POS exports tempt you to paste — copy a number from the Z-report PDF, paste into nouz, repeat. Sometimes that's the right move. Most of the time, typing is faster and catches more errors.
01 What we recommend
For the daily close-out, type the cash and card totals from your Z-report directly into the form. Two numbers, ten seconds. The act of typing forces you to look at the numbers, which catches the occasional Z-report glitch (printer cut off mid-line, partial reset, transposition error).
02 Why typing wins
- You see the numbers. Pasting hides them in a copy buffer. Typing puts them in your short-term memory, which catches outliers.
- Faster for short entries. Two numbers? Typing beats clicking-and-pasting twice.
- No format issues. Pasting from some POS exports brings invisible characters or extra decimals that the form has to strip.
03 When pasting is fine
For long batch backfills (a week of entries from a spreadsheet), pasting one cell at a time is faster than typing each. Just watch the totals on the entry list after you save — if a typo crept in, the daily totals will look wrong.
Pasting also works well for monthly catch-up when you're working from a clean POS export (CSV or spreadsheet). The structured format makes copy/paste predictable. For close-out from a paper Z-report, typing is still the move.
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