The Cash Register is Sixth Sense POS’s main feature. This is the initial data entry point for most stores and the area which will see the most use. To that end it has been designed to provide all the necessary information while remaining easy to use, and to make sales quickly. There are 4 different cash register screens to choose from based on your specific needs or preference. You can also make sales with the Create Invoice feature, which includes all the cash register features and more.
Create Invoice
If your business uses wholesale situations where you need greater control over price setting and discounting, then the Create Invoice feature is right for you. Make sales on an input screen that appears just like the invoice that will be printed for the sale, giving you visual continuity of operation. The invoice screen holds more information than the main cash register screen, including: customers name and address, ship to address, order number, order and ship dates, a note about the sale and more.
Customer Accounts
Customer accounts are used in the following ways:
Any amounts charged to a customer are done automatically during a sale. When a customer's account number is entered into the cash register or invoice screen, a note which is attached to their account is then displayed, allowing you to control whether to accept a cheque, to collect on an overdue payment before allowing further charges, or for entering any other information you wish the note to display.
When using the invoice entry for a sale, the customer's name, address and ship to address are automatically entered and will print out on the receipt.
Bonus points (if used) are automatically credited or debited (refunds) to the customer's account during a sale.
If you wish to sell to a customer on a cost plus basis (your cost, plus a percentage, sometimes used where the customer knows what you pay for an item but buys from you because they buy in smaller or less than case quantities), the percent will be displayed on the screen and all you have to do is click on the cost plus key to have Sixth Sense Point of Sale calculate the new retail price.
Customer List
Sixth Sense Point of Sale has two customer lists that are accessible from the cash register screen. One is for corporate customers and the other is for regular customers. If a customer does not know their account number when making a purchase, you can use these lists to swiftly look up the name and then the account number will be automatically entered.
Discounts
There are four methods to perform a discount with Sixth Sense Point of Sale:
First, a general discount can be given on all of the items in a sale, up to the point the discount is made. Just enter a discount (in percentage) that will be applied to the total sale up to that point.
Second, with the item discount, you can discount any particular item in the sale. If you attempt to discount the item for a greater degree than your profit margin will cover, you will be alerted that you are selling the item below your cost. You can continue with the discount after the alert or cancel the discount.
Third, you can give discounts based on a fixed amount or based on a particular supplier, department or category. Only those items in the sale belonging to the particular supplier, department or category will be discounted by the percent you enter.
Fourth, when creating an invoice, you enter the discount next to the item in the discount column.
Cash Register Display
The Cash Register Display is where most sales are made. Here you will also perform functions such as refunds, discounts, paid outs, receive money on accounts, or price check items. You can change whether or not you want a receipt printed for this particular transaction, or whether you wish to switch from the regular receipt printer to a full page printer. There is a list of all the items in the current sale, with the quantity being sold and their price. When entering items, you will also be able to see: the quantity in store, multiple price, regular price, price with and without tax and deposit and item size.
The Training Mode button allows sales to be made strictly for practice, so that your data file remains unaffected. Along the left side are twelve quick entry button which are used for your top sellers, items you don’t wish to tag with a barcode, or items to cumbersome to be brought to the counter and scanned by hand. You can cycle through multiple pages of quick entry buttons, giving you 60 items in total.
All acceptable forms of tender are displayed, including store and vendor coupons, along with the current exchange rate on foreign cash. When foreign currency is applied to a sale, it will automatically be converted to local currency.
The subtotal appears in large figures, and shown separately are the amount of tax and deposits.
Customer account numbers are entered through the cash register screen and charges to their account automatically applied.
When you enter a customers account number their name, any applicable discount, their points to date (if customer bonus points are used) and a note attached to their file are displayed on screen.
Overrides
During a sale you may wish to override the retail price of a given item. Simply press the Override button, then enter the supervisor’s password to confirm authority for the change has been granted. The password prevents cashiers from changing prices without approval.
Selling by Name
Sometimes you are unable to scan or even read the barcode label on an item because it has been damaged or otherwise rendered illegible. In that case, simply sell the item by name. Select the name field instead of the PLU field and enter the whole or a portion of the name. If you enter only a portion and hit return, a list will pop up with all the items available with that portion in the name. You can then choose which one you want, an the corresponding PLU will be entered into the sale.
Serial Numbers
During a sale you can enter a serial number for an item and it will be printed out on the receipt. A complete tracking is done on serial numbers so you can trace an item and the sale by it's serial number.
