Penny Rounding for Cash Transactions

The US Mint discontinued the production of pennies in 2025.  As a result, Aluvii has a feature called Penny Rounding. This feature helps your cashiers avoid dealing with pennies entirely by automatically changing the final total of a cash sale to the nearest nickel ($0.05).

• When disabled: The system expects exact change down to the penny for every sale.
• When enabled: The system automatically rounds the final cash total up or down to the nearest nickel.

How to Enable Penny Rounding

1. First, go to the Administration Module. 
2. Then, navigate to the Configuration tab 
3. Click on Common Settings
4. Select Other Settings.
5. Tick the box next to Allow Rounding Pennies
6. Click Save Changes to apply.

Penny Rounding Rules

The rounding action is triggered when the employee clicks the cash payment method in the payment screen.  The rounding follows the rounding rules published by government agencies as follows:

⚠️ Note: Totals ending in $0.00 or $0.05 remain unchanged.
 

Cart Behavior: Before vs. After

• The individual prices of items on your menu do not change. 
• The register keeps the total exact while you are building the order. 
• The rounding only applies to the final total after the employee clicks the cash payment method in the payment screen.  
• All other payment methods (credit card, gift card, custom tender, stored value, etc.) do not round

Demonstration:

• Feature Off (Not Enabled): A Bottled Water ($2.28) and Keychain ($7.00) plus tax ($1.11) equals $10.39. The register asks for exactly $10.39.

• Feature On (Enabled): The cart still shows $10.39. But once you click COLLECT and choose Cash, the system automatically rounds the total up to $10.40 so you don't have to deal with pennies.
  • Rule applied: Totals ending in $0.08 or $0.09 round up to the next dime. (Since $10.39 ends in a 9, it adds 1 penny).