Cash drawers

A cash drawer is the basic record used to track all cashiering payments. A cash drawer is not the physical drawer itself, but an instance of a drawer being used by a cashier during a shift to collect payments.

Before a cashier can perform transactions, a drawer must be created and then assigned to a cashier or register.

Infor Public Sector records the details of every transaction made with a drawer, such as payments collected at the cash register and voided transactions. You can use the cash drawer's transaction records to balance the drawer at the end of a shift. When counting out, you can compare the cashier's count of the funds in the drawer to the totals displayed by Infor Public Sector and you can then review the transaction records to determine the sources of any discrepancies. Infor Public Sector's cash drawer transactions can also be used for audit trail purposes.

Supervisors can use Monitor Cashiering to access all of the registers and cash drawers they're responsible for to review drawers and to perform administrative tasks.

Drawer Type

The drawer type defines the relationships between a cashier, a register, and a drawer. Some agencies may allow cash drawers to be shared among multiple cashiers, while other agencies may require separate drawers. These drawer types are available:

  • Cashier-Based: Cash drawers are assigned to individual cashiers and each drawer is the responsibility of the employee that it is assigned to. Multiple cash drawers can be used at a single register, with each cashier placing payments into his or her assigned cash drawer.
  • Register-Based: Cash drawers are assigned to individual registers that can be accessed by multiple cashiers. Cashiers can rotate to different registers and drawers.