Tobacco & liquor store cashier - shift handover three-way match checklist - cash, cartons, and paperwork matched item by item and signed; the liability line is drawn at the signature, and an unsigned tab or return slip was never handed over at all

You are a cashier trainer for a tobacco & liquor
store. Build a printable shift-handover checklist
to tape inside the register. Context: in a
two-shift store, every variance dispute lives in
the handover seam - cash, cigarettes, paperwork.
Whichever of the three wasn't handed over clean
becomes one shift's word against the other's.

Structure (three matches plus one master rule):

1. Cash match
[ ] Float counted to par: face to face, and it
    isn't "passed" until it matches the par
    amount
[ ] Shift takings counted: bills through the
    counterfeit detector once (which doubles as
    the fake-note screen), result reconciled
    against the register's shift report
[ ] Cash above the [seal threshold] sealed in
    a bag, amount written on it, sealed with
    the incoming cashier watching
[ ] Overages and shortages: logged on the
    handover sheet on the spot - never smoothed
    over, never "we'll square it next shift"

2. Carton match
[ ] Counter display cigarettes counted by the
    carton: allocated fast-movers counted one
    carton at a time
[ ] Shelf stock counted separately: counter and
    shelf are two locations - counted
    separately, recorded separately, never
    merged into one number
[ ] Opened cartons: loose packs counted by the
    pack, reconciled against the register's
    loose-sale records
[ ] The equation closes: cartons on hand +
    shift sales = opening count per the log -
    only then is this item done

3. Paperwork match
[ ] Tab slips transferred one by one: whose
    tab, how much, when they promised to settle
    - read out, signed for, slip by slip. A
    gesture at a stack is not a handover
[ ] Return slips: each return's goods and
    refund reconciled line by line
[ ] Void slips: reason recorded per slip;
    consecutive void numbers explained on the
    spot
[ ] Open loops in the notes: anything the
    outgoing shift left unfinished (a customer
    promised a call-back, a payment pending
    clearance) written into the remarks column

Master rule (boxed, at the bottom of the sheet):
- The handover completes when every item matches
  and both signatures are on the sheet - until
  the ink dries, liability stays with the
  outgoing shift
- Any mismatching item: the two shift members
  resolve it face to face before the outgoing
  shift leaves. Unresolvable: record exactly
  what differs, both sign, escalate to the
  manager - walking away unsigned is still not
  an option
- The premium cabinet is not on this sheet (it
  follows the manager's close-out SOP); this
  handover covers cash, cartons, paperwork -
  nothing more, and no gaps between the two
  documents

Constraints:
- Every checkbox is a verifiable action - no
  "check carefully" or "count diligently"
- Do not fold premium-cabinet counting in here
  - high-value goods are the close-out SOP's
  territory, and blending them in means both
  documents assume the other one counted
- Tab slips move on a per-slip signature system;
  "they're all in this pile" is not accepted

Why it is written this way

"The handover completes at the signature" is the nail the whole sheet hangs on. A handover's essence is not the counting - it is the moment legal responsibility transfers. Counted but unsigned means responsibility never moved, so any later dispute puts both people inside the liability window. Pin the line at the signature and the most common improper move - "counted, gotta run" - loses its cover: no signature, the variance belongs to the outgoing shift; signed, it belongs to the incoming one. A rule this simple needs no judgment calls, which is exactly why it survives daily use.

Paperwork is where handovers go to die, so tab slips move on a read-out-and-sign basis, slip by slip. Cash and cartons are tangible; people count them naturally. Paperwork differences are invisible - one tab slip that never transferred surfaces only when the customer comes to settle, and by then "I remember handing it over" meets "I never got it" with no referee. Per-slip signatures give every slip a named recipient at the moment of transfer. "Consecutive voids explained on the spot" serves the same logic: voided slips are the classic hiding place for register fraud, and serial voids carrying an explanation-on-demand doesn't accuse anyone - it just makes every slip live under scrutiny.

The premium cabinet is deliberately fenced out to prevent a no-man's-land. If the handover checklist so much as mentions high-value goods, both shifts will assume the other counted them per the sheet - an item listed on two documents becomes owned by neither. Cash, cartons, paperwork here; premium goods in the close-out SOP; two documents, two territories, no shared border. That's what makes both lists executable rather than aspirational.

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