Registers, locations and product availability

A register is a named till at a location. Managers add them on the Registers page. Names must be different, ignoring capital letters. You always keep at least one active location and register, and registers are switched off rather than deleted.

If you have more than one active register, the Register page shows a picker. The choice is remembered in that browser. Each register has its own cash drawer.

Controlling what each register sells

Open a product and use its Point of sale card:

• Hide from the register keeps a product off every register. It can still be sold on invoices and schedules.
• Availability rules limit where and when it can be sold: all registers, one location or one register, on chosen days of the week, between optional start and end times in your business time zone. An end time earlier than the start runs past midnight and belongs to the day it started.

A product with no rules is sold everywhere, always. Once it has rules, it is sold only where at least one rule matches. The register's catalog refreshes every minute, and the server refuses a product that is not available even if the page still shows it. Custom items and collecting on an invoice are not governed by these rules.

Products with rules show a Register-restricted badge on the Products list.