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FreeWhat SellyPOS does
A sales counter a new cashier can use on the first day
The sales counter is where your shop spends its day. It finds products, sells a phone by its code, takes payment and prints the receipt, and it keeps the cart as it was if a sale does not go through.
Every shop has a counter and a queue. This page walks through what the counter does, from the moment a customer reaches it to the moment they leave with a receipt.
A person who is allowed to sell opens straight onto the counter with an empty cart. The sections below follow one sale from start to finish, in the order you meet each step.
If you sell phones, scan each phone's own code to sell that exact phone, and take an old one in part payment. If you sell medicines, the till will not sell any item above the MRP printed on it.
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Highlights
- Open the till and start the sale with the right customer Put the customer on the sale before the first item goes in Choose the customer, and their note and a credit block show on the screen before you add an item. A new customer can be added from a phone number without losing the cart.
- Find the product the customer means Find the product even when you spell its name a little wrong A small slip still brings up the product. A letter that is missing, extra, wrong or swapped is forgiven, so you do not have to guess.
- Get the price, the discount and the batch right The batch that expires first is shown at the top of the list The till lists the batches with the earliest expiry date first. Each one shows its date and how many are left, so you can see where the sale comes from.
- Take payment and give change Type the cash the customer hands over and see the change Type the amount the customer gives, and the change due shows as you type. You can see what to hand back without doing the sum yourself.
- Take back goods and give money back Fix a finished return by replacing it, and keep the old one on record The return opens with the same items, quantities and reasons. You change what was wrong and finish it. The old return is kept, marked as replaced, and linked to the new one.
- Finish the sale, print the receipt and look back See the sales for several customers or products in one list Tick each customer, cashier or product you want, and the history shows the sales that match one or more of them, in one list.
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Open the till and start the sale with the right customer
Open the till and let each person sign in. Then choose the customer and the salesperson for the sale. At a food counter, choose the kind of order before the first item goes in.
- Open the till and start selling, with no click first
- Make the main buttons big enough to press with a finger
- Someone else can sign in, and your unfinished sale waits for you
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Find the product the customer means
Customers ask in their own words, and a barcode is not always to hand. These are the ways the counter helps you reach the right product.
- One box for scanning a barcode and for typing a name
- Type a few words of a product's name, in whatever order you remember them
- Find the product even when you spell its name a little wrong
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Add items to the cart and change them
A scan, a typed name or an item that is not in your products each has its own way into the cart. You can change or undo any line before you finish the sale.
- A scanned product goes into the sale without an extra press
- Scan a packet and it is added, with no question to answer
- Type the weight or the money, and the other figure fills in
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Sell a phone by its code, and take an old one in trade
Every phone has its own code, so the counter sells that exact phone. An old phone can also be part of the payment for a new one.
- Scan a phone's IMEI and it goes straight onto the sale
- See each phone's condition and warranty on the sale line before you sell it
- Stop a discount from taking a used phone below its lowest price
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Get the price, the discount and the batch right
Each price, any discount and, for stock with dates, the batch that goes out are shown on the line, so you can see where each one came from.
- The till picks each price in the same fixed order, each time
- Change an item's price at the till when the shelf price is not right
- The till will not sell a price above the MRP printed on the goods
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Set a sale aside, or print a bill before the customer pays
A customer who has gone back for one more thing can wait, so hold the sale and serve the next person. You can also print a bill for the customer to take away without making a sale.
- Set one sale aside and serve the next customer at once
- Give a held sale a name, so the right one is easy to spot
- Pick up a held sale exactly where you left it
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Take payment and give change
The steps that end every sale, in the order you meet them, from the amount on the screen to the last payment.
- The amount to pay stays put while the customer hands over the money
- Choose how the customer pays from the methods your shop takes
- Type the cash the customer hands over and see the change
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Finish the sale, print the receipt and look back
When the last payment is in, the receipt prints or is sent and the next sale starts. Later, you can find an old sale and print a copy of its receipt.
- Print the customer's receipt as soon as they have paid
- Print receipts in the background while the next customer is served
- Your sale receipt can spell out the total in words
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Take back goods and give money back
A finished sale is never edited. A return adds a new record that points back to the sale it changes, so the first record stays as it was.
- Find the sale a customer wants to return by number, name or item
- Take back part of a finished sale, at the prices it was sold for
- Return only some items from a bill, and say why each one came back
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Undo a sale or a return, and keep the record
Did a sale or a return go through by mistake? A void reverses it, and the original stays in history, marked, so the whole story stays visible.
- Undo a finished sale without losing its record
- Void a finished sale and its goods go back on the shelf
- Void a sale with a trade-in and its figures go back with it
When the counter is easy, the queue moves. Go through the steps above at your own counter, with a new cashier beside you. If you sell phones or medicines, start with those sections.