A Sample Top Level POS Window for Food & Beverage

This is the POS/Cash Register interface built into AISA. There are six regions on this screen, separated by the red lines in this image.

First, there is a status bar across the top of the screen. The status bar shows the currently active check number (you can have up to a thousand checks open and active at the same time), a field labeled Quantity/Amount that is used for data entry, the user code of the currently logged in user, the name (if any) of the customer affiliated with the currently selected check, optionally the customer's account balance and several other pieces of information that are useful for the clerk handling the sale to know.

Down the right-hand side of the screen there is an area for the "tape" display (i.e. the items currently on the check, along with their modifiers if any). Below that there is an area for service charges and sales taxes (up to nine different charges/taxes may be defined), and at the bottom there is an area for the check total, amount tendered and balance owing or change due. Those four regions are essentially fixed (although you can specify the width of the last three items in the system configuration, and the middle region expands or shrinks based on the number of charges/taxes defined).

The contents of the two regions where the buttons appear are completely user-definable. By convention, most implementations use the lower region for control or settlement buttons and the upper region for screen selection (i.e. additional buttons or other controls) or item selection functions, but this is only a convention.

This is a representative example of what a top level food and beverage implementation might look like. Each of the buttons on the upper region of the screen will display a new set of buttons from which individual items can be chosen. The lower region is used to define control or settlement buttons as mentioned earlier.

To select a section or sell an item, simply touch the button on a touch-screen monitor or click the selection with the mouse on a standard monitor.