The till that does not stop when the internet does
Most tablet tills depend on the cloud: no connection, no till. MaCaisse writes to the device first. An outage becomes a detail your service never notices.
What happens when the line drops
Nothing happens. No warning, no spinner, no button that refuses to answer. The waiter takes the order, the kitchen gets its docket, the bill prints, the customer pays. Stock comes down along the way, as always.
At closing, the report is exact: it was worked out on the same database you used all evening, the one on the tablet. You will not re-key a single sale, nor wonder which ones went through.
When the line returns, the till catches up on its own with whatever has to reach your online account. There is nothing for you to trigger.
Your data stays with you
Sales, catalogue, customers and settings live in a database installed on the tablet. It is not a cache, nor a fallback copy: it is the original. Your online account receives a duplicate, so you can read your figures from a browser and start again on a new tablet if yours breaks.
Two concrete consequences follow. First, no latency: tapping an item shows a price, with no round trip over the network. Second, your history never becomes hostage to a connection or an unreachable server — it sits, physically, in your shop.
What needs internet, and what does not
Let us be precise: not everything works offline, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
| Works with no connection | Needs a connection |
|---|---|
| Checkout, cash and card | Multi-shop web dashboard |
| Floor plan and held tickets | Syncing to the online account |
| Receipt and kitchen docket printing | Importing a menu from a photo |
| Stock, deliveries, stocktakes | Renewing the subscription |
| Customers, loyalty, credit | App updates |
| Reports and Z report | Linking a new tablet |
Working across several tablets deserves one clarification: it needs a local network, your shop Wi-Fi, but not internet. The tablets talk to each other. If the router loses the line but keeps broadcasting Wi-Fi, your floor carries on as normal.
For shops where the line is unreliable
This is not a theoretical quality. It serves, every day, businesses for which a connection was never a given:
- markets and stalls, where there is no line at all;
- food trucks and mobile sales points;
- basements, old-town shops and back courtyards where the signal does not reach;
- rural areas and small towns where outages are weekly rather than exceptional;
- terraces and seasonal extensions, set up where nobody ever ran a cable.
In all of these, the question is not whether the connection will drop, but when. A till that depends on it is a till that will stop.
Try it
Frequently asked questions
What happens if the internet drops mid-service?
Nothing visible. The till writes to the tablet database, not to a remote server: receipts print, stock comes down, the evening report is right. When the connection returns, syncing resumes on its own.
Where are my sales stored?
On the tablet, in a local database. A copy goes to your online account when the connection allows, but the original stays with you.
Can I use MaCaisse without ever connecting the tablet?
No, and we would rather say so. The tablet has to be linked to an account at the start, and to reconnect from time to time to renew its subscription. Between connections it works entirely offline.
How do I recover my data if the tablet breaks?
From the synced copy in your online account: a new tablet linked to the same account recovers the catalogue, the customers and the history. That is why it pays to connect the till regularly, even though it does not need to in order to sell.