Age Restricted Items in POS: Using

If you set up the options for Age Restricted Items in POS, this topic outlines what happens when you  ring up minimum age items at POS.

• When prompted, scan the customer's driver's license, or enter the customer's birth date for the age restricted item. If the customer is clearly old enough to purchase the item, enter a generic birth date that you have established for this purpose, such as 7/7/77 (something easy to enter and to remember).

  When the prompt for date of birth displays, use the station’s barcode scanner to scan the 2D barcode on the back of the driver’s license. Note: Most, but not all states, use the 2D barcode. Look for a band of black and white in a random pattern.

  
  Currently, the following scanners are supported: Motorola DS6708-DL, Motorola DS9208-DL, and  Motorola DS6878-DL (cordless Bluetooth).

• The first time an age restricted type 1 or 2 item is sold during a particular transaction, the clerk is prompted to enter the customer’s birth date. This prompt displays only once per transaction, even if you have more than one minimum age item on the transaction.

• The birth date posts to the transaction as an internal or external comment, depending upon the setting in option 9419 "Post minimum age birth date as comment."

• If the customer isn’t old enough to purchase a type 1 and/or a type 2 item, then each time a minimum age item is attempted to be posted the clerk will be given the following response:

Optionally, depending on how you set up option 9420 "Post underage comment when minimum age requirement is not met," a comment indicating that the customer wasn’t old enough to purchase will post/print on the transaction.

• Below is an example of a transaction in which the customer was old enough to buy cigarettes, but not old enough to purchase alcohol. Note: When a minimum age item can’t be sold, the only thing that posts (assuming option 9420 is set to do so) is the comment "Minimum age not met – not sold." There is no indication of what the item was that they attempted to buy.