How to use the POS to make your first sale

This is the most exciting part of this app; getting to sale your items with ease. The POS is designed to give room for customers who pay incomplete money and choose to owe or customers who pay in excess and choose to be owed. All these solely depend on you the seller whether to allow customer owe you or for you to owe customers. Sometimes in business, selling on credit is inevitable and goalPOS inventory app is flexible for most businesses.

To sell items from your inventory, you must be logged in and with access to the POS (CART) item. From the main menu, click on the POS (CART) to select the items you wish to sell.
Fig. Product selection for sell
In the product selection screen, the first thing you do is to determine if you want to sell in wholesale or retail price.
Click on the Select Sale Type drop down to select the type of sale. The price type loads on the items and there will be a message telling you of the selected price type..

Next is to search for items. You can search for item in three ways;
1. By typing the item name into the search box
2. By scanning the bar code of the item
3. By enabling the microphone on the right end of the search box to pronounce the item name

When the item to be added is seen, enter the discount in value or in percentage (depending on what you have chosen from the shop setting).
Enter the quantity of the item. (No more plus or minus buttons to adjust quantity).
Finally, click on the ADD TO CART button under the item. You should hear a beep sound when you add the item.
When you are done adding items to the Cart, click on the cart icon on the top right corner of the screen to open the Product Cart screen to see what you have added.
Fig. Cart
If you still want to add an item or remove one, click on the back arrow at the top left corner to return to the product selection screen.
To remove an item from the cart, click on the delete icon on the left side of the item to be deleted. If you are okay with the items and quantities in the cart, next is to enter payment.

Enter the payment amount into the Payment Amount field.

Try to observe what happens when you enter the payment amount.
If the payment amount is higher or lower than the total price, you are to make decision. 
If no one is to owe, enter the exact amount of the total price as the payment amount. If you allow anyone to owe, the credit or debit will be saved appropriately until it is cleared from the debt management screen.

Next is to save the order. Click on the Submit Order button below to see a Payment dialog box.
Fig. Payment dialog
Click on the Walk In Customer which is by default selected to select the customer buying. 
Click on the SUBMIT  on the right. You will be taken to the order history screen.
 
Fig. Order history
From the order hsitory, click on the particular order to see the details and possibly print the receipt.
Fig. Order detail
To print the receipt, click on the View Receipt to load the printable receipt.
Fig. Order Receipt.
This receipt can be printed using any Bluetooth enabled POS printer of 58mm. See How to print receipts for customers from your goalPOS app.

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