What this means
A cash session is one period of cash activity on a register. Staff count the drawer when starting and closing, while Upstorr calculates what should be there.
What you need to know
- Previous amount left in drawer: the counted closing amount from the earlier session.
- Opening amount counted: what staff say is physically in the drawer when this session starts.
- Discrepancy at start: opening amount counted minus the previous closing amount.
- Cash in: pay-ins and positive cash adjustments.
- Cash out: payouts, cash drops, and negative cash adjustments.
- Gross payments: cash collected from sales.
- Refunds: cash given back for refunds.
- Expected in drawer: opening cash, plus cash in and gross payments, minus cash out and refunds.
- Closing amount counted: what staff physically count at the end.
- Discrepancy at end / variance: closing amount counted minus expected cash. A positive number means extra cash; a negative number means cash is short.
- Net payments: gross cash payments minus cash refunds. This is sales cash movement, not the whole drawer balance.
An open session shows no final closing discrepancy yet. When yesterday's session is still open, the POS app asks staff to count and close it before taking today's cash. The cash left becomes the next session's starting cash.
Simple example
The drawer starts with ₹1,000. Cash sales add ₹2,000 and a ₹200 cash refund is paid. No other cash moves. Upstorr expects ₹2,800. If staff count ₹2,750, the ending discrepancy is −₹50.
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