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Cash Manager Overview

Cash Management is an optional feature of the Wirecard ePOS SDK. It allows you to define functionality for merchants to handle cash from their customers. A key implementation decision for a merchant is whether to use Cash Management or not. Typically, since many customers still like to use cash, merchants use the Cash Management feature.

Most of the functionality of Cash Management is defined within the Cash Manager component. The second component that enables Cash Management is the Cash Drawer Manager, which discovers and manages cash drawers and cash registers that are paired with the mobile device of the merchant user.

Features of Cash Manager

More specifically, the Cash Manager component supports:

  • cash register management
  • opening and closing of shifts (a shift being a period of time worked by merchant staff)
  • putting cash in or taking cash out of the cash drawer (referred to as pay in/out or as cash in/out)
  • reporting on shift activity for each cash register
  • reporting on cash activity (also known as Z-Reports) for each cash register

For complete information about the hardware required to use Cash Management, see the Cash Drawer Manager chapter.

Cashier Base

You also have the ability with the SDK to support merchants who set up a Cashier Base. This optional capability allows for:

  • support of PIN-authorized users
  • support for ERP Integration (such as SAP By Design)