app_users is the only thing the two products have in common, and the code was
treating it as though it were the whole relationship. Both directions leaked.
Back-office roles were leaking into the till. PosRoleCanManageStaff returned
true for roleid 1 to 6, on the reasoning that somebody who already administers a
shop from a browser is not made less privileged by standing at the counter. That
sounds fine and is wrong: measured against live data it handed till-supervisor
powers to 68 accounts, 59 of them Nearle Daily Super admins, not one of whom is
the administrator of anybody's POS. Meanwhile the actual shop accounts carry
roleid 0 and were refused, so the mapping was backwards from intent in both
halves at once.
Till accounts were leaking into the application. GetStaffs is WHERE tenantid
with no role filter, so a Counter Cashier appeared in the tenant staff list
beside the delivery riders — a row every action on that page would fail against,
since a cashier has no app login, no rider shift and no back-office screen.
So: eligibility for a till is now granted explicitly by provisioning a
Supervisor or a Cashier, never inherited from a back-office role, and roles 7
and 8 are excluded from every Nearle Daily lookup. The exclusion lives in the
queries rather than in a check after them, because a check bolted on afterwards
has to be repeated at six call sites and is one edit away from being forgotten
at one of them — and that one would be the hole. A till account is not rejected
by the app login; it is not found.
Two things this surfaced that were not visible before.
A Supervisor could not open a till. PIN sign-in needs a session that already
exists, so once back-office roles were refused, an outlet whose only POS
accounts were PIN-only had no way in at all. Supervisors are now provisioned
with a username and password as well as a PIN; cashiers deliberately get neither,
because they sign on at a counter somebody has already opened and a second
password would be one more credential to leak for no capability gained.
UpdatePosUser silently dropped authname. It wrote the password, reported
success, and left the account unreachable by either lookup — the failure
surfaced at a counter as "not recognised" rather than on the screen that caused
it. Contactno had the same gap.
Verified against live rows rather than asserted, by scratch/posseparation: a
provisioned supervisor signs in and gets the supervisor shell; five real
back-office accounts including Super admins are refused; the supervisor is
invisible to applogin, tenant weblogin and the password-setup lookup; and no
till account appears in getallusers, while asking for role 7 by name still
returns them so the console can read its own people.
All five outlets that stock products now have a Supervisor and a Cashier.
Also moves the loose markdown into docs/, which was already staged.
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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.
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Two paths write `app_users`: the console's `tenants/createstaff`, and the
terminal's `/pos/users`. Only one of them checked anything.
`createstaff` wrote whatever it was handed. A cashier could be created there
with PIN "0451" — which a bigint column stores as 451 — and would then type four
digits at the counter and be refused for ever, with nothing on either screen to
explain it. Or with 1234, which live data already has on eleven accounts. Or
with a PIN somebody at the same outlet already had, which attributes a bill to
whichever row is read first. Or with no way to sign in at all.
None of that surfaced where it was caused. It surfaced at a counter, days later,
as "the new person cannot log in".
So the rules move into `ValidateStaffUser`, and both paths use it: a name, a
role that is actually a role, a PIN the schema can hold and nobody guesses
first, and at least one way to sign in. The duplicate-PIN check runs too, when
the row names an outlet.
The handler also stops answering 500 with a body claiming 409. Every one of
these is something the person filling in the form can fix, so it is a 400
carrying the reason.
`GetStaffs` now returns `rolename` alongside `roleid`, so a console can show
"Supervisor" without mapping ids itself — `app_roles` has six rows for four
back-office roles and most accounts carry an id absent from it, so any mapping
written client-side would be wrong.
This is what makes the two role systems one. A supervisor or cashier created
from the web behaves at the till exactly like one created at the till, because
there is now a single definition of what those are.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The offline-sales import required one workbook per outlet and a store
picked in the UI. A merchant running several branches had to download,
fill and upload a file per branch, and the picker defaulted to the
tenant's first outlet — so an admin who never touched it silently
credited the wrong store, which no validation could catch because the
file and the selection agreed with each other.
One workbook now covers every branch. getsaletemplate takes locationid=0
(the default) to span the tenant, stamping tenantid, locationid and the
store name onto every row, and that row's locationid is what decides
which branch a sale is deducted from. The INNER JOIN on tenantlocations
confines it to outlets the tenant owns, so a template can never disclose
another merchant's catalogue.
uploadofflinesales accordingly takes locationid on each bill. The
locationid on the request itself becomes a scope constraint rather than
a destination: left at 0 the bills go where their rows say, and set to a
branch it pins the upload there and refuses anything else. That is what
holds a store user to their own store — the pin comes from their session,
so editing the locationid column in the spreadsheet changes nothing.
Every branch referenced is checked against the tenant regardless.
Branch context and catalogue are resolved once per branch and reused; a
workbook covering six outlets would otherwise re-run both queries for
every bill in it.
Duplicate detection is now per branch. Bill numbers only have to be
unique within a store, since counter books at different outlets
routinely restart numbering at 1, and treating a shared number as a
repeat would have silently dropped a real sale.
Verified against tenant 1087, whose two branches both stock product
6998 at 100 units: a single upload of two bills moved 1097 to 97 and
1135 to 95 independently; the same bill number at both branches imported
as two separate orders; an upload pinned to 1097 imported its own bill
and refused the 1135 one; a row naming another tenant's outlet was
refused; and re-uploading the file deducted nothing. All five test
orders were cancelled afterwards and both branches confirmed back at 100.
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Two gaps found while auditing the order/stock flow:
- Receiving stock via an approved stock request only updated
products.productstatus (a global per-product flag). A location
flagged outofstock by CreateOrder never got reactivated, since
nothing touched productlocations.status on the way back in.
CreateProductStock now reactivates the specific
(tenant, location, product) row to "available" for every "in"
entry, the counterpart to how it gets flagged out.
- getproductbyvariant returned no stock info at all, so the app could
only find out a product was unavailable from the 409 at order time.
It now accepts an optional locationid and, when passed, returns
live productstock (same SUM(in)-SUM(out) formula the order check
uses) and locationstatus per product. Omitting locationid keeps the
old response shape.
Added MOBILE_ORDER_VERIFICATION.md as a handoff doc for the mobile
team covering the expected request/response shapes and how to verify
their integration.
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issuperadmin on app_users (schema change already applied to the DB)
is now returned by AppLogin/TenantWebLogin's login response, gated
server-side rather than via a client-supplied roleid. Fixes the login
enrichment query (GetTenantUserById) to LEFT JOIN app_location instead
of INNER JOIN — a tenantless super-admin row was previously silently
dropped, so the login "succeeded" but returned an empty struct.
Also exposes createtenantuser on the web route group (was mob-only).
No repository changes were needed for location auto-provisioning:
GORM was already inserting the nested tenantlocations association on
tenant creation, it just wasn't reachable from the web.
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subcategoryid is no longer required to import a catalogue product —
it's a display/grouping hint elsewhere (the codebase already has an
"Uncategorized" fallback for subcategoryid=0), so requiring it was
pure friction with no correctness payoff.
Fixes the category picker at the root: categoryid 2, which tenant
1135's real products actually use, has no row in productcategories at
all (not a filter bug — the master data is genuinely missing it).
Rather than inventing category master data, adds
GET /products/gettenantcategories, which lists categories a tenant's
own products actually use (falling back to a synthesized label when
the master table has no name), so the import category picker always
offers something real instead of an incomplete global list.
Also relaxes the subcategory lookup's tenant filter to include
unowned/global rows (tenantid NULL or 0), not just exact tenant
matches — categoryid 2's real subcategories carry no tenant at all,
so the strict filter was hiding them even when a tenant wanted one.
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Adds a separate CatalogueDB (pgvector) connection alongside the main
nearledb, plus a new catalogue module (repository/service/controller/
routes) to browse it by brand, category, and keyword, with brand
optional so the whole ~237-product catalogue can be browsed unfiltered.
Adds the actual bridge: importing a catalogue product snapshots it into
the tenant's own products table (keyed on brand+catalogueid, since a
catalogue row's bare id is only unique within its own brand table),
then links it via the existing productlocations upsert. Re-importing
tops up stock and refreshes price instead of duplicating. Also adds an
imported-refs endpoint so the frontend can badge already-imported items
without diffing full product lists, and wires the new AWS S3 image
store used to resolve catalogue product photos.
Bumps Go/Docker to 1.24 for the AWS SDK dependency this needs.
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