Miscellaneous Charges
Miscellaneous Charge
Do you ever run into into situations where you need to charge someone but don’t have a menu item programmed?
SP-1 has a Miscellaneous Charge button that allows you to handle this! In Order Entry, select the Miscellaneous Charge button and the above screen pops up.
You can change the description on the fly so it reflects what was added as a charge. Enter the amount and you are done.
As usual, there are many other options involved with this:
- In System Setup | Operations:3 you can default the description of the Miscellaneous Charge to something other than “Misc. Charge”. You can even setup if tax should be added to this based on the order type (Delivery, Dine In, Carry Out, Pick Up).
- You can also decide if discounts will apply to Miscellaneous Charges. This can be setup in Master Files | Discounts.
- Of course we report on all of this as well! Miscellaneous charges are reported in detail in Reports | Daily Sales | Business Summary. If you want to get more specific, you can run the Reports | Ticket History | Misc. Charge report (shown below).
Contact us at:
SelbySoft
Mike Spence
800-454-4434
Sales@SelbySoft.com
WWW.SelbySoft.com
8326 Woodland Ave. E
Puyallup Wa 98371
It's awesome that you can set this via the Ops menu and tie it's tax relations to Dine-in/Carry out/etc. But what if I have conflicting one-time items in terms of taxability? Like say I have a customer ordering a Pizza which would be taxed, and they want an imported beer that hadn't been entered into the system and it isn't taxable, or it's a price calculated elsewhere(kinda like meat at the butcher) and it varies if it is taxable or not. Wouldn't a button on the MISC CHARGE screen be more appropriate?
I understand what you are driving at. I think that with the POS we really strive to NEVER have anything that is a common menu item not on the menu. However, there is a way to handle this in the scenario you propose – we would suggest an open retail button. You could create an open Taxable and Non-Taxable retail item that could be used. That would still provide some level of tracking as well.
Don't hesitate to contact me if you need help or advice on taking this further!