Your Cash Register (POS) settings control how sales work at the till: rebooking, tips, receipts, end of day and more. This article walks through each one so you know what it does and can turn on what suits your salon.
To get there, click the profile icon at the bottom left of the main menu, then choose Settings. Type into the Search settings box at the top to jump straight to any setting by name, or open the Cash Register (POS) section and scroll through the list.
- Re-Book Reminder Enabled: switch this on and a rebook reminder pops up at the end of every sale.
- Re-Book with Applied Discount: switch this on if you want a discount you gave on today's visit carried over to the client's next appointment when you rebook it.
- Enable Advanced Discounting: turns on special discount rules. See Secure Discounting with Simple Salon for more.
- Receipt Printer Attached: switch this on so Simple Salon can talk to your receipt printer or A4 printer.
- Force Operator at Sale: switch this on to make staff choose which operator sold each service or product in POS.
- Lock Visit Comments: choose Never, After Sale or Manual to control when visit comments get locked from further editing.
- Auto Scan: switch this on and the scan window opens automatically at POS, handy if you scan barcodes a lot.
- Enable Tips: switch this on to let staff add tips to a sale.
- Automatic Tip Percentage: set a percentage here to add a tip to every sale automatically.
- Advanced End-Of-Day: switch this on to count and balance your cash drawer at the end of the day and reset the float for tomorrow. It also builds a full End of Day Summary Report.
- End-Of-Day Email: the email address your End of Day Summary Report goes to.
- Export Sales figures to: if you're connected to an accounting package like QuickBooks, pick it here to send your sales figures across.
- Default Float Value ($): the amount your cash float resets to once End of Day is done.
- Receipt Format: choose A4 Printer or Receipt Printer to match the paper you print on.
- Auto Email Invoice: switch this on to email the client a receipt automatically at the end of a sale.
- Email Invoice Template: pick which template is used for those emailed receipts.
- Email Gift Voucher Template and SMS Gift Voucher Template: pick the templates used when you email or text a gift voucher to a client.
- Show Future Appointments on Receipt: switch this on to print the client's next booking on their receipt.
- Show Loyalty Points on Receipt: if you run a loyalty points program, switch this on so clients can see their points total on the receipt.
- Show Account Balance on Receipt and Show Invoice Balance on Receipt: switch these on to print a client's account balance or any owing invoice balance on their receipt.
- Receipt Message: type a short message to print on every receipt.
- POS Payment Gateway: pick the gateway you use for card payments, such as Stripe or Worldline.
Note: deposit settings (Enable Deposits, Force Deposits and Deposit Percentage) live in this same Cash Register (POS) section. See Deposit settings for what each one does.
If you have any questions, please send them to us via the Submit a Request option in your Help & Support page.