Syncing a POS to store inventory and vice versa

[lesliekirk]

Have a store owner that is looking into using a Point of Sale system in their brick & mortar store but they need to keep their online inventory in sync with what is actually on hand in the store. The POS company has told them

...they could write a program to create exported files from their system and another program to import files from Miva to their system.

So my questions - can something like this be done? I would first assume that the file the POS system exported would have to be correctly formatted for importing. Then could it be imported via a cron?

The store is using the Viking Coders Inventory Manager which does have the ability to Import and Export the levels. I probably should also contact eMediaSales to see if they have done something like this with the module.

Has anyone else attempted this?

Thanks,
Leslie

[Rick Wilson]

Re: Syncing a POS to store inventory and vice versa

We do this all the time with our Enterprise tools (that's what they're for) if they want to automate this.

[Kent Multer]

Re: Syncing a POS to store inventory and vice versa

I've written a few custom modules to provide this type of hookup between a Web store and a brick-and-mortar store. Drop me a line if you'd like to discuss it in detail.

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