Best practice for cash sales using Pastel point of sale

[Raene]

Hi there

It seems I have more questions than answers these days but I hope to be able to return the favour someday soon.

A new client that I do bookkeeping for is using Pastel point of sale (which I have no experience with) and I would just like to know the best practice in terms of processing cash sales in Pastel Express when it is used in conjunction with Pastel Point of sale. They do the sales processing at the shop and I do the bookkeeping at my office.

The cash sales and credit card payments are invoiced and processed through point of sale. The previous bookkeeper would capture the total cash sales for each day in the petty cash receipts cash book from the POS sales report as the cash income is not banked, and the total credit card payments for each day in the bank receipts cash book from the bank statement.

As the cash income doesn't reflect on the bank statement, what is the most correct way (which entry type?) to capture the cash income - capturing income in a petty cash cash book is surely not the norm?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards
Raene