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POS is an acronym for point-of-sale ( or point of purchase). This can mean a retail shop, a checkout counter in shop, or variable location where a transaction occurs.

 

The term is often used in connection with hardware and software for checkouts, and in case of variable locations, with wireless systems. POS systems started as UPC/EAN barcode reader systems, and have evolved into fully computerize cash register system.

 

 

 

PLU is short for Price Look Ups. PLU's can be the items UPC code or it may be a code created by you. PLUs are typically used when your inventory is quite large and you utilize Bar Code scanning.

 

Cash register tape is the paper that transactions and receipts are recorded on. It is also known as a receipt if given to the customer, or a journal roll or journal tape if kept in the store. Cash register tape is used to record the transactions for both the retailer in a running journal, and the customers as receipts for their purchases. Cash register tape journal rolls have been replaced by paperless electronic journal rolls in many point-of-sale systems.

 

Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. Usually involves use of electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. Often involved in processing credit or debit card transactions and validating checks.Tasks as below:

Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.

Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.

Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.

Greet customers entering establishments.

Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas.

Establish or identify prices of goods, services or admission, and tabulate bills using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.

Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons.

Resolve customer complaints.

Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.

Cash checks for customers.

A customer is a person that purchases merchandise or a service.

 

A barcode reader (or barcode scanner ) is an electronic cash register (ECR) or computer peripheral for reading barcode printed on various surfaces. Like a flatbed scanner, it generally consists of a light source, a lens and a photo conductor translating optical impulses into electrical ones. Additionally, nearly all barcode readers currently produced contain decoder circuitry analyzing the barcode’s image data provided by the photo conductor and sending the barcode’s content to the scanner’s output port. However, in contrast to a flatbed scanner, a typical barcode scanner’s optical components do not move as the barcode is one-dimensional and can be scanned all at once.

 

Registering electronic cash register (ECR):

 A device providing evidence of turnover and the amount of tax due.

 

Electronic cash register (ECR) programme:

 It is a cash register programme (fiscal module) allowed by the Ministry of Finance to the application, ensuring a correct and durable one-time saving, of the amount of turnover and tax due in the memory of a fiscal cash register as well as a print out of the original and copies of receipts and fiscal reports and also non-fiscal printouts (not including sales transactions) allowed for printing by the program of work of the cash register.

 

Electronic cash register (ECR) application programme:

 It is a programme working with the fiscal module, responsible for the correct programming of functions as well as protecting against introducing to the cash register functions, technical and software solutions mot allowed by the cash register programme.

 

Electronic cash register (ECR) fiscal module:

 It is a device which registers turnover and counts the amount of tax due, and also prints all documents in an unambiguous way printed by the cash register as well as the cash register display.

 

Electronic cash register (ECR) fiscal memory:

It is a device placed in a hard non-transparent mass, enabling a durable and one-time recording of the data allowed by the cash register programme, without the possibility of their liquidation as well as multiple readings of the data, which are irremovable without destroying the device.

 

Fiscal printers:

 These are printing devices for all documents allowed by the cash register programme to be printed by a given cash register.

 

Fiscalisation of the electronic cash register (ECR):

 This is the moment of making a one-time, unrepeatable action initiating the work of the module of the cash register with fiscal memory finished by the printing of a fiscal day report.

 

Unique electronic cash register (ECR) number:

This is an individual and unrepeatable number given for the cash register by the Minister of Finance, identifying each cash register, which cannot be given to other devices.

 

Fiscal receipt:

This is a printed out fiscal document for completed action for the purchaser by a registering cash machine in the moment of sale.

 

Fiscal report (day and periodic):

This is a fiscal document containing summary data of the turnover and amount of tax due for a given period, according to particular tax rates as well as tax-free sales.

 

Non-fiscal print out:

This is each document not including sales transactions printed by the cash register before fiscalisation and each other document allowed by the cash register programme for printing, besides fiscal receipts and fiscal reports.

 

Producer of registering electronic cash register (ECR):

This is a legal person, an organisational unit not having a legal personality as well as a private individual having their seat or place of living in Poland, which in the period of carrying out economic activity created and introduced to the market registering cash registers.

 

Importer of registering electronic cash register (ECR):

 This is a legal person, an organisational unit not having a legal personality as well as a private individual having their seat or place of living in Poland, which in the period of carrying out economic activity created and imported to the market registering cash registers.

 

Registering electronic cash register (ECR) service:

These are actions covering the fiscalisation of cash registers, their repair and conservation as well as reviews carried out in accordance with the requirements of the directive of the Minister of Finance.