A house charge is a tender type that allows you to add the purchase balance to a customer’s account for them to pay at a later date.
Back Office Set Up
There is one Setup Setting that pertains to House accounts that you’ll need to review:
- Navigate to Setup :: Manage Store :: Setup Settings
- Click ‘POS Options’
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The seventh option down is about Enforcing Credit Limits on a House Charge – this can be toggled to three options
- Enforce – will not allow your cashiers to charge more than the customer’s credit limit
- Warn – will pop up a warning if the customer is over their limit. The Cashier can ignore this and continue to charge to the customer’s account
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Ignore – won’t pop up anything and will be as if they don’t have a limit
If you want to enforce credit limits, you’ll need to add a credit limit on your customer’s account. Default is at $0.
- Navigate to Customer :: Customer :: Manage Customer
- Lookup your customer.
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Add a credit limit and save like shown.
Processing a Sale
- On the POS, process a regular sale as normal. Select your customer, pick your SKUs etc.
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Once you’re ready, on the Ticket Payment Screen, select ‘House Charge’ as your tender.
- End Sale. The balance of this item is now listed on the customer’s account to pay later.
Processing a Payment towards a Customer’s Balance
- On the POS, pull up the customer who is going to make a payment.
- Under the Ticket Detail tab, change the transaction type to ‘Charge Payment’
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Add the amount the customer is paying.
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Navigate to the ‘Ticket Payment’ tab and collect their payment as you would when processing a regular sale.
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This payment will deduct from their customer balance
Checking the Customer’s Credit Charges/ History
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You can pull up a customer’s account in the
- Back Office here: Customer :: Customer :: Manage Screen
- Or on the POS -
You can see the Charge Balance as shown below:
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You can also review their purchase history and tender history tabs to see what charges have been placed on their account
Pulling House Charge Reports
- In the back office navigate to Reporting :: Report Creator
- Under the ‘POS’ section, click on the report titled ‘House Charges/ Payment Activity’
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Adjust any criteria relevant to what you’re wanting to analyze. (for this example, I’m only running the report on the example Customer – Edgar Fish)
- Click ‘Run’
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Download the report from your report manager once it’s finished processing. It will look similar to this:
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