When you hire a new employee,Employee_Maintenance you need to enter employee information into Retail.

The employee’s name displays on the checkstand and prints on the customer’s receipt when a Cashier is signed on. Manager activities and functions can be tracked once you have assigned an Administrative Password to a Manager.

More importantly, Retail provides you with the capability of assigning security levels and profiles that will allow or disallow access to the various functions and activities in Retail. For example:

    • A new cashier can be set up in Retail (Add an Employee) with a Cashier password set to security level of 1 or 2 so you can monitor the refunds and voids the new cashier makes.  A new cashier would have no access to the back office functions.
    • A Manager might have both a Cashier password and an Administrator password. For a ‘tenured’ manager, you might then set the security level to have full access to the back office and the ability to perform all Manager functions at the check-stands.  
    • A new Manager might have the ability to perform selected functions in the back office.

Security Levels range from 1 through 20 for each Front End and Back End passwords. You need to define those activities in the Security Administration task.

In addition, you may assign Profile Profile_Maintenanceto employees to allow them to view and access a limited number of screens in the Back End.

Finally, the Employee Maintenance functions allow you to print an Employee List. This list contains sensitive information like cashier passwords and Administrative Passwords. So only the most trusted employees should have access to the Print Employee Report and the Employee Maintenance task.