There are almost NO solutions for this currently… the best we’ve found is by using Vend (http://www.vendhq.com) + Shopify (http://www.vendhq.com/tour/xero-shopify). This option however leaves us with a base wp website and secondary shopify subdomain as our online store.
What I would LOVE is a solution where a program like Vend can sync directly with the WooCommerce solution resulting in ONE website backend to manage. (this would also allow for easier ways to purchase directly from related blog posts)
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Please do this! Integrate woo with Vendhq
Yes please, I am creating an ecomm store now and am looking at POS, I really want to use WooCommerce but we need the POS option. Does anyone know if there is an eta for this?
Paula,
For there to be an ETA, there needs to be a plan. And for that there needs to be a sponsor, and owner, someone to coordinate the project. That can either be a pooling of resources between projects that all need something similar, or one party creating a product to fit a gap in the market.
So the question is: are you all waiting for a product to drop on your lap, with an attached cost, or is there a group that could be put together to start collecting the *actual* requirements, including what people are willing to pay and what the scope should be.
We are using woocommerce for over 100 online stores (http://ommerchants.com) and currently working on a pos app development that could possibly provide a stand alone woocommerce pos via mobile device and quite possibly existing POS hardware. Any feed back and/or expression of interest will be welcome.
Yes. Please. Please. Please!
I think Woo needs to encourage or sponsor a team to create an add on for all the major POS and inventory systems.
I love Woo, but for retail there needs to be a POS and inventory that I can recommend will work with their WooCommerce store.
I’m going to try POSSync which provides a sync between Vend + Woo Commerce. During this writing it is still in Beta though.
https://www.pos-sync.com/media/pages/info/woocommerce.html
Custom Solutions available here – http://www.quickbookintegration.com/woocommerce-quickbooks-integration/
Having your inventory and order management data controlled by any front end system, ie a POS app or the web app of the day, is like the tail wagging the dog. As multi channel sales evolve, these apps will be changing – woo commerce, magento, ebay stores, and POS will all play a role, but not the primary role. Company data should be kept in a database that is open source and independent. There is no such project underway that I know of, but this is the one that I would love to find.
‘@DStephens totally agree. The closest I have found to an open source inventory system is what is built into OpenERP (https://www.openerp.com/) but I have not played around with it much. There ar SAAS alternatives such as two startups local to me I’ve been following: Order Harmony and Moltin (http://www.orderharmony.com/ and https://molt.in/) They are not open source, but promise to look after your data and let you take it away when you need to, but they are a good example of how I think this stuff should work. Using these two products, the inventory and shop back end would be handle by their systems, and the shop front-end would just not store local products, but handle them all through and API to Moltin, which then interfaces to Order Harmony. The POS and stock-taking processes would then bypass the shop front-en entirely and communicate directly with the back end service.
Sorry if that is a bit OT, but I think it is an approach that tackles the POS problem face-on by accepting that WooCommerce is a one-channel solution that is great at what it does, but has this limitation.
Wish I could edit posts – sorry, that last one was riddled with typos. Just to be clear, I’m not trying to sell those two particular solutions. They are just two examples that can be explored now to understand how the architecture of e-commerce can be set up. There will be similar products, and hopefully similar open source projects for people on a budget or needing to customise their own business processes into it.
I guess one way to look at it is this: there are ecommerce online shops, WooCommerce being a great example, that do exactly what they are designed to do. Then there are businesses that must manage multiple channels, and an online shop is just one part of that overall strategy, bolted on to the front. Those solutions have been available to the big enterprises up until now, with deep pockets to develop those systems. I hope that is going to change.
Thank you contributor in helping me unravel as far as whats available for my business.
So far I’ve come to no perfect solution with integreting both POS and E-commerce. If your shop offers limited items or options on items, the search is easier. Unfortunately I have thousands of skus and variations. Here is what I’ve come up with; use TradeGecko (or similar) as the core Inventory Management component, Woo as e-commerce, and (teeth cringing) shopify POS/ QB POS. I’m not pleased with the POS offerings and so I wait. Otterology is able to pull info off of Squareup, now if they broadened it’s capabilities, perhas we would be able to tie it with Woo.
Fantastic… seems someone is in the same boat. Vend is the perfect POS system for the bricks and mortar. WooCom is the perfect Online solution for eCommerce. Can’t the devs look into bringing these together?
Shopify has done this already with Vend integration.
I’m only working with small medium businesses and that most of the time that means shops.
I would love more options for linking to epos systems as its the only thing I cant cover with my current skill set. I would love to be able to work the current epos api’s but for the moment at least it’s beyond my php level.
I’ve already +3’d this so all can do now is keep on commenting … if you guys see any similar threads, let’s bring them together!
More POS integration please!
I’d like to see as many POS integrations as there are for payment gateways 🙂
hey! why not put some votes onto this ? 🙂
http://ideas.woothemes.com/forums/133476-woocommerce/suggestions/2295344-woocommerce-in-store-pos-integration
I wish there was a POS retail plugin for Woo, Would use it in my new store that im opening in three months so three votes for this.
This is pretty much a must for at least 3 projects I’ve worked on recently. The client has a physical store and want to expand to e-commerce. So without POS integration, my clients have MUCH more overhead on staff time. I’m quite surprised it isn’t already possible.
Finger’s crossed!!
The market of POS software is pretty outdated, except a few newcomers like vendhq, Checkoutapp, and shopkeep. But these are generally all online webpos systems. And then its needs to synchronize with Woo or Shopify.. That will only work when you have a good designed plugin that is properly maintained.
so i hope the Woo team sees the value of creating a plugin that acts like a POS and uses the Woocommerce database to process the orders. I think that the only way i would trust this synchronization if it is developed by the Woo team for their expertise of the Framework.
And i dont mind paying for it.
And to put another cherry on top of the cake; it would be great if the plugin could also work offline. (with html5 buffering). Then you can always serve the customer, even when the website is down for a moment.
EPoS solutions also assist in keeping track record of bulk purchases made from different manufacturers and wholesalers.
http://e-tillsolutions.co.uk/
I am just about to start on the first phase of a project to move an online shop to WooCommerce. There is a bricks-and-mortar shop behind the e-commerce side, with spreadsheets to move stock data back and forth.
For the second phase (likely October) we would like to integrate with Vend. I don’t think the client has the budget for all the development work, but they are very much aware they do need to move in that direction.
So, if anyone is interested, I am happy to work on an integration module (assuming no-one else is doing so) with a number of clients to share the costs, and to get something together that all can use (so flexibility would be a key requirement). Obviously you know nothing of my skills at this stage, but please feel free to contact me to discuss if you think this could work.
I’ll just leave that out there as a thought.
Personally i think that VendHQ and ShopKeep are pretty expensive. We run a very small yoga store and spending $50/mo on a online cash register is not a viable option.
Creating a Point of Sale Plugin for Woo would be an excellent idea.!
I am just wondering if anyone has thought about integrating PHP pos with woo, seems like it should not be that hard… It would be really nice if it worked..