We've established this several posts ago.
edit. Having re-read the OP it appears the guy hit £5 then punched in £1.95 change. How is that quicker than typing 3.05 then total?
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Why would a shop put in more in the till than I paid?
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We've established this several posts ago.
edit. Having re-read the OP it appears the guy hit £5 then punched in £1.95 change. How is that quicker than typing 3.05 then total?
It still is keeping tally.
£5 in
£1.95 out
= £3.05 in the till.
How it gets to that sum is not important.
I do this all the time at the garage i work. There a £5 tab, a £10 tab, a £20 tab and a £50 tab.
In addition to this theres another tab that will either show, the exact amount of the transaction, ie £13 so you just hit that button if youre given the correct amount but this only works on round numbers, so £1, £2 etc
But if the amount is £10.01 ( as it often is in a petrol station ) then the button will show £11. If the customer gives the correct money its far easier and quicker to hit the £11 button, especially with a queue that goes out the door sometimes
In addition to this theres another tab that will either show, the exact amount of the transaction, ie £13 so you just hit that button if youre given the correct amount but this only works on round numbers, so £1, £2 etc
But if the amount is £10.01 ( as it often is in a petrol station ) then the button will show £11. If the customer gives the correct money its far easier and quicker to hit the £11 button, especially with a queue that goes out the door sometimes
Rubbish, the tills at our place are slow enough it'll add far more than a second and customers are always finding change after you've hit the £10 or £20 button, audit trails my backside, what on earth can you audit from telling the till the amount handed over? Number of specific notes and coins? No. What then? So long as the till has the correct money in it at the end of the shift it makes zero difference.
I do this all the time at the garage i work. There a £5 tab, a £10 tab, a £20 tab and a £50 tab.
In addition to this theres another tab that will either show, the exact amount of the transaction, ie £13 so you just hit that button if youre given the correct amount but this only works on round numbers, so £1, £2 etc
But if the amount is £10.01 ( as it often is in a petrol station ) then the button will show £11. If the customer gives the correct money its far easier and quicker to hit the £11 button, especially with a queue that goes out the door sometimes
Do yours not have an exact amount button too?
I guess I'm just used to figure having to be correct on the audit trail. Mainly becuse the businesses I deal with are audited almost weekly.
Are you still using tills with cranks on the side which you have to wind after each entry?
Not being a checkout worker I'm just assuming tills have come on a little since the dark ages.
Actually the last time I used a till was around 1997, when it would have just been 3.05 then hit cash. Claiming it takes longer for the till to work things out is just 'rubbish'
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tbh id be more concerned about paying more than £3 for a coffee rather than what the guy behind the counter is doing lol, but thats just me 
tbh id be more concerned about paying more than £3 for a coffee rather than what the guy behind the counter is doing lol, but thats just me
Raymond works in law does he not? Small change for him I guess.
If it's allowed then cool
It would appear that tills are just glorified money trays, no more than a locked box really that you'd see at a car boot. Not something I've seen before but you learn something new every day and all that.
It is correct on the audit trail.
If the till is balanced, there is no way of telling that the guy didn't hand over a fiver and get £1.95 in change.
If it's allowed then cool
It would appear that tills are just glorified money trays, no more than a locked box really that you'd see at a car boot. Not something I've seen before but you learn something new every day and all that.
Apart from the bit where they log every transaction and can tell you how much money should be in the drawer...
No, they're dual core pc's with 2gigs of ram running XP and a custom POS frontend.
Doesn't mean they're any faster once all that extra processing starts happening.
Last time I used one was yesterday and it does take more than a second to enter the correct amount. My claim is based on experience not supposition, so no it's not rubbish.
I'm still waiting to hear what exactly can be audited from having the exact amount entered?
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You paid £3 for a coffee, what a moron...
£3.05 came up as total to be paid, Raymondo paid exact, the clerk pressed £5 gave no change and handed over a receipt
End of transaction
I'll skip to you parts that actually warrent a reply.
So you're saying that hitting £5, then entering chage of £1.95 is faster than keying in £3.05?
The industary I work in requires audit trails for every transaction down to the penny, and I don't just mean amounts I mean notes and coins etc. It's a multi million pound business where over half the transctions are cash. And no it's not drug dealing.
I'm sorry if I've offended anyone who works in the cash register industary. I was just judging things by my experiences.
He doesn't need to enter change at all
Sorry, I was just going from what the OP stated
"who served me punched in £5.00 in the til, and change of £1.95."