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Cash Registers do benefit from a Surge Protector. Keeping Spikes and Surges from going through your machine can improve the life of a register. A decent Surge protector will cost from $50.00 to $125.00 dollars. I’m not talking about a cheap plug strip. If your register is having data issues then it was probably damaged from an electrical problem. So no the salesperson is not just trying to get you to spend more. And by the way a good life span for a register is about 5 to 7 years. Anywhere around there you got your moneys worth. I have seen registers well taken care of last for 10 to 15 years.

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We have posted for sale many different rubber cash register keyboard covers including the popular and hard to get cover for the Samsung ER-650. Sharp Cash Register Keyboard covers available as well. Just go to our home page and look for the link.

Many of todays cash registers have an option for integrated credit card operations. Having credit card transactions interfaced has numerous advantages. The number one benefit is stopping errors in entering dollar amounts. The cash register will run the credit card for the amount of the sale, which keeps clerks from having to re-enter the amount into a standalone credit card terminal where miss-keyed dollar amount can be costing you thousands of dollars each year. Yes that sounds like too much for simple errors, well how many times has a sale of $29.64 been entered as $9.64 or $2.64? I’ll bet many more times then you know. Audit your transactions from the credit card machine to the credit card payment type tender button on your cash register and you will see what I’m talking about. There are many more reasons for integrating that I could boor you with. Bottem line is the cost has come down to about $799.00 for the terminal, which is a little more then the cost of a standalone terminal but the saving are more then worth the investment.

I have recently posted on the Sharp ER-A320 cash Register page a link to the feature chart.

Sharp ER-A320 Cash Register Register Feature Chart

A couple weeks ago The Cash Register Guys changed the warranty of the all most all of the Sharp Cash Register models including the popular Sharp ER-A320 to a full year rather then 90 days. The Samsung Registers still offer 90 days only.

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Yesterday I added about ten Sharp Cash Register Manuals to the free download page. Models include the Sharp XE-A101, Sharp XE-A102, Sharp XE-A202, Sharp XE-A20S, Sharp XE-A401, Sharp XE-A402, Sharp XE-A403Sharp XE-A40S cash registers. Download at http://www.cashregisterguys.com/Cashregistermanuals.html

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Below is the Sharp ER-A320 Cash Register Department Key Programming. There are several different items that must be programmed concearning the department keys. Following is the most common and crucial.

To Program the Tax Status on a Sharp ER-A320 Register

1. Turn key to PGM
2. Enter 2111
3. Press .  (Decimal)
4. Press the @/For button
5. Enter the number of the dept key you wish to program.
6. Press the @/For button
7. Now fiil in the ABCDEF from the following:
8. A = For a plus dept enter 0 For a minus enter 1
9. B = Enter Zero (always no choice)
10. C = Taxable by Tax Rate 4 enter 1 No enter 0
11. D = Taxable by Tax Rate 3 enter 1 no enter 0
12. E = Taxable by Tax Rate 2 Enter 1 no enter 0
13. F = Taxable by Tax Rate 1 enter 1 no enter 0
14. Press the #/TM/SBTL button
15. Press the CA/AT (Cash) button
16. Start over for the next dept.

So as an example to program department for a Plus dept taxable by Tax Rate 1 for ABCDEF you would have entered 000001

Or to program a department for a Plus dept taxable by tax rate 2 and tax rate 1 for ABCDEF you would have entered 000011

Make sure you turn the key back to REG before testing.

Please post a comment with questions

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