7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Suriya
cd2459dbb6 Let an admin create till staff from the console, through the same code
An admin sets a shop up from a browser; a supervisor adds a cashier at the
counter. Both had to be possible, and only the second one was.

So the console gets createposuser / updateposuser / getposusers /
deleteposuser, under both /v1/web/tenants and /v1/mob/tenants — calling the
same service methods `/pos/users` calls. Not a parallel implementation: a
supervisor created from a browser is the same row, with the same PIN rules, the
same duplicate check and the same identity-column allocation, as one created at
a till. Two paths writing one table is precisely how the two stop matching, and
this codebase already had that happen once.

configid is inferred rather than asked for. It is a number nobody looks up, it
varies per tenant — 1087's accounts are spread across 1, 6 and 15 — and getting
it wrong creates somebody who cannot sign into the portal their colleagues use
and is invisible to half the platform's queries.

/posroles is served rather than left to the console to hardcode. A console that
knew supervisor was 7 would be wrong the day that changed and would have no way
to find out.

The outlet is the real difference between the two doors. A terminal proves it
with a signed token; the console asserts it, and is checked against the tenant
before anything is written. That is weaker, and it is worth being plain about:
these mint till credentials on an unauthenticated request, exactly like every
other route in the /v1/web and /v1/mob groups, because there is no auth
middleware on the web API at all. Documented as the weakest point in the design
and flagged to move behind a session guard once the console can hold one. The
terminal routes are untouched by it.

Proven in a rolled-back transaction against live data: the console creates a
supervisor at 1135, that supervisor signs in by PIN with can_manage_staff true,
the till's /pos/staff sees them alongside the two created at the counter, and
0451, 1234 and a duplicate PIN are each refused with the same message the
terminal gives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 20:42:27 +05:30
Suriya
4b27b84b1f Let a shop run its own counter: supervisor and cashier, created from the till
A shop had no way to add the people who work in it. The terminal fell back to
three names and three PINs compiled into the app — the same three on every
install — because there was nothing for it to fall back *from*.

Two roles now exist in `app_roles`: Supervisor (7) runs the terminal and creates
staff, Cashier (8) bills. Fixed ids, written by hand, because that table has no
sequence and every id in it was assigned the same way. configid is left NULL
rather than duplicated per portal: a till is a till whichever portal a tenant
uses, and Admin already appears twice in that table for exactly that reason.

`/pos/users` is CRUD over them, and `/pos/login/pin` signs a cashier on at a
terminal a supervisor has already opened.

The rule every one of these follows: **tenant and outlet come from the caller's
token, never from the request.** There is no location field on the create body
to get wrong. A supervisor at Selvapuram cannot create staff at R mart, for the
same reason a till cannot bill into another shop's books — it is the same
inversion applied to people instead of sales.

PIN sign-in is deliberately behind the guard. Four digits is ten thousand
guesses, which is no barrier to an anonymous caller; requiring a session means a
real password opened the terminal first and the guesses are confined to one
outlet's own staff. The session it mints is fresh rather than derived, so a
cashier taking over from a supervisor drops their permissions instead of
inheriting them.

Three things the schema forced:

- A PIN cannot start with zero. `app_users.pin` is a bigint, so "0451" stores as
  451 and reads back as three digits — a cashier would type four and be refused
  for ever. Live data already holds one such account. Rendering refuses to show
  a PIN it cannot represent, rather than showing a short one nobody can type.
- `app_users` has no sequence either, so the next id is read and written inside
  one transaction behind an advisory lock. Two supervisors creating staff at the
  same moment would otherwise compute the same id and one insert would lose.
- 1234, 1111 and friends are refused outright. Live data has 1234 on eleven
  accounts and 1111 on nine.

Proven against outlet 1135, which had zero staff and was the reason the built-in
PINs were still load-bearing:

    created 9188  Store Supervisor  Supervisor  can_manage_staff=true
    created 9189  Counter Cashier   Cashier     can_manage_staff=false
    /pos/staff now returns 2        an unknown PIN is refused

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 20:22:16 +05:30
Suriya
c4dfcd5387 Serve a shop's own staff to the till, so the built-in PINs can retire
The terminal shipped with three names and three PINs compiled into it. Same
three on every install, readable by anyone with the APK, and permanent —
nothing anywhere could replace them.

`/pos/staff` answers with the people the back office says may ring a bill at an
outlet, and the same list rides down with the session so a till is ready to
trade the moment it signs in. The terminal writes them over its own and
deactivates whatever it had, which is what actually kills the seeded logins.

Two sources are unioned because the schema has two and neither is complete.
`tenantstaffs` is the table built for this and holds 12 rows on the entire
platform; `app_users.locationid` is where staff actually ended up. Either alone
returns nothing for almost every shop.

The endpoint takes no location parameter. The answer carries PINs, so the
outlet comes from the caller's token and a request without one is refused
whatever POS_AUTH_REQUIRED says — a till must not be able to ask who works at
the shop next door.

Rows with no PIN are dropped rather than sent: a name on screen nobody can sign
in as reads as a broken terminal rather than as an unfinished setup. Duplicate
PINs are dropped too, keeping the first — live data has 1234 on eleven accounts
and 1111 on nine, and two people sharing one would make the till attribute a
bill to whichever row it checked first.

The PIN travels in the clear over TLS, deliberately. Four digits are
brute-forceable in microseconds however they are wrapped, so hashing here would
buy the appearance of strength and not the substance — while costing something
real, since the terminal salts every PIN with its own salt before storing it
and could never verify a hash computed here. A PIN is shift attribution, not a
security boundary; the boundary is the session token.

Verified against live data, and it says the fallback still matters: outlet 1135
— the one the POS actually uses — has zero staff, and the only staff row found
anywhere is a delivery rider on PIN 1111.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 16:01:49 +05:30
Suriya
12165d5e58 Give the POS a real sign-in, and stop believing the store id on the wire
The POS surface was open. A till named its own outlet — `store_id` in a query
or in an ingest batch — and was believed, so one number changed in Settings
read another tenant's catalogue or posted bills into their books. There was no
middleware in the codebase at all, and the `JWT_SECRET_KEY` in the config was
read and never used.

Products were never mis-scoped: `resolvePosStore` already derived the tenant
from the location and the catalogue query already filtered on both. The tenant
was never taken from the wire. What was missing was any check that the caller
was entitled to the location they named.

So the outlet now comes *out* of a sign-in rather than going *in* from the
till. `POST /pos/login` authenticates against the same `app_users` rows the web
console uses — one account store, so deactivating a leaver closes both doors —
and answers with the outlets that account may reach, sealed in an HMAC-SHA256
token the terminal cannot edit.

Two checks then guard everything else, in order: the token verifies, and the
outlet named in the request belongs to the token's tenant. The second is the
one that matters — a valid token is a licence to name *your* outlets, not any.

Notes on the awkward parts:

- The guard reads the outlet from the body as well as the query. The two routes
  that write carry `store_id` in a JSON batch and never in the URL, so a
  query-only check would have left exactly the dangerous call unguarded.
- Three spellings of one thing survive — `store_id`, `locationid`,
  `location_id`. All three are read rather than normalised, because renaming
  them breaks terminals already in the field.
- `POS_AUTH_REQUIRED` defaults to false. Tills are billing real customers
  against the open endpoints right now and enforcing at deploy would stop every
  one mid-trade. A token is still verified when sent, and a wrong-tenant token
  still refused; the flag only governs requests carrying none.
- `POS_TOKEN_SECRET` has no baked-in fallback and fails loudly. A development
  secret in source is the same as no signature at all.
- `configid` is inferred when the till does not send it, because a person at a
  counter has no way to know theirs. `authname` is not unique in this schema —
  live data has one address twice under one configid — so an ambiguous match is
  refused rather than resolved by LIMIT 1, which could bill into the wrong
  tenant's books.

Verified against live data: 58 accounts across 34 tenants can open a till, an
account pinned to a location resolves to it alone, a tenant-level account gets
all six of its outlets, and a cross-tenant outlet request is refused.

Passwords are still plaintext platform-wide. Flagged at the comparison site;
fixing it is a migration touching every login path, not this endpoint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 15:46:38 +05:30
Suriya
1e3386fac8 Elect a single MQTT consumer among replicas
Deployed as a StatefulSet with three replicas, and MQTT has no queue
groups — every subscriber receives every message. All three pods would
commit the same bill and publish three acks. Nothing double-counts,
because the ingest deduplicates on the till's UUID and holds an advisory
lock, but it is three times the database work and three times the
traffic for one sale.

Ordinal 0 consumes; the others stay idle. A StatefulSet already
guarantees stable unique ordinals, so this is a deterministic election
with no lock, no lease and no new dependency. If that pod dies the set
recreates it and tills hold their bills meanwhile, which is what they
are built to do.

POS_MQTT_CONSUMER=always/never overrides it for deployments that are not
a StatefulSet. Anything without an ordinal name — a Deployment pod, a
bare container, local development — consumes, because a lone instance
that silently refused to would be a far more confusing failure than one
that did.

The client id now defaults to the pod name rather than a constant. Two
connections sharing an id evict each other in a reconnect loop that
looks exactly like a flapping network, and takes a while to recognise as
anything else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 19:44:47 +05:30
Suriya
8709556704 Add read endpoints for counter sales
The ingest only ever wrote. A bill that reached pos_orders was safe and
completely unreachable — no screen in the product could show it, and the
only way to see a day's counter takings was to query the database by
hand.

Three endpoints: a paged bill list, one bill with its lines, and a
summary split the three ways somebody actually asks for — by tender for
reconciling a drawer, by day for a chart, by till for an outlet running
several counters.

locationid is required on all of them and is the authorisation boundary,
so a caller cannot page through another shop's takings by omitting a
parameter. Fetching a bill under the wrong outlet returns 404 even when
the reference is a real one.

Dates match businessdate rather than arrival, because a till that was
offline overnight uploads yesterday's bills this morning and they belong
to yesterday. The list is ordered by billedat for the same reason —
sorting by arrival would interleave a recovered backlog through today.

Unlike the ingest handlers these answer in the usual envelope: they are
read by the web app, not by a terminal, and nothing about them is bound
to the till's contract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 19:17:03 +05:30
Suriya
e3459a0f1c Ingest counter sales from the POS terminals, over MQTT and HTTP
A till holds every bill in its own SQLite database and keeps it for
seven days after we acknowledge it, marking one synced only when its id
comes back in an ack. Everything here follows from that.

Silence is not acceptance, so a failing ingest publishes nothing at all
and the terminal simply sends again. A duplicate is a success, because
at-least-once delivery means a lost ack legitimately re-delivers bills
we already hold, and calling those failures would strand a day of
takings on the till. Deduplication is a unique index on the terminal's
UUID plus an advisory lock held for the transaction.

Bills land in pos_orders / pos_order_items rather than orders: a counter
bill carries a cashier, a terminal, a rounding adjustment, promos,
loyalty movement and a payment split that orders has nowhere to put, and
forcing one into the other loses whatever does not fit. Stock is *not*
split — a counter sale writes the same productstocks rows an app order
does, through helpers extracted from createOrderTx so the rule that
prevents overselling has one implementation rather than two.
GetRevenueSummary and GetSalesSummary were extended to union the new
table in; any new report has to remember the same.

Terminal health goes to Redis under a 90-second TTL, sharing the
instance the express backend uses. A heartbeat is a fact with an expiry
date: a till that loses power stops refreshing and ages off the board by
itself, where a Postgres row would need ~288k writes a day and a reaper.

Proven end to end against the live estate before commit: a bill over
HTTP and one over the real Mosquitto broker, the same bill three times
producing one row and one stock movement, and a heartbeat arriving on
the health endpoint. All probe data was removed afterwards.

Four things that only surfaced against real data. An unset jsonb column
failed the very first bill. Product SKUs are unusable as barcodes — 6,245
products share 93 SKUs and "1" covers 5,794 of them — against the till's
unique index, so barcodes fall back to the product id. A taxpercent of
-1 exists and would have put negative GST in a filed slab. And a product
with id 0 exists, which can never be billed and is now skipped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 17:48:00 +05:30