Parked Sale Question

[stantonphotography]

I have a question - When one of my associates park a sale (eg after we run a set of prints ordered online via our special software for the customer to pick up later), we assign the park code the code our software gives us. Now if Associate A gets the order in the morning, and there is a shift change, then when Associate B retrieves the parked sale, it is still logged in under Associate A's name. Since we do a commission for each package sold, I was wondering if this would mess up the reports feature that we use to determine the employees commission.

Thanks,
Daniel Crowe
Stanton Photography

[Dale Harris]

stantonphotography,

When you park a sale the employee associated with the sale remains the same when you unpark the sale no matter how long the sale stays in the parking lot.

[stantonphotography]

Dale,

That's what I needed to know. Thanks for the help and for creating the great program (you sure saved me a lot of time!). But I have another concern. Let's say I had the same situation. Employee A gets the order, goes in and parks the sale. Then the shift changes before Client A can come and get their prints. When Client A gets their prints, then Associate B is working. When he retrieves the parked sale and it is under Employee A's name, could he not pocket the money and let Employee A take the rap for it? I mean, I wouldn't ever have this problem (I hope) because I only hire close family members (sisters, and my mom sits in when I'm out on runs, I'm a programmer and network install tech also), but a consignment shop that has asked about me setting them up a system with your software might have this problem. Also, if the registers are networked, could this not happen with Employee A and Employee B working at the same time?

Sorry to be such a pest...

Daniel E. Crowe

[Dale Harris]

stantonphotography,

That will not be a problem since balancing the register is not dependent on who is credited with the individual sales. You use the total sales screen to balance including the "cash in register."

For example in a restaurant, where the parking feature is most useful, the cashier rings up each sale according to the waitress' employee number so that each waitress is credited with the tips from their sales. However at the end of the day it is the cashier who is resposible for the register balancing by using the total sales figures.

If you are running the program over a network it is assumed that each cashier is using a different register on the network. When each register is closed out it will print the total sales figures for that register only on the closing receipt. Only when you close out the global register on the server will you get the sales for the entire store.