Hard totals in ORPOS

Hard totals contain summary of financial information that is locally available to the register.  Hard totals also contain store status and transaction information, which is required to create transactions if the register goes offline.  A set of hard totals is kept for each till, each register, and the store.  The register hard totals contain a summary of the portion of its tills’ hard totals that occurred on that register; the store’s hard totals contain a summary of its registers’ hard totals. 

Note:  The number of sets of data for tills is determined by the setting of the Accountability system setting.

If the Accountability system setting is set to Cashier, the data is collected for each till in addition to the totals for the register.  If the Accountability system setting is set to Register, the data is collected for the single till used by the register.

Facts about Hard Totals Files

1.     Hard Totals contains financial data.  This data is stored so that it is accessible locally at the register.

2.     Sequence number recycles at the maximum, for example, (9999, the next number would be 0001).

3.     Hard totals are not updated when the system is in training mode.

4.     The system automatically resets the Hard Totals when the system detects a newer business date from persistent storage.

5.     When a till that was suspended on a different register is resumed on the current register (floating till), Hard Totals are only saved for the portion of till activity that occurs on the current register for that register.

6.     Per, PABP, PCI and SOX, social security numbers must not be in the clear, unless used for PAT Cash transaction.

7.     Per, PABP and PCI, passwords must not be in the clear.

8.  Default hard total size is configured in the device configuration file.

       Parameters/Configuration

Parameter Mnemonic	Description	Valid Values
filesize	Following configuration in POSDEVICES.XML determines the default hardtotal size. SESSIONname="SimulatedHardTotalsSession" devicename = "defaultHardTotals"           PROPERTY propname="fileSize"	xxxxxxxx

  HARD TOTALS DATA TABLE

The following information is a preliminary set of data stored in hard totals.  Any additional data shown in hard totals is acceptable.

Note: Hard totals keep track of the number of tenders.  If tenders are split, the counts are greater than the number of transactions.

Store Information	Register Information	Till Information
Store ID	Accountability	Till ID
Location Name	Last Transaction Sequence Number	Drawer ID
Address	Current Till ID	Cashier List (Employee ID and Information for Each Cashier)
	Workstation ID
	Store ID
	Location Name
	Address
	Training Mode (true/false)

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