You generally don't need to manually "delete" a cash drawer in Toast, especially those that open automatically. For these automatically opened drawers, the process involves simply leaving them alone.
Understanding Toast Cash Drawer Behavior
Toast handles cash drawers in specific ways, particularly those that are automatically opened at the start of your business day.
Automatic Cash Drawer Closure
Based on Toast's design, if a cash drawer is opened automatically at the beginning of the business day and no cash transactions or entries (like payouts or drops) are made using that specific drawer, Toast has a built-in mechanism to close it.
Here's how it works for automatically opened drawers:
- If the automatically-opened drawer is left alone without any transactions or cash entries,
- The End of Day report is run,
- And the restaurant closes,
- Toast will automatically close the cash drawer at the Business Day Cutoff Time.
The Recommended Action
For automatically opened drawers that you don't intend to use, Toast advises a simple approach:
- Do not interact with that drawer.
- By leaving it untouched through the end-of-day process, it will disappear automatically.
Essentially, for automatically opened drawers that are unused, the "deletion" or removal process is automatic and requires no manual intervention from the user.
