{"id":2369,"date":"2014-07-02T21:43:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T09:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paperhedge.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:12:58","slug":"use-wordpress-woocommerce-as-a-point-of-sale-pos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awove.com\/use-wordpress-woocommerce-as-a-point-of-sale-pos\/","title":{"rendered":"Use WordPress WooCommerce as a Point of Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"
Finally, you can use WooCommerce as a POS.\u00a0I had a client website build last month and was asked if there was anything I could recommend that could be used as a Point of Sale (POS). Its then that I found out that the average cost for POS software (forget about the hardware) was upwards of $1,500 and can fetch as much as $3,000 for specialist industries.<\/p>\n
Once I started probing for more details I uncovered that all the hype is for nothing and all it is; a cloud based database of products and a way to checkout, manage inventory, and a payment gateway.<\/p>\n
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This is when I realised that one could easily take a basic install of WooCommerce<\/a>, strip the host template of all the unnecessary and viola you have a cloud based database of products, checkout, inventory management, reporting, and payment methods.<\/p>\n Customer requirements was to have an easy way to manage products and stock, have detailed reporting, and checkout via cash or card (they have a device that processes cards).<\/p>\n To be clear, the customer did not want ecommerce on her website. This can work with ecommerce and you would be able to use the same database but checking out will happen via the POS plugin.<\/p>\n Phase One- I setup a subdomain store.yourwebsite.com where I installed a fresh instance of WordPress running TwentyFourteen and WooCommerce.<\/p>\n If you wanted to integrate this into your existing ecommerce site and share the same database (for obvious reasons) then you would simply skip to Step 4.<\/p>\n Phase Two- I wanted the site to remain blocked to users other than those logged in whilst keeping it from being indexed by search engines.<\/p>\nMy Journey to Making WooCommerce and TwentyFourteen a POS.<\/h3>\n