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POS data from the bill
Most alternative-data panels infer what happened at a merchant. ZipF records it. POS data in this stack is the checkout itself: SKU, quantity, price, discount, basket, and sentiment, written as the merchant operates.
Card transaction panels already sell nowcasts to high-frequency, systematic, quantamental, and fundamental investors. They are valuable. They see a total at a merchant, often with lag. ZipF's panel is merchant-native. It sees the line items that summed to that total, on infrastructure the company owns.
That difference is the product. A card event is a total at a restaurant. A ZipF event is two specialty coffees, one croissant, a 12% discount, 8:14am, a repeat customer, sentiment positive. Mix, premiumization, brand switching, and discounting-with-volume live in the second record.
Who this is for
Merchant operators get analytics and an action button. Brands get share inside venues. Advertisers get closed-loop attribution to the purchase. Desks get a Commerce Signal API with latency SKUs and exclusivity. The same events feed all four. The contract is the packaging.
Coverage thesis
India day one and the US day one. Integrations first (Square, Toast, Clover, Petpooja, Razorpay, Restroworks), then the ZipF terminal as the complete stream. Worldwide installed POS is about 292 million devices. The India plan is a beachhead, not a ceiling.
Normalized alternative data sold as institutional intelligence already supports large contract books. ZipF's book is the physical-economy version of that motion, with SKU fidelity the card panel does not have.
Questions
What is ZipF POS data?
Merchant-native, item-level checkout data: the bill ZipF generates on its own terminal or via POS integrations, not a reconstructed card total.
How is ZipF POS data different from card panels?
Card panels infer spend from cards. ZipF records SKU, basket, price, and sentiment from the merchant operating system.
Can trading desks buy the feed?
Yes. The Commerce Signal Network sells API credits, latency SKUs, and exclusive rights to systematic, quantamental, macro, and market-making desks.