Taking payment
One bill, up to a handful of payments, and they have to add up exactly.
Take payment is where a basket becomes a bill. The screen shows what is due and lets you split it across more than one method, but the payments have to add up to the total exactly. PointLit will not record a bill that is short, and it will not record one that is over.
The four ways a customer can pay
Cash and Card cover most of a day. Loyalty points spend a balance the customer has already earned, and the screen shows how many points they hold and what those are worth before you apply them. On account puts the bill on a customer's running balance, and shows how much of their credit is already used. Methods a particular sale cannot accept are simply not offered.
Taking cash and giving change
Cash is the one method that can give change, and it is the only one PointLit will let you over-tender on.
- Choose Cash.
- Enter the amount the customer handed you in Cash received. There are quick amounts for the obvious notes, and an exact-amount option.
- Read Change due and count it back out of the drawer.
- Press Take payment.
Splitting a bill
Add a payment for each method the customer is using. As you go, the screen keeps Applied and Still due in view, so the gap is never something you have to work out in your head. A split is capped at a small number of payments per bill, and the screen says what that cap is rather than refusing without explanation. If the parts do not add up, PointLit names the difference and the direction, so you know whether you are short or over before anything is recorded.
Card references
PointLit records card payments rather than processing them, so the terminal stays the terminal. When you take a card, there is an optional Card reference field for the authorisation code or the last four digits. It is worth filling in: it is the fastest way to tie a line on your card statement to a bill on the till when somebody queries one weeks later.