Cashiers

Cashiers typically perform the following tasks: • Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits. • Greet customers entering establishments. • Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers. • Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints. • Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately. • Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners. • Answer incoming phone calls. • Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies. • Request information or assistance, using paging systems. • Help customers find the location of products. • Process merchandise returns and exchanges. • Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas, and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans. • Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales. • Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change. • Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons. • Post charges against guests' or patients' accounts. • Compute and record totals of transactions. • Weigh items sold by weight to determine prices. • Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins. • Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.