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Outlet settings

Settings that belong to one restaurant location rather than to the business as a whole.

The business-day cut-over

A restaurant's trading day does not end at midnight: service running from 9pm to 1am is one evening's trade, not two days'. The screen offers a business-day cut-over time for that reason.

It is not applied yet. Sales, shifts, drawers and the day's figures are currently recorded against the calendar date, whatever this field is set to. Setting it will not move late trade onto the evening it belongs to, and there is no warning on screen telling you so.

So do not rely on it. If you close after midnight, expect one evening's trade to appear across two dates until this is applied, and take that into account when reading a day's figures.

Document type

Two kinds of document exist: a tax invoice, which carries your GST registration number and tax lines, and a bill of supply, which carries neither and is the correct document for a business not charging GST.

Which one a customer is handed follows from your GST registration, not from a preference — a supplier without a GSTIN may not collect GST, and a tax invoice without a GSTIN is not a valid one.

Check your bills carry your GST number if they charge GST. If you are seeing tax on a document with no registration number on it, that is worth raising rather than adjusting a setting.

Shift and cash policy

An outlet can follow the brand's default shift policy and cash variance threshold, or set its own. The variance threshold is how much difference between counted and expected cash is treated as normal.

Card acquirer details

Where card payments are settled through an acquirer, its merchant identifier and batch close time are recorded here — the batch close being when the day's card takings are settled to your bank.