8Payment Treatment
Handling tips
Your POS terminal provides
■Tip-in entries
Your POS terminal allows entries of tips that your guests give to clerks in cash or other media (cheque or credit). Also depending on programming,
The
•Tip paid by a guest to a clerk is entered in the POS terminal by tip entry, and the restaurant pays the tip amount to the clerk later in cash.
•Tip amount entry to the POS terminal is normally performed by a clerk.
The entry is allowed before payment operation is performed. After the tip entry is performed, item entry is not allowed. The transaction operation must be finalized by payment operation. Two types of tip, cash tip and
Cash tip entry
In a transaction in which cash tip entry is made, when payment operation is started, the process is as follows:
Cash tender (which may be foreign money) is compulsory until total cash tender exceeds or equals to cash tip amount. Then, cheque (or credit) tender operation is allowed.
Non-cash tip entry
In a transaction in which
Cheque (or credit) tender is compulsory until total cheque (or credit) tender exceeds or equals to non- cash tip amount. Then, cash tender operation is allowed.
Cash tip entry
➞ Tip amount ➞ [CASH TIP IN] ➞
➞ Tip amount ➞
NOTE
•If the tip entered exceeds the HALO amount, your POS terminal requests a confirmation of the tip amount.
•When the tip totalizer exceeds the HALO amount, your POS terminal show the special indicator.
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