Closing out the end of the day

Closing out finalizes the day. It processes the day's credit cards and sends the day's figures up to Admin for your reports. Before the system lets you do it, every ticket has to be closed, every shift report run, every till dropped and every count entered.

This guide takes you through those checks in the order the POS asks for them. Running your own shift report is covered in Starting and ending your shift.

Before you start

Closing out needs all four of these done:

• every ticket closed to a payment, a walkout or a tab

• every shift report run

• every till dropped

• every till count entered, if your system asks for counts

Watch out: closing out cannot be undone

Once you tap Closeout the day is finished. Clear everything first.

Check your own shift

1. At the top of the POS, tap Shift (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Shift, at the top of the POS

2. Tap My Shift. It lists any open tickets on your shift (Figure 2). You have to close them before you can run your shift report.

Figure 2. One open ticket is still on David's shift

3. Tap an open ticket to see more about it.

4. To hand your open tickets to someone else, tap Transfer All Tix (Figure 3).

Figure 3. Transfer All Tix, bottom left of My Shift

Check everyone else's shifts

Every shift has to be closed before the day can be.

1. Tap All Shifts. Open shifts are on the left in red. Closed shifts are on the right in green (Figure 4).

Figure 4. One open shift and two closed ones

2. If you have the permission, you can finish someone else's shift. Tap the arrow on their line (Figure 5). You can transfer their open tickets from here, the same way as on your own shift.

Figure 5. Tap the arrow to work on Jane's shift

3. Once their tickets are paid or transferred, make sure their tips are in, then complete the shift.

4. Tap a green, completed shift to reprint it or reopen it (Figure 6).

Figure 6. A completed shift can be reprinted or reopened

Grey shifts can only be reprinted (Figure 7). They belong to tills that have already been dropped. Do not reopen a shift that is part of a drop.

Figure 7. Grey shifts belong to a dropped till

Check the till and drop it

1. Tap The Till (Figure 8). It shows:

• each person with cash sales in this till

• Paid In: the bank start and any other paid-ins for the day

• Paid Out: cash paid out of the till

• Cash Expected: all the cash that should be in the till, bank start included

Figure 8. The Till tab. Cash Expected is what the drawer should hold

2. If you have to count the till, you can enter the count here now, or later on the Closeout tab.

3. Tap Drop Till, bottom right.

Count by denomination with the Cash Count screen

By default, bank starts and cash counts take a single number. If you would rather count bill by bill and coin by coin, there is a setting that swaps in the Cash Count screen instead (Figure 9).

Figure 9. The Cash Count screen, counting quarters

1. Highlight a denomination.

2. Type how many you have. The Enter key on the keypad moves to the next row.

3. Tap OK when you are done. A count slip prints for your records (Figure 10).

Figure 10. The printed count slip

If you do not see this screen and want it, it is turned on by a setting.

Clear the red lines and close out

1. Once the till is dropped, tap the Closeout tab (Figure 11).

Figure 11. The Closeout tab

2. Anything stopping the closeout is in red (Figure 12). Tap the red arrow on each line to deal with it.

Figure 12. Two things still to do: this till is not dropped, and a drop needs its count

• Close every ticket to a payment, a walkout or a tab.

• Close every shift report. You may have to receive and count a server's cash.

• Drop every till. If your system has more than one, all of them have to be dropped. BrewPOS lets you drop a till from another station, but go to the till if you can, so you can take the cash out of it.

• Enter a count for each till, if your system asks for one.

3. When every line is green, the screen reads System ready for Closeout (Figure 13).

Figure 13. Everything green, ready to close out

4. Tap Closeout, bottom right. A progress screen appears. The station restarts when it finishes, and it tells you if other stations are still open.

About this guide

BREW POS: front of house how-to guide

Applies to: the BREW POS terminal. Written from the BrewPOS quick references Closing Out End Of Day (May 2021), Cash Count Screen (March 2021) and BrewPOS Front of House (July 2023). Not yet re-checked against the current release, so some screens may look different on yours.

Last reviewed: 29 September 2026 · Owner: Eddy

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