Card Machine Help?

[harshit143]

I recently got a card swipe machine for my business. Onscreen there are 3 options before i swipe a card - Sale, Cash and (Sale & Cash).
Though its quite obvious i need to use the sale option while swiping the card but i am curious to know why there is that cash and sale & cash options and what will be the outcome if i swipe the cards through them.

p.s. the guy who installed the machine don't know the use of other two options (noob).

 

[mrmash]

It probably is the cashback option. I haven't seen it used here in India much (to be frank, I don't even know if that option works)
But usually how cash back works is - you swipe for more than your bill amount and receive the rest as cash from the retailer.

 

[Niks]

The Cash option for cash withdrawal at POS merchants, something which RBI introduced some years back. A customer can "withdraw" cash from a merchant by swiping his debit card using this option. But it was only limited to 1000/- a day per debit card. I don't know if the limit's been increased now.

The Sale and Cash is for processing cashbacks at merchants, for those that support it.