Right now Bike City has evolved a pretty slick and accurate paper register log (departmentalized, which lines up with the general ledger), with a locked cash drawer, and "daily drop sheets" which total everything up and zero the drawer. We do sell new stuff (with sales tax), so there's coins to deal with.
Anyway, it's designed based on years of exerience in cashiering/food service, so adapting it wasn't too hard (damn high-school-dropout burger-flippers, I'm too stupid to do anything without the middle class holding my hand, haha).
But. It does take a long time to write everything down with painstaking detail. So this year we've got somebody coding up a very basic Linux PoS to suit our recylery's specific needs. It'll be keyboard-based, editable, Gnu-licensed, export data into GnuCash software, keep an inventory, etc. etc., so if anybody is thinking of entering the digital age, hang on a few months and you can do free (or cheap if you need a machine) and non-proprietary.
andrea Bike City Fayetteville
On 3/9/09, Krista Bowers bowers.krista@gmail.com wrote:
We have just purchased a POS (Point-Of-Sale) register system and are looking for a touchscreen to go with it (won't get too greasy, I hope!). It will have a locked drawer, and the very few who have access will have to log in. This should take care of the accountability issue. Should have it up and running shortly.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Mark Rehder mark@re-cycles.ca wrote:
How do folks deal with the cash issue?
We currently just have a metal cashbox in a desk drawer, and only staff have access to it. But we've doubled our staff over the past year, and have new ones coming on board. Our bookkeeper is a bit concerned about so many people having unchecked access to the cash, especially on busy nights when there can b a couple hundred dollars in small bills. (The box is put away after each shift in a hiding place, and excess cash removed on a nightly basis during the busy season.)
Our transactions are currently just written into a book, but it's looking like having a cash register is going to be the smart way to go, both for security as well as tracking transactions. We currently are cash-only, no Interac or Visa.
Mark Rehder - Director re-Cycles Bicycle Co-op http://re-cycles.ca
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