the amount once, the receipt prints itself

What does the cash register integration do?

In a restaurant a sale lives in two places: in the POS software that holds the order and the check, and in the cash register — the fiscal device (ÖKC) that prints the legal receipt. When the two don’t know about each other, the cashier closes the bill in the POS, keys the same amount into the register again and swipes the card on a separate terminal. At peak hours each of those steps produces errors: a wrong amount, a receipt never printed, a till that does not balance at close.

The integration turns those steps into one. When a bill is closed in HMS POS the amount is sent to the cash register; the receipt prints on the device, the card payment is taken on the same device and the payment result is written back to the check. Regulations also govern how sales software and cash registers work together, and the integration makes that requirement a natural part of daily work.

• The bill amount is never re-keyed into the register
• Receipt and card payment come from the same device
• The payment result is posted to the check automatically
• The POS report and the Z report draw on the same sales

Where does an unbalanced till come from?

The most common cause of a till difference is a bill closed in two separate places. A check closed in the POS may never have had its receipt printed on the register; the other way round, an amount keyed into the register may belong to a different check in the POS. With the integration every receipt comes from a check and every card payment is tied to one. At close both reports describe the same sales, so instead of hunting for differences you simply compare.