Cash register software

The most important task of any cash register is to allow the staff to serve customers quickly, flawlessly and intuitively. The POKLADNA module offers a wide array of other possibilities and functions including printing orders in the kitchen, credit card payments and an unlimited number of price categories and discounts.

All funcions can be, of course, configured according to your specific needs, i.e., depending on whether you are using the module in a restaurant, canteen, shop or, e.g., in a sports center.

Considering that each venture imposes different requirements on cash register applications, several versions of cash register functionality exist.

POKLADNA module

Helps the staff to serve customers quickly, and its design is therefore focused on maximum speed and simplicity. The controls and functions of this module can be adapted precisely to the specific type and size of your enterprise. The following functions are provided by default in each cash register operated under the SEPTIM system:

  • Account billing (fast/slow transaction)
  • Cancelling incorrectly billed items (depending on permissions)
  • Billing cancellation items (according to permissions)
  • Printing orders in preparation rooms
  • Discounts
  • Various kinds of payment (Cash/Foreign currency/Reprefond)
  • Bill printing
  • Account copying
  • Changing the payment of a closed account
  • Printing reports according to your configuration
  • Unlimited number of price categories according to a license
  • Possibility to calculate the selling price by a formula
  • Printer support
  • Messages for the kitchen staff
  • Defining user permissions
  • Billing for all recipes and services
  • Order availability check (whether the goods are in the store)
  • Automatic store unloading
  • Account splitting, transfers, merging, etc.
  • Graphical presentation of the placement of tables in the guest rooms
  • Defining your own design of the whole application
  • Depositing money to an account and issuing a receipt

Depending on the character of your enterprise, other types of supported hardware can be selected as well:

  • Touch screens
  • Cash register terminals
  • Proximity cards
  • Restaurant keyboards
  • Customer displays
  • Electronic scales, bar codes

Cash registers for restaurants

The Pokladna module of the SEPTIM system for restaurants is the closest one to the idea of a classical cash register. Mostly, it is a special cash register computer with an integrated touch display. The hierarchical placement of recipes on the screen can be configured in the Manager program. The groups of recipes can be additionally distinguished by colors or by product logos. The cash register is controlled by the touch screen, which is used to bill the customers for the sold items. Additional sales of packed goods can be billed using the barcode reader. The restaurant cash registers are mostly fitted with receipt printers and can be also connected to any number of order printers for the kitchen. In a restaurant, standard PC printers can be also partially replaced by the wireless ORDERMAN printer or by dispensing machines.

Cash registers for canteens

A different structure of functions is expected from a cash register in canteens then in restaurants. A PC-type cash register is used with a keyboard, usually fitted with a customer display and with a reader for identifying customers. Additional sales in canteens are often handled using barcode readers. The main difference between cash registers in canteens and restaurants lies in the fact that in restaurants, more accounts are open at the same time at individual tables, while in a canteen, usually only one account is open at a time, as customers are served one after another. If the canteen is equipped with an ordering system, the customers identify themselves, check the ordered meal, which is served and billed for at the same time. The staff can then bill the customer for any items sold additionally. Apart from the differences in opening accounts, the canteen cash register works very similarly to the cash register for restaurants.

Cash registers for fitness

Extension modules have been developed for sports facilities cash registers, allowing the customer to operate in cashless zones. These types of registers are always fitted with an identification system. In principle, two types of cash registers are used - entry/departure type and internal type. The entry/departure register opens a guests account and closes it upon the guest's departure. The internal cash register only permits working with already open accounts and will not allow closing them. At the internal register, each guest is identified by a card obtained upon opening the account. The functions of these two types of registers can, of course, be combined, e.g., the entry/departure cash register can be used to sell additional goods. Various automated systems for registering payments for services can act as internal cash registers too. These can be, for example, turnstiles at the water-slide on the premises of a swimming pool, or the arrival/departure controls in payed zones with prices determined by the duration of the customer's stay (gym, sauna, parking, etc.).

Cash registers for shops

The shop-type cash register is the simplest type of a SEPTIM cash register. The basic version supports scales and barcode billing. Store management is simplified, only piece-wise registering without recipes. The operation basics are the same as for the cash register in canteens.

 
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