Cash Drawer Setup

The Cash Drawer Setup module allows you to establish the titles and beginning balances for each drawer that will be utilized via Point of Sale (POS).

Cash Drawer Setup

1a. In ERP, in the Accounts Receivable menu, click Cash Drawer Setup.

Cash Drawer Setup

1b. In SIS, in the Billing menu, click Cash Drawer Setup.

Cash Drawer Setup

2. Click the Cash Drawers tab to create cash drawers.

Cash Drawer Setup

3. Enter the Title of the drawer in the text box.

Cash Drawer Setup

4. Select the Facility from the provided pull-down.

Cash Drawer Setup

5. Select a Merchant Account from the pull-down. Note: Currently, Focus only processes online payments through Authorize.net and uPay.

Cash Drawer Setup

For the set up of merchant accounts, a Facility should not be assigned, the applicable Merchant Account should be selected, and the Portal Enabled? check box should be selected. Once setup, the payment type can be used in Purchase & Pay by students and parents.

Merchant accounts are set up via Setup > Settings > Accounts Receivable > Merchant Accounts.

6. If the cash drawer is being opened/created with an Initial Balance, enter the amount on the text box. If the drawer is being created with no money, enter 0.00.

Cash Drawer Setup

7. Enter the an applicable amount for a tax that should be used upon invoicing a student/customer. If a tax amount is entered here, it will override any taxes already set up.

Cash Drawer Setup

If the field is populated and you invoice a student for a taxable item, the tax percentage assigned in the Tax Override field is used.  If the field is left empty or at 0.00, the tax defined in ERP > Setup > Settings > Accounts Receivable  is used.

8. Select the Portal Enabled? check box to make the cash drawer accessable via student and parent portals. I.e. Allow parents/student to pay for items via their portal using the assigned cash drawer.

Cash Drawer Setup

If an item has been invoiced and the cash drawer is not Portal Enabled, the invoiced item cannot be selected in Purchase & Pay and the following warning displays: Warning: Selection has been Disabled for this Invoice / Credit Card payment is not enabled for this Invoice/Fee, please pay with cash or check to the school site.

Only one Portal Enabled Cash Drawer can be set up per Facility.

There an automatic cashout process in place for the Portal-enabled Cash Drawers used by the Store for collecting online payments (via a Scheduled Job > Store Automated Cashout) The Cash Drawer automatically generates a cashout after the user-defined Authorize.net transaction batch settlement time. Note: Portal-enabled drawers will not appear in the Point of Sale or manual Cashouts module, but the Cashouts created through the automated process will be visible in the Cashout Report.

8. When all information has been entered/selected, press the Enter key to save the line of data. You will know the data has saved when the line turns blue and a delete button displays (red minus sign).

Cash Drawer Setup

Click the delete button to delete a cash drawer. Note: You cannot delete a cash drawer if the drawer is already assigned to a cashier.

9. Now that the drawer has been created, you can assign the drawer to a cashier. Click the Assign Drawers tab.

Cash Drawer Setup

The Restrict Cash Drawer Access to Assigned Drawers setting allows you to limit permission to assigned cash drawers, even if users do not have any assigne drawers. Without this setting enabled, users with no assigned drawers will have access to all cash drawers. Enabled this setting via Setup > Settings > Accounts Receivable tab  > Point of Sale section.

10. Select a User from the pull-down to assign them a cash drawer.

Cash Drawer Setup

11. Select the Drawers from the pull-down that you would like to assign to the selected User. Multiple drawers can be assigned to the same user, if applicable.

Cash Drawer Setup

12. When all information has been selected, press the Enter key to save the line of data. You will know the data has saved when the line turns yellow and a delete button displays (red minus sign).

Cash Drawer Setup
Additional Features

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a. To add more than one filter to a column by clicking the green plus sign.

b. To delete an additional filter, click the red minus sign.

c. For additional filtering options, click the gray arrow for a filter pull-down.

See Filters for more information.

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