Cashier Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. May use electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. May process credit or debit card transactions and validate checks.
Cashier is Also Know as
In different settings, Cashier is titled as
- Cashier
- Center Aisle Cashier
- Central Aisle Cashier
- Checker
- Customer Assistant
- Sales Associate
- Toll Collector
Education and Training of Cashier
Cashier is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Cashier
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Cashier
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Cashier
Training Required for Cashier
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Cashier in different industries are
- Counter and Rental Clerks
- Tellers
- First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
- Retail Salespersons
- Order Clerks
- Customer Service Representatives
- Postal Service Clerks
- Gambling Cage Workers
- Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers
- Pharmacy Aides
- Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers
- Stockers and Order Fillers
- First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
- Receptionists and Information Clerks
- Billing and Posting Clerks
- Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks
- Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
- New Accounts Clerks
- Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
- Office Clerks, General
What Do Cashier do?
- Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
- Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
- Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
- Greet customers entering establishments.
- Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
- Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons.
- Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
- Cash checks for customers.
- Weigh items sold by weight to determine prices.
- Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.
- Compute and record totals of transactions.
- Sell tickets and other items to customers.
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.
- Bag, box, wrap, or gift-wrap merchandise, and prepare packages for shipment.
- Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.
- Process merchandise returns and exchanges.
- Pay company bills by cash, vouchers, or checks.
- Request information or assistance, using paging systems.
- Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.
- Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately.
- Post charges against guests' or patients' accounts.
- Offer customers carry-out service at the completion of transactions.
- Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.
- Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas, and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans.
- Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as monitoring fitting rooms or bagging and carrying out customers' items.
- Supervise others and provide on-the-job training.
- Help customers find the location of products.
- Answer incoming phone calls.
- Stock shelves, sort and reshelve returned items, and mark prices on items and shelves.
Qualities of Good Cashier
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
Tools Used by Cashier
- 10-key calculators
- Belt conveyors
- Cardboard balers
- Cash registers
- Credit card readers
- Desktop computers
- Electronic cash registers
- Electronic food scales
- Electronic funds transfer EFT terminals
- Food scales
- Gas pump controllers
- Handheld bar code scanners
- Laptop computers
- Laser printers
- Lottery ticket machines
- Money order machines
- Personal computers
- Stationary bar code scanners
- Surveillance cameras
- Ticket dispensing machines
- Trash compactors
Technology Skills required for Cashier
- Accounting software
- AFEXDirect
- Bookkeeping software
- Database software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Handheld computer device software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Windows
- Point of sale POS software
- ReliaSoft Prism