Layaway payments are made by inquiring on either the transaction number or the last name and first name of the person who made the layaway. If the first record found when inquiring by name is not the required sale, hit the ENTER and the program will access and display the next sale. Once the layaway has been found, a "P" should be entered. This will move the cursor down to the payment fields. The current date is retrieved by the system so a ENTER is all that needs to be entered. The cursor then moves to the amount field. The amount of the payment is entered, then the cursor moves to the optional comment field which is normally used to enter a check number if paid by check. At that time that if there are six payments on a layaway and a seventh is to be made an automatic payment consolidation routine will execute. First a transaction slip will print with all six payments (charge backs), then the system will consolidate the six payments into one total. At that time the cursor will be positioned at the second payment field and the operator then enters the payment as usual. The customer gets two sales slips, the first showing before the consolidation and the second with the payments consolidated and today's payment in the second payment field. Always write the layaway transaction number on the check in case the check is returned.
The due date or address field may be changed, the routine will ask if the fields are to modified.
