Taking On Extra Hands for Christmas? Keep Your Counter and Cash Drawer Under Control

December is when the shop needs more hands. The supermarket puts on an extra salesperson for the weekend crowd, the boutique brings in a niece from school, and the cash-and-carry in Corriverton has somebody new helping load the van at the bay door.

More hands means more sales. It also means more people touching the cash drawer, and less time for you to watch every one of them. Here is how to take on Christmas staff without losing track of your money.

1. Give every salesperson their own login

When everybody sells under one name, you cannot tell who rang up what. If a sale is wrong or money is short, there is no way to know where it happened.

With OnlinePOS, each person who sells gets their own user login. Check your plan before the rush: Basic allows 2 users, Standard allows 4, and Premium and Enterprise allow unlimited users. If you are taking on three extra people for December, make sure your plan can hold them.

2. Know who came in, and when

Christmas schedules get messy. Somebody swaps a shift, somebody comes in late, and at month end you are trying to work out pay from memory or the book.

OnlinePOS includes employee attendance tracking at no extra cost. Your staff sign in at the start of the day, and you have a clear record when it is time to pay them.

3. Match the cash drawer every night

The busiest days are when the cash drawer is most likely to come up short. Not always theft. A wrong change, a sale that was not rung, a discount given without asking.

Make it a habit, every night from now to Old Year's: count the cash drawer and match it to the day's sales report before you lock up. When each salesperson has their own login, a difference points you to the right person and the right time, instead of a whole day of guessing.

4. Let the system watch for patterns

You cannot stand at the counter all day in December. On the Enterprise plan, the loss prevention module watches your POS data for the patterns that usually mean something is wrong, so you can look into it early instead of finding out in January.

5. Keep selling when the light goes

A blackout on a busy Saturday is bad enough. A blackout with new staff who do not know what to do is worse. All Computing Core POS software works online and offline, so the counter keeps moving and the sales sync when the connection comes back. For the best offline experience, we recommend the Lenovo Tiny desktop computer in our hardware package.

6. Train them before the rush, not during it

Show new staff the basics in a quiet week: how to sign in, ring a sale, give the right price, and close the day. Ten minutes in November saves a long line in December.

Get set up before December

If you are still running the shop on the book, or your current system cannot tell you who sold what, now is the time to change. OnlinePOS plans start at GYD 36,000 a year.

Call or WhatsApp Computing Core at +592 600-1096 and we will help you pick the right plan for your Christmas staff.