Passwords in a small business are shared, written down and forgotten. A code to the registered number is both easier and harder to misuse.
Password rules assume one person per account who remembers it. A shop is not that: passwords get shared to save a walk to the counter, written on a note by the till, and reset every few months because nobody can recall them.
A one-time code to the registered number sidesteps most of it. There is nothing to write down, nothing worth sharing after the fact, and sign-in depends on having the phone rather than remembering a string.
The one registered to the account.
On that phone.
No password to remember.
The session shows in the device list.
Who can open the books, on which device, and what they are allowed to do once inside. Staff get accounts of their own rather than a shared password, and what each of them can reach is set screen by screen.
Most of it is set up once, early, and then only noticed when something changes — a new device signs in, a bill is cancelled, a role needs tightening.
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The accounts it signs in and the sessions it creates.
OTP is an alternative way in, tied to the registered number.
The registered number is what the code goes to, so it has to be kept current.
Yes — sign-in alerts and the device list both show sessions as they are created.
The password by the till is the least secure thing in most shops.
