
9-2
Tender a Guest Check
Introduction
Introduction
Customers can pay guest checks using several different payment
methods: cash, credit card, room charge, or employee meal. In
some restaurants, a guest check can be tendered to an alternate
currency. Guest checks may be partially tendered by seat
number, or split into more than one check. Payments can also be
“split-tendered,” paid partly in cash and partly by credit card.
Automatic Full Payment
On some systems, [Tender] keys are programmed to assume
automatic full payment. This means that you can press any
[Tender] key without entering an amount, and the system
assumes that you received the exact amount due. Because of
this, the change due always displays as $0.00.
Systems that are not programmed for automatic full payment
always require you to enter the amount tendered. If you forget
to enter an amount, the system either prompts you to enter one,
or posts a default payment of $0.00. The only exception is with
credit cards: the system never defaults to a $0.00 tender.
Instead, the default tender amount is the amount due.
Closing a Guest Check
When a guest check is tendered and closed, the system stores all
of the transaction detail, totals, and identification information
(table number, check number, check employee, date and time).
After a check has been tendered, the closed check record can be
edited to adjust the tip or change the tender.
Your system can be programmed to require a check to be fully
tendered after any partial tender. This option requires a check to
be paid in full in one transaction, but still allows the customer to
pay with more than one tender or to split the check.
Credit Cards
Tendering a guest check to a credit card can be more involved
than using other payment means if your restaurant requires
that a credit card be validated for payment before it is accepted.
This added process is called credit authorization.
Not all restaurants perform credit authorizations, and some
perform them using a separate machine. The following
information on credit authorizations applies only to those
restaurants that use the 3700 System’s credit authorization and
electronic draft capture (CA/EDC) functionality.
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