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cash box - no sale

1. 1 Posted by Jonny on 04 Aug, 2013 06:53 AM

   I just reprint the last sale.

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2. 2 Posted by Reid Beels on 27 Aug, 2013 08:21 AM

   With many receipt printers, it's possible to send the "open drawer" command directly as a print job. For our Star TSP113 (and I think all other Star printers), the command to open the drawer is the ASCII "bell" character, which is character 07.

   You'll need to crack open the Terminal to get this set up, but once it's set it should continue to work as long as your printer is set up.

   First, you'll want to find your printer's name. In a terminal, run:

   lpstat -a
   

   This will list all of the printers on your machine along with some status information. You'll want to find your receipt printer in the list and copy its name. My printer's name is Star_TSP113, so you'll want to substitute yours in the code below.

   Next, you'll try sending a bell character to the printer with

   echo '\a' | lpr -P 'Star_TSP113' -oraw
   

   If all goes according to plan, your cash drawer should open.

   You can then wrap this in an AppleScript like so:

   do shell script "echo '\a' | lpr -P 'Star_TSP113' -oraw"
   

   Once you have it in AppleScript form, you can do things like assign it to a hotkey or just run it from the dock whenever you want to open your drawer.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Checkout Suppor... on 03 Sep, 2013 08:38 PM

   Hello Paul,

   Unfortunately, there isn't a setting in Checkout to have the cash drawer open without a sale.

   Regards,
   Michele
   Checkout Support

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4. Checkout Support closed this discussion on 03 Sep, 2013 08:38 PM.