Count the Drawer, Trust the Shift: Cash Control Without the Clipboard

Cash is the one payment method that never sends a webhook. NoPOS keeps every drawer honest: each shift starts from a counted float, every drop and payout is logged to a cashier, and handovers reconcile expected against actual before the next shift touches the till.

Start every shift from a counted float

• Open the drawer with a declared starting float per register — no carrying yesterday's mystery balance forward.
• Assign the drawer to one cashier at a time so every bill has an owner from open to close.
• Log paid-outs and paid-ins (cleaning supplies, a customer refund in cash) against the drawer the moment they happen, not from memory later.

Drops and handovers without the drama

• Run blind drops mid-shift when the drawer gets heavy: the cashier enters what they think is in there, the manager counts, and the variance tells the story.
• Hand over with a till count, not a handshake — the outgoing cashier counts, the incoming cashier verifies, and both sign off in the same record.
• Flag over/short per cashier per shift so patterns surface in days, not at month-end when nobody remembers.

Close the loop every night

1. Count each drawer against its expected total and post the variance to the cashier's record.
2. Reconcile the safe and card batches alongside cash so the end-of-day report tells one story.
3. Export drawer activity with the shift report — auditors and accountants get the same numbers you saw.

Use Swagger UI or OpenAPI for the current drawer-session, drop, payout, and variance request shapes.