Retail POS Canonical URL: https://babadook.tech/sub-modules/retail-pos Entity: sub-modules Content hash: 4ff0e181ecb0cf242acc26134e17c87f095ec742a8b6247b4e04a5e8d6f36874 The internet drops on Black Friday — and the line keeps moving. Every retailer has lived the nightmare: connectivity dies at peak hour, tills freeze, and staff start handwriting sales that finance will spend January reconciling. Retail POS keeps selling on signed local state with full pricing and loyalty rules — then syncs with evidence when the network returns. The busiest day becomes a story about resilience instead of disaster. Store day lifecycle Each stage below keeps the store selling — connected or not — with finance catching up automatically instead of by re-keying. data Viz data View section: stages Open and Sell Tills open with float, catalog, and price lists synced. Sales apply customer pricing, promotions, and loyalty with every line citing its price basis. Offline Resilience Connectivity loss switches tills to signed local state with the same pricing and loyalty rules. Sales queue with evidence and sync on return — no lost transactions, no double charges. Returns and RMA Returns validate against sale history with reason codes driving disposition: restock, refurbish, scrap, or vendor return. Refunds post with the original payment linkage intact. Reconcile End-of-day closes tills, counts cash, reconciles card batches, and posts revenue, tender, and variance to finance. Discrepancies route with the transactions cited. Retail guarantees - Priced correctly: Customer price lists and promotions resolved per line with basis recorded - Loyalty honored: Accrual and redemption with balance checks before commit - Offline safe: Signed local operation with evidence sync — selling never stops - Reconciled daily: Tender, revenue, and variance posted to finance every close - section: capabilities Point of sale by format Store selling bends per format — same pricing and loyalty discipline, different throughput stakes. data Viz data View section: industries Specialty and Apparel Variant-heavy catalogs with size and color matrices, endless-aisle fulfillment from warehouse stock, and loyalty tiers driving repeat visits. Grocery and Convenience High-velocity scanning with weighted items, age verification, and FEFO-aware freshness handling. Shrink tracks per category with the transactions cited. Hospitality Counters Quick-service flows with modifiers, coursing, and split tenders. Kitchen and bar routing fires from the same ticket the guest pays. Retail POS questions Section 1 What happens when the internet drops mid-sale? The till continues on signed local state with full pricing and loyalty rules. Queued sales sync with evidence on reconnect — no lost transactions and no double charges. Section 2 How are customer-specific prices handled? Price lists resolve per customer with contract terms cited per line. Promotions layer on top with precedence rules, and every line records its price basis. Section 3 How do returns affect inventory and finance? Return disposition drives the rest: restock updates bins, vendor returns create claims, and refunds post against the original payment — all in one transaction family. Section 4 Our cashiers turn over constantly. How fast can they learn it? The constrained path is the fast path: scanning validates each step, so new cashiers literally cannot complete a wrong flow. Training time collapses to supervised shifts, not classroom days. data View section: faqs content section value: Each sale carries channel, price basis, loyalty movement, and payment evidence into the same ledger that runs the warehouse and the books. Section 6 Native POS with offline operation and signed sync Section 7 Catalog, variants, customer price lists, and advanced pricing Section 8 Loyalty currency, offers, and campaign linkage at the till Section 9 Sales returns and customer RMA with reason-coded disposition Section 10 Service items and non-physical products alongside goods Section 11 End-of-day reconciliation posting to finance automatically Relationships products - XRP — https://babadook.tech/products/xrp modules - Supply Chain — https://babadook.tech/modules/supply-chain