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Cash drawer & shifts

The cash drawer keeps your till accountable. A shift starts with an opening float, records every cash movement during service, and ends with a reconciled close-out.

The shift lifecycle

  1. 1Open a shift and enter the opening float (the cash you start with).
  2. 2Cash sales, pay-ins and pay-outs are tracked as they happen.
  3. 3“Expected in drawer” shows what the till should hold right now.
  4. 4Close the shift, count the cash, and review the variance on the Z-report.

Every movement the drawer records

  • Opening float — the counted cash you start with.
  • Cash sales — added automatically as cash payments settle.
  • Cash in / cash out — manual movements outside of sales (a change run, a supplier paid from the till), each with a note and the staff member attached.
  • Close count & variance — you count the drawer; Menulisa compares it to expected and shows the difference (“Balanced” when it’s zero).
  • The Z-report — the shift summary: sales by tender, tips, service charge, movements and variance; printable, and stored under Reports.
Sensitive actions like the drawer, voids and discounts can be protected by a staff PIN, so every movement is attributed to a person.

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