Demo walkthrough

A guided, roughly 15-minute walkthrough of Bitta Retail POS using the built-in demo dataset and the Simulated payment provider - no card reader, printer, or payment account required. You will ring sales by tile, barcode, and variant, take a simulated card payment, split a tender, park and resume a sale, close a shift, and post the day into Business Central.

Prerequisites

• An evaluation company with no real POS sales. The demo seeder hard-refuses a company that already has non-demo sales, because completed demo sales cannot be un-created.
• The Set Up Bitta Retail POS assisted setup completed - see Install and first-run setup.
• Your account has BAA POS - Admin.

Seed the demo data

1. Open Assisted Setup and run Try Bitta Retail POS with Demo Data. If the company uses Sales Tax, select an existing Store Tax Area when asked.
2. Choose Create Demo Data and read the completion message - it lists what was created and the demo PINs.

The seeder creates a DEMO-prefixed world that never touches your own records: store DEMO ("Demo Coffee & Goods") with terminals DEMO-T1 and DEMO-T2, 7 categories, 29 items (including barcodes, favorites, a zero-price item, and the DEMO-TSHIRT with S/M/L variants, each with its own per-variant barcode), 5 customers (including DEMO-C2 with a credit limit for on-account demos and DEMO-C5 with loyalty card DEMO-LOYAL-0001), and three POS users: DEMO-ADMIN (PIN 1111, supervisor), DEMO-SUPER (PIN 2222, supervisor), and DEMO-CASH (PIN 3333, cashier). It also flips the card provider from None to Simulated - a provider you already configured is never changed - and creates one already-closed shift with three sales plus one parked basket, leaving End of Day deliberately not run so you can post live.

The walkthrough

1. Sign in and sell by tile (2 minutes)

1. Open POS Register on terminal DEMO-T1 and sign in as DEMO-CASH with PIN 3333.
2. Tap a favorite tile (a coffee, say). The line appears in the cart with quantity 1; tapping again merges to quantity 2.
3. Choose Pay, tap Cash, and use the exact-cash button. The sale completes and the register clears.

2. Scan a barcode and pick a variant (3 minutes)

1. Start a new sale and type or scan one of the demo EAN-13 barcodes into the scan field - the item lands in the cart immediately.
2. Add the demo T-shirt: tapping its tile opens the variant picker (S/M/L). Pick one; the variant code follows the line onto the receipt.
3. Void or complete the sale with cash.

See Barcode scanning and Item variants for depth.

3. Take a simulated card payment (2 minutes)

1. Ring an item and choose Pay, then the card tender.
2. The Simulated provider runs the full integrated card flow - the same dialog and states you would see with a Stripe Terminal reader, without hardware or charges.

The real reader flow is covered in Card payments at the register.

4. Split a tender (2 minutes)

1. Ring two or three items and attach customer DEMO-C2.
2. On the tender screen, take part of the total in cash, then the remainder on the card tender. The change readout and remaining-due update as you go.

See Tender screen and split payments.

5. Park and resume (2 minutes)

1. Start a sale, add an item, and park it.
2. Ring a different sale for the next customer and complete it.
3. Open the parked-sales list, resume the basket you parked, and finish it. The seeder also left one pre-parked basket you can resume.

See Parking and resuming sales.

6. Close the shift and post the day (4 minutes)

1. If you opened a shift, close it: count the drawer against the expected amount and review the over/short. The seeded closed shift already demonstrates a clean count and Z-report data - see Shifts.
2. As a manager (DEMO-ADMIN, PIN 1111, or your own admin account), open POS End Of Day, review the pending demo sales - they are still Released on purpose - and post. Consolidated Sales Invoices are created through standard posting, and each POS sale is stamped with its invoice number.

See End of day for the full close flow.

Cleaning up

Keep the DEMO records together and separate from production configuration. When you move to a real go-live, work through the administrator setup checklist in a clean company rather than converting the demo company.