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POS and Offline Operations Schedule

Responsibility, security, evidence, payment, synchronization, reconciliation, recovery, and exit rules for Bibeno POS devices and supported offline operations.

Status: Effective 09 November 2026Version: 1.0.0Content hash: bf2b9feb22bb6f5ad4c571d57fc69d3988a6e48712bdbf4fb4107acd8c1a6a28
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POS and Offline Operations Schedule

  1. 1. Scope and activation
  2. 2. Supported environment
  3. 3. Offline authority and cached configuration
  4. 4. Local data and device security
  5. 5. Payments, cash, and provider evidence
  6. 6. Offline transaction evidence
  7. 7. Synchronization and ordering
  8. 8. Conflicts, duplicates, and corrections
  9. 9. Inventory, recipes, consignment, and production
  10. 10. Receipts and customer communications
  11. 11. Recovery and continuity
  12. 12. Customer review and day-end control
  13. 13. Device loss and security compromise
  14. 14. Retention, export, and exit
  15. 15. Changes and contact

1. Scope and activation

This schedule applies only where the customer's plan and the offline POS feature gate authorize a supported device, build, branch, workflow, and offline period. It forms part of the Terms of Service and does not promise that every feature, integration, or payment method is available without connectivity.

2. Supported environment

  • Use approved Bibeno builds, supported operating systems, linked devices, accurate branch configuration, and authorized employee sessions.
  • Maintain reliable power, networking, time synchronization, printing, physical security, storage capacity, and any required payment-terminal or provider configuration.
  • Do not jailbreak, root, clone, share, reverse engineer, or bypass device identity, offline limits, signatures, or local protection controls.

3. Offline authority and cached configuration

Offline authority, cached entitlements, product data, prices, tax configuration, permissions, employee access, and transaction capacity are time-limited snapshots. A cached value may be stale. Bibeno may reduce or withdraw offline authority where the snapshot is expired, malformed, revoked, or unsafe.

The customer remains responsible for operational decisions made while current central information is unavailable, including whether to pause sales, limit value, require a manager, or use a documented fallback.

In the supported build, offline authority issued to a device is valid for at most 24 hours and must be renewed online. An offline action older than 14 days is not synchronized automatically; it is held for review instead.

4. Local data and device security

A POS device may temporarily store customer, employee, catalogue, transaction, receipt, and synchronization data needed for the supported workflow. The customer must restrict physical and logical access, use screen locks and individual credentials, promptly remove former users, and report loss, theft, compromise, or unauthorized cloning.

A device must not be treated as the sole archive. Local reset, uninstall, storage failure, operating-system action, or device loss may remove data that has not synchronized.

  • Offline transactions, cached records, print jobs and the synchronized business snapshot are stored on the device encrypted with keys held in the operating system's protected storage for the signed-in Windows user. Anyone who can sign in as that Windows user may be able to use the POS and its data, so each device should use its own protected Windows account.
  • Reset terminal deactivates the device in Backoffice, erases its credentials and keys, and deletes that pairing's local business data once nothing remains to be synchronized. Local data from earlier pairings is removed when the POS next starts, unless it still holds unsynchronized or conflicting work. Order-numbering counters are retained so that a re-paired device continues its numbering.
  • Reset is blocked while unsynchronized sales, held financial orders or uncertain print jobs remain. Do not uninstall the POS, delete its files or replace the device before it shows that nothing is waiting to synchronize.

Data loss: until the device has synchronized, its offline sales, cash movements and other offline actions exist only on that device. If the device is lost, stolen, damaged, reset by the operating system, or its storage fails before it reconnects, those actions may be permanently lost and cannot be recovered by Bibeno. The customer remains responsible for reconstructing such records from receipts, cash counts and provider statements.

5. Payments, cash, and provider evidence

In the supported build, cash is the only payment method accepted while the device is offline. Card and other external payments require a live connection and are not queued offline. Where the customer has turned on offline gift card or loyalty redemption for a device, those redemptions are limited by the signed per-device limits and checked when the device reconnects; a balance that was used elsewhere in the meantime can be overspent, and the customer carries that risk.

Bibeno does not represent that a card, wallet, bank, or other external payment is authorized merely because a sale was recorded locally. The payment provider's result and settlement records remain authoritative for external payment authorization and settlement.

  • Do not force an uncertain external payment to successful status without independent provider evidence and authorized review.
  • Preserve receipts, terminal slips, cash records, provider references, reversals, and customer communications for uncertain or duplicated payments.
  • Reconcile cash, provider settlement, tips, service charges, refunds, and chargebacks after connectivity returns.

6. Offline transaction evidence

Supported offline mutations carry device, tenant, branch, user, sequence, time, payload, signature, feature-gate, and idempotency evidence appropriate to the workflow. The server may reject, quarantine, or require review of an action that is expired, duplicated, malformed, unauthorized, feature-blocked, or inconsistent with current authoritative state.

7. Synchronization and ordering

The device should reconnect and synchronize as soon as reasonably possible. Queue order, dependency, idempotency, and authoritative server validation determine whether an action is accepted. A locally displayed completion state is provisional until the required server acknowledgement is recorded.

The customer must not repeatedly replay, edit, delete, or manufacture queue records to force acceptance. Recovery must use the supported queue, reconciliation, or support workflow.

8. Conflicts, duplicates, and corrections

Concurrent price, inventory, employee, permission, configuration, sale, refund, and payment changes may conflict. Bibeno applies the documented authoritative rule for the affected record and preserves correction or rejection evidence. A rejected mutation does not authorize an unrecorded manual financial adjustment.

For a server-confirmed held order, unchanged line items retain the product descriptions, prices, tax treatment and modifier selections recorded for that order. Where the supported build recorded a held-order recipe snapshot, those items also retain their recorded recipe and inventory quantities. Later catalogue edits do not automatically replace these recorded terms. New items and deliberately reconfigured or replacement items use the applicable current catalogue and remain subject to server validation.

A draft cart or an unacknowledged local action is not a server-confirmed historical price approval. Older orders may lack a recipe snapshot; Bibeno does not reconstruct missing historical recipes from the current catalogue. Preserving recorded product terms does not override employee permissions, order concurrency, stock controls, payment authorization, tax validation or other required financial checks.

Suspected duplicate sales or payments must be investigated using stable transaction and provider identifiers. Any correction, refund, reversal, stock adjustment, or cash adjustment must identify the original event and the authorized actor.

9. Inventory, recipes, consignment, and production

Offline inventory and recipe deductions are estimates until synchronized and reconciled. Consignment, supplier, purchase-order, manufacturing, recipe, modifier, and traceability actions remain subject to their current feature gates and server validation. The customer maintains physical-count, spoilage, transfer, recall, and ownership evidence.

10. Receipts and customer communications

A receipt must accurately distinguish the merchant, branch, items, taxes, discounts, payment status, tips, service charges, refunds, and any provisional or offline state that materially affects the customer. The customer must correct or reissue inaccurate evidence where the final synchronized outcome differs.

11. Recovery and continuity

  • Follow the current recovery runbook and preserve the device and queue state before reset, re-linking, reinstalling, or replacement.
  • Separate restoration of service from reconciliation of financial, inventory, workforce, and customer records.
  • Do not promise a recovery point or recovery time unless an approved service schedule states one for the affected component.
  • Escalate suspected data corruption, security compromise, or widespread duplicate processing without waiting for ordinary day-end review.

12. Customer review and day-end control

The customer reviews unsynchronized actions, quarantined or rejected records, uncertain payments, duplicate indicators, cash movements, refunds, tips, service charges, stock exceptions, and day-end totals. Review should be completed by an authorized person who did not create the exception where segregation of duties is reasonably available.

13. Device loss and security compromise

Loss, theft, unauthorized access, malware, cloning, tampering, or unexplained queue behavior must be reported promptly with the last known branch, user, device, time, and connectivity state. Bibeno may revoke the device, suspend offline authority, preserve evidence, and require re-linking or credential rotation.

14. Retention, export, and exit

Offline and synchronization evidence is retained under the applicable retention schedule and legal holds. Before device replacement, account exit, or service termination, the customer must synchronize where safe, complete reconciliation, obtain the available exports, and securely remove local data using the approved process.

15. Changes and contact

Material changes to supported offline authority, evidence, risk allocation, or recovery are versioned under the legal change-control process. Support contact details are published through Bibeno's verified public facts.

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