Every staff member sees only their screens, every drawer opens with a shift and closes with a count, and every exception is recorded under the name of the person who made it.
Dashing gives you control you can verify: four ready-made roles, 49 screens granted or revoked per user, a shift per drawer that starts with a float and ends with a cash count, and an audit log that is only ever appended to, never edited. Here is exactly what gets recorded, and what the software does not offer for managing staff.
Roles and screens
Owner, accountant, manager and cashier: each role comes with default screens, and any user can then have screens granted or revoked one by one from the app's list of 49, covering the cashier, invoices, inventory, customers, purchasing, suppliers, expenses, reports, journal entries, settings and more. A branch employee is limited to their branch and sees no other branch's sales. The accountant signs in from their office with their own account and never sees the cashier. Dash respects the same list: it will not answer about a screen the user cannot see.
The shift and the drawer
A shift opens with a float and closes with a cash count, note by note; the difference between counted and expected is booked automatically as an overage or a shortage. In Settings you can turn on blind counting: the cashier enters their count before seeing the expected amount, and must give a written reason for any difference above the threshold you set in dinars. Both options are off by default. Movements during the shift, whether a deposit, a withdrawal or an expense paid from the drawer, are recorded under the name of whoever made them. If the device was offline, closing waits until its sales have uploaded.
The shift report
In Settlements, every shift has a report: the opening float, cash sales, cash returns, paid in and paid out, deposits, expected against counted, and the variance. Below it, a comparison of the day with the same weekday last week, covering revenue, number of transactions and average ticket, so each figure is read in context.
What is recorded by name
- A customer's credit limit overridden, in the audit log: by whom, for whom, for how much, and why
- A receipt reprinted, in the audit log with the copy number
- A return without a receipt, on the return record with the name of whoever approved it
- An invoice voided with a visible reversing entry, in its status history under the name of whoever voided it: the original and the void stay together
- A manual stock adjustment and a posted count, each with its entry and the name of whoever did it; and a drawer closed with a variance, on the shift with its reason
- Every change Dash proposed and someone approved, in the audit log; and every question put to it, in its own request log
Hours and commissions
Working hours are recorded per staff member, and commission rules on sales are computed, accrued and exported. Salaries are not paid from inside the software, and there is no HR module: no leave, contracts or personnel files.
What it does not do
No payroll and no HR: hours and commissions are computed and exported, but nothing is paid from inside the software. No manager code to type in over the cashier's screen: the permission belongs to the account and every exception is logged. Blind counting and the variance reason are options that stay off until you switch them on.
Common questions
Can a cashier delete an invoice?
Nothing is deleted. An invoice is voided with a visible reversing entry, and both the original and the void stay in the log under the name of whoever did it, with the time.
Do staff work on one device or several?
Either. Every staff member has an account and can sign in from any device; the shift belongs to the drawer, not the device. Signing in needs internet; selling afterwards does not.
Can I stop the cashier from seeing the reports?
Yes. The cashier role does not see the reports to begin with, and you can revoke or grant any of the 49 screens for any user individually from the Staff screen.
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