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.

This datasheet explains how retailers can replace shared logins with biometric authentication without requiring associate mobile phones, while creating a clear, auditable record of every access event across the store. Highlights include:

• A proven method to eliminate shared retail logins via face biometrics

• The strategy to protect store systems without associate mobile phones

• A framework to build crystal-clear audit trails of all staff activity

• The steps to seamlessly integrate offline biometric logins at the POS

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.