Architecting Offline-First Point-of-Sale: Integer Paisa Math and Transactional Sync Outboxes
In high-throughput retail environments with fluctuating connectivity, client-side point-of-sale software cannot afford network blocking or floating-point rounding errors. This architectural deep dive examines how 64-bit integer paisa math, Room SQLite WAL transactions, and an idempotent sync outbox state machine guarantee zero data loss and sub-second checkout speeds.