At the commencement of each trading day, Barkley HQ trading day is initialised by the store manager. This process prepares the system to accept the day’s transactions from the store’s employees. If trading is on, you are required to finish the previous trading day before you can start the next trading day.

To be able to start/end trade, ensure that trading is enabled.

Start Trading

Step 1: Click the Transactions tab and select Trading.

Step 2: A pop-up will appear confirming if you wish to start trade. Select Yes.

Step 3: Ensure the new trading day you have selected is correct date.

If you have selected Yes to Declare the registers before trading during the setup, enter the total amount you currently have or alternatively, click the Calculator icon to enter the quantity/value of each individual currency. When values have been entered, set Yes to I have checked the above values. Once done, click on Start Trade.

Once trading has started, a pop-up will advised trading has started for the selected day.

End Trading

Note: If you set a float in start trade, you will also have to declare this in end trade. Failure to do so will result with a misbalance.

Step 1: Click the Transactions tab and select Trading.

Step 2: A pop-up will appear confirming if you wish to end trade. Select Yes.

Note: If you have any incomplete transactions, a warning will appear.

Either complete the transaction by clicking the blue pencil icon, or cancel the transaction by clicking on the red cross icon. When there are no more transactions, select Continue to End Trade.

Step 3: The end trade procedure will commence. If you have selected Yes during the start/end trade setup to declare registers at the end of trading, proceed with your declaration. Alternatively, click the calculator icon to enter the quantity/value of each individual currency.

Step 4: At the last page, you will see the Final Declaration confirmation. Here, you can check if the declared values are correct.

If you wish to cancel the declaration you may do so by clicking Cancel Declaration.

To amend payments, click on the Previous.

If all declared sums are correct, select I have checked the above values and click on End Trade.

Note: You can cancel the declaration if you still need to complete a transaction within the same trading day.