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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Cashiers

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. May use electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. May process credit or debit card transactions and validate checks.

Cashiers · O*NET 41-2011.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

8 of 12tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

12 matched to the tools cashiers use. Showing 12.

The tools this job actually uses

12 documented for this occupation. Showing 12, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Apple Safarihot
  • Microsoft Edgehot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Windowshot
  • Mozilla Firefoxhot
  • AFEXDirect
  • Bookkeeping software
  • Database software
  • Electronic medical record EMR software
  • Handheld computer device software
  • ReliaSoft Prism

What this job involves

28 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
  2. Greet customers entering establishments.
  3. Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.
  4. Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
  5. Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
  6. Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons.
  7. Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.
  8. Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately.
  9. Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
  10. Post charges against guests' or patients' accounts.
  11. Compute and record totals of transactions.
  12. Weigh items sold by weight to determine prices.
  13. Answer incoming phone calls.
  14. Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
  15. Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.
  16. Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.
  17. Request information or assistance, using paging systems.
  18. Help customers find the location of products.
  19. Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.
  20. Supervise others and provide on-the-job training.
  21. Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as monitoring fitting rooms or bagging and carrying out customers' items.
  22. Sell tickets and other items to customers.
  23. Stock shelves, sort and reshelve returned items, and mark prices on items and shelves.
  24. Bag, box, wrap, or gift-wrap merchandise, and prepare packages for shipment.