One Journal for Everything: How the Till, Collections, and Expenses Reconcile

Counters, launches, tickets, products — every module has its own revenue calculation logic, but the money from all of them flows into one place. RentOS doesn't have a separate "products till" and a separate "rental till" that you then have to reconcile by hand — there's one shared journal, and every module just writes to it.

Every Zone Has Its Own Till, a Point Has an Overall Balance

Formally, a till is tied to a zone: however much has been added to it through operations is what "sits" in it — it's simply the sum of journal entries, not a separate number that can drift from reality. But there are also operations that aren't about a specific zone, but about the point as a whole — say, an advance to an employee or a top-up of a client's balance. A point's overall cash balance is the till of all its zones plus operations like these, recalculated fresh the moment someone asks "how much should there be right now."

Four Basic Entry Types

Revenue appears in the journal on its own, as soon as the employee submits results: cash goes straight into the zone's till, non-cash is tracked separately and doesn't count toward the physical balance. Expense entered at the same point, during results submission, with an optional comment. Collection when the Owner takes cash off a point, the till decreases by that amount, with no separate confirmation: any discrepancies, if there are any, get resolved on the spot, not through paperwork. Change the reverse operation: the Owner logs that they put cash into a point, for example to make change.

Modules Don't Keep Their Own Money — They Write Here

When an employee sells a product, takes payment for a ticket, or closes out a launch in a play room, each of these events creates its own entry in this same shared journal — the same way, no matter which module it is. This is what lets the Owner open one screen and see the real picture across the whole point at once, instead of assembling it from several different sources by hand.

One Source for Reports

This same journal is the single source both for the expenses-and-profit report and for the simple question "how much cash should be at the point right now." Not two parallel places that can drift apart, but one feed of operations that everything else is recalculated from.