The till

The till (Point of Sale) is where a cashier spends the whole day. These are its parts:

1. Search — type part of an item's name and the matching items appear (see Adding items).
2. Categories — All shows every item; any other category shows its items only. Next to them, Customers and Products take you straight there.
3. Items — each item is a button with its name and price. One tap adds it to the ticket.
4. Keypad — for quantities, barcodes, discounts and cash (see The keypad).
5. The ticket — its number and type, the items added, subtotal, tax and total, then the ticket buttons and Pay.
6. Open Tickets — tickets not closed yet; the number on it is how many (see Open tickets).
7. Department — such as Takeaway, Dine-In or Delivery. It decides how the sale works (see Departments).

The ticket

As soon as you add the first item, Major opens a new ticket by itself and gives it a number (such as #15). At the top of the ticket:

• the ticket number and type (such as Takeaway);
• buttons such as Link Customer, Tags and Table to attach a customer or a table, or tag the ticket.

Under the items you will find the Subtotal, the VAT (and any service charge or discount) and the Grand Total. Major calculates the total — there is nothing to work out by hand.

Next to each item a small clock icon means "Held — not sent to kitchen yet". It changes when you send the order to the kitchen (see Send to the kitchen).

Linking what the ticket type requires

A ticket type can require entities — for example a Captain and a Table (the owner sets this in Ticket types). On such a ticket the buttons for those types come first in the row above the ticket, marked Required (1), and a red box above the items says Link before sending or paying with Still to link: and the types still missing (2).

• Press Link now, or the type's own button, to choose the entity.
• If you press Pay or Send to Kitchen first, Major opens the list of that type for you instead. Choose the entity and Major goes on: the payment window opens, or the order is sent. When the type requires more than one, it asks for each in turn.
• Move to department into a department whose type requires an entity asks for it the same way, then moves the ticket.

A ticket opened at a table from the floor plan already has its table, so a type that requires a table asks for nothing more (Tables). The ticket's own details (customer, address) are asked before the entities.

The ticket buttons

The buttons in the header

Next to Open Tickets and the department there is Cash drawer (cash in and out, paying and receiving from a supplier) and Close Shift. At the start of the header, if the shop has a table map, you will find Floor Plan or Back to Screen (see Tables).