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Employees
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Employee data normally comes from the POS, if it indeed comes into
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play at all. You may or may not have a reason to import or otherwise
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act on Employee data using Rattail.
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It is the User record in Rattail which is given attribution for
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changes made etc. and not the Employee. So even if a certain User is
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also an Employee, when logged in and making changes their User account
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is deemed responsible.
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Whereas a User record does not technically need to tie back to a
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Person record, an Employee record *must* tie back to a Person. When
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importing Employee data from POS, both the Person and Employee records
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are created in Rattail.
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There are certain places where an Employee *is* assumed, for instance
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the "Buyer" of a Purchase Order will reference an Employee record and
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not a User. Whereas the creation and execution of a "batch" related
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to purchasing will reference a User. (See also
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:doc:`../../purchasing/index`.)
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Rattail could also be used as a "time clock" system in which case the
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Employee records must obviously be present, for tracking times.
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You also can use Rattail to track additional info for each Employee,
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e.g. the start/end dates for their employment over time. Often an
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employee might come and go more than once, and the POS will rarely
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have a way to track historical dates. Rattail has a basic way to do
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that built-in, but more "data extensions" are of course possible.
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