POS INTEGRATION
We have built wine eCommerce websites since 2003, and, consequently, we have our fair share of experience with this industry’s POS systems. When it comes to building a successful eCommerce site, we also know that leveraging the inventory information in these systems is vital to show an accurate selection of items on your website.
Depending on your system, we have a few different approaches to POS Integration, but most commonly we use our proprietary software (eStage) which will read your POS inventory on an ongoing basis and update your website. This should remove the heavy lifting when it comes to managing your web inventory as the software can take care of the following things:
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Inventory updates (new items are added, stock updates occur, out-of-stock items can be removed)
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Leverage store categories, sale lists, and discount codes from the POS.
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Create web-only prices or discount rules
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Read custom-defined search variables (e.g. “wine by flavor”)
Some systems also offer modules that allow processed orders from your website to be read back into the POS system. It’s not difficult for us to supply this data for any vendor. However, these are the systems that actively support this feature:
Spirits 2000 POS (Atlantic Systems)
We also support the following POS systems (though, if you don’t see yours listed, just shoot us a message to discuss how we can integrate!)
Catapult
Cam Retail Star
Cash Register Express (PC America)
Comcash
Creative Information System (Alan Chancer)
LBOS
Lightning POS (Computer Perfect)
LightSpeed
Liquor POS (formerly Merchant Software, now owned by Heartland)
PayGo
Posmatic Point of Sale
Shopify POS
Smart LiQuik POS
Spirits POS (Atlantic Systems)
RMS (Microsoft’s Retail Management System)
Unify POS