Why StillDeep

Why StillDeep instead of an AI-generated point of sale

An AI writes a register screen in an afternoon. StillDeep brings the rest: offline, taxes, security, and 20 years of software, 7 of them in POS.

You build the screen, under your brand and with the AI of your choice. StillDeep takes on the risk underneath: the money, the data and the security.

The screen belongs to whoever builds it, the business keeps its server and its data, and the checkout line keeps moving when the Internet goes down because the register keeps selling offline.

A small error, multiplied by thousands of sales

A demo shows a cart, a total and a receipt. A business lives with what a demo does not show. One rounding error is enough:

  • 2 ¢ off per sale
  • 300 sales a day
  • $6 missing every day
  • $2,160 a year, for a single register

Add the hours spent finding out why the register does not balance. The same goes for a tax calculated on the wrong amount, a refund counted twice, or a sale lost when the Internet drops in the middle of a payment.

Each of these cases is handled in the StillDeep engine, tested, then rechecked by the business's server: Canadian sales taxes, rounding to 5 ¢ only when everything is paid in cash, shifts that balance to the cent. Registers sell offline and resynchronize without losing or duplicating a sale.

What an attacker looks for, in the age of AI and bots

A register handles money in a place open to the public, and attackers have AI too now. Bots try every address, every field and every combination of requests, day and night. A rule that only exists in the screen eventually gets bypassed. In StillDeep, the rules live in the engine and the server:

The attack What StillDeep does
Lowering a price or adding a discount with a forged request No screen is trusted: the server rechecks quantities, prices, totals and taxes
Altering or erasing a sale already made Every sale leaves the register sealed and chained to the previous one; an altered document is refused
Replaying a refund The server never records the same document twice
Reading the database from a stolen register Registers hold no database password; a lost register is revoked along with its keys
Slipping code into an extension Extensions are signed and verified before they load; if a fingerprint changes, nothing loads
Intercepting card numbers Cards go from the terminal to the processor, never through StillDeep

Your screen, generated by an AI or written by hand, can change as often as you want: a flaw in the screen gives no access to the database or the sale rules. The details are on the security page.

Three ways to get a register

AI screen alone Closed POS StillDeep
Offline sales without loss or duplicates To build Varies Included
Canadian taxes and cash rounding To build Included Included
Rules rechecked by the server To build Varies Included
Screen under your brand, in your language Yes The vendor's Yes
Data on the business's own server To build Varies Yes

What you get

  • A proven engine for sales, offline mode, synchronization, Admin, receipts and extensions, built and tested on Windows, Linux and macOS. The architecture page shows how it all fits together.
  • Dozens of complete, working, production-ready applications (registers, web back offices, online booking and ticketing), grouped by example business and provided with their source code to adapt to your business.
  • Eleven modules to combine according to each business's trade.
  • A stable contract: your screen connects to the public stilldeep.v1 contract, in the language of your choice, and stays connected from one version to the next. See build your screen.
  • Your data on your own server: the business's server keeps sales and customers, and everything is available in French and English.
  • Your time back: you deliver the screen under your brand, fitted to your customer's trade, instead of spending months on taxes, offline mode and security.

Built by someone who has seen registers in production

StillDeep is designed and built in Quebec by a software engineering graduate who has been programming for over 20 years, including more than 7 building a point of sale before generative AI. Who builds StillDeep.

See it in action

Open an example and make a sale, or start your own screen. See the example businesses or build a register screen.