Cash register – electronic device, fitted with a device for printing a sales receipt. This device has a screen, keyboard and printing device, which prints on a special paper tape. It is used in calculations for goods sold and services performer. The main task of the cash register – fix on a paper (cash receipt) a sale transaction. Cash registers are fiscal (used in countries where fiscal legislation operates) and non-fiscal. Fiscal cash registers differ from non-fiscal ones by the presence of fiscal memory – a data carrier, data from which can not be deleted, as well as other design features described by local fiscal legislation. In fiscal memory, data on transactions made with the help of this cash register are accumulated.

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