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
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Parameter Mnemonic
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Description
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Valid Values
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filesize
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Following
configuration in POSDEVICES.XML determines the default hardtotal size.
SESSIONname="SimulatedHardTotalsSession"
devicename =
"defaultHardTotals"
PROPERTY
propname="fileSize"
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xxxxxxxx
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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.
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Store
Information
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Register
Information
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Till
Information
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Store ID
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Accountability
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Till ID
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Location Name
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Last Transaction
Sequence Number
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Drawer ID
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Address
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Current Till ID
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Cashier List
(Employee ID and Information for Each Cashier)
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Workstation ID
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Store ID
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Location Name
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Address
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Training Mode
(true/false)
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