Does Control Have to be Running to Process Sales?
That depends on the type of business you have.
If you have a typical retail outlet that sells to
one customer at a time, then Control does not have to be running to process sales. You can process sales on the POS terminals offline
for days if necessary, and when Control is started, it will connect and retrieve transactions.
On the other hand, if you have a restaurant or bar type of business, where customers make several orders which are printed on kitchen or bar printers
and the customer pays for all their orders at the end, then SELLmatix Control does need to be running, because Control handles the printing of the orders on the
kitchen printers, and consolidates the orders for each "table" into a single account, even if orders have been entered on several different SELLmatix POS and PocketPos terminals.
In a restaurant/bar, if Control went offline briefly (for example if a PocketPos terminal moved out of WiFi radio range), there would be no problem as the connection would be automatically restored.
However printing of orders on Kitchen printers would be delayed while the connection was down.
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