Employees look more professional when they are not confused by simple arithmetic – this reflects on your business!
When the power goes out, they can handle it. You don’t want to have to close down the shop just because counting change back manually is too hard for your team!
It’s more accurate. Clerks can use it to double check.
Employees can fix mistakes. Say a purchase was $2.36. If the customer gives the clerk a fifty but the clerk enters $5 into the cash register by accident, she can figure out the change due on her own.
How to Count Change
Counting change back to a customer is actually pretty easy when you understand what you’re doing.
There are a couple of ways you can count change. First, you can read the number on the cash register and count that amount to the customer. This ensures you grabbed said amount. Second, you can count up from the sale total. This ensures the customer actually gets the right change back.
The number on the cash register:
If you count the the number on the cash register, all you’re really doing is ensuring that you got that amount from the register. But what if you entered the amount incorrectly to begin with? Then your cash register’s displayed amount will be wrong and so will the amount you hand to the customer.
Counting up from the amount tendered:
There is no way you can go wrong with this method. Let’s say the total is $7.38. The customer hands the clerk a twenty. She doesn’t have to know what the change is going to be – she doesn’t have to do any subtraction. All she needs to do is count up from $7.38.
Steps to Count Change
1. Start with the pennies to reach a multiple of 5 or 10.
2. Next use a nickle or a dime as you get to a multiple of 25.
3. Use quarters until you reach a dollar.
4. Use one dollar bills until you reach a multiple of 5 or 10.
5. Use five dollar bills until you reach 10 or ten dollar bills until you reach 20.
