Point of sale

Walk-in sales without a second system

Many tour businesses sell at a front desk, a kiosk, a beach stand or on the street, often with a separate till that knows nothing about tomorrow’s departures. Seats get sold twice and cash never quite matches the bookings. The Point of sale plugin is a full-screen, touch-first till for tablets and phones that sells seats on today’s departures and retail items from the same system as your website.

Sales are priced with the same engine as your website, so promo codes, add-ons and capacity behave exactly the same. Retail items cover anything sold over the counter, such as merchandise, rentals, photos or a drink, with stock counts. Prices include any tax shown.

Ways to pay, split as the customer likes

Choose which payment methods your till offers: cash with change due, a Stripe Terminal card reader paired to the register, an external card machine recorded by the cashier, bank transfer, gift vouchers and, with the Rentals, passes & memberships plugin, passes and punch cards. In Nepal, or when pricing in Nepali rupees, eSewa, Khalti and Fonepay QR can be recorded too. One sale can be split across methods, for example 50 in cash and the rest on the card reader.

Recorded methods are confirmed by the cashier, because your card machine or wallet app shows the payment. You set the largest discount a cashier can give, 10% by default; people who can manage the till can give any discount.

Selling through network drops

Beach stands and harbour kiosks lose signal. The till keeps selling while offline and syncs queued sales when the connection returns. When a queued sale is recorded, capacity and stock are checked again, so an offline sale can never oversell a departure. If the world changed in the meantime, such as a departure filling up or a voucher being used elsewhere, the cashier sees the problem and the sale stays in the queue.

Cash drawers, reports and receipts

Drawers open with a float. Every cash sale, refund, top-up and bank drop moves cash in or out, and closing counts the cash against what should be there, recording the variance. Drawers can be shared per register or belong to each cashier. Set the variance you accept, and closes further off are flagged. An X-report shows a drawer still open; the Z-report PDF shows takings by payment method, cash movements, the count and its variance, and items sold. Till reports cover sales by day, staff, register and payment method, top items and variance history.

Receipts use an 80mm thermal layout with the booking’s QR tickets, your own header and footer, and a reprint mark on every copy after the first. They can be printed, emailed or texted. Retail items can be refunded item by item, back into stock if you choose.

Setting up Point of sale

1. 1Switch on Point of sale. Turn the plugin on and choose the ways to pay at the till.
2. 2Add retail items. Create the merchandise, rentals or other items you sell, with prices and stock.
3. 3Set up drawers. Choose shared drawers per register or one per cashier, and the variance you accept.
4. 4Pair a card reader (optional). With Stripe connected, pair a Stripe Terminal reader to the register.
5. 5Write your receipt header and footer. Add your address, phone and tax number, and a line for check-in.
6. 6Open a drawer and make a test sale. Use QA test data, then close the drawer and check the Z-report.