Daily Reconciliation Overview
Reconciliation refers to matching and verifying the sales transactions recorded in the POS system against the actual cash, card payments, and other payment types collected during a shift or business day. It ensures no discrepancies between recorded sales and the physical or digital funds received. There are two types of reconciliations.
- Shift Reconciliation: Shift Reconciliation is the process performed at the end of a cashier's shift to verify and balance the transactions handled during their working hours. It involves comparing the POS-recorded sales and cash amounts with the cash in the drawer and other payment totals (like credit cards, gift cards, etc.). This ensures the cashier's records are accurate and helps detect discrepancies, cash shortages, or overages before the next shift begins. Shift Reconciliation is commonly known as Register Z.
- Daily Reconciliation: Daily Reconciliation refers to the end-of-day process where the total sales, cash, and other payment types collected across all shifts are matched with the system records. It consolidates all shift reconciliations to ensure the store’s total daily revenue is correctly accounted for. This process is critical for generating accurate financial reports, depositing funds, and identifying errors or fraud at the store level.
- The store manager performs daily reconciliation at the end of the day (or at the beginning of the next day) and verifies all shift reconciliations (Register Zs) performed during the day.
FTx Cloud POS lets you perform daily reconciliations with the POS and Control Center. This article includes information about daily reconciliations performed by Control Center. Please read the Daily Reconciliation on the POS article to learn how to perform daily reconciliations from the POS.
This article includes information about:
- How to perform a daily reconciliation in Control Center.
1. Reaching "Daily Reconciliation"
- Step 1: Log into Control Center
- Step 2: Choose Point of Sale
- Step 3: Choose Reconciliation
- Step 4: Choose Daily Reconciliation
Figure 1.1 below will help you better understand the navigation.
Figure 1.1
2. Understanding the "Daily Reconciliation" Layout
Please refer to Figure 2.1 and the descriptions of the buttons and fields below to understand the layout of "Daily Reconciliation":
Figure 2.1
- Column Titles: Each column title indicates the type of information in the column. You can filter the list using any title to search for a specific daily reconciliation record.
- 1: Add Daily Reconciliation: Use this button to add a daily reconciliation.
- 2: Filter Range: This section specifies the date range to view the shift reconciliation records. Enter the required dates in the Start and End fields and click the "Filter Range" button to view the daily reconciliations performed during the specified date range.
- 3.1: View: Use this icon button to view the daily reconciliation details.
- 3.2 Actions Drop-Down: Three options will appear when you click this drop-down, as Figure 2.2 shows.
Figure 2.2
- Edit: Use this icon button to view the daily reconciliation details. This process is generally used to verify the shifts.
- Print: Use this icon button to view the daily reconciliation details.
- Reset: Use this icon button to view the daily reconciliation details.
- 3.3: Delete: This icon button unlocks a finalized delete reconciliation.
Please follow the steps below to perform a daily reconciliation:
- Navigate to the Daily Reconciliation screen.
- Click the "Add Daily Reconciliation" button.
- Click the Actions drop-down. Three options will appear, as Figure 2.2 shows.
- Click the Edit option. The Recon | Daily Entry screen will appear, as Figure 3.1 shows. The system will select "Show Cashier Value" by default at the bottom of the screen. Click the "Verify Shift" button.
Figure 3.1
- Other buttons on the screen:
- Refresh Sys: Use this button to refresh the screen if required.
- Close: Use this button to close the Recon | Daily Entry screen.
- Verify Shift: Use this button to verify the shift.
- Print: Use this button to print the daily reconciliation.
- Save: Use this button to save the changes made at any point.
- Reset: Use this button to reset the values.
- The "Recon | Shift Reconciliation" screen will appear, as Figure 3.2 shows. All shifts included in the daily reconciliation will be shown at the top. Select the shift and verify the amounts. Once done, click the "Save" button.
Figure 3.2
- The system will now select the Show Manager Value option at the bottom of the screen. Again, click the "Verify Shift" button, select the shift, verify the amounts, and click "Save."
Figure 3.3
- Repeat the same process for all shifts, and next click the "Save" button in the Recon | Daily Entry screen.
4. Printing a Daily Reconciliation
You can print a daily reconciliation from the Daily Reconciliation home screen and the Recon | Daily Entry screen.
Please follow the steps below to print the daily reconciliation from the Daily Reconciliation home screen.
- Navigate to the Daily Reconciliation home screen.
- Click the Actions drop-down. The three options will appear, as Figure 4.1 shows.
Figure 4.1
- Click "Print." A PDF will be downloaded. Print it using the browser's "Print" button.
- Below is a sample print of a daily reconciliation.
Figure 4.2
Please follow the steps below to print the daily reconciliation from the Recon | Daily Entry screen.
- Navigate to the Recon | Daily Entry screen.
- Click the "Print" button on it.
- Click "Print." A PDF will be downloaded. Print it using the browser's "Print" button.
5. Viewing a Daily Reconciliation
Please follow the steps below to take a look at the daily reconciliation.
- Click the View icon highlighted in Figure 2.1. The View Daily Reconciliation screen will appear, as Figure 5.1 shows. Here, you can see the cashier and system values and any differences.
Figure 5.1
- If you click the Z# available under the Zs Used In Recon section, a pop-up screen will open showing two options, as Figure 5.2 shows.
Figure 5.2
- Click "View Shift Recon" to open the respective shift reconciliation.
- Click "Print Shift Recon" to print the respective shift reconciliation.
6. Deleting a Daily Reconciliation
You can delete a daily reconciliation till it is audited. Please follow the steps below to delete a daily reconciliation.
- Navigate to the Daily Reconciliation home screen.
- Click the Delete button highlighted in Figure 2.1.
Figure 6.1
- Click “Yes, Delete” to delete the daily reconciliation record.
- Click “Cancel” to close the pop-up and skip the deletion process.