How do I coordinate online inventory w/Brick & Mortar sales?

I sell items online and in a shop. How do I check items OUT of my online inventory when I sell the item in the brick and Mortar store?

I know I could delete each item manually, but what if I sell 20 or 30 items in the brick and mortar store each day?

:frusty:

There's no way I know to do that other than manually. You might be able to use the 'easy populate' mod to update once per day from a csv file.

Any idea where I could find a set of instructions for:

1. using the mod
2. generating the csv file

?

heroforhire8:

Any idea where I could find a set of instructions for:

1. using the mod
2. generating the csv file

?
Easy Populate Free Version 1.2.5.4 from url below..
Instructions are in zip file
http://modhole.com/modhole/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=2&4a518f10f450e0719f940c2fab0a7c46=43df39a8dc8b460c8b11034d58f7ea8d

heroforhire8:

I sell items online and in a shop. How do I check items OUT of my online inventory when I sell the item in the brick and Mortar store?

I know I could delete each item manually, but what if I sell 20 or 30 items in the brick and mortar store each day?
I have the same problem so I purchased Olla Cart point of sales software. Olla Cart access the same database as your Zen-Cart database. Olla Cart runs from a browser and replaces the cash register in your store. You'll probably want to buy a scanner and cash drawer for your bricks 'n' mortar location.

I'm quite new to ZenCart, currently working on setting up our own site.

-My Point Of Sale system will export my store inventory into an Excel document. Columns I choose are model/upc, name, description, price and inventory count.
-I then set up the easy-populate add-on and modified one of the templates given into an excel document to show the columns I wanted. Used this as my master populate list and made a back-up copy. I also added another column with the formula that allowed me to take the UPC/Model name and add .jpg
-Easy Populate is quite daunting as most of this all is to new users, ask lots of questions but figure out the solution for yourself. Without understanding thru application, you might as well pay for a web developer to maintain your site.

All I do is export my list every Friday from my POS and feed the information into my columns one after the other. I populate my list to show only items in stock, because of my image formula I don't need to worry about the images not matching up or broken links, just make sure all your images are .jpg, .gif or whatever you decide.