Audit history¶
Who did what, one day at a time. The things worth being able to look up afterwards.
Where: menu → Staff → Audit history.
It lives under Staff because almost everything on it is a person's decision rather than a system event: a discount given, a price changed at the till, a drawer opened with no sale in it.
Finding something¶
A day at a time, with arrows either side, and a dropdown that starts on All Events. Pick one kind of event to see only those.
Nothing that day gives you No audit events.
What lands on it¶
Roughly four families.
| Money decisions at the till | Discount, Price Override, Refund, Payment Voided, No-Sale Drawer Open, Cashout Added |
| What happened to a sale | Cart Created, Item Added, Item Updated, Item Deleted, Cart Deleted, Customer Assigned, Table Assigned, Note Added, Converted to Layby, Layby Cancelled, Receipt Printed, Docket Printed |
| People | Staff Login, Staff Logout, User Login, Failed Login, New User, User Update, Password Change, Permission Override |
| Corrections and the rest | Cashup Corrected, Voucher Voided, Voucher Deleted, Voucher Re-enabled, Food Safety Dismissed, Food Safety Record Corrected, New Site, Site Configured, Register Tested |
The four to actually watch are Discount, Price Override, No-Sale Drawer Open and Permission Override. Each one is somebody deciding to step outside the normal path, and each one is legitimate most of the time — which is why the answer is looking at the pattern rather than at any single row.
What it is good for¶
Answering a question you already have. Why was this sale $4 short? Who opened the drawer at 3pm? Did anyone override a price on Saturday?
It is not a report and it does not total anything. For the money questions use Reports or the Register; for who has been writing stock numbers by hand there is Who changed what under Inventory.
Good to know¶
- Names only appear if your shop asks for a PIN. Without staff sign-in there is nobody to attribute anything to, and the history records the event without a person. See Staff.
- A Permission Override is the record of somebody being let past a bar. If you have set discounts to Manager and a manager approved one, that is the row that says so.
- It is a log, not a list you can tidy. Nothing here can be edited or deleted, which is the only reason it is worth reading.