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mPOS Add On

A till for the tasting room, the farm shop and the market stall: an iPad, a compact receipt printer and a card terminal, selling from the same articles and posting straight into Vinosoft.

The counter is where the data usually stops

Most wine businesses sell across three channels and account for two of them. Orders and web sales are in the system; the bottles sold at the door go into a cash box and a notebook, and the stock figure quietly drifts apart from the cellar all season.

The POS add-on closes that gap. Every sale at the counter draws on the same articles and prices as an invoice, posts the stock out as it is rung up, and creates the accounting entries with it. At the end of the day the till agrees with the books because it is the books.

What you need

  • An iPad, which you provide, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
  • The mPOP till from Star Micronics — cash drawer, receipt printer and hand scanner in one unit — supplied by us for a one-off charge
  • A payment terminal for card and TWINT payments: SumUp and Nets are integrated directly, and any other terminal can be used with the amount keyed in by hand

The app itself is a monthly add-on to your Vinosoft subscription, licensed alongside your existing users. Current figures are on the pricing page.

Selling at the counter

Scan or tap an article, take cash or card, print or email the receipt. Discounts and returns are handled at the till rather than corrected afterwards. Day-end closing gives you the takings by payment type, and the figures go into the same statistics as the rest of your sales — turnover by POS device tells you how each till performed when you run more than one.

Customers are the ones you already have. Assign a sale to a customer record and it joins their history; loyalty cards issued through the shop are read at the counter, so points earned online and points earned at the door are one balance.

One stock figure across three channels

The point of putting the till on the same system is that nothing has to be reconciled afterwards. A bottle sold at the counter, a case shipped against an order and a web-shop order all draw on the same storage location, and the cellar figure reflects all three within the same second. When the stock-take comes round, the difference you are explaining is a real one rather than a bookkeeping artefact.

The same is true of the money. Counter takings post to the accounts as they are rung up, so the day-end figure is already in the ledger and the VAT on it is already coded.

Read the documentation