One stock figure, whether it sold in the shop or online
Off-the-shelf point of sale works until your business stops looking like the one it was designed for — multiple branches, unusual pricing, stock that has to agree with a website. We build and integrate POS that matches how you actually trade.
This is for you if:
- Shop and website stock counts disagree, and someone reconciles them by hand.
- You run several branches and cannot see them in one place.
- Your pricing has rules the off-the-shelf system cannot express.
- End-of-day reporting is a spreadsheet somebody rebuilds every evening.
What You Actually Get
Built around the counter first, because a till that is slow or confusing at a queue will not be used as intended.
Till & Checkout
Barcode scanning, split payments, returns and held sales, fast enough to keep a queue moving and usable on a touchscreen.
Inventory Across Branches
One stock figure per item per location, with transfers, stock takes and low-stock alerts that fire before you run out.
Online & Offline Sync
Two-way sync with WooCommerce or Shopify so a sale in either channel moves the same number, with defined conflict rules.
Receipts & Tax
Printed and digital receipts formatted for your market, with the tax treatment and invoice numbering your accountant needs.
Reporting
Takings by branch, hour and product, margin by line, and an end-of-day that reconciles itself instead of being retyped.
Offline Mode
The till keeps selling through a dropped connection and reconciles when it returns, because a shop cannot stop trading for the internet.
What A Build Like This Involves
An illustration of scope and sequence, not a client project. Real timelines move with the specifics, and the proposal you get would be costed against yours.
A clothing retailer with four branches and a WooCommerce store. Stock is counted separately in each place, the website oversells items already gone from the shop floor, and every evening a manager rebuilds the day's numbers in a spreadsheet.
Weeks 1–2 · Audit and data model
Sit behind the counter through a busy period. Model products, variants and the pricing rules that the current system cannot express. Establish which system owns the stock number — the single decision the rest depends on.
Weeks 3–6 · Till and inventory
Build the checkout for speed on a touchscreen with a scanner. Inventory per branch with transfers and stock takes. Offline mode with a reconciliation path, tested by pulling the network cable mid-sale.
Weeks 7–8 · Store sync
Two-way sync with WooCommerce, with explicit conflict rules for the case where the same last item sells in both channels within seconds. Reservation handling so an online order holds stock before it is picked.
Weeks 9–10 · Reporting and rollout
End-of-day reconciliation, takings and margin reporting. Staff training at the counter, one branch first, then the rest once that branch has traded a full week without falling back to the old process.
About ten weeks, rolled out one branch at a time
Other Work Under Business Automation
Automation compounds. One workflow saves hours; connecting it to the CRM and the routing rules is where the week comes back.
POS & Retail Systems FAQs
Usually not. It runs in a browser on hardware you already have, and most existing scanners and receipt printers work. We confirm what you have before quoting rather than assuming a replacement.
Ready To Talk About POS & Retail Systems?
One stock figure, whether it sold in the shop or online. Tell us where you are with it today and we will tell you what we would tackle first — and what we would leave alone for now.