When you’re in charge of running a business, you don’t need the extra hassle of keeping track of both your brick and mortar store and your website. What most business people need, in order to stay sane, is a POS system with a website integration that allows you to sync up all your orders, transactions, and stock-takes.
Read more to find out how you can take control of your business by using an integration to link your POS and online store.
A point of sale (or POS) device is an electronic system that allows you to take payments quickly and efficiently. A point of sale could be anything, from a cash register to an incredibly sophisticated cloud-based system.
While analog systems are still used here and there, most point of sale systems are completely electronic and digital these days. It’s now incredibly affordable to purchase a quality POS system these days. Just take a look at our systems page to see for yourself!
A good POS won’t just record transaction information. It will be able to generate detailed reports in response to input data. This affords owners and managers more insight into their business, allowing them to make actionable changes to increase revenues and cut costs.
Your POS system should come with lots of different hardware, like:
Many people opt for more portable POS options, such as the Epos Now Payments Pro+, which allows mobile entrepreneurs to operate their businesses through a POS that fits in the palm of their hand.
You can even customize your POS with lots of different apps, features, and integrations.
A POS integration is a piece of software that works on your main tabletop or handheld POS system. These integrations usually take the form of popular apps that are used by thousands of businesses around the world. These can include popular apps such as:
Most apps are used on a computer like a PC or a Mac. However, many POS systems can operate these apps on their systems, often using tweaked software, interfaces, and functions. This is done to ensure that business owners have all the tools they need in one place to get the job done.
Epos Now’s systems, for example, support hundreds of third-party apps through our AppStore. Without these integrations, business owners would need to jump back and forth between computers and POS systems, unable to automate the most basic of tasks, such as calculating taxes, updating stock, scheduling rotas. All these tasks take up time from the business owner, keeping them from doing the important work of keeping their business afloat.
If you’re visiting the page, you probably already know what a website is! But for those interested in a strict definition, a website is a set of related web pages located under a single domain name, typically produced by a single person or organization. A website is designed to convey information to a specific user/audience, or to provide a particular service to the user.
If you’re on this page, you’re probably a business owner and are already using a website for your business, or a are looking to develop one.
Most business owners these days use ecommerce sites to move their products. In a digital age, electronic operations are becoming ever more important for moving products and promoting services.
So, if you’re a retail business with a great ecommerce operation, you’ll need a POS integration that will sync up your physical and digital sales so that you know how your trade is going.
The short answer is yes! There are any number of applications that will help you sync your physical and digital sales.
One of Epos Now’s most popular integrations is with Shopify. Shopify is one of the world's largest ecommerce platforms and gives you everything you need to start a website and trade online. Paired with the Epos Now Point of Sale system, you will get easy stock management, powerful sales data and business reports from a centralised location. Products, orders, inventory and customer data sync between the systems quickly, giving you accurate oversight in real-time.
With Shopify, you can:
Another great option is Woocommerce. WooCommerce is the world’s most popular open-source ecommerce platform. Open-source gives you ultimate flexibility, control and ownership of your store’s design, content and data. Whether you’re bringing your current physical store online or launching a new business, WooCommerce has all the tools you need in one place.
With Woocommerce, you can:
Epos Now offers state-of-the-art POS systems for retail and hospitality businesses. We let you choose the tools and insights to help your business achieve its goals. Designed to work as a complete business management system, you can control all vital aspects of your company from one cloud-based system.
Receive detailed analysis on the areas that matter to your business:
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