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What does the Cash Register App do?

Cash register

Written by Andrei

The Cash Register is a document for operative recording of earnings and payments in cash made in the cashier of the unit based on the supporting documents. It helps to know the final balance at the end of each day. It is a daily record of all cash movements that need to be registered in the bookkeeping.

Where to find the Cash Register

In the administration account (in your browser, at www.ebriza.com), the Cash Register is a separate item in the left-hand menu, with exactly that name, listed in the Apps group together with the other applications. It is not a report inside the Reports section — if you look for it there, you will not
find it.

The menu item is shown only if the user you are logged in with has Read or Write permission for the Cash Register, for that location. Without permission it is not shown at all: it is not greyed out and you get no access-denied message, it is simply missing from the menu. So „I don't have it in my menu" is a permissions matter, not a matter of searching harder through Reports. Permissions are granted from Account Settings → Users → Permissions (separately for each location), and the user must log out and log back in — the full steps are in the article „I can't find an app in my account (even though it's installed)".

On the tablet (POS), the Cash Register is opened from the Other menu. The POS screen shows only the current day's cash movements, with no cumulative balance and no history; for the complete register, with history over any period and the closing balance, use the menu item in the administration account.

Cash Register or sales report? The Cash Register shows your cash movements with a cumulative balance, cash entries, and payments — including amounts that do not come from sales (cash float, payments to suppliers, receipts). If you only want to find out how much you collected in cash or through each payment method over a specific period, the more direct answer is the Payment methods report under Reports → Sales (or Payment methods and users, respectively Payment methods and cash registers, the latter available only with the Insights application) — see the Sales Reports article.

The Cash Register application is included in the main Pro, Premium, and Titanium packages, so it does not need to be searched for and installed separately from the Marketplace: if you have a main package installed, you can find it directly in the administration account menu.

In Ebriza, the cash earnings are automatically registered in the cash register, this way you won't need to add them manually at the end of each day.

To add influx done outside of the POS or to register payments, go to the administration area and select the Cash Register application. If you click on the + button, you will be able to add these payments or influx:

  • The user will be added automatically (the user that is currently logged in)

  • The date the payment/influx has been issued

  • The number of the supporting document

  • The reason for the payment/influx

  • Select if it is a payment or an influx

  • Value on the document

  • Save

If you entered the wrong information, you can go back to the entry and use the 3 dots on its right to delete or edit it (date, document, reason, type or amount). Editing is available only for manually added payments and receipts, and only if you have Write permission for the Cash Register.
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Entries can be changed only within the first 6 months. The date of a Cash Register payment or receipt can only be picked from the last 6 months, counting back from today. So an entry older than 6 months can no longer be changed, and no entry can be given a date older than 6 months. This is a system limit, not a permissions issue: the Ebriza team cannot change an entry older than 6 months either. If you notice a mistake, correct it while the entry is less than 6 months old.

To export the cash register, click on the export button and select the desired format.

To find out how can you add recordings in the Cash Register from the POS, check this article.

Cash float (change fund):

The cash float (also called opening cash or change fund) is the physical cash placed in the cash drawer at the start of the shift so you can give change to customers. This money is not sales revenue — it's a pre-prepared amount that must be recorded separately in the Cash Register so that the end-of-day balance is correct.

When you add the cash float (at shift opening):

  1. Open the Cash Register app from the POS menu (or from the administration area).

  2. Select Add Entry and choose the Receipt type.

  3. Enter the cash float amount and a clear explanation (e.g., Opening cash float).

  4. Press Save.

When you remove the cash float (at shift closing, before the Z report):

  1. In the same Cash Register app, select Add Entry and choose the Payment type.

  2. Enter the same amount you added in the morning, with a clear explanation (e.g., Closing cash float removal).

  3. Press Save.

  4. After this, you can generate the Z report.

This procedure applies identically on Ebriza POS (classic version) and on Ebriza POS NEXT — only the navigation steps to reach the Cash Register app differ (see the dedicated articles for each version).

How the balance is calculated (opening and closing balance per day)

The balance in the Cash register is cumulative. It adds up all the cash that came in and went out at that location, not just the day you are looking at:

• Sales paid in cash are added automatically, from the receipts issued in Ebriza.

• Manually added entries (for example the cash float) are added.

• Manually added payments (for example payments to suppliers, withdrawing the cash float, bank deposits) are subtracted.

For a given day:

• The opening balance is the balance at the start of the day, that is the closing balance of the previous day.

• Closing balance = opening balance + the day's cash sales + the day's entries − the day's payments.

To see the breakdown, filter the Cash register on that day and on the day before. For each day you see:

• the line with the sales paid in cash, one for each cash register device, with the Z report number on the document;

• each entry and payment, with the time, the reason and the user;

• the "Sold final <date>" (closing balance) line.

The opening balance of a day is the "Sold final" of the previous day. Put these figures next to the drawer count.

The Cash register does not match the Z report? The Z report has no cumulative balance. The NUMERAR line on the Z report contains only the cash sales of that fiscal day. So compare NUMERAR on the Z report with the day's cash sales in Ebriza, not with the balance. If they are equal, there is no difference between Ebriza and the cash register. A mismatch with the drawer comes from the entries or payments in the register, from the change float or the withdrawals made on the cash register, or from a bill paid with a different payment method than the real one. Each cash line on the Z report is explained in the article "How can I print the Z report from Ebriza? [Ebriza POS NEXT]", in the question about the NUMERAR, SUME SERV INITIALA, RETRAGERI NUMERAR and NUMERAR IN SERTAR lines.

If you found the cause of a difference (for example a bill paid by card but closed as cash), adjust the balance with an entry or a payment in the Cash register, with a clear reason. Do not cancel orders in Administration → Sales for this.


Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can payment orders be printed from the cash register?

A: Ebriza does not issue a standalone „payment order” form from the Cash Register. Instead, cash payments and receipts are recorded directly in the Cash Register app and can be listed or exported as follows:

  1. Open the Cash Register app in the Administration area.

  2. Click the + button to add a payment or receipt (user, date, supporting document, reason, type, amount).

  3. To list them, use the export button in the top-right corner and choose the format (PDF or Excel).

Payments and receipts can also be added directly from the POS — see the article on adding a cash payment to the Cash Register in POS.

Q: Can I change the date of a Cash Register payment that is more than 6 months old?

A: No. Cash Register entries can be changed only within the first 6 months from their date. After that the system no longer allows any change, either from your account or by the Ebriza team.


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