Roadmap

Decisions: resolved, tentative and open

The repository tracks 34 numbered decisions. These are the ones that matter to a business owner, with their state as the roadmap states it.

Reading note

States are copied from the repository roadmap and are the owner's to change. Decisions about internal engineering (process isolation per platform, contract transport, signature scheme confirmation) are left out here.

Decision	Question	State	Why it matters
D1	Profit threshold value	Tentative. The price table stays a placeholder.	Decides who pays and who does not.
D2 / D31	What counts as profit and how it is shown without telemetry	Definition given; measurement open. A user-initiated signed band attestation is recommended.	Simca has no telemetry, so the company cannot see sales or books.
D32	Fee lapse, grace period and disputes	Behaviour decided (tentative, ADR-0009): a lapse stops only paid features, updates and online extras; the software stays free and books, sales data and retained records are never locked. Grace and dispute lengths are drafts for a lawyer.	What happens if a fee is unpaid.
D34 / D35	Opening multiple and margin on the fee	Removed / resolved (tentative, ADR-0009): the fee is the plain cost split, no multiple, no 10x limit and no margin.	Sets how the fee relates to cost. The repository records the risk: no cushion, so costs must stay bounded.
D36	Notice milestone levels and the non-binding estimate (drafts: 75% and 90% of the threshold)	Estimate wording decided (tentative): the notice figure is labelled estimated and not binding. Still open: the levels, whether an estimate is ever a cap, and the lawyer's check that the wording does not mislead.	Decides when and how a business is warned before it is billed.
D37	Which services are charged and what stays free	Decided (tentative): the point of sale and Simca Logistics. If a business over the threshold does not pay, the paid services (Logistics included) stop. Still open: what else stays free and what happens to a job in progress.	The software itself is free; books and retained records always stay reachable.
D38	Cost bounds without a margin	Reserve line decided (tentative): an optional, nominal rainy-day reserve line, shown openly in the cost, no cap for now. Not decided: a limit on cost growth and publishing an emergency cost shock.	With no margin there is no cushion for a cost that turns out higher.
D39	Who the two key custodians are, and the co-signer conflict	Tentative: Simca and a US-based "Company XXX" (place undecided) that holds the physical key; both are controlled by the owner, so independence is limited. The co-signer conflict is still open.	The second signer must not sign off its own related-party charges.
D40	Donations	Confirmed (tentative): public donations reduce the amount members split and stay visible. Open: accounting and tax treatment.	Private donations never enter published data and never change the fee.
D4	Setting to turn off the launcher's opening request	Recommended and implemented in the library; default to be confirmed.	Lets a user stop even the one disclosed request.
D5	Launcher-less (portable) start of the app	Open.	Running without the launcher would bypass signature checks and update offers.
D6	Online sign-in method	Open.	Needed before Tap to Pay, the shared-price counter, referral validation or the Logistics relay can ship.
D7	Hosting for manifests, downloads and mirrors	Open.	Where updates come from.
D8	iOS launcher parity and Apple rules	Open.	Parity is required; Apple rule limits are checked later.
D18	Windows 7 and 8.1 support versus the interface toolkit's Windows 10 floor	Open.	Many shop computers are old.
D19	Tap to Pay provider per country and platform	Open.	Cards are accepted only through a certified provider.
D20	Encryption at rest (SQLCipher)	Open.	Weighs key loss against theft of a shop computer.
D21	First market segment: bodega and retail first, or restaurants first	Open; retail and bodega first is recommended.	Decides what ships first.
D22	Offline key ceremony and custody (two independent signers)	Design recommended, custodian structure tentative (ADR-0009); ceremony not done.	No real price or update can be published without it.
D23	Peru e-invoicing route (direct to SUNAT or an authorised provider)	Open.	Legal invoices and waybills.
D24	Closed beta shops: how many, which, consent and feedback channel	Open.	No telemetry, so feedback is in person or on paper.
D25	Support model: channels, languages, hours	Open; Spanish first.	Who answers when something breaks.
D26	Cash rounding policy	Recommended and implemented in the library: round to the 5-centimo step in the customer's favour at cash settlement.	PEN has no 1-centimo coin; to be checked with a compliance advisor.
D28	Retention and deletion wording for removed data	Partly resolved; lawyer and accountant review of the periods and texts is open.	What can be deleted, and when.
D29	Licence terms	Resolved as to terms: acquisition is free, a tentative flat fee above a profit threshold.	Replaces the earlier buy-once wording.
D27 / D33	Launcher route and shell technology	Route resolved (Simca's own launcher, forked); shell technology open.	What the launcher is built with.
D3	Name of the base layer	Resolved: the base layer is simply Simca; the only named sub-products are Simca Packaging and Simca Logistics.	Naming.
D9 to D15	Logistics: board distribution without servers, rating math, GPS opt-in, relay nodes, process isolation, contract transport, neutral dispute helper	Open; some drafted.	How the Logistics board works with no central server.