Backdated receipts

When a sale has to be recorded with a past date, which permission it needs and what goes into the log.

Sometimes a sale has to be recorded on a past day: the venue worked without a connection and without a register, a banquet was counted on paper, a corporate order was forgotten. There is a separate operation for this — and a separate permission.

How it works

When creating a receipt you can set a sale date in the past — up to a few days back. It requires:

• the receipt.backdate permission — by default neither the cashier nor the waiter has it;
• a reason — as text; it goes into the log.

What happens to prices and stock

Prices are taken from the menu history for the given date, not today’s: a three-day-old receipt must not be calculated at a price that changed yesterday. Stock is deducted the same way as for a normal sale.

What you cannot do

• record a receipt with a future date;
• go further back than the allowed number of days;
• combine a past date with a manual price — these are two different exceptions, and they do not work together.