POS glossary: commission, barfine, folio, PDPA and other terms

The record of sensitive actions in beevity: voids, refunds, overrides, payouts, settings changes and logins, each with time and person. Entries are only ever added, never changed or deleted.

In Thai bars, the fee a guest pays the bar when a staff member leaves with them before the end of the shift. beevity runs it as a timed booking with presets of 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours or an open day rate, and holds the commission on the fee until it is completed.

The amount commission is calculated on. In beevity it is the line price after VAT is taken out, minus any line discount. Service charge and tips are never part of it.

The set of rules that decides a staff member’s commission: a percentage, a fixed amount per unit, or tiers by units sold that day.

Goods a supplier leaves with a business and is paid for only when they sell. beevity records the supplier and cost and reports the amount owed per supplier.

Sending the next course of a meal to the kitchen. In beevity later courses are held, then fired by hand, after a set number of minutes, or when the previous course has been served.

The most a customer may owe on pay-later bills. beevity checks it on the server before a pay-later bill is saved.

All the bills charged to one hotel room. In beevity the folio is paid at checkout in one payment or passed to the hotel bill.

Commission that is booked but not yet payable, because the bill it belongs to is still open (a tab, a pay-later bill, a room charge or a running barfine). It is released when the bill is paid in full.

A screen in the kitchen that shows orders by station, course and seat. Cooks mark dishes ready there, which alerts the till that took the order.

A bill that stays open on a place, such as a table, bar seat or spa bed, until the guest pays. Also called a tab.

A unit of extra time added to a timed service when it runs over, 15 minutes by default in beevity, charged at the product’s overtime price.

A sale that belongs to a named customer and is paid at a later date. beevity requires a customer, checks the credit limit and holds the commission until the bill is paid.

Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019). It governs how businesses collect, use and protect personal data, such as guests’ phone numbers and staff records.

Thailand’s national instant-payment system. beevity shows a PromptPay QR code with the exact amount, made from the shop’s PromptPay ID.

Commission that is earned and can be approved and paid out, because the sale has been paid.

Putting a bill on a guest’s hotel room, with the room number, name and signature, to be paid at checkout.

An optional percentage added to a bill, set by the owner. In beevity it is 0 to 30%, includes VAT, and is not part of the commission base.

A commission rate that rises with the number of units a person sells in a day, for example 10% up to 20 drinks and 15% from the 21st.

A product sold by time on a place, such as a 90-minute massage on bed 2. beevity starts a countdown and handles the end with an alert, an automatic finish or overtime.

Logging in with a password or PIN plus a code from an authenticator app on your phone. beevity requires it by default for every role that can see personal data.

Thai prices include 7% VAT, so the VAT in a price is 7/107 of it. A 1,070 THB price includes 70 THB VAT and 1,000 THB net.

Removing a line or a sale. In beevity every void needs a reason; after 10 minutes, or for someone else’s line, it also needs a PIN.

The report at the end of a cash shift: sales by payment method, discounts, VAT, tips, service charge, and expected against counted cash.