Setting up PHP Point Of Sale with Woocommerce

WooCommerce is a free plugin for the popular site creating tool Wordpress. You first need to install wordpress and then install the Woocommerce plugin. NOTE: It is very important to always keep up to date with these 2 pieces of software for security and performance reasons.

You can follow the steps at:

Wordpress.org

You can follow the steps at WooCommerce's web site

Setting up PHP Point Of Sale to communicate with WooCommerce is easy. It involves 2 steps.

1. Generating API key in WooCommerce
2. Copying API information into PHP Point Of Sale

See the WooCommerce Documentation on generating an API key for the REST API.

In the last step you generated your API keys for WooCommerce; now you need to put this information into PHP Point Of Sale. Here are the steps.

1. Login to your point of sale system and choose store config on the left navigation

2. Search for "Ecommerce" and choose WooCommerce as e-commerce platform under the e-commerce setting.

3. In the Woocommerce section that appears put in your WooCommerce Version; the URL to your store and the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret as shown in image below

4. You have now completed setup.

We have made the process of syncing data a one button operation. You can simply choose what you want to synchronize and our program will take care of it. You can import and/or export items, categories, tags, or just sync inventory data. This can be accomplished from store configuration as shown below by choosing your options and clicking sync.

NOTE: This process can take a LONG time; especially for the initial sync depending on how much data you have.

By default it synchronizes all items, categories, and tags. NOTE: You can exclude items by unchecking the box "Is Ecommerce Item" when editing/creating an item.

Our sync process will try to match woo commerce's sku field to php point of sale's UPC/EAN/ISBN field (item number)