nopCommerce Realtime POS Integration

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nopCommerce Realtime POS Integration

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Overview

Start and grow your successful online business with nopCommerce. We provide you with all the necessary for that.

Upload the unlimited number of products, manage several stores from one admin panel, and increase the sales with built-in marketing tools.

Every 6-7 months, we release a new version of our eCommerce software to keep up with the latest technologies and development trends. This results in a constant increase in platform performance, security, and stability.

The global nopCommerce community helps us track the legislative changes so that we could add new features following it. Using nopCommerce, you can be sure that in every country where you conduct your online business, the platform complies with the regional laws and safety standards.

Mobile commerce

A responsive mobile webstore is a must for any online business owner these days, as 82% of smartphone users decide to buy something while surfing the Internet on their smartphones.

nopCommerce supports a mobile version of your website with a compelling, feature-rich and graphically pleasing storefront, and it provides means for retailers to immediately deliver relevant offers, promotions and products. The mobile-responsive version works on any connected device, without requiring extra development or add-ons. It is free and available out of the box.

A responsive mobile webstore is a must for any online business owner these days, as 82% of smartphone users decide to buy something while surfing the Internet on their smartphones.

nopCommerce supports a mobile version of your website with a compelling, feature-rich and graphically pleasing storefront, and it provides means for retailers to immediately deliver relevant offers, promotions and products. The mobile-responsive version works on any connected device, without requiring extra development or add-ons. It is free and available out of the box.

Multi-store

A multi-store feature enables you to run more than one store from a single nopCommerce installation. This means you can host more than one frontend store on different domains and manage all admin operations from your single administration panel. You can create unique online stores for multiple brands, products, B2B, B2C, affiliates, co-branded stores and more. You can also quickly launch micro-stores for promotional campaigns.

The most convenient feature is that every online store shares a single database: you can share catalog data between stores, and your customers can log-in to all of your stores using the same credentials.

The following features can be set up separately for each store:

  • Categories and manufacturers per store
  • Products per store
  • Content (news, blog, articles) per store
  • Payments per store
  • Shipping methods per store
  • Tax rules per store
  • Product prices per store
  • Newsletters per store
  • Graphical themes per store
  • Order filtering and reports per store
  • Almost each configuration setting can be set per store

Multi-vendor

Multi-vendor and drop shipping support enables you to sell online without having to stock inventory or ship orders.

When drop shipping is enabled, each product is assigned to a particular vendor whose details are stored. Once an order is placed, an email is sent to the vendor of each product in the order. The email includes products, quantities, etc. The vendor then ships the item to a customer on behalf of the merchant, who typically pays each of his/her vendors at the end of the month.

Products from multiple independent vendors appear in the common product catalog and your website visitors can shop at one web store even if your products are supplied by hundreds of different vendors from all over the world. Each vendor can be provided with administrator panel access to manage their products, review sales reports and order details regarding their products. Vendors do not interfere with each other’s activity.

 

Product features

Product attributes

Create as many attributes for your products as you need, such as size and color — each with its own SKU, price, weight, image and stock level. Store owners can add text options to products for shoppers to fill in, such as initials for monogrammed products. The shoppers can also upload files, for example, for custom prints on shirts.

Product comparison

Comparing products side by side removes the guesswork from your customers and facilitates their research, hence, improving the time spent on, and odds of, adding a product to the cart.

Stock management

Our inventory management allows store owners to discern physical stock and available quantities. You can easily manage backorder and pre-order status for each product. Multiple warehouses, partial deliveries, and stock management by product attributes (such as color and size) are supported.

Prices

In nopCommerce, price tools go beyond simple price tag creation. Store owners can set different prices for different groups of their customers, hide prices for extra-valuable items and make customers contact a sales team by enabling “call for price”. nopCommerce also supports “enter your price” functionality for donations.

Downloadable products

nopCommerce supports license and user agreement attachments for downloadable products, such as music files or ebooks. A store owner can choose a download activation type: “When order payment status is Paid” or “Manual activation”.

There are many other product features, such as:
  • Rental products
  • Recurring products
  • Product tags
  • Return management
  • Multiple images per product
  • Featured products, sale products or new products
  • Bundle (e.g. Build your own computer) and grouped products
  • Conditional product attributes
  • Product specifications (e.g. processor, memory, graphic card)
  • Security. ACL (access control list) on products, categories, and manufacturers
  • Configurable measure weights and dimensions
  • Import and export
  • Bulk editing, etc.

SEO

Search engine optimization is the process of increasing the visibility of a website in search results. Our search engine optimization tool helps you get higher search rankings, meaning more organic traffic going to your store.

Search engine friendly URLs

To make store pages more search engine-friendly, a store owner has full access to keyword tags and customized URLs management sections. nopCommerce also supports product pages with SEO-friendly names out of the box.

Sitemap

There are two popular versions of sitemaps, and nopCommerce supports both of them. An XML sitemap is a structured format of a site that a visitor doesn’t need to see. The sitemap gives information about the pages on site to search engines: their relative importance to each other, and how often they are updated. HTML sitemaps are designed to help users find content on a page. They don’t need to include each subpage. HTML sitemaps help both visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.

Microdata

Microdata is a specification to embed machine-readable data in HTML documents. Integrating microdata into your website’s code offers a number of potential advantages. First, microdata can give the search engine spiders more context for the type of information on the website and the way the site should be indexed and ranked. Another benefit of microdata is the creation of “rich snippets”, which display more information on search result pages than traditional listings. nopCommerce supports Twitter and Open Graph (Facebook) META tags.

Localizable URLs

nopCommerce allows a store owner to localize URLs. URL localization increases the chance of matching search results in other cultures/languages.

Breadcrumbs

nopCommerce supports breadcrumbs. They ease navigation within the search engine results page, which makes your listing look more attractive and trustworthy. Also, when it comes to huge websites, breadcrumbs can be a great way to help users identify where they are located.

URL Canonicalization

URL canonicalization is used to reduce indexing of duplicated pages and it makes a site more crawlable by setting a store URL to the canonical (preferred) URL for each category and product pages.

Google Analytics integration

nopCommerce is integrated with Google Analytics. The eCommerce transaction tracking tool automatically connects your Google Analytics data with customer transactions.

Checkout

nopCommerce supports two types of checkout used in most modern webstores:

Anonymous checkout allows customers to checkout without creating an account. Many customers prefer this option as it allows them to finish the purchase quicker.

One-page checkout dramatically reduces the steps required in the checkout process and also helps to increase revenue and conversion rates by making the checkout easier for customers.

Checkout attributes. At the checkout you can provide customers with various options. For example. you can gift wrap products or personalize with messages.

Other checkout features include:
  • Phone order support
  • Multilingual and multicurrency support
  • Configurable measure weights and dimensions
  • SSL support (secure browsing and checkout)
  • PDF order receipts
  • Mini shopping cart, etc.

Marketing

nopCommerce has a variety of features for marketing campaigns:

Reward Points System

The reward points program allows you to offer points earned on the money spent at your store. A customer can then redeem the points for additional products at your store.

Related products

Displaying related products is a great tool to upsell while customers browse a product page or before they check out.

Discounts and coupons

The discount amount can either be a fixed value or a percent off, e.g. $10.00 off or 20% off. You can specify a start date and an end date when a coupon is valid. Discounts can be assigned to products, entire categories, shipping, order totals, and more. They can also be assigned to specific customer roles. nopCommerce supports quantity discounts (tier prices), “N times only” and “N times per customer” discounts, and other various discount requirements (e.g. “Has one of these products in the cart” or “Spent XX amount”).

Newsletter and emails

Sending newsletters to customers is a great way to let them know about your products and upcoming sales. They sent out to inform your audience of the latest news, tips, or updates about your products or company. nopCommerce has rich built-in functionality to manage email campaigns.

Content

nopCommerce supports news, blog, forums, polls, and custom pages (topics).

Gift cards

Gift card functionality is something that every merchant needs, no matter if running an online or offline business. nopCommerce supports two types of gift cards: gift cards delivered via e-mail (virtual) and classic gift cards sent via post (physical).

Product reviews and ratings

Product reviews are one of the best forms of marketing. Asking for feedback on products gives customers a voice, and at the same time lets potential customers know what other people think about your products. nopCommerce also supports the review helpfulness feature (“Was this review helpful to you?”).

Product comparison sites

nopCommerce is fully integrated with all major product feeds – Google Shopping, PriceGrabber and Yahoo Shopping, and become.com

Affiliate program

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a store owner rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate”s own marketing efforts.

Additional extensions

In addition to out-of-the-box features, you can find many other marketing tools on our marketplace such as, product export to Facebook, SMS notifications to shoppers, etc.

Payment methods

nopCommerce allows you to accept all major credit and debit cards. A store can be set to authorize only or auth-capture credit card modes. nopCommerce supports refund (and partial refund) and void functionality.

Every country has its own payment preferences, that’s why nopCommerce also allows you to limit payment methods per country. nopCommerce has official technology partnership relations with major payment processors across the globe. This means exclusive marketing offers and pricing packages available for nopCommerce users.

nopCommerce is integrated with more than 50 payment methods and gateways:

  • Cash on delivery or Pay in store
  • Purchase order
  • Check/money order
  • 2Checkout
  • AliPay
  • Amazon
  • ANZ
  • Authorize.NET
  • Bambora
  • bKash
  • BluePay
  • Braintree
  • Buckaroo
  • CCAvenue
  • Cybersource
  • E-xact
  • EBS
  • EasyPayWay
  • Eway
  • First Data GGE4
  • G2A Pay
  • iPay88
  • Mollie
  • Ogone
  • OKPAY
  • PagSeguro
  • Paymill
  • PayPal
  • PayU
  • SagePay
  • SSLCommerz
  • Square
  • Stripe
  • WorldPay

Shipping features

nopCommerce supports various shipping requirements and settings.

Highlighted features include:

Calculation

nopCommerce supports flexible calculation mechanisms: a store can be configured for free shipping over $X, shipping rates can be based on order weight or order totals, additional shipping charges can be specified per product, and shipping discounts (percent or fixed amount) can be created. Certain customer groups can be marked for free shipping.
nopCommerce allows you to limit available shipping methods per country, or apply “no shipping required” (e.g. for services).

Addresses

nopCommerce allows your customers to give two different addresses for billing and shipping, so they can easily send items as gifts.

Estimate shipping.

It helps customers to estimate shipping cost before the checkout process starts. Customers just enter country, state and zip code information – available shipping options and their estimated costs will be shown.

Pickup Points

nopCommerce supports in-store pickup. This feature allows a store owner to configure pickup locations where customers can receive parcels.

Packaging slips

Multiple shipments per order and tracking numbers are supported. Customers can easily track where their shipments are right now.

Shipping methods

A store owner can define custom shipping methods (e.g. Ground, Next Day, 2nd Day, etc) or use popular shipping carriers (e.g. UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc). nopCommerce is integrated with major shipping carriers. Your customers can choose their preferred carrier based on experience, price, or destination.

Tax features

Tax calculations in nopCommerce offer a considerable amount of flexibility to meet your store’s legal requirements, your preferences, and expectations of your customers. Store owners can easily manage all settings and details in the administration panel.

Tax features list:
  • Configuration of taxes by country, state, zip
  • Individual products can be marked taxable or tax-exempt
  • Tax classes for different products (e.g. goods, services, alcohol,etc)
  • Some customer groups can be marked as tax exempt
  • The European Union Value Added Tax (EU VAT) support (Company VAT Number)
  • Store owners are able to specify “tax based on” billing/shipping/default/shipping origin address setting
  • Prices can be displayed including or excluding tax
  • Store owners are able to specify whether shipping is taxable
  • Tax automation services integration.

Customer service

nopCommerce has great tools to provide high-quality customer service in your webstore:

GDPR support

nopCommerce is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

External authentication

Allows your customers to register and login using such services as OpenID, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Wishlist

Wishlist enables customers to store products for purchasing at a later time.

RTL support

RTL means Right-To-Left and is for users who use an alphabet that is read & written from another direction, sach as Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew.

EU cookie law

Effective from May 2012, the EU (European Union) cookie law requires websites to gain permission from users before planting cookies.

Customer attributes

Any built-in customer attribute (e.g. Country or Address fields) can be disabled or enabled. A store owner can also create additional attributes, if required.

Security and permissions

A store owner can configure specific rules and permissions for different categories of users.

And a lot of other features:
  • Web Services API
  • Allow customers to register/login by email or by username
  • Customers can view their order history and order statuses
  • Customer has an address book
  • Customer roles (groups)
  • Live chat integration
  • Customizable order emails
  • Private messages
  • Time zone support
  • Password recovery
  • Several account registration types such as automatic registration, email validation, or admin approval.
  • reCAPTCHA support
  • Contact Us form
  • Customer activity log, etc.

Security & Compliance

GDPR support

nopCommerce meets all the requirements of the European Union Laws. We track all the legislative changes and make updates to the platform accordingly.

PCI DSS compliance

Meets all PCI Compliance requirements. 50+ integrated payment methods and gateways to transmit credit card data securely.

Built on secure technologies

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core framework brings built-in security. But when you use PHP-based platforms, it is necessary to design a protection system from scratch to maintain a relative level of security.

Other security features include:
  • SSL support to provide secure browsing and checkout
  • Honeypot support to prevent spam
  • Strong and flexible customer password policy

Whosale Operations

Features you can add to your nopCommerce Installation (*optional*) Requires Plug-in Purchase

real-time integration with our realtime pos will ensure you are always relaying accurate up to the minute quantities to nopcommerce websites. Never cancel orders if you cannot fulfill orders as real-time quantities are always displayed on your ecommerce websites.

  • Receive new applications for account creation requests
  • Accept specific approval documents, like certification files
  • Take specific inputs, such as trade license numbers, company details
  • Input expected transactional volume, company size, and other qualifying metrics
  • Input existing offline account ID to match an online account with an existing offline account

The dashboard is a critical information management tool that visually tracks, analyzes, and displays KPIs that depict the health of your business. With this dashboard, view your Order history, Consumption Level, with intuitive charts and reports, Quote History, etc. These reports keep you on top of your business and help you in better management of business functions. The dashboard empowers you with a hawk-eye vision into your cumulative business functions and aids in real-time decision making.

 

NOPCOMMERCE CUSTOMER DASHBOARD

  • Purchase multiple variants of a product (size, color, etc.)
  • View detailed inventory details such as warehouse location, etc.
  • View the MSRP and potentially a calculated margin
  • Display special sale/clearance pricing
  • Display quantity-based pricing
  • Display product name, description, advanced specifications, and other attributes
  • Download product files such as spec sheets, user manuals, warranty documents, etc.
  • View compatibility information with other products
  • View estimated delivery dates based on addresses an account has on file
  • Add secure member or customer-only support content for post-sale support,
    such as downloads, warranty cards, etc.

With role-based access control, restrict access based on the roles of an individual with the organization. Grant access to specific features and modules that the individual requires for the fulfillment of their duties. Protect the privacy of critical data without compromising on business functions and exercise greater control.

With Access Control Level, when a user requests for permission in an ACL-based security model, the operating system studies the ACL for a relevant entry and sees whether the requested operation is permissible.

For bulk orders, often the quoted unit price does not apply and suppliers offer a discounted rate to satiate buyers and attract new customers. This module digitalizes the entire conversation history, saves time, and is an efficient method of doing business. Bulk ordering and negotiation between Suppliers and Dealers were never this easy!

During the negotiation process, the seller can do the following:

  • Add or remove products
  • Change the quantity and submit the Quote
  • Apply a discount to the total price
  • Add or change the shipping method
  • Add comments
  • Send the updated quote to the buyer to prepare a Purchase Order (PO), or save as a draft

 

 

PRICE NEGOTIATION AND PO ACKNOWLEDGMENT

In B2B eCommerce, it’s not uncommon for transaction totals to reach thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Using credit cards for transactions of that size simply isn’t logical for many companies, so it’s critical to allow the submission of Purchase Orders, with applied terms and conditions. However, offering this service requires work on a number of additional functional factors such as establishing credit limits, entering PO numbers, generating invoices, and tracking invoice payments to avoid mounting outstanding payments. In addition, the system should provide a process for an employee to initiate a transaction and then have it approved by someone in procurement or finance.

The system allows retailers to send multiple quotes to suppliers and manage conversations until a final payment amount is reached. Post this, a Purchase Order is created with the agreed terms and conditions applied.

 

 

While the quote is open for review by the Supplier, its status in the buyer’s account is set to Pending. The buyer can change and resubmit the quote even if it was declined or is expired.

Retailers/Suppliers can view the entire Quote History with every price change reflected in the system. This also serves as a reference point for future transactions.

  • Add or remove products
  • Change the quantity and submit the Quote
  • Apply a discount to the total price
  • Add or change the shipping method
  • Add comments
  • Send the updated quote to the buyer to prepare a Purchase Order (PO), or save as a draft
  • View list of orders in the various states (new, processing, closed, etc.)
  • Edit any details of existing orders
  • Ability to cancel orders
  • View payment transaction information about orders
  • Place telephone or in-person orders via the administrator
  • Place wholesale orders at different price points
  • Fulfil orders including packing slips, invoices, and shipping labels
  • Ability to do partial shipping
  • Manage backorders
  • Ability for customer service to make comments on orders
  • Define order processing workflows so that orders can be moved through a series of steps easily
  • Search customer database
  • View related accounts, specifically those in a parent/child relationship
  • Ability for child accounts to belong to multiple parent organizations
  • Generate lists of customers that purchased specific products, which is specifically Important for issuing recalls
  • Create data segments of customers for follow-up marketing
  • Update customer payment information manually
  • Store custom data with the customer
  • View and edit pricing tiers for customers

B2B retailers generally order in bulk quantities, unlike B2C businesses. Therefore, to cater to this need there is a separate module called “Quick Quote Quick Order” from which retailers can simply type in the name of the product in the search box, manage the quantity, and place in the order quickly. Through this module, retailers don’t have to go to each category to add products to their cart and can save a lot of time. Retailers can send these items for price negotiation to the supplier easily. This module is a blessing for those who are looking at streamlining work and reduce the time taken to painstakingly order items from each category.

Additionally, this module also equips retailers to swiftly re-order items thereby saving them the pain of repeating the process. In the dashboard, retailers can view their entire purchase history, view the items, and simply re-order the past purchase.

 

On clicking “Re-order”, you are directed to the Checkout page to seamlessly complete the transaction.

When placing large quantity orders, a customer may need to have items shipped to multiple locations as is required for many B2B dealers. Therefore, it is essential for the eCommerce application to determine the best location to send goods from when providing shipping rate quotes. Providing real-time, accurate, and competitive shipping rates is extremely important to gain new customers, satisfy existing customers, and optimize shipping costs and timing.

Web Orders

manage centrally

Seamless real-time integration between nopCommerce and Realtime POS allows you to manage all channels and locations in real-time while managing products, inventory, customers and sales centrally.

EASILY Manage Your MULTI-CHANNEL INVENTORY

Easily manage inventory in Realtime pos. Select which stores and warehouse inventories to combine and sync in real-time to nopCommerce. Automatic sync between Realtime pos and nopCommerce.

AUTOMATED SYNC

After initial setup product data in Realtime POS Sync’s updates to nopCommerce automatically. No Manual steps to sync product data between realtime pos and nopCommerce.

Make a change and on next Sync Cycle the changes are synced to the nopCommerce web store.

Maintain all product data centrally – Stores, Warehouses, fulfillment centers & extended supply chains.

Data is always up-to-date

With every sale — online and in-store– your inventory counts are updated in real time. Automatically as often as every 5 minutes. Across all channels

Online Orders

All your online order details from nopCommerce web store are in one place, which takes the hassle out of monitoring and managing online sales transactions from multiple sites.

One Central Location

One place for all of your data – from online sales and in-store sales channels so you can see the big picture without all the headaches

nopCommerce TO REALTIME POS FEATURE LIST

REALTIME POS AND nopCommerce HELP RETAILERS SELL MORE, ACROSS ALL THEIR CHANNELS.

INVENTORY CATALOG

Manage a single catalog of products from one location and then decide what items should appear in your web store. View and edit products from one location in Realtime POS - eliminates double entry.

CUSTOMER UPDATES

Realtime POS creates new customers when Shopify orders are processed and links the orders from existing customers with their records in the Realtime POS database.

OMNICHANNEL INVENTORY

Choose from which location's inventory you want to display online on your webstore, whether it’s everything you have or the stock from select stores and warehouses.

WEB ORDERS

Web orders coming into your store will automatically sync to real-time pos all in real-time, updating your store sales and inventory quantity on hand.

INVENTORY SYNC

Sales in-store or online, new receiving's or inventory counts & adjustments; inventory syncs in real-time across all locations.

Reporting

Easily view on-line sales and in-store sales. compare on-line sales to in-store sales, adjust your on-line initiatives based on reporting you can access anytime from head office.