Create rules for point-of-sale devices

Last modified: Tuesday September 05, 2023.

Create a rule to alert your operators when certain activities occur at your cash point-of-sale (POS) devices.

Prerequisites

To use Date & Time Templates settings, make sure you have configured them before creating the rule.

Task — Create the point-of-sale rule

  1. From the toolbar, open new tool button > rules tool button Rules.
  2. Click AddAdd rule.
  3. Type a name for the rule.
  4. Choose Point of Sale search.
  5. Set the Level of importance.
    High importance rules prioritize the cameras displayed in the Video view when a rule is triggered.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Select the type of data you want to trigger on: Text, and/or Price.
  8. Depending on your chosen data selection, select further characteristics for your rule.
    For Text rules, define the text to be matched.
    For Price rules, select More than, Less than, or Equal to. Type the value to be matched.
  9. Click Next.
  10. Select the points of sale that this rule is to be used with:
    1. Use Search to help find the required cameras in the list.
    2. Click Site and device groups icon to filter POS devices by name, or click Labels icon to filter by label.
  11. Click Next.
  12. Specify your required Date & Time and RULE ACTIVATION settings.
    If you have predefined them, use Templates to simplify adding the same date and time parameters to multiple rules.
  13. Click Next.

  14. Select automated actions taken by the system when the rule triggers:

    • Pop-up: Show a notification in Alta Video that includes a thumbnail of the rule-triggering video. If required, select Also send a push notification on the mobile app.
    • Email: Send an email message to a system user or user group. You can define an email template and include data from the trigger.
    • External link: Creates a link to the triggering recording that can be shared with non-system users or embedded in an Email or Webhook notification.
    • Webhook: Dispatch a configured webhook including trigger data as the payload.
    • PTZ Cameras: Move pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras to pre-configured positions. This option is only available if PTZ cameras are added to the deployment.

    Alarms are only shown to operators that have access to the cameras that trigger the rule.

  15. Click Done.