Card takings captured by Square reconcile against the Odoo POS session that actually recorded the sale, so a store closes on one agreed set of figures instead of two separate ones that nearly match.
Square and Odoo POS can each act as the register, and when both are running nobody has necessarily decided which one is. A sale gets recorded twice, a refund appears in one and not the other, and the manager closing up has a card report, a register report and no way to tell which of them is right. Head office waits on numbers nobody trusts. Connecting Square and Odoo POS settles the question: payments match to the session that recorded them, store by store, and whatever does not reconcile is flagged as a named difference rather than quietly averaged away.

Each Square payment matches to the Odoo POS line that recorded it, so a single transaction stops appearing as two and the day's takings stop being inflated at head office.
What does not reconcile between Square and Odoo POS is raised as a named difference, so a manager checks one flagged item instead of working down a receipt spool.
A refund taken through Square is attached to the originating Odoo POS session, so returns reduce the trade they belong to rather than accumulating as unexplained negatives.
Because matching happens as trading goes on through the day, closing a store becomes a review of exceptions rather than an hour spent reconciling two systems by hand.
As Square captures a payment, Alumio matches it to the Odoo POS line and session that recorded the sale in that particular store, so the two systems agree transaction by transaction rather than only on a daily total.
At close, Alumio reports whatever did not reconcile between Square and Odoo POS for that location, so the manager investigates a short list of named differences instead of checking every single line against a printout.
A Square settlement batch is broken back out against the Odoo POS sessions it covers, so the amount arriving in the bank can be traced to the trading that produced it without anyone rebuilding it in a spreadsheet.
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The accounting system is the usual third. Retailers running Square alongside Odoo POS find reconciled takings still have to reach the books, and keying them defeats the point of matching automatically. Alumio holds those connections together, so the ledger receives one agreed figure rather than a card report and a register report to be argued over.
Per location, and only outward from whichever system you have made the till. Alumio matches Square card payments to the Odoo POS session that recorded them, store by store, and reports what does not reconcile. Deciding which system is authoritative first is what makes this meaningful, because two tills syncing to each other produce agreement without accuracy.
No, the matching is configured rather than built. Alumio maps the Square payment reference onto the Odoo POS session and line that recorded the sale, and sets when reconciliation runs, all in the interface. Where two systems both behave like tills the rules get specific, so the Code Transformer is there for one a field match will not express, such as splitting a payment across two register lines.
Pick one per location and let the other be the payment rail. Square and Odoo POS can each act as the register, which is exactly why leaving it undecided produces two records of one sale and a reconciliation nobody finishes. In practice the system staff touch to ring the sale is the till, and the other should contribute payment and settlement data to it, never a second sales record.
The failure to catch here is one sale recorded twice, not one recorded nowhere. Alumio watches each match live and records what it compared, so a Square payment resolving to two Odoo POS lines, or to none, is held and alerted immediately rather than posted, with retries where configured. The reason sits with the transaction, so a store never closes on a total nobody can trace.
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