A counter is a screen that fills the window
Everything else in this product is a card in a conversation. A till is not: it is worked standing up, with a thumb, at arm’s length, and often with somebody waiting. So it takes the whole window — and it is still the same tables, the same rights and the same conversation underneath.
Open the counter
You get there by saying so. Nothing opens itself, and the card for the turn that opened it stays in the thread where it was.
The till, filling the window, over the workspace’s own priced catalogue.
- The shelf is a table of yours that has a price and something to sell. Nothing is configured: a table that has earned a till gets one.
- A sale goes in through the ordinary record route, so your rules and your rights are checked exactly as they are on a form.
- The prompt bar is at the foot of it, and it knows which counter you are at: “what have we taken today” is answered against this one.
- Closing it says a sentence back into the conversation, and the day’s figure is then an answer like any other, with its own source line.
- It does not take the money. No payment terminal is connected, so what it does is write the sale down — and it says so on the screen rather than letting somebody find out at the counter.
- It does not open a cash drawer or drive a receipt printer.
- When the line drops it keeps selling and holds the sales here until the line is back, and it says how many are waiting.
- Where two tables have both earned a till, the first is taken. That is a real limitation and it is not hidden.
Made of the same material
A point of sale is usually a second product with a second database and a nightly reconciliation between them. This one is a mode of the screen you already had: the rows are the workspace’s rows, the totals are worked out over them, and the provenance line at the foot of the till is the same line that sits under every other screen in the product.
Which means there is nothing to reconcile, nothing to export at midnight, and no second list of products that drifts from the first one by a fortnight.
- One catalogue, which is the table you already price things in
- One set of rights: what the person at the counter may see is what they may see everywhere
- One conversation: the counter reports into it and is answered from it
Try it on the demo workspace
Every trial starts with data in it, which is enough to open a counter and take a sale through it. Seven days, five seats, no card.