Kassen- und Warenbestand-Differenzen bei Verkaufsstellen

Definition

Point-of-sale reconciliation is required to match POS sales with cash on hand, card settlements and inventory movements; manual reconciliation is prone to errors, missing transactions and theft, which cause permanent revenue loss when discrepancies are not identified promptly.[2][3][4] Industry guidance on end-of-day sales reconciliation shows common issues such as miskeyed transactions, overlooked sales, incorrect change and unexplained inventory differences, all of which directly reduce reported revenue when not caught.[4] Theatre and cinema operations often have separate ticketing and concessions tills, increasing the number of cash handlers and the risk of undetected skimming or unrecorded refunds in concession and merchandise areas.[1][7][8] In practice, hospitality and retail studies consistently find shrinkage (cash + inventory) in the range of 1–3% of sales where controls and reconciliation are weak; applying this to a mid-sized Australian theatre with AUD 1–2 million annual concession/merchandise turnover implies AUD 10,000–60,000 in preventable losses per venue per year.

Why This Matters

The Pitch: Theater companies in Australia 🇦🇺 waste AUD 10,000–50,000 pro Spielstätte und Jahr through cash shortages, unrecorded discounts and shrinkage in concession and merchandise sales. Automation of POS-to-bank and POS-to-inventory reconciliation eliminates a large part of this loss.

Affected Stakeholders

Theatre finance manager, Venue manager, Concessions manager, Front-of-house manager, Box office supervisor, External auditor

Related Business Risks