Resetting Sale Counter

[daleadmin]

From the FAQ file....

TRANSACTION NUMBERS
One of the main purposes of a POS system is to ensure that all transactions are accounted for. The way that this is done is by giving each transaction a sequential transaction number. Some of many ways to commit register fraud is to close out a register and then reopen it and then "lose" all the transactions from this period, or you can ring up a void or refund and lose those single transactions. Then the only way to know that something is amiss is that this would leave a hole in the sequential transaction numbers.

For this reason there is no way on any POS system to be able to reset or change the transaction numbers other than by ringing up another transaction and incrementing the count by one. The only exception to this it that once the transaction counter reaches its maximum (usually 9999) then next transaction will be 0000.

Dale

[RollerBall]

What I advise people to do is take a backup of their pos, tbl and idx files when they've got the system all set up right BEFORE they start ringing up ANY transactions. Then they can start playing and testing things out to their heart's content to learn about how the system works.

Then when they're ready, to delete all of the DHPOS files in the POS folder and copy back the 3 backups. That way they're ready to start trading back at transaction 1 (approx - usually it's more like 2 or 3)

But this is the ONLY time you can do that. Once you've started trading the transactions are numbered sequentially and they MUST be otherwise there's no audit trail and without an audit trail, the system would be of little practical value in a real business environment.