Venue cash registers
If your venue has more than one cash drawer (for example, one per dining room), FireMenu lets you create separate cash registers: each has its own cash and card wallets and its own POS shift. Table payments go to the register for the hall where the table sits—regardless of which device the waiter uses.
Contents:
- Why it matters
- How to add a register
- Link a register to a hall
- POS shifts and orders
- Related articles
Why it matters
- Separate cash and card tracking for each physical register.
- Two halls can run in parallel, each with its own open shift.
- Delivery and orders without a table use the default register.
A new venue gets register «TPV 1» with the Cash and Card wallets. The first register is always the default and cannot be deleted.
How to add a register
- Open Settings → the «Cash registers» tab.
- Click «Add cash register».
- Enter a name, choose a cash wallet (required), and optionally a card wallet.
- Optionally turn on «Zero cash wallet when closing the shift» and, if a card wallet is selected, «Zero card wallet when closing the shift».
The first register in the venue is always the default: delivery and orders without a table use it. It cannot be deleted or replaced as the default.
Create wallets in «Wallets»; usually each register has its own cash wallet. Card wallets can be shared across registers if one terminal serves the whole venue. POS payments go to the wallets of the register stamped on the order.
Link a register to a hall
- Open Table map (hall list).
- In the «Cash register» column for each hall, pick the register you want.
- If no register is selected for a hall, the default register is used.
New orders from tables in that hall are stamped with the chosen register; moving a table on an unpaid order updates the register to match the new hall.
POS shifts and orders
- On the table map, staff open and close the shift for the active hall’s register. Tables in that hall are unavailable for new orders until that register’s shift is open.
- POS without a table map and delivery require an open shift on the default register.
- Closing a shift can automatically zero that register’s cash and/or card wallet if those options are on in the register settings.
- The POS shift archive shows the register name for each shift.