Prestashop Point of Sale System is a web-based POS solution that facilitates the store owner to manage multiple physical stores and synchronize them to your eCommerce store. Synchronize your store data (orders, customers, product listings) with POS outlets.
Create multiple sales agents and assign them to the respective POS outlets. POS panels for physical stores from where sales agents can search the products, place orders, manage customers, apply vouchers, process returns.
Connect your POS system with the barcode scanner, printer, and cash drawer to speed up the purchase process on your physical stores. Also, our POS system works in an offline mode. So, even if the internet connection is not available your sales agents can process the orders.
Offer multiple payment methods such as cash, debit or credit card to the customers. Also, there is a split payment option that enables the customers to use more than one payment method to pay for the order.
Check the overview of the plugin in the video mentioned-below –
Features of Prestashop Point of Sale system
- Add multiple physical stores and associate products with them.
- Add multiple sales agents and assign them to POS outlets.
- A separate panel for sales agents from where they can manage sales and customers.
- Add products to the POS cart in two ways: on clicking the product or by scanning the barcode.
- Update product quantity, price, and apply the discount on products & orders.
- Add customer profile from POS panel by entering the basic details.
- Edit customer details while processing an order.
- Create order from POS panel in an offline mode.
- POS system automatically sync offline orders to online once the internet connection is restored.
- Customers can choose to pay for their orders via cash or card or in split form(partial payment via cash or card).
- Put an order on hold and retrieve it to complete the order at a later stage.
- Our POS system supports multiple languages and currencies.
- Print the sales receipt after the order is completed.
- Connect cash drawer to POS printer to open after printing the sales receipt.
- Synchronize Prestashop product quantity with POS outlet quantity.
- Stock quantity for each product is displayed in the POS panel.
- Number of products added in cart is also displayed in the POS panel.
- A new stock update button is added to the POS panel to synchronize stock between PrestaShop store and POS.
- POS dashboard to view sales, the number of orders received, and net profits from a particular POS outlet.
- Also, view top cashier and top selling products in the POS dashboard.
- POS system supports guest checkout.
- Admin can easily enable/disable/delete the POS outlet.
- Option given to add custom product on POS at run time.
- Ability to redeem voucher partially.
- It supports the PS Specific Price Rule.
- The PrestaShop POS module is multi-shop compatible.
Note:
Point of Sale System module is compatible with PrestaShop framework version 8.x.x.
How to install Prestashop Point of Sale System Module
- Firstly, Go to Module Manager in Back office and click on ‘upload a module’.
- Now, Drag and drop the module file or select the file from the system.
- In this way, the module installation will be successful.
POS Management – Admin’s End
After the successful installation of the module, a new tab “Manage POS” adds to configure the module settings.
Note that the module configuration can be set in multi languages.
General Configuration
Change product price in cart
Suppose, an employee has added a product to the cart.
If admin has selected “Price (Tax Excluded) in “Change Product Price in cart” field. Now, when an employee changes the product price then “tax excluded price” will also change as shown below:
If admin has selected “Price (Tax Included) in “Change Product Price in cart” field. Now, when an employee changes the product price then “tax included price” will also change as shown below:
Product Configuration
While configuring the “Product Settings”, admin has to:
- Set number of characters for product name which will be visible on POS.
- Specify the product quantity for a low stock warning so that once the product quantity gets equal to or less than this quantity then a low stock warning sign will display on POS.
- Select the parameters with which an employee can search for a product on POS.
- Select barcode search type either UPC or EAN.
- Enable/Disable the display of tag on combination products on POS.
Note: This POS module is not compatible with Advance Stock Management feature of Prestashop 1.6.
Front End View
Show Outlet Product Active on Assign
If enabled, then after assigning the product to an outlet the POS status will be active which means that the product assigned to an outlet is active on POS.
Customer
By default, the guest checkout is disabled in Prestashop point of sale system as only the registered customers can place an order.
Admin can enable guest checkout by setting up a default email id which can be used for placing all the guest orders. Also, select the default parameter to search the customer at POS end.
If you enable customer group selection, then you can assign groups to the customer at POS end. To do so, edit the customer detail and assign the group.
Now, you can also search the customer by their name, email and phone number. This will enhance the customer search functionality at POS end.
Payment Methods
Under “Payment Methods”, admin can select:
- payment modes which will be available to employees on POS and
- payment method to be used in case of order return.
Order Receipt
Under “Order Receipt” admin can:
- Choose which type of printing you want to use.
- Enter the printer name with which system gets connected.
- Enable/Disable the display of product discount, order discount, and barcode on order receipt.
- Enable/Disable sending of email to customer through POS when his order gets placed.
- Enable cash drawer to open it on the command of invoice printing. Cash drawer is an integral part of the POS which is used to manage daily cash transactions of the shop.
Raw printing
Our module supports ESCPOS language. For raw printing, the POS printer/ thermal printer which you are using must support ESCPOS language.
How to configure Printer
Before using the printer, follow the instructions given below:
1. Install Java 8 or the higher version from the link: https://java.com/en/download/
2. Download the QZ tray from the link: https://qz.io/download/
3. Install it as a typical program on your PC
4. Launch the QZ tray application
5. Configure the printer name in the backend POS configuration page.
In order to check the compatibility of the POS printer with our POS. Please open the link. Then, select ESC/POS language and then print.
HTML printing
The module also supports HTML printing.
Front End View
In the case of raw printing, the following page opens at the POS end.
In the case of HTML printing, the following page will open at your POS end. Here, you can choose to simply save this file as PDF or print it via a selected printer.
Shipping
In case the products need to be delivered then the admin can enable the shipping and select the shipping methods which will be on POS. POS carrier has been set as a default shipping method.
Add Custom Product
The POS cashier/employee can quickly create items not yet available in stores and add them to shopping cart in seconds.
Add/Manage Outlets
Admin can add/manage outlets by navigating through Manage POS->Outlets.
After saving the outlet details admin can assign products to the outlet.
Admin can assign all the Prestashop products to an outlet at once by clicking on “Assign All product” button.
Admin can also assign specific products to the outlet by clicking on “Assign Product” button.
The sales agent can select the language and currency for the POS outlet if admin has assigned multiple languages and currencies to the outlet from the backend.
POS Dashboard
In POS Dashboard, admin can view the complete statistics for POS. Admin can view total sales, number of orders, average cart value, and net profit from POS as well as the Prestashop store.
Sales
Admin can check the total sales that have been generated from POS as well as the Prestashop store.
Number of orders received
Admin can view the number of orders received from POS as well as the Prestashop store.
Average Cart Value
In POS dashboard, admin can also view the average cart value for POS and Prestashop store as well.
Net Profits
In POS dashboard, admin can also view the Net profits earned from POS as well as the Prestashop store.
Top Cashier
Top Selling Products
Assigning Customer Groups
After the installation of the module, a POS Customer group gets automatically added.
Adding Sales Employees
Admin can add the sales employee by navigating through Configure->Advanced parameters->Team->Employees.
While adding a new employee admin can assign him/her to the outlet.
If admin has set permission profile as “POS” then no employee will be able to access the tabs and a message will be displayed as shown below:
If the admin has not assigned any POS Outlet to an employee, then that employee will not be able to log in to POS.
The following message will be displayed on screen if an employee has not been assigned to any POS outlet by admin.
Front End Workflow of POS System
First of all, an employee or sales agent has to log in to the POS System by entering email address and password.
Once the employee has successfully logged in he will be redirected to the POS System.
Start New Session
If an employee clicks on “Start New Session“, then the products which were added in the cart by an employee during the previous session will be removed and a new session will get started.
After login to POS shop, an employee can view the products, categories and checkout panel. Also, the available stock for each product is displayed in the POS panel.
An employee just needs to click on a product for adding it to the cart. In case of a combination product when an employee clicks on the product, a popup appears on screen where he has to select a combination, enter its quantity and then click on “Add To Cart” button.
The stock available for a product is also displayed in the popup.
Once the products have been added to cart, then an employee can:
- Update the quantity of the products.
- Update the Price of the products.
- Give a discount on the products.
- Give Cash discount on an order.
- Remove products from the cart.
- View the number of products added to cart
During checkout, if a customer wishes to purchase something else then an employee can put his cart on hold and start a new cart.
When an employee clicks on Proceed to checkout button he gets redirected to “Customer” page where he has to select a customer.
After selecting a customer, when an employee clicks on proceed to checkout button he gets redirected to payment page. On Payment page, an employee can apply voucher on a cart, enter message about an order for reference, and select payment method for processing the payment.
Note: A voucher can also be redeemed partially.
When an employee clicks on “Validate” button for completing the payment, invoice for an order gets generated in which order details are mentioned.
In Prestashop POS, a customer can pay using more than one payment method. Suppose if the order amount is $29, then a customer can pay $10 via cash and the remaining amount i.e. $19 via card payment or cheque.
Orders
An employee can check the list of orders under” Orders” tab.
Offline Orders
In POS system, an employee can process the orders even if the internet connection is not available in the system. In case internet connection is not available, then the employee can add products in cart and complete the order.
Note: Only cash payment method will be available in POS in case of no internet connection.
Employee can view all the orders which he has processed offline under “Offline Order” tab.
Once the internet connection gets established in the POS system, all the orders which are processed offline will be synchronized to online orders as shown below:
Update Stock
A new button is added to the POS panel to synchronize the stock between PrestaShop store and POS. Suppose the PrestaShop admin updates the stock of specific products and its not getting reflected on the POS panel. When the POS agent clicks on the button, the updated stock will display on POS panel.
Order Return
In the POS system, an employee can place a request to return an order and refund the amount under the “Order History” tab.
Return order stock is assigned to the same outlet.
Setting
An employee can change the password of his POS shop account under the “Setting” tab.
Order Message
Now, you can also add a message with the order while placing it on the POS.
This message is also available in the order details section.
So, this was all about the PrestaShop Point of Sale module. I hope this document will help you in checking the functionality of the module in a better way.
Also, do let us know about your views in the comments.
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Current Product Version - 5.2.1
Supported Framework Version - 1.7.x.x
I have some products in my physical store that will not be on my online store at all and stock management doesn’t matter for these products.
Is it possible to have products on the POS that are not shown on the online store?
Thanks!