How it works

How a shared sale settles up

Pricedot keeps one rule: every family is owed exactly what its own stickers sold for. Everything else is bookkeeping around that rule, and every step is shown.

Before the sale

1. Start a Sale Book. It is a private link: no account, no email. Anyone you share the link with can ring sales and see the totals, so share it only with the people working the table.
2. Give each family a colour and a letter. The colour is for the eye, the letter is for the case where two dots look alike in the sun. Up to 2 families free, up to 8 with the Dot Pass (free for every book during the preview).
3. Price with dots. Print sticker sheets in each family's colour, or write the family letter and price on the round stickers you already have.
4. Agree who the holder is. One family puts up the starting cash (the float), pays for shared costs such as signs, and takes any card or phone-app payments. Pricedot gives that family its float back first and adjusts its share for the rest.

At the table

• Peel each sticker off as it sells and tap its colour and price into the till. The till adds the ticket, takes off a discount if you are in a half-price hour, and counts out the change (fewest bills and coins).
• Discounts are taken off every sticker on the ticket and rounded to the cent, so each family loses exactly its own part of the discount.
• Rang something up wrong? Void the sale in Every sale and ring it again. A voided sale stays in the list, struck through, and counts for nothing.

At close-out

1. Count the box by bills and coins. Pricedot adds it up and compares it with what should be there: the float plus every cash sale.
2. The float goes back to the holder. What is left is the money to share.
3. Shared costs are split by each family's share of sales and paid back to the holder, who paid them.
4. Over or short. If the box holds more or less than it should, the difference is split by share of sales too. Splits are worked in whole cents and always add up exactly (largest remainder; ties go to the family listed first).
5. Card and phone-app payments are already with the holder, so the holder's cash from the box is that much less. If the holder took in more that way than they are owed, the sheet says how much they pay in.