Reado10

Thanks for your responses so far. We have been debating ways of creating some sort of failover to the master database ourselves if we need to. Our concerns were that some suppliers claimed that they did cache transactions whilst offline, and left the till functional to a degree, but in real life terms this didn't work - according to the salesman of a system which co-incidentally doesn't cache transactions... Meastaugh, can I ask what system you use please? Have you ever tested the offline side of things? Many Thanks

Hi All, We are currently in the middle of trialling various Cashless systems, but we are being told mixed things about the level of operability at the tills, should the server fail/connectivity be lost. In simple, I am wondering if any of you guys with cashless systems already installed have been in this situation yet? If so, do you have the ability for the tills to still operate in terms of students lookups, chargeability etc? Some claim to have a local database at the till end which then syncs back to the main server db once everything is back online, giving some functionality when you need it the most. (I appreciate that with the live link being down would potentially cause students to be overdrawn, spend what they don't have etc, but is in our opinion a better option than students not getting served due to chaos/a paper based system being used for upto 1000 transactions...). I have been told by other competitors that this isn't the case, and whilst it's claimed, it's nonsense. Would be great to hear some real life experiences! Many Thanks Paul