Many retailers still approach fiscal compliance as something that can be bolted on later – a local fix, a reporting workaround or a country-specific exception. 

That approach no longer works. 

Modern fiscal regimes increasingly require transactions to be fiscalised even when hardware is offline. They mandate continuous audit trails, certified reporting platforms and strict controls around users, peripherals and transaction states. 

In practice, that means fiscalisation impacts: 

• POS architecture and transaction flows 

• Store opening, closing and reconciliation processes 

• Printer, cash drawer and payment terminal behaviour 

• Staff permissions, audit codes and exception handling 

• Store uptime and trading continuity 

When fiscalisation is treated as an afterthought, the consequences tend to surface at the worst possible moment: delayed rollouts, forced system changes, regulatory intervention or, in some markets, enforced store closure.