Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.

“Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.” is a core task performed by Cashiers. Among the occupation's 29 rated tasks, workers place it 29th by importance (#1 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Execute financial transactions. in Performing Administrative Activities

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T3.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.013% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 50% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 2.9 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 98% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Greet customers entering establishments. · importance 4.7
• Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales. · importance 4.7
• Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers. · importance 4.7
• Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change. · importance 4.6
• Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons. · importance 4.5
• Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints. · importance 4.5
• Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately. · importance 4.5
• Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners. · importance 4.4
• Post charges against guests' or patients' accounts. · importance 4.4
• Weigh items sold by weight to determine prices. · importance 4.4
• Compute and record totals of transactions. · importance 4.4
• Answer incoming phone calls. · importance 4.4
• Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies. · importance 4.4
• Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins. · importance 4.4

See all tasks on the Cashiers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-2400}
}