POS Integration with Shopping Carts and Marketplaces

The world has come a long way from using mere cash registers and daily logs of transactions for their everyday businesses to advanced mechanisms of accounting and bookkeeping. Businesses today need to be competitive and be on their toes in order to tackle everyday issues at an optimum level. However, this is a constant process as technology is always changing and advancing. Such advancement in the world of business and accounting is the  POS ecommerce integration . The Point of Sale system,  Fancy Integration , VendHQ Integration,  Amazon Integration , Bigcommerce Integration,  Magento Integration , Lightspeed Integration,  Shopify Integrations , Erply Integration,  Woocommerce Integration  or simply referred to as POS integrations, is an integrated mechanism that allows businesses to switch to a computerized system for all operations related to their business such as monitoring sales, keeping track of the cash flow, managing inventory, adding deal a...

Point of sale (POS) can be referred to as a check-out or cash wrap and is usually the location in a store or restaurant where transactions for the exchange goods and services occur. A point of sale system typically refers to the physical electronic hardware and peripherals that are used to conduct a transaction. This hardware can include a cash register, a dedicated computer or even a mobile smart device such as a tablet computer. Value Added Resellers (VAR) interchangeably use the term POS when they discuss the hardware and the checkout location. The credit card industry adds to the confusion. Merchant services providers who process credit card transaction and their Independent Sales Organizations (ISO's) will refer to standalone credit card terminal as a POS as well. A POS in this sense is only the peripheral that reads the credit card, sends the transaction data between the store and credit card processor and may issue a receipt once approved. The first POS hardware was a...