Process payment for a cash purchase.

Processing payments should include

  • estimating change
  • counting change forward
  • computing discounts
  • computing sales tax
  • scanning smartphone codes
  • providing a print or electronic receipt. 

Process/Skill Questions:

  • What is the process for estimating change? Why is it important to be able to estimate change?
  • Why is effectively processing payments important to customer relations? To security?
  • Why is it important for an employee to be able to troubleshoot when processing payments?
  • How are discounts computed? Why is it important to know this?
  • What is sales tax? Who pays it?
  • How is collecting sales tax in a brick-and-mortar business different from collecting sales tax in an e-commerce business?