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The cash drawer

Opening float, cash in, cash out, and the count at the end of a shift.

Steps

1. Open it

   Finance → Cash Drawer.

2. Open the shift

   Enter the opening float.

3. During the shift

   Cash sales come in on their own. Record any cash paid out — a supplier paid in cash, petty expenses — as it happens.

4. Close and count

   Enter what is physically in the drawer. MCPOS shows the difference against what it expected.

5. Explain a difference

   Record the reason. A repeated small shortfall is worth investigating; a one-off is usually change given wrong.

Good to know

• The drawer is cash only. Card and wallet takings will never appear here — look at the bank screen for those.
• Your cash-on-hand account in the books should equal the drawer. If it does not, a cash movement was recorded outside the drawer.