The new CountEasy TS is the most efficient count by weight scale in the world.

And yet it is so simple to operate that your staff will need virtually no training to use it.

• LESS handling – touch screen technology speeds up and simplifies
all counts, even complex ones, saving time
• LESS mistakes – provides 100% accurate counts first time, every
time, eliminating errors
• LESS downtime – fast counts mean less downtime during normal
trading and shift changes
• LESS shrink – increases accountability and reduces the opportunity
for cash loss
• LESS complexity – allows a multi-cultural workforce with minimal training
to accurately count and record the contents of multiple tills

Over the next few years the United Kingdom be be undergoing something of a cash revolution with its cotton paper bank notes being phased out and being replaced by cleaner, more secure, longer lasting and cheaper polymer bank notes.

Rest assured that Shopstuff has a range of cash counting machines ready for the introduction of the new Polymer bank notes. Our range of NCS bank note counters feature updated software enabling them to count the Polymer notes despite the clear plastic window featured on every Polymer bank note.

NCS2200 Polymer Bank Note Counter – entry level Polymer bank note counter will also count old style cotton-paper bank notes

NCS2300 Polymer Bank Note Counter – Polymer & cotton-paper bank note counter with 4-fold note identification

NCS900 Polymer Bank Note Counter – heavy duty Polymer & cotton-paper bank note counters with multiple note identification

Safescan 6165 Polymer Ready Money Scales – Polymer note ready money scales

Volumatic Count Easy Polymer Ready Money Scales – Polymer note ready money scales

LD7 Fake Poymer Note Checker – the only device in the UK for checking the new Polymer bank notes – the LD& checks the actual Polymer material and will stop your staff taking fake notes printed on non-polymer materials

Over the next few years the United Kingdom be be undergoing something of a cash
 revolution with its cotton paper bank notes being phased out and being replaced by cleaner, more secure, longer lasting and cheaper polymer bank notes.

The £5 polymer bank note is already here, but it will take untill 2020 for the £10 polymer and the £20 polymer to replace their cotton predecessors.

The current time line for the release and withdraw of bank note in England is as follows –

New Polymer £5 note issued on 13th September 2016
Old cotton £5 note withdrawn from circulation May 2017

New Polymer £10 note issued September 2017
Old cotton £10 note withdrawn from circulation 2018

New Polymer £20 note issued by 2020
Old cotton £20 note withdrawn from circulation by 2020

The New £1 Coin has now been released (28th March 2017)! The long heralded new coin replaces the round £1 coin which as been in circulation since 1983. The new £1 coin has been introduced primarily to combat the number of counterfeit £1 coins in circulation. According to the Royal Mint approximately one in thirty £1 coins in circulation are counterfeit. The new £1 coin is being billed as the most secure coin in the world – it has a host of features that make it much more difficult, but not impossible, to counterfeit.

How Will The New £1 Coin Affect My Business?

All businesses which handle cash will be affected by the new £1 coin. There are two ways this will affect your business and how you count your cash.

Firstly and most obviously, your coin counting equipment will have to accept the new £1 coin.

Secondly, there will be an intrerim period, from 28th March to the 15th October, when we have two types of £1 coins both acceptable as legal tender. After the 15th October the ‘old’ £1 coin will be demonitised and no longer legal tender. Until then businesses will be accepting the two types of £1 coin alongside each other, which may cause a problem with your cash handling equipment, as the two coins have different dimensions and metal content. The new 12 sided £1 coin, at 8.75g is lighter than the round £1 coin. The new £1 coin, at 2.8mm, is thinner than the round £1 coin. The new £1 coin has a diameter of 23.43mm making it fractionally larger than the round £1 coin.

Having to seperate the two types of £1 coin in order to count them does have a benefit in the sense that when making your cash bank deposits you will need to seperate the old and new £1 coins – this is to prevent the old style £1 coins re-entering circulation and reducing the time period for those coins being in the majority. By the end of May the number of old pound coins you encounter on a daily basis should start to reduce as the new £1 coin takes over – although expect a splurge in early October as people rush to spend £1 coins they have found in piggy banks and down the back of old sofas.

What Cash Counters Are Suitable For The New £1 Coin?

Rest assured that we have a range of coin counting machines ready to accept both the old round £1 coin alongside the new £1 coin.

Count By Weight Money Scales –

Volumatic Count Easy Software Version 3.2 is our preferred and recommended cash counter for counting up your till drawer takings. The new version 3.2 of the Count Easy is ready for the new £1 coin as well as the £5 polymer note and will also count the old round £1 coin (due to the weight difference between the £1 coins you will have to seperate them when counting your takings). The Count Easy is also supplied with a 5 year warranty. When ordering your Count Easy make sure that your supplier is offering software version 3.2 as this is the most update version ready for the new £1 coin and the Polymer bank notes.

Safescan 6165 is ready for the new £1 coin and will still count the old round £1 coin. Due to the weight difference between the £1 coins you will have to seperate them when counting your takings….you can have a celebratory drink on the 15th October to “see off” the old coin!

Coin Counters & Sorters –

Safescan 1250 GBP is ready for the new £1 coin and will also count the old round £1 coin.

CS209 Coin Sorter is ready for the new £1 coin and will also count the old round £1 coin.

CS730 Coin Sorter is ready for the new £1 coin and will also count the old round £1 coin.

Glory Mach 3 Coin Sorter coin sorter is ready for the new £1 coin.

Glory Mach 6 Coin Sorter coin sorter is ready for the new £1 coin.

What About Updating My Existing Coin Counters?

Please contact us directly about upgrading the following machines – CS730, Glory Mach 3, Glory Mach 6 – as these will require chargeable engineer call outs.

To update your Volumatic Count Easy Version 3.1 please visit our cash counters upgrade section

To update your Volumatic Count Easy Version 2.7 please visit our cash counters upgrade section

We advise that older versions of the Count Easy are replaced

To update your Tellermate T-iX D2000 please visit our cash counters upgrade section

To update your Safesscan 6155 please visit our cash counters upgrade section

The Casio SE-S100 X Edition is exclusive to us & is available at the same price as the standard model whilst current stocks last.

The X Edition includes upgraded cash drawer insert, memory protection batteries, forged note checkers, print head cleaning tool & free delivery at no extra cost, + the option of extending the warranty to 3 years.

The Casio SE-S100 X Edition has all the functions of the standard model plus the following upgrades –

– Memory Protection Batteries
– 3 x Forged Note Checkers
– Print Head Cleaning Tool
– Includes UK Mainland Delivery
– Optional 3 Year Warranty

The Casio SE-S3000 X Edition is exclusive to us & is available at the same price as the standard model whilst current stocks last.

The X Edition includes upgraded cash drawer insert, memory protection batteries, forged note checkers, print head cleaning tool & free delivery at no extra cost, + the option of extending the warranty to 3 years.

The Casio SE-S3000 X Edition has all the functions of the standard model plus the following upgrades –

– Upgrade Insert With Removable Coin Trays
– Memory Protection Batteries
– 3 x Forged Note Checkers
– Print Head Cleaning Tool
– Includes UK Mainland Delivery
– Optional 3 Year Warranty

The Casio SE-C3500 cash register replaced the outgoing SE-C2000 in the spring of 2013. The SE-C3500 – like its predecessor – is a ‘split-keyboard’ cash register, with a raised set of ‘function’ buttons on the left hand side and a flat set of 72 product or department buttons on the right hand side. In addition to this unusual style (cash registers traditionally have either an entirely raised or an entirely flat keyboard) the SE-C3500 has several stand-out features. One such feature is the large tilting multi line LCD operator display. The operator screen clearly shows both the price entered and the name of the item or department sold. This makes it very easy for the cashier to spot an incorrect entry before they quote the subtotal to the customer or cash off the sale. The SE-C3500 has a review order screen, allowing them to easily void the incorrect line. This cuts down on over rings and the resulting discrepancies in the till takings reports. In addition to the operator display, the pop-up customer rear display is also alpha numeric so the customer can see what items are being rung through giving them confidence that the correct amounts are being rung through the cash register.

The next big feature on the Casio SE-C3500 is the twin station, fast, quiet thermal receipt printer. Twin-station is cash register jargon for two! Twin-station simply means that as well as having the receipt roll the SE-C3500 also has a real-time audit roll – just like the on the old SE-C2000. The SE-C3500 is flexible enough to use the printers in a variety of ways. The audit roll feeds onto the take up spool at the back of the cash register, whilst the receipt printer can be set with the receipt function switched off so it is only issued on customer request. The SE-C3500 can also be programmed to enable copy or duplicate receipts on request. The receipt header can be customised to include your shop name and promotional details. As with most cash registers you can issue an end of day sales report.

In terms of other cash register features, the SE-C3500 has a secure key lock ensuring manager control over reports and programming. The SE-C3500 has 72 buttons on the flat section of the keyboard. These buttons are departments by default, but the cash register can be set up with them as PLUs (individual products). The SE-C3500 also supports barcode scanning with up to 3,000 barcode lines. 

The SE-C3500 has a full size metal cash base. The removable plastic insert has 4 note holders and 8 coin pots – enough to cover the UK denominations. The dimensions of the SE-C3500 are 400mm wide x 450mm deep with a height of 220mm. The ‘low-slung’ profile of the Casio SE-C cash register range in general make them popular to retailers who prefer sleek design to the more bulky, traditional style of other manufacturers.

The SE-C3500 also has an inbuilt SD card slot, which can be utilised for backing up the cash registers programming – a big advantage should your business utilise multiple tills with the same products – and for extracting your end of day reports into a spreadsheet.

The only limitation we can find on the Casio SE-C3500 is that the journal roll cannot be switched off. If you only need a single printer or aren’t fussed about keeping a journal roll please see our review of the SE-C3500’s ‘little brother’ – the SE-C450. If you are ordering your SE-C3500 for a hospitality application (café, restaurant, pub, deli etc.) we would recommend ordering with an additional wet cover for the raised button portion of the keyboard as the manufacturer supplies a cover for the flat portion only.

For more information on the SE-C3500 and other Casio cash registers please check out our website: http://www.shopstuff.co.uk/

Casio SE-S3000 Cash Register Review

The Casio SE-S3000 is one of our most popular retail cash registers. The SE-S3000 replaced the outgoing SE-S2000 model in the spring of 2013 and has several key features, which have helped reinforce Casio as one of the key players in the UK cash register market. The first feature that makes the SE-S3000 stand out from the crowd is the large tilting multi line LCD operator display. The operator screen clearly shows both the price entered and the name of the item or department sold. This makes it very easy for the cashier to spot an incorrect entry before they quote the subtotal to the customer or cash off the sale. The SE-S3000 has a review order screen, allowing the cashier to easily void any incorrect lines. This cuts down on over rings and the resulting discrepancies in the till takings reports. In addition to the operator display, the pop-up customer rear display is also alpha numeric so the customer can see what items are being rung through giving them confidence that the correct amounts are being rung through the cash register.

The next big feature on the Casio SE-S3000 is the twin station, fast, quiet thermal receipt printer. Twin-station is cash register jargon for two! Twin-station simply means that as well as having the receipt roll the SE-S3000 also has a real-time audit roll – just like the on the old SE-S2000. The SE-3000 is flexible enough to use the printers in a variety of ways. The audit roll feeds onto the take up spool at the back of the cash register, whilst the receipt printer can be set with the receipt function switched off so it is only issued on customer request. The SE-S3000 can also be programmed to enable copy or duplicate receipts on request. The receipt header can be customised to include your shop name and promotional details. As with most cash registers you can issue an end of day sales report.

In terms of other cash register features, the SE-S3000 has a secure key lock ensuring manager control over reports and programming. The SE-S3000 has 30 department keys allowing sales to be easily split into different categories. Should you have more than 30 categories of sale, then the SE-S3000 could still be the answer as it has a total of 200 departments, with numbers 31-200 accessed via the shift or hash functions. The SE-S3000 also supports up to 7,000 plu’s and barcode scanning with up to 3,000 barcode lines. At the time of writing the SE-S3000 is our most competitively priced twin-roll barcode scanner friendly cash register in the UK, making it the perfect entry level scanning cash register.

The SE-S3000 has a full size metal cash base. The removable plastic insert has 4 note holders and 8 coin pots – enough to cover the UK denominations. The dimensions of the SE-S3000 are 400mm wide x 450mm deep with a height of 220mm. The ‘low-slung’ profile of the Casio SE-S cash register range in general make them popular to retailers who prefer sleek design to the more bulky, traditional style of other manufacturers.

The SE-S3000 also has an inbuilt SD card slot, which can be utilised for backing up the cash registers programming – a big advantage should your business utilise multiple tills with the same products – and for extracting your end of day reports into a spreadsheet.

The only limitation we can find on the Casio SE-S300 is that the journal roll cannot be switched off. If you only need a single printer or aren’t fussed about keeping a journal roll please see our review of the SE-S3000’s ‘little brother’ – the SE-S400.

For more information on the SE-S3000 and other Casio cash registers please check out our website in full: http://www.shopstuff.co.uk/

Cash Register X & Z Reports

The Shopstuff technical team often field calls from bewildered retailers trying to retrieve the correct reports from their cash register. We’ve put together a basic guide to explain the differences between the various reports available. Each cash register will be different in terms of the level of reporting available, but there are basic rules which can be applied to all cash registers.

X Reports

Cash register X reports (also called ‘flash reads’) can be summed up as ‘read only’. X reports do not reset any totals. X reports can be used to check how much you have taken in the day so far without affecting the end of day report. Care should be taken not to run ‘read only’ X reports when you are meant to be running a reset Z report. The data will be correct for that day, but tomorrows Z report will be incorrect as it will include today’s figures.

Z Reports

Cash register Z reports can be summed up as ‘read and reset’. The data is printed and reset. For this reason Z reports are normally run at the end of a trading period. This is usually the end of the day, but this can vary depending on your business set up and when you do your cashing up. A common assumption is that a Z1 financial report is a daily report. The only factor that makes the report daily is that it is taken on a daily basis. Any Z report is a periodic report – the data is consolidated from the last time that Z report was run.

X2/Z2 Reports

Some, but not all cash registers, have periodic X2 and Z2 reporting. These reports can be used as weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly reports – very much depending on your internal house-keeping. The best way of thinking about X2/Z2 reports are that every time you run a normal Z1 report the figures are moved into the consolidated X2/Z2 file. The totals in the X2/Z2 files build up with every Z1 report until the next Z2 report is run. How often you run the Z2 report dictates whether it is weekly or monthly report. If you run it once a month then it is a monthly report. Some of the high end cash registers will enable more than two report period files, but this is something that would have to be specified before you order your cash register.

Other Reports

Confusion often arises when the cash register is used to pull different reports at different times. This needn’t be the case if a simple rule is understood – all report files are separate. So if you have a cash register that has the ability to run PLU, group, clerk and/or time reports in additional to the normal financial report, these will all run separately to each other. For example, you may run a pub and need to reconcile the till takings on a daily basis, but you also have a quarterly stock take. Providing you have the correct cash register set up in the correct way, you can run a normal Z report at the end of each day when cashing up. Then at the end of the quarter you could run a PLU Z report, which would show the quantity sold on each PLU since the last time the report was run. This system only works if you run the report every quarter and that you don’t run the X report by mistake – the X report will provide the correct data this time, but next quarters report will be incorrect as the figures will have consolidated.

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