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question: What is the difference between a till account and a console login?
also:
  - why can a cashier not sign in to the console
  - cashier says invalid email
  - till login not working on the website
area: people
source: src/api/people.ts, src/auth/session.ts
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They are two separate account systems that happen to share one table.

A till account belongs to the terminal in the shop. A console login belongs to
the back office. The backend leaves the two till roles out of every console
sign-in lookup, inside the query itself, so a cashier trying to sign in to the
console is reported as "not found" rather than "wrong password" — the account is
real, it is simply not a console account.

If somebody needs both, they need two accounts.