YITH Point of Sale for WooCommerce

YITH Point of Sale for WooCommerce: a register that talks to your online store

Running a physical shop and a website at the same time often ends in two inventories that don't match: you sell the last unit at the counter and the website keeps offering it, or you jot down sales by hand to enter them later. The real cost isn't the terminal, it's that mismatch.

YITH Point of Sale for WooCommerce turns your WooCommerce installation into a cash register you can use from a computer, a touch screen or a modern browser. It connects through the WooCommerce REST API, so orders, customers, products and stock sync in both directions without re-entering anything.

Unlimited stores and registers in a single installation

You can create stores (useful if you manage a chain or a franchise) and, inside each one, as many registers as you need, like a supermarket with several departments. Each level has its own settings:

• Store: address and contact details, managers and cashiers, and its own stock and payment methods.
• Register: assigned cashiers, active payment methods, visible products or categories and receipt template.
• Multi-stock: if you enable it, each point of sale works with its own stock levels.

Cashiers log in through a dedicated page, customizable with the store logo, without going through the WordPress dashboard.

Taking payments at the counter: held carts, split payment and your own receipt

The register screen works for very different businesses, from a clothing store to a bar or a beauty salon. This is what you'll notice most day to day:

• The suspend and save button freezes a cart in another tab so you can serve another customer and retrieve it later.
• A single order can be paid with different methods, for example half in cash and half by card.
• It supports discounts, coupons, markups, shipping and notes on products and orders.
• You search products by title, SKU or barcode, and you can create a new one from the register itself.
• The receipt editor lets you assign a template to each register (size, content, logo) and the receipt can be printed or downloaded as a PDF.

You can also save the register URL on your phone and open it like an app, change the screen colors and define preset discount keys.

Register closures and reports by store, register and cashier

Each register records its sessions and lets you close the day by downloading a report with the sales summary and additional notes. From the WooCommerce Admin panel you see sales and revenue trends filtered by store, register and date, which cashiers sell the most and which payment methods are used. There are also stats per cashier: time since login, orders created and total sales. It's the information you need to balance the cash at night and see which shift performs best.

The hardware, the printer and the barcode reader are up to you

This is software: it doesn't include a terminal, a printer or a reader. This is how responsibilities split:

• The plugin handles: the register screen, cashiers, discounts and coupons, split payment, the receipt editor, register closures and syncing with WooCommerce orders, customers and stock.
• You cover: a computer, tablet or touch screen, a receipt printer if you want paper, and a reader if you won't be typing SKUs.
• With another plugin: generating barcodes for your products requires YITH Barcodes, which is a separate plugin.
• To check in the demo: how you record card payments, which depends on the payment methods you have active in WooCommerce.

Questions before setting up your register with YITH Point of Sale

Do I need to buy a point of sale terminal?

No. The register works on a computer, a tablet or a touch screen with a modern browser. You choose any peripherals you want (printer, reader).

Does stock update between the register and the online store?

Yes, sales made at the register sync with the WooCommerce database, just like stock and customer data. If you enable multi-stock, each point of sale can have its own stock levels.

Can I have several registers and several cashiers?

Yes. You can create unlimited stores and registers, assign specific cashiers to each register and enable or disable registers and payment methods separately.

Can I scan products?

Yes, by searching by SKU or by enabling barcode scanning to add the product to the cart. To create those barcodes you need YITH Barcodes.