What this page is for
A cash movement is anything that happens to a drawer's cash besides an ordinary sale: float added mid-shift, a payout of petty cash, a drop to the safe, or a no-sale (the drawer opened with nothing sold, usually to give change or check something). This page lists every one of them, across every till and every session, newest first, so you can see the business's drawer accountability in one place rather than session by session.
The four types:
- Float added: change ordered from the safe, or a top-up mid-service. Increases the cash expected in the drawer.
- Payout: petty cash leaving the business altogether, such as paying the window cleaner at the door. Decreases the cash expected.
- Drop: cash moved to the safe or the banking bag. It is still the business's money, just no longer in the drawer, so it also decreases the cash expected.
- No-sale: the drawer opened with no value attached at all. Nothing is ever refused at the till for opening the drawer this way — a cashier who cannot open it cannot give change — but every no-sale is recorded with a reason, so a pattern of them is visible here rather than hidden.
Every movement carries a reason, who did it, and, for a movement needing a supervisor's authorisation, who approved it. A movement can never be negative; a mistake is corrected by recording another movement, never by editing or reversing the first one. A refund handed back across the counter is never recorded as a payout — it has its own record on the sale it belongs to, so cash is never subtracted from the drawer twice.
Everyone whose role can view till sessions sees this page.
How to…
How to find a movement
Filter by Type, Till session, or the date range it happened in.
How to see the session it happened on
Press the row, or open its row menu, to go to Till session and see it in the context of the rest of that session's drawer.
Worked examples
Restaurant and bar
At The Acacia Grill & Bar, a waiter asks the till for a KES 2,000 (Kenyan shillings) float top-up at 8 pm because the bar has run short of small notes. The duty manager filters by Type = Float added to see every top-up given out that night and check each one was reasonable.
Supermarket
Tumaini Supermarket's loss-prevention team filters Type = No-sale for the week and sorts by By to see which cashier opened the drawer without a sale far more often than the others, so they can ask why — not to refuse it, since nothing at the till ever blocks a no-sale.