Zen Shopping Cart and Standard High Street Shop

[Nick1973]

Does anybody know of a way to implement a stock control system into zen cart so that a standard high street shop automatically adjusts stock in the shopping cart when a sale is made through a cash till? All suggestions welcome.

[Nick1973]

Does anybody know how to do this and has anybody done anything similar? Can this be done using the sage or quickbooks add ons?

[kuroi]

What you're really asking about is integrating your POS system with your online store.

You're suggesting that this might be possible via your accounting system. However, I doubt it. Even if your pos system has a real-time link to Sage or Quickbooks, my experiences of Sage are its more interested in importing than exporting data (other than as financial reports) and Quickbooks online is a nightmare (and only available for US customers anyway).

A direct link between your POS system either to a shared inventory tool, or an ERP system is a more likely solution. Althernatively one of the online accounting packages with a decent API (we like Xero) is more likely than the traditionally desktop-bound accounting packages to have the support you'd need. I doubt you'll find this as an off-the-shelf solution however.