Concepts and glossary

Numier domain and hospitality terms used throughout the documentation.

Products and devices

• TPV (POS) — Point-of-sale terminal. The venue sales system and the heart of the Numier ecosystem.
• PDA — Mobile order pad (Android) to take orders at the table.
• KDS — Kitchen Display System. The kitchen screen that replaces paper tickets.
• Kiosk — Unattended self-ordering point with integrated payment.
• Card terminal — Card payment device integrated with the POS.

Business and organization

• Company — Entity that groups one or more venues and TPVs.
• Venue — Physical establishment where the business operates.
• idTpv — Unique identifier of a TPV in the platform. Used in the API to indicate which TPV you operate on.
• License — Authorization to use a Numier product (TPV, PDA, KDS…) on a device.

Sales and service

• Order (comanda) — An order taken in the dining room and sent to the kitchen or bar.
• Ticket — A sale receipt.
• Shift (turno) — A work or service period (for example, lunch or dinner).
• Cash count (arqueo) — Counting the cash in the drawer, usually at closing.
• Zone / Room — A grouping of tables within a venue.
• Period — A sales window used to group and analyze activity.

Catalog

• Product — A sellable item in the POS.
• Sub-product — A component or variant of a product.
• Modifier — An option that changes a product (an extra, a "without", etc.).
• Category / Supra-category — Classification and grouping of products.
• Menu (carta) — The catalog of products offered to the customer (also in digital form).

Channels

• Delivery — Home delivery.
• Take away — Pickup at the venue.

Platform

• RBAC — Role-based access control: determines which documentation and features each person sees based on their role.
• Sandbox — Test environment (pre-production) to validate integrations without affecting real data.