POS Barcode Inventory Management for WooCommerce

The user will get a zip file that needs to be uploaded in the “Add New” menu option in the WordPress admin panel.

For this login to WordPress Admin Panel and in the Dashboard hover your mouse over the “Plugins” menu option and select the “Add New” option.

After this, the user will see an option on the top of the page that is “Upload Plugin”, click the option to upload the zip file.

On clicking the “Upload Plugin” option, the user will see a “Choose File” button. Click on the button to browse for the zip file as per the image below.

After browsing the file, click on the “Install Now” button so as to install the plugin as per the snapshot.

Once the plugin is installed, the user can see a “Plugin installed successfully” message and an option to activate the plugin. The user needs to click on the “Activate Plugin” button to activate the plugin.

The admin can view the outlets in the admin panel. Thus, for this, the admin follows the navigation as Point of Sale>Outlet.

In POS we have two inventory types,

• “Master Stock Inventory” and
• “Centralized Stock Inventory”.

Thus, the admin can configure the same under “Point of Sale > Settings > Select Inventory Type”.

However, the product can be added using a barcode scanner under “Point of Sale > outlet > add new> general”. Click on save outlet to add the outlet for the POS user.

After adding an outlet for POS users the outlet, the admin can see the outlet list on the Point of sale > outlet list. 

To assign the stock click on the edit option under the outlet name.

By clicking on Assign Stock, the product can be assigned using a barcode scanner or in SKU.

Master Stock Inventory :

By clicking “Assign Stock to Product” a popup will open to search for a product.

Thus, the Admin can search for a product using product SKU or using the barcode scanner.

However, in POS if the admin has configured “Master Stock Inventory” in the POS configuration then the popup will be displayed as below.

A user can assign a master stock quantity in the “Product Master Stock” option and also assign the quantity in the “Product POS Stock”.

Thus, once details are successfully saved, the inventory will be updated for the respective product.

Centralized Stock Inventory :

However, if the admin has configured the “Centralized Stock Inventory” in the POS configuration then the popup will be displayed as below.

Hence, the inventory for the respective product will be updated accordingly.

However, in the case of variable products the quantity the admin needs to specify the Inventory stock for its variations.

Master Stock Inventory

In a similar pattern to the simple product, the variable product needs to be configured.

Thus, the store owner clicks on Assign Stock to Product.

However, in the case of the “Master Stock Inventory” in the POS configuration, the admin will enter details in the below popup.

Variation 1

Variation 2

Again here the admin can assign a master stock quantity in the “Product Master Stock” option.

Additionally, the admin can define the quantity in the “Product POS Stock”.

Henceforth the admin can view the update in stock in the Manage Product Section.

Wherein, the POS owner can search for the main Variation product and click on Set Variation Stock.

This opens up a pop-up where the Assigned POS Quantity, Master Stock, and Available Stock are visible.