How sales get credited to you

Kief reads completed sales from the point-of-sale system and matches each one to the employee who rang it.

How matching works

1. You ring a sale under your own point-of-sale login, as usual — there's nothing extra to do in Kief itself.
2. Kief reads that sale and, if a contest at your store is live and the sale matches its rule, records an earning for you.
3. If a sale can't be matched to an employee, it's held in a queue for a manager to review and match it correctly.

Important: Ring every sale under your own login. Never ring, complete, or claim a sale another employee made, and never split, re-ring, or delay a sale to fit a contest. A sale that isn't real, isn't yours, or was structured to game a contest doesn't qualify and can be treated as theft.

Timing

Kief reads sales on a schedule, so there's usually a short delay between a sale and it showing up on your contest's qualifying-sales list. A sale that reaches Kief late (even after a contest or its segment has already wrapped up) is still recorded and paid if it was a genuine qualifying sale.

Budget caps

Some contests have a spending cap. Once a contest's cap is reached, sales made after that don't earn anything further under that contest — even if the contest is still showing as live. If the sponsor raises the cap later, it only reopens earning for sales made after the raise.

See also pending vs. final earnings for what happens after a sale is credited.