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Cash registers can be loosely split into two main categories - retail cash registers and hospitality cash registers. Retail cash registers have raised key boards with numerous sales category buttons. Hospitality cash registers are either touch screen systems or have flat key boards with numerous preset product buttons. From these basic divisions the individual features vary greatly depending on which cash register you purchase. When making the descision of which cash register to purchase you need to consider various features We have divided our site into these categories hospitality and retail





Guide to Buying a Cash Register

Single Roll Printer.
Basic tills have single rolls, with very basic details on the printout. They will only show a price enter against a department number.
These types of single roll machines are ideal for keeping a journal only or as a receipt roll only not both. Run as a receipt the detail is on the receipt is pretty limited and not ideally suitable to give to a customer as a receipt.
Twin Roll Printer.
If you need a receipt and journal, then you need to purchase a machine with a twin roll printer (this will enable you to keep a record for yourselves and also give a receipt to your customer. However you can purchase a single roll machine with electronic journal
Thermal Printing
Nearly all-new models of Cash Registers have a thermal printer. Thermal printers are quicker, quieter and more reliable. Thermal paper works by a heated printer burning the data onto special thermal rolls the roll is much easier to fit as in most cases the roll will just drop in to the printer compartment.
Electronic Journal
New single roll thermal printing cash registers keep the sales data in the tills memory electronically. The journal data must be printed out on a regular basis on the thermal printer to keep a detailed record also to free up memory as the till has a limitation on the amount of sales that can be recorded.


Departments (or Groups)
Departments are used to produce a breakdown to show you how much has been sold to a particular department. Plu's or bar codes can be linked to departments or groups and may not necessarily be keyboard for example in a pub or restaurant groups could be draught beers, spirits etc or maybe starters, mains courses and sweets.

PLU
PLU stands for Price Look Up, and is a unique reference code for a product. This product would consists of a Description, price and linked to a Department\Group. The PLU is printed on a flat keyboard easy use. Plu's can be used for checking a check stock sold!

Barcodes and Scanning
A bar code works in a similar way to a Plu but the data can be scanned into the register and again can be used for checking a check stock sold!