Sharp XE-A203 Thermal Printing High Costract Cash Register

List Price: $299.99 Discount Price: $140.90

Features:

• High Contrast LED Screen.
• Thermal Printing and Electronic Journal
• Can look up 1200 prices, use 25 clerks and have up to 99 Departments.
• Uses SD Memory Card.
• Auto Tax System.

Customer Reviews:

Do not get this machine if you are replacing a Royal Cash Register... [Posted on 2006-10-31]
After my "ROYAL alpha583cx Heavy Duty Cash Register" died we purchased this sharp XEA203. Well... it's been about a week and it's been really frustrating. My fiance is a computer programmer and he helped me program both registers. He thought the Sharp was easier to program than the Royal, but I believe the exact opposite. The Royal was much easier to understand, in my opinion!

The Z reports don't make sense to me. Net sales, gross sales and department total sales don't add up. There are 3 different kinds of voids and I can't figure out if it's adding all the voids together or repeating the types of voids. With the Royal, at the end of the day you have one option... to run a Z report and zero it out for the day. The Sharp has several options for zeroing out the register. Monthly, daily etc etc. And it doesn't spit out a report that is similar to the one the Royal did so I have to change the way I do my bookkeeping a bit. The number one frustrating thing about the Sharp... if you ring something up for say, $10.00 and take off 20% because the item is on sale or the customer presents a coupon (NOT a manufacturer's coupon), the register should tax the $8.00, right? Well, the Sharp is calculating the tax for the $10.00 and adding it to the final total, even after the $2.00 is deducted. I have yet to find a way to easily correct this, I've had to resort to manually entering the sale price from square one, which is time consuming and the customer asks "Did I get a discount on this item?" since the discount is not reflected on their receipt. Also, this register saves each transaction in memory. You cannot keep a paper copy of your transactions AND give a receipt to your customer. It's one or the other.

So, bottom line, in my opinion, if you are used to using Royal, stay with Royal and when it comes to cash registers, the simpler the better! Also, my Royal had an extra drawer for extra rolls of coins and keys, this one does not.

On the plus side, this register is very quiet and holds a charge of 48 hours on 2 AA batteries, something the Royal could not do. It also has a slot for an SD card to save up to a year of data but up until today, all the reports are wrong so that doesn't really help. It also comes with a USB cord to plug the register into your PC and get your logo onto your receipts and it's supposed to aid in the programming of the register. I haven't touched that yet so I can't comment on it.

Excellent Register and super easy to program. Highly recommended [Posted on 2007-06-28]
This is the first register i've owned. And it's a charm, i though the programming would be hard. But it is super easy with the included software. Use the software, trying to program and set up things like your logo for receipts will take a lot of time, using the register. Connect the included USB cable to the register and your pc and it becomes a breeze. Programming the tax, reciept logo, PLU (price look up) and Departments was fun.

No only was i up and running in no time, one click and all the days sales is downloaded directly into quickbooks. I don't need a printout from the register. I get full data on all the days sales, from the time they were made, the clerk, how much each department sold, etc etc. You can also download this information to a SD card to read and print from another pc. So far everything is running smooth, I don't have any complaints. Even giving a % discount works correctly, read the manual it will help you understand how to get that done.

This register is perfect for small business such as retail stores. You can even program this register with an ID just in case you have more than one register in your store.

I really enjoy the use of the sharp xe - 203, as i stated in the beginning, this is my first register, so i do have a lack of experience with other register. I'm a pc guy so i know good tech products when i see them, but i know them better once i use them. I recommended this for any and all small business owners who need a cash register. And the price is also another good selling point.

All in all this is a good cash register, easy to program.

Little Money BIG punch. [Posted on 2008-03-27]
Sharp is maybe the oldest electronic cash register manufacturer in the world and the best of all of them. This cash register is a little titan that packs simplicity of operation, sturdiness, and reliability. For an about to open small business is more than enough. You will not need more than this machine in a long, long, long time. I assure you may, God forbid, go out of business, close the store, go to something else, and she will still be there.

Very Nice [Posted on 2008-07-17]
This register was puchased for my work, the Bedford County Historical Society. We had a Sharp register before, and this is very similar. There's not much to learn for simple functions. We've only been using it a day so far, but we are very pleased. I would recommend this register to any small business owner. There are many features I'm sure we'll never use, but we like the possibilities. It is very easy to do simple set-up and be able to use right away.

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