I own a brick and mortar retail business. I'm looking into how I might utilize nostr to integrate lighting payments and square terminal payments linked to an inventory management system that lives on a series of private nostr relays. The current problem I face in accepting lightning is automating and linking the sale to my inventory system. I think nostr fixes this with notes and zaps. I believe "loyalty card" profiles can also utilize nostr quite well too. This would be a fully centralized and private implementation of course. Nostr as a protocol has boundless application!

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Loyalty card is brilliant! "Satokspheare just spent 1590 sats at Billards Hall"
I’ve done many segments of a retail store workflow. Now I owe my custom private nostr server, buys and sells are already on #nostr. I’m not very excited about zaps ⚡️ because it is a very gross implementation and much better ways will emerge soon. I’m working myself into moving the bitcoin blockchain entirely to nostr. Removing the bitcoin-core ugly implementation and creating a brand new network all done in js.
I was thinking zaps can be used as a simple way to provide loyalty card cashback. If you build a loyalty card app and integrate nostr, you simply automatically generate a keypair for each customer to set up their account. Their purchase enters the system as a note with purchase details in a particular format. A bot can extract those details and adjust inventory on the back end. Then an autozapper can provide cashback/loyalty points directly on that purchase receipt. Customers then have a full purchase history and you have data for analytics. Would be curious to hear what sorts of implementations you have done and how they have helped your workflow!