Occupation information for Cashiers District Of Columbia

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Typical education needed for entry: No formal educational credential

Typical work experience needed for a job in this occupation: No work experience

Typical on-the-job training once you have a job in this occupation: Less than 1 month on-the-job training

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• Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
• Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
• Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
• Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.
• Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.
• Compute and record totals of transactions.
• Help customers find the location of products.
• Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately.
• Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
• Greet customers entering establishments.

Tools:

• Bar code reader equipment
• Cash registers
• Commercial use scales
• Packaging compactors
• Ticket dispensing machines

Technology:

• Accounting software
• Data base user interface and query software
• Medical software
• Operating system software
• Point of sale POS software

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