Datatill

Datatill is a term used in tech and data contexts that can refer to multiple concepts rather than a single standardized product. It is often used to denote data collected at a till (cash register) or a dataset used in tutorials.

Etymology and scope: The name combines data with till, the cash drawer in a retail environment, signaling that the term is about capturing transactional information at the point of sale.

In retail analytics, a datatill often denotes a data collection module that records transaction-level data such as timestamp, product or item identifier, quantity, price, discounts, payment method, and staff or terminal ID. This data may be streamed to a data warehouse, data lake, or analytics platform to support reporting, forecasting, and inventory management.

In educational or software contexts, datatill can refer to a sample dataset used to teach data processing, SQL queries, or ETL techniques, or to a project component that exports and exposes till data for testing and development.

Privacy and security considerations include data minimization, encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, and compliance with applicable regulations (for example PCI-DSS in payment contexts) to protect sensitive transactional information.

Because the term is not standardized, definitions and implementations vary by organization and use case. Related concepts include data, dataset, point-of-sale, POS integration, ETL, and data warehouse.