Independent offline counter beta 7 — indexed catalogue

Android 0.3.0-beta.7 and matching Windows 1.8.5-beta.5 for the independent offline counter pilot. Install over the previous APK to retain local data.

All nine approved offline screen journeys are implemented. Includes offline cash selling, cached branch items/images, direct Android Bluetooth/USB ESC/POS printing, controlled drawer pulse, durable print recovery, protected receipt retention, older-receipt search, PIN/ACL, 18 languages, and explicit cloud receipt evidence.

This update removes full-catalogue allocations from paged-server activation and normal product browsing. Android uses a transactional SQLite index, showing 48 products at a time while barcode/code lookup searches all saved items. Missing/duplicate pages or failed writes preserve the previous catalogue and grant. Image data is retained in the UI only for the visible page. A product changed during refresh must be selected again; old held/paid prices remain intact.

Validation: 71 mobile unit tests, 33 browser tests and 22 real mobile/POS integration cases pass. Includes 10,017-item migration, lookup, Unicode search and atomic activation failures. Matching POS/gateway checks and build hashes are recorded in BUILD-MANIFEST.json. TEST-GUIDE.md maps the nine designs to real screens and gives offline/reconnect/printing test steps.

Cloud receipt confirmation requires gateway protocol 1 and signed sync component 1.7.3 on the beta channel. Only assigned beta cloud tenants receive it; community installs remain server-only. This confirms sale delivery, not completion of every stock collection or independent-ledger failover.

Pilot distribution: Android arm64, existing development certificate; Windows unsigned. Physical printers and terminals still need shop testing. iOS direct adapters, provider card authorization and richer item options are future roadmap phases, not claimed as complete by this release.