Store Production

Back to working on building another store.  What we've got here is a behind the cash register look.  

Note the shelf sitting in there.  That's where all the magic happens, really.   Those shelves are added after market, and are generally set to just slightly lower than the height of a receipt printer.  We're tied to VeriFone point of sale equipment so we know the printer height isn't going to change any time soon.   If the shelf wasn't in there, the customer display wouldn't be tall enough to look over the barricade, and things would end up looking really ghetto.  Non-vertical customer displays look like crap. 

The silver bracket there will be to prevent the cashier from shoving the cash drawer back into my nice, zip tied collection of wires.  I'll fit the power brick and pin pad multiport adapter back there as well for easy access by the cashier if they need to reboot anything.  It's a whole lot easier to say "it's behind the register" than having them dig through a cabinet that has been filled with crap. 

There are limits to what the cashier can do when they can't move the cash drawer back.  If the cashier had the ability to move the cash drawer back, the shelf wouldn't be viable and you'd have an ungainly mess of junk.  The receipt printer would end up sitting somewhere uncomfortable and would end up falling off, causing havoc and destroying speed of service.   As it is, it's at a great height for quick access.

And the final product is here.

The end result is a nice, clean, professional looking checkout area.   Sun was sitting at the right spot, so the picture came out a little darker than I would have liked.  But, it shows off the intended effect really well.  There are a good 10-15 wires all cleanly shoved and zip-tied behind the cash drawer, out of sight and mind.  But there is plenty of slack on each wire to slide the whole apparatus, cash drawer and all, out away from the spacing it is set in. 



And to think I signed up to be IT.   

HAH!

No, really I am IT.  I just happen to work on point of sale systems as well.  To get to the point where I can set all this up, I had to program the site controller, a router and switch, and wire a couple of dumb switches.  Ran wires to everything else, and then get it all talking.  Once the cash registers are done, it's time to move on to the back office PC.

Oh yeah, and use an angle grinder to cut chunks out of the cabinet bottoms for my wires to come up through the floor.