SAM4s cash register support for one low monthly price

At the Cash Register Guys we have four full time support technicians that support your SAM4s cash register. We offer an unlimited support plan for one low monthly price. This allows you to budget your support for the year for those times you need a tax rate change or add a new item.

Visit us for more information about the SAM4s Cash Register Support Plan or call us at 800-863-2274

SAM4s cash register support

We offer SAM4s cash register support for all types of programming or troubleshooting. If you need to change your tax rate or program an entire cash register let us know and we can help. Our rates start for as little as $29.95 for a tax change and go up from there.

We have been supporting SAM4s cash registers over the phone for over ten years with great success. So if you are tired of pulling your hair out trying to make a change or add an item, give us a call at 800-863-2274

Programming sales tax on SAM4s cash registers

We support SAM4s cash registers regardless of where you bought it. We do charge for our support and most sales tax changes fall into our minimum service fee. Before your call for support make certain you have the key to turn your cash register key to Program, have your manual handy if you have it to make notes and lastly have you credit card for payment before we help you over the phone.

To schedule your support call you can reach us at 1-800-863-2274

Programming the sales tax rate on the SAM4s SPS-530 cash register

Programming Sales Taxes
The SPS-500 series cash registers provides calculation for up to six taxes. Tax calculation can be made by ADD ON percentage, by TAX TABLE, or by VAT(value-added tax). Provisions have been made for the Canadian Goods and Services tax (GST). If GST is to be taxable, you have the option of taxing the GST by other applicable rates (tax on tax). Use TAX 6 for GST applications.

1.  From thePGM mode PROGRAMMING MENU touch TAXESto view the TAX PROGRAMMING Screen.
2.  Touch the TYPE button to select ADD ON, TAX TABLE or VAT.
3.  Refer to the notes that follow to program each type of tax.
4.  Touch CLOSE to exit the program.


Our company can help you program the SAM4s SPS-530 cash register. If you bought from us we offer limited support for free, if you did not buy from us we can still help you at our normal rates. Call us at 1-800-863-2274 for pricing

Programming your cash register

So it is the time of year to be programming your cash register. Many cites and States increase sales taxes this time of year. If you forget to increase the rate your cash register charges you still have to pay the state the correct amount. Don't lose profit get your SAM4s cash register programmed for the correct tax. We also program Sharp cash registers. Most changes are quick and the current fee for 2013/14 is $50.00 for most models. Call us at 1-800-863-2274 to schedule a time to program your cash register

SAM4s cash register programming over the phone

Although we are located on the West Coast we install and support cash registers all over North America primarily SAM4s registers.

If you did not buy your machine from us and you require help with it we offer programming SAM4s cash registers over the phone. Many of the higher end models feature and SD card or USB port and we can program a machine in our office, copy the program to SD or USB flash drive and mail you your new program.

We can help with all the SAM4s models, we can program the SAM4s SPS-530F down to the SAM4s ER-180T and everything in between.

For pricing and support plans please give us a call at 1-800-863-2274 We are on the West Coast and office hours are M-F 8am to 5pm

get ready for the New Year if it involves a sales tax change

We are just a little bit more then a month out from the new year. Do you live in an area where the sales taxes are increasing and you will need to program your SAM4s cash register or your Sharp register?

We do programming for cash registers over the phone for all commercial Sharp registers and all the SAM4s models. Don't wait to get in line for the tax change, call early and arrange for a technician to call you back and walk you through the process of changing the sales tax.

Keep in mind you will need you program key and a phone at the register. The program key for a SAM4s is a "P" key or a "C" key as they both will work. For a Sharp cash register is needs to be a "MA" key

To schedule call 1-800-863-2274 and there is a fee for this service. Here are some sites you can visit as well

Programming sales tax on SAM4s cash registers

Sales tax programming on Sharp cash registers

Happy New Year and wishing you all a great 2014

Programming tax on the SAM4s ER-5200M

SAM4s ER-5200M

The ER-5200M/5240Mhas the capability to support four separate taxes. Taxes can be calculated as either a straight percentage rate of between .001% and 99.999%, or a 60 break point tax table. Each tax may be either an add-on tax (added to the cost of a taxable item), or a value added tax (VAT) that is included in the price of the item. I'm only going to address the straight percentage rate.

Straight Percentage Tax Rate Programming
When tax requirements may be met using a straight percentage rate, use the following method to
program a tax as a straight percentage.

1. Turn the control lock to the P position.
2. If the tax is a percentage rate, with a decimal. (0.000-99.999). It is not necessary to enter preceding zeros. For example, for 6%, enter 06.000 or 6.000.
3. For the type of tax: If the tax is a percentage added to the sale (normal add on tax), enter:  0

4. Enter 0 here for all taxes, unless if you are programming tax 4 as a Canadian GST.

5. Press the Tax Shift key for the tax you are programming.

6. Press the CASH key to end programming.

Again this was for a basic add on sales tax. There are other options.

If you need help programming your cash register we can help. If you did not buy from us we do charge for support over the phone.

Commercial Grade Cash Registers

There are two great brands of commercial grade cash registers and they are SAM4s and Sharp. Both of these companies make cash registers designed for medium and higher volume stores and restaurants. In today's sluggish economy it is even more important then ever to maximise your profit and cut cost. Well cutting cost on your cash register system may save you a few bucks but it will cost you in profit. Why you ask? Well because a good cash register will do the following

• Increase customer through put. You make a customer wait in line to long and they don't come back or the leave in the first place.
• Commercial grade registers are capable of four sales tax rates. You may only have one today but revenue hungry states, counties and cities keep inventing new sales tax rates. You could end up charging two or maybe four rates in one transaction!
• Interface credit card payments with your cash register reduces fraud, stops expensive ten key errors and speeds up lines!
• A good cash register will produce detailed sales reports daily and monthly saving you expensive time compiling reports for sales taxes etc.

There are a lot more reason but those are some of the top. Here is a good place to buy a Sharp cash register however you should make sure and check out the SAM4s Cash Registers before you buy any of them. Need help then give us a call 1-800-863-2274

Programming Sharp and SAM4s cash registers

Do you need help programming a cash register? Did your sales tax increase and you don't know how to change it? Well we can help but before you call please be aware that our support is not free? Everyday people call us that bough cash registers from big box stores and they don't know how to program them. They call us and become mad that we charge for our services. Why would any company support something for free that they did not sell? Does that make any sense at all? So if you don't mind paying for service give us a call and we will see if we can help. There are many cash registers in the big box stores that we CAN'T help with because we lack the manuals. Call us with the make and model and we will let you know right away if we can help. If your register model starts with XE then we probably can't help, if it starts with PCR we can't help.

Here is a small list of the registers we can support

• All SAM4s registers
• Most all Samsung cash registers
• Sharp models that begin with ER, or UP such as Sharp ER-A520 or UP-700

On a daily basis we support Sharp Cash Registers as well as SAM4s Cash Registers. We also support add on products like the Datacap Twin Tran cash register credit card interface

You can reach us at 1-800-863-2274

Picking the right cash register

Make sure when you are looking for a new cash register that you think about service after the sale. I find the average life span for a good cash register 5 to  7 years depending on the working environment (That does not mean they all last 5 year plus) and I have seen many last 10+ no problem.

Your new register is something you will have for a long time over many different sales tax increases, numerous employees and managers. If you walk into a big box store and buy a register who is going to help you with it in the future? Every day I have people calling me to change a tax rate on a cheap cash register they bought at the big box store and they want me to tell them how to change the tax rate for free! NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, call the big box store you bought it from. So if support is important then buy from a real cash register dealer like us who supports the registers they sell and often at no cost (not all services and support is free anywhere)

There are only three commercial grade cash register brands in the US and probably Canada too. They are SAM4s, Sharp and Casio. Of those our favorite is SAM4s because of price and features, followed by Sharp and lastly Casio.

All three of the big three manufactures offer cash registers that interface to credit card payments with the Datacap Twin Tran, DVR, Kitchen Printers, PC's and more.

Give us a call at 1-800-863-2274 if you need help selecting and buying a new SAM4s cash register.

Don't forget the cash register system

So you are investing a great deal of money opening your new business, maybe you are going into debt to open your dream store or restaurant. You are making sure you sell great products, have a great staff, your signage looks great because you spared no expense!

Well then don't wait for the last minute and buy a cheap cash register of POS system like so many people do. All of the return on your investment is going to come through your cash register or POS system. The cashiers will be handling all of that money before you get it back! The cashiers will tell the customers what they owe for their purchases. Do you want to risk that to a cheap cash register or POS system that lacks the proper controls? Would you use a bank that store your money in a cigar box and had lax security and record keeping? Of course you would not.

Lets talk about cashiers first. Yes most of your employees will be great honest folks that work hard! I know you don't want to hear this but I'm going to tell you anyway. You are going to hire someone soon if you have not already that is going to steal as much as they can from you while smiling and looking like a great employee! Yes I already know you are going to say not my employees they are like family! I have heard it all before and unfortunately every time I think I have seen it all before a client will come to us for help finding out where their money is going! I have had clients tell me there is no way an employee would do that as I show them in black and white how their employees are stealing from them and they don't believe me. I have seen many of those same people close up shop because they are not making enough money to keep the doors open.

So before you buy that $129.00 cash register at the big box store keep this in mind. Look at the list below for some important things to look for in a cash register

• You want a cash register that interfaces to credit card payments.
• If you are a retail store consider bar code scanning to ensure the correct price is registered for the item being sold.
• Make certain your cash register is capable of 4 sales tax rates.
• Make sure you can get support for your cash register over time. Sales tax rates change all the time! You don't want to find out at the end of the year you under collected sales tax on a million dollars in sales do you?
• Understand your sales reports and the built in security features.

Did you know the cash register was invented by a bar owner that knew his bartenders were stealing from him! The only thing that has changed is the technology! Need help call us at 1-800-863-2274

Programming sales tax on Sharp Cash Registers

So the first business day of the year and our phones are ringing off the hook with people looking for help programming their cash registers. We can help with commercial grade Sharp cash registers. Please don't call us if you have an XE model as we do not service them.

We charge for our support and the number is 1-800-863-2274 but before you call make sure you have your cash register manual (we can do without if need be) and your programming key. Most Sharp cash register programming keys have the letters MA on them. A SM or REG key will not get to the program mode and will do us no good! We sell all the keys as well.

New year new taxes for your cash register?

The New Year is often accompanied by new sales taxes in many states or counties so make sure you are prepared to program your cash register if that is the case. We are also seeing an increase in many areas where there are now multiple tax rates for example a general retail sales tax and maybe another separate higher one for food and beverage? If your area is moving to multiple sales taxes make sure you know how to program your cash register for one. Almost all newer Sharp cash registers and all of the current SAM4s cash registers can handle up to four tax rates.

When programming your cash register for a second rate don't forget you not only need to set the rate but also make the items or departments taxable by the new rate. None of the tax programming will affect your cash register and credit card interface if you have one.

Make sure you know how to do all this before the day you need to start. Don't forget cash register companies do charge for support for this service even if over the phone. If you require help programming your cash register call us at 1-800-863-2274

Sharp ER-A320 Programming

Here is a site that offers How to program Tax on Sharp ER-A320 Cash Register and there are other help guides on this model and other models too.

The Sharp ER-A320 is an awesome work horse of a cash register

Cash Register manuals

Here is a site that has a ton of Cash Register Manuals available for download at no cost. They have quite a few make and models listed

Free Cash Register Manuals

They have other items including programming guides and keyboard templates

Tax programming on the SAM4s ER-5215M

I helped someone on the phone yesterday program the tax rate on his SAM4s ER-5215M cash register yesterday. Pretty easy task when you have the programming manual. But here is a quick guide to programming tax on the SAM4s ER-5215M cash register. In this example I'm going to set tax rate 1 at 8.5% in a simple flat rate tax NO GST and NO VAT like most states sales taxes are set up. If in doubt make sure and check with you state department of revenue of the rate and type of sales tax you should be collecting. Check with your own CPA or bookkeeper as well!

OK here goes

1. Key To P (program mode)
2. Enter 8.50000 Press "Tax Shift 1" Press "Cash"

Your done, make sure and turn the key out of P to R and test!

Couple quick notes lets say you wanted to change Tax Rate #2 not 1 then replace "Tax Shift 1" with the "Tax Shift 2" button if Tax 3 then use Tax Shift 3, if tax 4 then use Tax shift 4. Pretty easy huh!

If you tax was 8% your first entry would be 8.00000 or 9.25% it would have been 9.25000 again pretty easy huh!

Keep in mind THIS DOES NOT MAKE A DEPARTMENT OR PLUS TAXABLE IT SIMPLY SETS THE RATE. You must program the tax status of a group or PLU to make it taxable or not and that is a different post!

Thanks

Taxable discounts on a cash register?

Common question we get on Sharp Cash Registers and SAM4s Cash Registers is how to make the total sales taxable after the discount. So as an example the business owner wants the cash register to charge sales tax after a discount like this $10.00 sale with a 10% discount and you want to tax $9.00 not $10.00

So you program the discount key to be taxable YES TAXABLE that was it reverses the tax that would have been charged. So if you have a 10% tax the sales tax on $10.00 would be $1.00 but you apply a discount of 10% that is taxable the discount will be $1.10 so your gross sale will be $9.90

Hope that helps! Works the same rather discount is based on percentage or dollar amount.

Programming the SAM4s ER-5200M Cash Register

The ER-5200M is a great register that is pretty easy to program. Following is some help on programming the tax rates for this register.

Straight Percentage Tax Rate Programming


When tax requirements may be met using a straight percentage rate, use the following method to
program a tax as a straight percentage.

Programming Straight Percentage Tax Rates and Status

1. Turn the control lock to the P position.

2. If the tax is a percentage rate, with a decimal. (0.000-99.999). It is not necessary to
enter preceding zeros. For example, for 6%, enter 06.000 or 6.000.

3. For the type of tax:
If the tax is a percentage added to the sale (normal add on tax), enter: 0
If the tax is a percentage value added tax (VAT; calculated as part of the
sale), enter:2

4. Enter 0 here for all taxes, unless if you are programming tax 4 as a Canadian GST. If tax
4 is a Canadian GST, enter the sum of the options below:

OPTION VALUE = SUM

GST (tax 4) is taxable by rate 1? Yes = 1 No = 0

GST (tax 4) is taxable by rate 2? Yes = 2 No = 0

GST (tax 4) is taxable by rate 3? Yes = 4 No = 0

5. Press the Tax Shift key for the tax you are programming.

6. Press the CASH key to end programming.

Below is an example of a tax rate of 8.8% NON GST regular sales tax rate

Programming Chart  8.80000

The last two zeros are the answer to Steps 3 and 4

I think the manual is posted here for the ER5200M


                                          

Do you need a cash register manual

We get a ton of questions from people looking for cash register manuals. First off if you cash register is older the 8 years it is very un-likely there is a downloadable manual avauilable on-line. I know of registers still on the market today that does not have a downloadable manual available.

There is a site that offers free downloads for Cash Register manuals and they have quite a few available and other tools like keyboard templates and programming guides and tips.