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Combined Reporting: GitHub + POS Systems

How do you get one set of numbers you can trust? askotter reads GitHub and POS Systems together and answers it for your business, by text.

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the short answer

How does combined reporting with GitHub and POS Systems work for a small business?

askotter reads GitHub and POS Systems side by side so it can combine your accounts into one clean report you can ask questions of. One report covering every connected account, cleaned up and answerable by text.

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From GitHub
Commits and pull requests, Deployment events, Release tags.
From POS Systems
Transaction data, Product-level sales, Customer identification.
Status
POS Systems is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
Not for
Replacing GitHub or POS Systems. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
the problem

How do you get one set of numbers you can trust?

GA4 says one thing, Stripe says another, and your booking system disagrees with both. Matching them by hand takes hours, and the answer is still fuzzy.

How askotter handles it

askotter reads GitHub and POS Systems side by side, so it can combine your accounts into one clean report you can ask questions of.

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matching the records

How GitHub and POS Systems records line up

GitHub and POS Systems share no customer or visit identifier. askotter puts them on one timeline instead, so a change in GitHub deployments can be read against what POS Systems recorded in the same hours.

What combined reporting uses from each

Combined reporting needs a shared identifier or a shared time grain.

From GitHub that means deploy timestamps. From POS Systems it means receipt emails and loyalty phone numbers.

POS Systems is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.

What each tool sees on its ownShow less

GitHub on its own

GitHub knows what code changed and when. It cannot tell you whether that change cost you leads or sales.

Timing. GitHub timestamps every commit, merge and deployment to the second.

Access. A GitHub App or token with read access to the repositories you choose.

POS Systems on its own

A POS sees the sale at the counter. It only knows who bought when the customer gave a phone number or email for a receipt or loyalty account.

Timing. Many POS systems settle and export transactions in end-of-day batches.

Access. The POS vendor's API where one exists, or a daily export.

questions

Questions about GitHub + POS Systems

Do I need a developer to connect GitHub and POS Systems?

No. Most accounts connect with a sign-in, and the rest take a file export.

How is askotter's Combined Reporting different from what GitHub shows on its own?

GitHub only sees its own numbers. askotter reads GitHub and POS Systems together and can answer the question: How do you get one set of numbers you can trust?

GitHub + POS Systems is coming soon

Talk to us about your timeline, and we will confirm the launch date before you commit.

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