Cash Control is the one place you handle cash: the safe, your registers, and the full activity list, all logged and edited right here. Set up your registers first, then it becomes your close-of-night cash board.

Set Up Your Registers

Every register in your operation lives on one list so every cash event lands on the same register name instead of "Bar 1" one night and "Front Bar" the next.

1. Add a register

Open Shift → Add Registers. Give it a clear name and set a default opening bank if it normally opens with the same starting cash. That default pre-fills the opening bank when you start a shift on the register, so you are not retyping it every day.

2. Set its cash tolerance

Each register carries its own cash tolerance: how far its drawer can be off at a reconcile before Bar Cop flags it Over or Short. A busy main bar is harder to count tight than a slow service well, so set the number that fits, the default is $10. Both the reconcile on Cash Control and the weekly POS cash import read the matched register's tolerance. Retire a register you no longer use with Archive; it drops out of the dropdowns but stays on past records.

Work the Cash Board

1. Manage the safe

Open Shift → Cash Control. The big number is what should be in your safe right now, built from every safe entry on file. Cash drops mirror into the safe automatically, so the balance stays honest with no double entry. Use the buttons to make a Deposit, issue a Bank, or log other safe activity. Both the Count the Safe and Log a Drop pop-ups give you a bill counter: punch in how many of each bill and your coins total, and the amount fills in for you.

2. Count the safe

Count the Safe lets you count what is physically in the safe and catch an over or short against what should be there. A safe count flags the gap, it does not change your running balance.

3. Reconcile the registers

Each register shows its standard bank, the drops pulled in the range you picked, and how its last reconcile came out. Log a Drop pulls cash from a register into the safe. Your POS cash report imports on the Shift dashboard each week and fills the over or short for every register at once. Reconcile by Hand here is for an off-cycle count or a register with no POS export: enter the expected POS cash and what you counted, and Bar Cop logs the variance against that register's tolerance.

4. Filter and review the activity

The range chips above the activity list set the window, and drive the four totals (drops in, safe out, drawer net, flagged variances) and the list below. Every drop, deposit, bank move, reconcile, and safe count lands in Cash Activity; hit Edit on any row to change or delete it. Export PDF prints the range you are viewing. The read-only Cash Drop History, Safe Log History, and Variance History pages in the sidebar hold the full filterable record of each type.