Retail POS help
Selling
From opening the till to the finished bill: products, customer, discounts, payment, receipt, and what the bill becomes in Accounting.
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Open the till and accept the cash
Before the first bill the screen checks the terminal, the shop's settings and the cash. It stops with a plain message when one is missing…
The POS Sales screen
A map of the till screen by what you do on it: the bill lines, the totals and the payment.
Take the payment: cash, bank and wallet
The payment lines must cover the total. Cash gives change; a bank or wallet payment is recorded against a bank you choose. Nothing is saved…
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Opening the till
- Open the till and accept the cash Before the first bill the screen checks the terminal, the shop's settings and the cash. It stops with a plain message when one is missing and says what to set.
- The POS Sales screen A map of the till screen by what you do on it: the bill lines, the totals and the payment.
Building the bill
- Find and add products Scan or type the product's SKU, type three letters of its name, or open Search Product. A product that is inactive, locked or not stocked at your branch cannot be added.
- Quantities, units and the stock limit Change a quantity with the minus and plus buttons or by typing it. The till refuses more than the stock on hand when your company blocks negative stock. Deleting a line…
- Walk-in, named and new customers A bill without a customer goes to the shop's walk-in account. Choose a customer to put the sale in a name, earn and spend loyalty points, or sell on credit. A customer…
- Discounts and adjustments on the bill Discounts come from three places: a scheme set up by the shop, the line's Discount link when the company allows it, and a bill adjustment whose rate is editable. Each…
- VAT, rounding and the kind of invoice VAT is one of the bill's adjustments, worked out on the VAT-applicable lines. The company can round the total to the whole rupee. A bill over Rs 9,999 is always a tax…
- Put a bill on hold and recall it Draft saves the lines of the bill with the customer's mobile number so you can serve someone else. A held bill is kept for 30 minutes at most and holds only the lines.
Payment and receipt
- Take the payment: cash, bank and wallet The payment lines must cover the total. Cash gives change; a bank or wallet payment is recorded against a bank you choose. Nothing is saved until you press Sales/Print.
- Pay with more than one method Use two or more of Cash, Bank/Wallet Payment, Gift card and Loyalty discount on one bill. Lower the line that is not cash and cash takes the rest. A bill can have one…
- Sell on credit to a named customer A named customer who is not marked Cash selling can leave all or part of a bill unpaid. The cashier confirms by typing Credit, and the balance stays on the customer's…
- Save the bill: Sales/Print Sales/Print asks for optional notes and saves the bill with or without printing. The bill gets its number, becomes an invoice and takes its stock out in one step. A…
- Print the receipt and reprint a bill The receipt prints through the Penahak POS desktop app on the till. A reprint is stamped as a copy of the original and counted. A shop must design its receipt once, or…
What the bill becomes
- What a saved bill writes in the books and in stock One saved bill is one sales invoice: the customer owes the total, sales income and VAT are booked, and the goods leave stock. The payments clear the customer a moment…
- When the payments reach the books A moment after a bill is saved, each payment line becomes a receipt (or a refund a payment voucher) in Accounting. A payment whose numbering series is missing waits and…
- IRD-ready invoicing at the till Every POS bill and return is an IRD-ready invoice. When your company follows the IRD rules, each one is queued to the IRD as soon as it is saved, and anything that did…
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