---
title: Cashier
description: Opening the drawer with a float, recording cash in and cash out, and closing the day with a reconciliation.
order: 7
---

# Cashier

The cashier tracks the physical cash in your drawer across a shift. It answers one question at the end of the day: **does the money in the drawer match what the system says should be there?**

If **Cashier** does not appear in your navigation, the cash register feature is switched off for your company.

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## Opening the drawer

A shift starts by opening the cashier with an **opening float** — the change you put in the drawer to start the day. Until you open it, the screen shows *Cash drawer closed* and no cash movements can be recorded.

Only one session is open at a time, and Ceretta App records who opened it.

## During the shift

While the session is open, cash payments taken anywhere in the app — a rental, a sale, a repair — are counted against it automatically. You do not need to record them twice.

Two things do need recording by hand, because they are movements of cash that are not sales:

- **Cash in** — money added to the drawer mid-shift, for example more change from the safe
- **Cash out** — money removed, for example a bank drop or paying a supplier from the till

Give each movement a reason. At closing time, an unexplained difference and a movement you forgot to record look identical, and the reason is what tells them apart weeks later.

## Closing and reconciling

To close the drawer, count the physical cash and enter the **counted cash** figure. Ceretta App compares it against the **expected cash**, calculated as:

```
opening float
  + cash sales
  − cash refunds
  + cash in
  − cash out
  = expected cash
```

The **difference** is then reported as one of three outcomes:

- **Exact** — the count matches
- **Over** — there is more cash than expected
- **Short** — there is less cash than expected

A closed session also breaks the shift down **by payment method**, so you can see cash next to card and Pix totals. Only the cash line is reconciled — the others are there for the day's picture. You can print the summary for a paper record.

## Session history

Every closed session is kept, with who opened it, who closed it, when, and what the difference was. This is the record to reach for when a discrepancy needs explaining, and it is why closing properly at the end of each shift is worth the ninety seconds it takes.

## Practical advice

- **Close every shift, even a quiet one.** A session left open for three days makes any later difference impossible to attribute.
- **Record cash out immediately.** Bank drops recorded from memory at closing time are the most common source of phantom shortfalls.
- **Small differences are normal.** What matters is whether the same till is consistently short.