Quick Legend Receipt System

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for enabling more efficient tipping by providing a merchant the ability to reduce the time used on manually entering tip amounts. In one embodiment, a method includes automatically generating, by a point-of-sale (POS) system, a transaction receipt that indicates a plurality of selectable tip options, wherein said automatically generating the transaction receipt is based on one or more rules specified by a user of the POS system. The method further includes causing the transaction receipt to be printed as a printed receipt. The method further includes identifying, by the POS system, a one of the plurality of selectable tip options specified by a customer on the printed receipt. Among other benefits, the disclosed techniques reduce the time and effort the merchant needs to spend on collating the tipping at end of the business day.

主权项

1. A point-of-sale (POS) system comprising:
a display; a receipt generation module configured to (a) enable, via the display, a merchant using the POS system to specify one or more rules that adjust how each of a plurality of selectable tip options, each representing a different tip amount, is generated and (b) generate, based on the one or more rules, a transaction receipt that includes a section indicating the plurality of selectable tip options; and a printer module to print the transaction receipt as a printed receipt for allowing a customer to specify a one of the plurality of selectable tip options in the section on the printed receipt, wherein the plurality of selectable tip options are printed with indications showing what a total after-tip amount will be in each tip option so that the customer can approve both the tip amount and the total after-tip amount corresponding to the one option to be specified by the customer using a single selection, wherein the receipt generation module is further configured to cause the POS system to display, after generation of the transaction receipt, the plurality of selectable tip options to the merchant and to prompt the merchant to input to the POS system the one of the plurality of selectable tip options specified by a customer on the printed receipt.