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109 - BreakPoint U.S. Food Stamp Utility

  BreakPoint supports the Illinois standard for Food Stamp management. This includes the following operating specifications:
  • All PLU Items and all Departments have individually assignable Food Stamp Status.
  • Any one or more of the 30 BreakPoint Tenders may be assigned as the Food Stamp Tender.
  • Food Stamp Subtotal is displayed on the screen at all times during the sales transaction.
  • All applicable taxes are reversed for sales entries paid with Food Stamps.
  • Change on Food Stamp Tender which is below $1.00 is provided as Cash Change.
  • Change on Food Stamp Tender which is $1.00 or more is provided as Food Stamp Change.
To invoke Food Stamp Tendering, you must first assign all applicable PLU Items and Departments as Food Stamp applicable. The Food Stamp Subtotal will be automatically accumulated and displayed in the lower left corner of the BreakPoint Cashier Workstation screen beside the identifier FS.

To assign a PLU Item as Food Stamp applicable, you will need to set PLU System Flag #33 to YES. To assign a Department as Food Stamp applicable, you will need to set Department System Flag #39 to YES. In order to establish a Tender as Food Stamp applicable, you will need to set Tender System Flag #15 to YES.

At the time of finalization, any amount of Food Stamp Tender can be entered, but only the amount displayed as the FS Subtotal will be accepted. Any surplus Food Stamp Tender entered will be provided back as either Cash Change or Food Stamp Change. If the amount of change is less than one dollar ($1.00), it is provided back as Cash Change. If the amount of change is one dollar or more, then the change is provided as Food Stamp Change.

All PLU Items or Department Entries that are paid by Food Stamp and are also taxable under normal circumstances will be made non-taxable. When a Food Stamp Tender amount is entered, it is first applied to any items which are Food Stamp applicable and also taxable. The tax amount for those items will be immediately adjusted from the tax subtotals for that sales transaction.

All Food Stamp Tenders are accumulated and reported like any other Tender.

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