Glossary

Freshness chip

The small label on every BudAlly screen showing when each source was last synced ('Metrc synced 02:14 PT', 'POS export 03:00 · stale'). No figure is shown without one.

Many POS connections are polled rather than pushed, so a figure on screen is only as current as the last sync. The freshness chip makes that visible: the screen says when each source last synced instead of implying the number is from right now.

BudAlly puts a freshness chip on every screen and a kill switch on every connector. Every item in the morning briefing cites its sources and their as-of times, and the developer API lists a signed sync.stale webhook that carries titles and ids only, with the details kept in the app.

A simple test when comparing software is to ask how stale a number can be. A product that shows a freshness time on every screen has thought about this. One that shows a number has not.