Security for bitcoin businesses with Employees Have been investigating some of the gateway apps and offline systems that are being developed. I was wondering what is the most secure way for a business to conduct itself. Let's use a bar as an example. 

I would assume a strategy like this would be a start.


Owner creates a cold storage wallet with some read only addresses. I am thinking as this being the safe. (maybe even print some out so employees can easily cash out)
The bar then has an online accessible wallet.
He outfits his mobile devices running one of the online gateways or maybe even the electrum wallets.
Patron is ready to pay, the employee rings up the bill and says $xx.xx 
The employee and the patron do their transactions. 


Here is the question...

How often should the employee dump the coin into the cold storage safe? I would think they would need some in case they needed to reimburse a customer.

What do you guys think is the optimal way for a business of anytime, customers or not should handle their coin?
Why would you need to reimburse a customer? They should give you exact change and there's really no reason for them not to. I would recommend creating a daily cold storage wallet to receive bitcoins and then using some kind of online wallet service with a watch-only address so your employees can see the new deposits but they can't actually withdraw any of the coins.