User`s guide

Chapter 5: Setting Up Your Cash Register - Advanced
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Setting the Rounding Rates
You may want to sell 2 items for an odd number price. If someone wants
to purchase that item, they cannot pay you a half cent, so you need the
cash register to round the half cent to the next nearest penny.
You can select from the following options to set the rounding.
After you are done, you can check your results. See Running the Program
Confirmation Report on page 80.
To set the rounding
Example 15: Program rounding to 50, normally used in the United States
1 Put the PRG key in the Mode key slot and turn it to the PRG position.
2 If you are prompted for a Manager Password, type the password number
and then press the Check key. If you did not program a Manager
Password, go to the next step.
3 Using the round Number keys, press 50 and then press the Charge key.
Programming Discounts
Sometimes you want to have discounts assigned automatically. For
example, when you have a sale, you may want to be able to apply a 10%
discount to certain items.
Programming Minus Percentage Discounts
You may want to deduct a percentage rate from the usual rate of an item,
such as an employee discount. The Minus Percentage Discount [-%/RA]
subtracts a percentage rate from an individual item. You can program the
rate or you can enter it by hand each time. Regardless of how you specify
a discount, the discount you enter must always be 4 digits. For example,
you enter a 25% discount as 2500.
You can also set it so that the Minus Percentage Discount amount is not
subtracted from the department totals on the Management Reports. For
more information, see Flag 23 on page 68.
Table 16 Rounding
This number... Rounds to this...
00 Numbers from .1 - .9 to 0
50 Numbers from .5 - .9 to 1 (U.S. Standard)
99 Numbers from .1 - .9 to 1