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Plan your first register

Are you starting a business or preparing to open? Describe your everyday sales processes, planned systems and open questions before choosing equipment.

Current lawGovernment draft · not yet lawAs of 13.10.2026

This overview helps you prepare. It is not a full assessment or individual legal or tax advice.

Worksheet to take with you

A new shop is planning its first sale. Describe the intended process before selecting equipment or assessing turnover figures.

Illustrative example, not a case assessment

The examples show one way to organize the information. Print the sheet and add your details on paper. No information is collected or stored here.

Location / date

  1. Create an equipment list.

    Example

    Location: Shop A; list the planned devices, apps and payment systems with their functions.

    Your notes

  2. Start with your processes.

    Example

    Example sale: walk through order, payment, recording and receipt delivery; note technical and tax questions separately.

    Your notes

  3. For a new business, the relevant time period must be clarified.

    Example

    New business: no completed comparison years are available. Label forecasts as forecasts and have the relevant period professionally assessed.

    Your notes

What you take away

An operating-start sheet with technical and advisory questions. It does not replace business-startup advice or create a general purchase obligation.

Still open / contact person

For your conversation

  1. Create an equipment list.

    Which registers, apps and connected payment systems do you use at which locations?

  2. Start with your processes.

    Describe payment and recording channels separately. Do not assume without checking that shop-register turnover equals the total turnover relevant to the draft.

  3. For a new business, the relevant time period must be clarified.

    Comparable annual figures are not yet available.

  4. Consider existing equipment

    The plans for 2028 do not create a blanket obligation to buy a register today. What matters is the rules already in force, your business processes and whether your existing register is suitable. Our check helps you separate these questions.

Official sources

kassenpflicht-wegweiser.de

An information resource from moaby, a provider of cash-register systems.

Individual tax questions belong with a tax adviser.