Sharp HO XEA207 Cash Register

Great register that’s super easy to use and fairly simple to program. There’s a couple little features that help with making it error proof for the cashier. Great purchase for the money.

I bought this for my retail shop after reading all the "OMG -- I'm a software engineer and it took me hours to get it programmed" reviews. People, learn to breathe!Okay, I am a programmer but that has nothing to do with this register. The manual isn't written very well; it does not have every step you need to know in order to program deparments, plu's and all that all on one page. However, if you go about halfway into the manual you'll find all the beginnning stuff (like how to get into the "Mode" mode or "Progamming"). Read it first! Get some sticky tabs and use them on the pages; you'll be flipping back to see stuff. Like when you want to select a Yes or No from an option you use the "." on the number pad -- you won't find that with the specific programming instructions.I had the machine up and running in about 45 minutes. Customized the 6 lines of logo, added tax rates, added departments with titles, created the memory card folders... all that jazz.Tip: Do not try to enter characters by using the key pad (1 = a, b or c) -- it sucks! Once you get the hang of using the 3 digit codes you'll get really good, really fast -- and it's waaay better at getting at special characters -- so easy!Tip 2: Install the 2 AA batteries in the battery pack (under the register paper cover and on the left side where a journal tape would go). The instructions for the batteries are buried and once you lose power or unplug it all your work will be gone. Get a memory card for a few bucks and save everything... you'll be glad you did!

This is easy to program, easy to print receipts. You can put a card in this to record. For small membership club this works great

Well rounded register , used when I owned More4less @ Hux grocery

My review will be skewed because this is the first ECR that I've ever bought and set up, and I've only used a register at Walgreen's in high school without knowing how to program it. I will explain my rating and then give more details later.I am giving this 5 stars because it fulfills my needs (please note what I will write about what features I needed and did not need), but subtracting 1 star (maybe 2) because the instructions can be unclear and I need to email Sharp to answer some of my questions. The new price on Amazon was the best I could find. Most retailers were selling for at least $200.My needs are a couple hundred PLUs for preset pricing, only a few clerks, only several departments. My bonus wants were a nice multi-line LCD, RS232 port for credit card terminal hookup, and programming on PC and paperless reports through an SD card. The XE-A207 does all of this, and the price is only $140 on amazon, which seems good to me, although I've never bought a cash register before. What I didn't need and what this product didn't have is a bar code scanner for UPCs, other ports for peripherals such as a scale, and a larger cash box. For more functions, you'd either need a higher model such as the XE-A507, or a customizable POS system. If you didn't need the SD card or the single RS232 port, or fewer PLUs, then you could get the XE-A106, which i think is about $80-$90. I don't know much about other brands. It seems that the other large manufacturer of small-business ECRs is Casio, but their product descriptions on their website were too vague to figure out which one I needed, so I focused on Sharp products.For me, the programming is not that hard, but this is almost certainly subjective. The menus are navigated just like any menu in an electronic device. You go in and out of the menu tree with arrow keys and enter/escape keys, and edit the settings with the keypad. The departments and PLUs probably take the most time to set up, and you can also do it on your computer with an SD card. However, you need the full-sized SD card, not a smaller SD form with an adapter. You need to download a small standalone program from Sharp, called a Customer Support Tool. The software is fairly simple, but may take extra time to learn for some people.What I don't like was that the instruction manual is often vague. It was probably written in Japanese, then translated to English. It's not that the grammar is incorrect, but that the names of the settings and some of the choices sometimes are not self-explanatory. The manual also does not give a lot of description for the choices and functions. You often have to perform trial-and-error to figure out how to do things. For example, I had no idea what it meant to change a credit card payment's "tender" to "inhibit" or "compulsory." After trial-and-error, my best guess is that inhibit means you can only charge whatever the subtotal is, and compulsory means you can and must enter how much was charged to the card. Discounts do not reduce tax by default, and I was confused because you have to set the discount's "tax," or "taxable" according to the manual, to "yes." That is confusing because you'd think discounts are NOT taxable, so that tax is applied after the discount is taken off. Another example is that the manual mentions testing the connection to a credit card terminal, but does not explain how connecting a credit card terminal changes how you manage the payment on the ECR. Another example is that there is type of report called the "Electronic Journal," which is like a compilation of every action (even programming) done on the machine. When you "save & clear" it to an SD card, it does not reset the EJ as the manual says. It only resets if you do it on the machine through the "Z" menu. The EJ file (.SDA ?) can be read by Excel (the manual did not say this), although an occasional character shows up as a weird symbol. It is also strange that you cannot reset the daily/monthly transaction reports after you save to the SD card. You can only do that with the Z function, and that will use up paper.

dose not have a button to eject cash door u must make a sale then open the door even with the key its dosnt manualy open at all i would recomend something that has a eject button that dosnt need to make a sale to open the cash drawer other than that one flaw this is a nice cash register easy to use once u get the hang of it aw tho the instuctions arent quite clear to understand if u know how to use this cash register then good for u but for someone who dosnt know much it was a little hard to figure out how to use at first then it became easy to use THIS IS NOT IDEAL FOR FIRST TIME USER USING A CASH REGISTER THIS DEVICE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH BLUETOOTH AND DOSNT HAVE A OFF SWITCH

No longer make these. Found here for great price.

We are a seasonal Christmas tree farm and gift shop with sales in November and December only. We chose this model as a supplemental/backup register because we like our 10 year old Sharp so much and the key layout was the same. Previous reviews were favorable overall. Set-up was straight forward and fairly quick and having the same key layout as our primary register is a major plus. Print font is small but legible. Haven't checked to see if it can be enlarged yet. We do not use individual employee codes and as such did not program for multiple users, however at some point an unknown key was bumped during use and totally tied up the machine. It kept asking for the user code and would not clear. It eventually became pickled all together taking over 30 minutes of research and attempts to correct during a very busy sales period. We still are not sure how we got it back to functioning. For this reason three stars. Extremely sensitive buttons and when I push clear, I expect it to clear. Our older Sharp is much more forgiving.