What’s inside

Shared POS terminals, high associate turnover, and the lack of practical phone deployment on the sales floor make strong authentication difficult in retail. Many stores still rely on shared credentials, which limits accountability, weakens audit trails, and complicates investigations after a breach or inventory loss.

1Kosmos replaces shared retail logins with face biometrics that work on existing devices, without requiring associates to use a personal phone, and builds a verified record of every access event across the store.

Learn how 1Kosmos:

• Eliminates shared credential risk at the POS without disrupting store operations or requiring new hardware

• Gives every associate a verified identity that follows them across every terminal, every shift, and every location

• Builds a clean, person-level audit trail so every action traces back to a specific individual

• Removes lingering access the moment someone offboards, even in high-turnover seasonal environments

• Extends strong authentication to fulfillment centers and low-signal areas where connectivity is limited

Shared credentials are a problem every shift

When associates share logins across a shared terminal, there is no way to know who took an action, authorized a return, or was logged in when something went wrong. This is a structural gap, and it still retail authentication environments today.

1Kosmos gives every associate their own verified identity, so every terminal finally has a person-level record.

Associates enroll once and log in with their face from any shared device in the store. From that point forward, every action on every terminal is tied to a specific person, which means shrink investigations have a starting point, audit trails hold up, and IT stops inheriting the credential mess that high turnover creates.

When someone leaves, their access goes with them, and when seasonal staff come on, they get exactly what they need for the duration of their assignment without a personal device entering the picture.

Authentication that works as fast as your associates do

Download the datasheet for deployment details, integration options, and a closer look at how 1Kosmos fits into the retail environments and infrastructure your stores already run on.