BUSINESS ITEMS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1353, 30 March 1916, Page 26

BUSINESS ITEMS.

NATIONAL CASH REGISTER. NEW MODEL. To many business men the National Cash Register conveys the idea of a system that is designed to take care of their cash sales, and only that part of their business. But in almost every shop in New Zealand to-day, a certain amount of credit has to be given. Some system has to be used to keep account of this credit business, and the methods used vary from a small notebook, in which credit sales are jotted down, to elaborate and expensive systems. All of these systems, however, start and finish with written records—and written records can be altered at any time. It is one of the axioms of the National Cash Register Company that printed figures cannot be altered and “printed figures protect.” With this idea in mind, and also recognising the importance of protecting a shopkeeper’s credit sales just as efficiently as his cash, they set to work to invent a register that would take care of both cash and credit business. The National cash and credit register is the result, and it is a marvel of simplicity and effectiveness. All cash transactions —cash sales, money received on account, and money paid out —are protected in the usual effective manner, now so well known to business men. A special drawer is provided for credit business, and by a simple and ingenious docket it is so arranged that when a credit docket is made out for any sale all the book-keeping in connection with that sale is finished and audited. Furthermore, no weekly or monthly itemised statements are necessary—which to some businesses means a considerable saving for stamps and stationery alone. Another result, which, on the face of it, might appear almost impossible—but which is perfectly true nevertheless —is that this system protects the shopkeeper on the money collected by his carters. This is a trouble for which many a business man has spent hours and hours trying to find a solution. This register solves it. If a carter collects money he must hand it in at once, or it will be/discovered almost immediately—perhaps the very next day. This model register has not been long on this market, but already a large number have been sold.