POS system
Provided is a POS system, including a terminal ( 12 ) that includes a bank deposit amount calculating unit ( 122 ) for calculating a bank deposit amount for each business day, in which the bank deposit amount calculating unit ( 122 ) subtracts an amount spent for other uses than as a change from a total amount of cash gained on a day that validity of the spending is judged and approved, to thereby calculate a bank deposit amount of the day. With this configuration, the management of cash such as a change fund in the POS system is clarified.
1. A POS system, comprising a terminal that comprises a bank deposit amount calculating unit for calculating a bank deposit amount for each business day,
wherein the bank deposit amount calculating unit subtracts an amount spent for other uses than as change from a total amount of cash gained on a day for which validity of spending is judged and approved, to thereby calculate a bank deposit amount of the day,
wherein the amount spent for other uses than as change is a portion of change fund that has been spent for other uses than as change,
wherein the total amount of cash gained on the day comprises a total cash sale of the day,
wherein the POS system comprises a POS terminal, which is provided in a store, a store controller, which is provided in the store to work as the terminal that comprises the bank deposit amount calculating unit, and a headquarters server, which is provided in a headquarters of the store,
wherein, when a portion of change fund in a drawer of the POS terminal has been spent for other uses than as change at the store, the store controller transmits, to the headquarters server, replenishment request data for requesting for replenishment of the portion of the change fund that has been spent for other uses than as change,
wherein the headquarters server receives the replenishment request data, determines the validity of the spending of the portion of the change fund that has been spent for other uses than as change based on the received replenishment request data, and, when the spending is valid, transmits, to the store controller, replenishment approval data which indicates that the replenishment has been approved, and
wherein the bank deposit amount calculating unit of the store controller calculates a bank deposit amount of the day by subtracting an amount spent for other uses than as a change from a total amount of cash gained on a day that the replenishment approval data was received with the store controller, under the condition that the day in which the replenishment approval data was received with the store controller is the day that the validity of the spending was approved.
2. A POS system according to claim 1 , wherein the POS terminal and the store controller are provided in the same store, and the headquarters server is provided in a headquarters of a company running the store.