Brick & Mortar Store w/ Zen Cart integration? POS?

[rtw819]

Hello,

I have done a fair amount of searching through the articles and support forums for this issue, and have not found much information. Perhaps you can help.

We are in need of finding an easy way to provide a Brick & Mortar Store Point of Sales interface for Zen Cart. We love our online Zen Cart and want to continue to use it for inventory control and order processing and we will still be selling primarily online. However, now we're growing into a physical store and want to find some easy way of checking people out? (Keeping track of inventory, etc. as best we can.)

Our business is a cash based business, the business has no debt and no credit available. Since we're using a free cart (Thank You Zen!), we obviously don't have a ton of money for expensive POS equipment or software... We simply ran out of room in the house for the inventory, didn't want to close the business, hence the brick and mortar and now rent and store hours!

Any suggestions on a brick and mortar Zen integration?

Thank you for your time and consideration in advance!

[afo]

Why don't you consider the Add Customers from Admin mod? You can add customer and order info into your ZC.

Good luck with the new phase of your business!

[rtw819]

Hi Afo,

Thanks for that suggestion! And Thanks for the good wishes! That modules is a great way to add a new customer really quickly. I like it.

For posterity's sake, and for anyone else looking to do the same, I ran across a few other POS type alternatives:

- We're also looking at OllaCart (http://ollacart-pos.com/) as possible add-on for a POS. It's not free, but does look like a fairly viable solution. Thanks to this thread: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=337890

- These folks have a Zen POS solution, but I haven't gotten a return email from them yet: http://www.florentinedesign.com/oscommerce-pos.htm

- A free option is PHP Point of Sale on SourceForge (http://www.phppointofsale.com/), but it looks like a lot work up front. It's missing a lot of out-of-the-box functionality we need, but hey, it's free.

Hope this information helps someone else out someday.

All the best, and thanks for all that you do!

[vickilapp]

Hi,
I've been looking into the same thing.

I've downloaded the free trial for T-Hub, which I found on the Intuit website:
http://marketplace.intuit.com/AppID-2771-Overview.aspx.

I haven't gotten it to work yet... The description sounds promising, though. I have a busy retail shop, and use Quickbooks POS Pro 7.0. Would love to find a solution that brings together the inventory management function between ZenCart & POS.



Vicki Lapp
www.beadinspirations.com

[tuor]

As I have mentioned in a another thread, I got some POS Services for Zen Cart working, including a simple demo for making orders. I currently have it in use for a shop.

Anybody is welcome to grab the code and adapt it to their needs

[misty]

As I have mentioned in a another thread, I got some POS Services for Zen Cart working, including a simple demo for making orders. I currently have it in use for a shop.
Anybody is welcome to grab the code and adapt it to their needs

Thanks for sharing....is this mod suitable for latest version of
zencart i.e. 1.3.8.a?