Customers File Maintenance

CGCaisse can manage customers sheets of CGPlus. You can keep track of your customers and so build telemarketing or mail tools.

Customer section is optional and can be adjuted by the user. You can use an existing  customer code or search in customers list. A new customer can be created during the invoicing. Taxes' exemption management is allowed as a custom discount for a customer. You can choose selling price column according to the customer. The invoicing amount or a part of this amount can be sent to the receiving accounts. If you want to use CLUB method, CGCaisse allow the customer entry by a magnetic card reader.

Cashier Codes

Each cashier can enter his bar code during the invoicing, which allows to have many cashiers on a same cash register.

Item Entries

When entering the item to be charged, the cashier enter the code composed of 12 characters for CGPlus' inventory module.
This number can be entered with the keyboard or via the item research mode with fast access to the database of the inventory. Items' codes can also be entered by a bar code reader.

Description of CGPos

All the information about the product is received directly by the cash register which display the description, calculates his price and ask the sold quantity.
The cashier can come back with the arrows of the keyboard and so make all the required rectification. If an item does not appear in the inventory, the cashier can add this item in the file or only invoice without reference to the inventory file. So the cashier have to write the description and the sale price. The entering of the items is extremely parametric and can be adjusted according to the desires of the management. The cashiers can be very limited in their entries. The inventory items can also be adjusted for an automatically voicing of the empty bottles during products' sale with any recording. This is entirely adjustable, this does not limit its using to bottle. Bar codes of electronic balance often contain the price of the item to invoice.
CGCaisse manage these items like CGPos but get the price directly in the bar code. Each item can whether be taxable, it can be TPS, TVQ or TVQ service.
There is also departments management which bring earnings to the General Ledger matching to the department. Sale cost or inventory variation can also be bring in different General Ledger's positions according to the item department. You can also invoice services which are not in the inventory.The cashier will can write the description of this service and write his department code. Finally, each entered items can have a discount percentage granted to a customer or to a defined item.

Sales Reports

You can analyze all of your sale figures with the reports found under this section. There is a list of Invoices or a list of sold Items with sale prices and profit amounts. You will be able to follow up on your sales for the current month. You can filter the report by salesman or by date.

Taxes Management

CGCaisse can manage every taxes like TPS, TVQ, TVQ for services and also an additional TPS if the Canadian taxation system change in the future. Each item can be taxed according to his own tax system or the exemption of tax of the invoiced customer.

Payment Methods

During the invoice's completion, CGCaisse can ask to the cashier to enter the payment method.

A new window appears and ask you to choose among different payment method. Up to three different payment method can be entered for each invoice. You can also apply a amount to the receivable account. If the payment is done by credit card, the cashier must introduce the card in the card reader, so CGCaisse can write these informations about the invoice and phone the credit card agency to have a permission number. This option is currently under development and approval.
Then the customer can sign on the invoice of the paper cash receipt.

Paper Cash Receipt

Printing of the invoice can be done on a paper cash receipt of 3 inches with 40 characters or with an ordinary printer with a standart invoice format 8.5 inches width.

The format for the bigger invoice is entirely configurable according to the printed forms that you are using. Printing on paper cash receipt let you the choice between to types of format ; the detailed or the simplified which is using less paper for the printing. You can also delete the printing of the item number.

Configurable System

As you have seen so far, CGCaisse is very configurable. Many operating parameters can be modified to allow the user to create their own functioning in its own terms.

Among the adjustable parameters there is the customers' section that can be bypassed or made mandatory. There are default responses which are adjustable as the quantity sold functionality entered BEFORE the item's number. Whether to allow the creation of new items or to write services. Whether ask the origin of the item.
Whether the entry of discounts. Whether ask the payment method entry. The allowance to change taxes. Whether allow the entry of shipping and handling. The possibility to have a general message at the bottom of each invoice. Whether allow the the management of returnable bottles. Choose among two types of paper cash receipt or the printing on form paper 8.5 inches. Etc ...

Bar Codes

The point-of-sale system CGCaisse allow the using of bar codes reader.
The reader can be a simple pencil or a vertical/horizontal laser reader. This tool can be used for the entry of a customer code, a cashier code or an item code. The same principle applies to the magnetic card reader for the entry of customer code, cashier with the possibility to read magnetic strip of credit cards.

Special sales log

You can build an items list which will be sorted in sale with a date and quantity limit.
The system will search the items which the price must be differently invoiced of the inventory at a specified date in the journal. You will be allow to build your specials lists depending the day or the week before the beginning of sales without disturbing the regular operation in the inventory.