If you sell over a counter as well as online, you are probably running two systems and reconciling them by hand: WooCommerce for the website, and a separate POS terminal \u2014 or a notebook, or a spreadsheet \u2014 for the shop. Every evening the two disagree, and every evening someone has to decide which one is lying.<\/p>\n\n
Retail POS removes the second system.<\/strong> It is a complete point of sale that runs inside the WooCommerce admin you already log into, on the products, prices, stock, customers, taxes and orders that are already there. A counter sale is<\/strong> a WooCommerce order. Its stock movement is<\/strong> a WooCommerce stock movement, made through WooCommerce core. No second catalogue, no sync step, nothing to reconcile at closing time.<\/p>\n\n Nothing, and nothing is held back behind a signup. No account, no API key, no licence check, no external service: the free plugin talks to your own database and nowhere else (see External services<\/strong> below). Install it on the till, sell one item, and you will know inside a minute whether the counter likes it. Remove it and it deletes its own settings and scheduled jobs and stops there \u2014 your products, stock and orders stay exactly as they are, because they were WooCommerce's all along.<\/p>\n\n Beep \u2014 the line drops into the cart. Beep. Beep. Tap Cash<\/strong>. The receipt prints, the order is a real WooCommerce order, stock is already down, and the cursor is back in the scan box before the cashier has looked up. That loop is the whole plugin, and it was built behind a real shop counter, not in a spreadsheet.<\/p>\n\n Hit print and a narrow monospace window opens, sized for a roll of thermal paper: store name, address and phone, every line item, the subtotal, the discount if there was one, the total, the payment method, and the customer's name and phone. Receipt line amounts are the pre-discount figures, so the paper adds up the way a customer checks it \u2014 items total to Subtotal, minus Discount equals TOTAL. Any past POS sale can be reprinted from the order list.<\/p>\n\n Blind (receiptless) returns<\/strong>: scan what comes back over the counter, hand over the money, done \u2014 no original order needed. The payout is documented as a refunded POS order and stock is restored automatically when stock reduction is on. The returns cart deliberately has no stock cap<\/strong>: a customer can bring back three of something you currently hold none of, exactly as a real counter has to allow.<\/p>\n\nWhat it replaces<\/h4>\n\n
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wp-admin<\/code>, on the machine already sitting at the counter: scan, cart, discount, take payment, print the receipt.<\/li>\nWhat it costs you to try<\/h4>\n\n
Scan, tap, done: barcode scanner, phone camera, or a photo<\/h4>\n\n
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What a scan finds, and what to do when there is no barcode<\/h4>\n\n
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The quick sale: cart, quick edit and discount<\/h4>\n\n
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Money that adds up<\/h4>\n\n
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Receipt printing<\/h4>\n\n
Returns and refunds at the counter<\/h4>\n\n
Barcode label printing<\/h4>\n\n
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POS orders and the sales dashboard<\/h4>\n\n