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Mariiv06
Seasoned Novice
5 months ago

Businesses & Hobbies - can't use cash register to run a shop?

I made a bakery as a Small Business using the new pack and to my great disappointment, it seems that the cash register doesn't work on a small business lot. I.e. my Sim can't tend it, no interactions come up when clicking on it, and all my customers just grab stuff that's for sale from the displays directly. When I flag the same business as a Retail lot, the register works just fine and customers actually interact with the Sim who is tending the register. Is this intended? Like the register system only works on Retail lots and if you run a shop of any kind as a small business, customers will just take stuff off the shelves? 

If so, that's very disappointing - I like the way the shop runs as Retail a lot more in terms of interactions, but Sims can't live on a Retail lot the way they can with a small business, so it's just trading one problem for another.

4 Replies

  • Without mods, you can’t tend the register on a retail lot either. It’s basically decor, just required decor for a Get to Work retail lot. Since Businesses & Hobbies is a different pack, they don’t require you to place a Get to Work item.

    Yes, there is a difference in how sales work - in Get to Work you have to have your sim or an employee walk over and process the sale while Businesses & Hobbies is more self-serve, allowing your sim/employees to focus more on creating additional merchandise and/or teaching.

  • WolfEyes59's avatar
    WolfEyes59
    Rising Hotshot
    12 days ago

    You may never see this but I'll give it a try. I know it's not what some of us really want but you could compromise and just have the register as a prop. It will at least look like a legitimate business. It's what I'm doing. It's there just for looks and, at least for me, it provides a little bit of that "real" feeling.

    Just consider it for a while before deciding.

  • SimSeeker's avatar
    SimSeeker
    Seasoned Adventurer
    3 months ago

    That rude. Because most small businesses in real life have a cash register. I mean, if you own a bakery underneath where you live, how are you going to sell your product without a cash register? The cash registers don't work in this pack.

    I am having the same issue. I have three businesses with three different sims owning it. And one of them is a clothing store. And the cash register doesn't work there either.

  • Well I think this is because the plan is intended to be a small business, like a garage sale or so