How To Create a Point of Sale (POS) System in Laravel Using Bagisto?

A Point of Sales (POS) system is one of the best solutions for syncing your online store with your brick-and-mortar store (or vice versa).

A POS solution ensures accuracy in recording transactions and simplifies inventory management for businesses with multiple sale points. As a result, business owners can manage both online and offline components of their business without maintaining two separate control points.

Typically, the offline store has a POS frontend system that merges the customer, daily sales, and inventory management information with the central database.

Why Would You Need a POS

POS is an important aspect of business in the digital world that improves system performance, speed of operations, and streamline process implementation.

For streamlining business operations, you need to centralize all processes so that you can make efficient business decisions.

Key Features of a Laravel POS

A Laravel powered POS offers a host of benefits and features that help you improve business operations. In particular:

• Admin can create multiple store outlets
• Admin can assign multiple POS users to an outlet
• Admin can assign outlet agents to manage sales and customers at the POS frontend
• POS agents can add or change customer information at the POS frontend
• POS agents can work offline in case of poor connectivity, and synchronize data when connectivity restores
• Barcode readers can be used to add products to the cart
• Hassle-free payment and checkout system
• POS agents can apply a discount to the cart, select the store’s currency and locale.
• POS agents can see sales history, hold sales, offline sales
• POS agents can also sell a custom product that is not available on the POS front end
• POS agents can set the minimum unit of quantity for the low stock product, and send inventory re-stock requests
• POS agents can manage discounts from the front-end
• Admin can manage the product inventory separately by assigning the inventory source to the outlet
• Add bulk products to the cart by scanning the barcode of the products from a single search bar

Use Cases of Bagisto’s POS Integrations:

Use cases of POS systems are widely pre-understood and it’s ideal application falls under Online and Offline Commerce businesses whose major example is the hospitality sector that includes dine-in restaurants, cafes, and hotels to name a few. Bagisto’s POS can help them book table reservations, manage customer’s details, receive email notifications, create multiple POS users for the (cashier, server, host), handle multiple outlets, and sync data with the Laravel eCommerce Bagisto Store.

Retail Industry is well known to be associated with using the POS systems heavily in their day-to-day business operations in order to manage single or multiple outlets and their transactions which ultimately helps the business owners make the right decisions based on the accurate data collected through POS Systems. Bagisto Store can be integrated with the POS system in order to facilitate the business owners and managers to have ease of access and control over the monitoring and the management.

Create a POS in Laravel Using Bagisto

Bagisto offers a fully customizable and easy-to-set-up POS solution. It provides an intuitive dashboard from where the retailer can easily view all the products available at their store and can also search for a product from the search bar. The retailer can easily get the data on daily sales, customers, and changes in the inventory.

Choose the Right Hosting

To make sure your Bagisto store loads faster, consider hosting it on a hosting solution that is reliable, delivers a smooth deployment and maintenance experience that allows you to set up a high-performing hybrid or online store.

Hosting plays an important role in Bagisto performance optimization. Rather than opting for shared hosting, consider hosting your Bagisto eCommerce store on a managed hosting provider like Cloudways that offers infrastructure options (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr). These hosting solutions simplify the hosting of Bagisto stores and allow for a lot of enhancements and features as part of the standard package.

Cloudways offers you an easy-to-use hosting environment with your choice of server resources (CPU, RAM, Bandwidth, and Storage).

Other Cloudways features that make it the right choice for hosting Bagisto apps include:

• Easy server customization and configuration
• Built-in advanced-cache for super-fast websites
• Pre-configured PHP-FPM which boosts the PHP website speed
• Proactive security

Getting Started with Bagisto’s Laravel POS

After signing into the POS system, the users are redirected to the POS panel.

The user can create single or multiple outlets by assigning a separate inventory to each outlet.

Once the outlet is created, the user can manage the POS products. As such, the users can enable the products that they want to display at the POS’s frontend.

However, the user can also generate and print the Barcode for each product.

In the following image, the POS agent can easily add the products to the cart and complete the POS transactions.

A transaction can not be completed without the customer’s information. This information can be collected during the transaction.

Moreover, POS agents can add different types of discounts and apply them to the customer’s cart.

POS agents can manage all the daily sales transactions that happen during their sessions.

In a Nutshell

Bagisto’s POS helps keep track of multiple store performance so that merchants are always aware of how each store is doing. It helps track which inventory items sell the best, their top-performing employees at every location, and what type of customers each store location attracts.

It helps in making better business decisions. What works in one physical store location may not work at another location. With all the data, a merchant can do future forecasting for product demand, and also track;

• Daily Sales Data
• Order Accuracy
• Multiple Outlets Performance

The merchant might not always remember the cost and purchase quantity of each item, Scanning of an item through POS offers more accuracy and security from the losses.

POS system helps the merchant to easily track their day-to-day sales from the dedicated dashboard. They can also check full information about their cash and card sales while checking their sales.

Salman Siddique

Salman is a content marketer with a CS background, so he is (very) good at creating and marketing technical content. When not working as a Digital Content Producer at Cloudways, he enjoys reading interesting stuff and learning new skills.

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