Dox POS for WooCommerce

Dox POS adds a /pos page (/caja on a Spanish site) with its own sign-in screen. From there you search products with their photo and stock, record the sales that come in through WhatsApp or Instagram (each one is a WooCommerce order, so stock goes down on its own), put products on layaway while the customer pays, record the stock that arrives and keep the list of what has to be shipped. It was born for the shop that sells through chat and ships by courier, where a phone is enough. If you also have a physical store, turn on the Counter: a till screen for a computer or a tablet with a barcode scanner, cash with the change worked out, receipts on any printer and opening and closing the till. It follows the country of the store (WooCommerce > Settings > General): the payment methods it offers, the carriers it suggests and the default sales channels are the ones of that country, and where WhatsApp is not the norm (the United States, for instance) the messages to the customer open as text messages in the phone's Messages app instead. Everything can be renamed, turned off or added to in WooCommerce > Dox POS > Sales. What it does

• Sell and put on layaway. Channel, customer, city, shipping, discount and payment method. A sale becomes a WooCommerce order, so the stock, the reports and the emails are the ones the store already had. A layaway holds the stock and cancels itself if it is not paid within the deadline you set.
• Inventory. Record what arrives with supplier, invoice and cost. It adds to the stock and warns you if the same invoice was already recorded from another phone.
• Orders. The ones from the register and, if you want, the ones from the website, with their status and the WhatsApp message ready. Mark them shipped with a carrier and a tracking number, and the customer gets an email with the tracking link, using the store's own email design.
• Products. Create and edit products from the phone: photos (iPhone HEIC included, stored as WebP), sizes, colors, units per size, weight and size for shipping, and an automatic SKU that follows the one the store already uses.
• Shipping costs. Set what shipping costs without opening wp-admin: a fixed price, by weight, free from an amount or store pickup, for the whole country or for some of its regions. They are saved as WooCommerce shipping zones, so the web checkout and the register charge the same.
• History. Sales, the daily cash, the stock ledger and, with costs on, what each product leaves. Everything downloads as a real Excel file.
• Costs and profit. A cost per unit for each product, stored in the WooCommerce cost field. Every purchase recalculates the weighted average cost, and every sale freezes the cost in the order, so raising a cost later does not rewrite past sales.
• The Counter, for a physical store. Scan barcodes with any USB or Bluetooth scanner, or with the phone camera. Quick buttons for products without a barcode, keyboard shortcuts, sales on hold, a discount, and cash with suggested bills and the change in large type, card or several payment methods in one sale.
• Till and receipts. Open the till with its float and close it counting the drawer: the register tells you whether it matches. Every sale has a receipt for 58 or 80 mm paper, printed from the browser on any printer, with a barcode that opens its return. Returns put the pieces back in stock.
• Roles for the store. A Cashier role that sells and never sees the WordPress dashboard, and a Counter cashier role that only reaches the Counter. Discounts can be capped for them, and they close the till blind.
• No signal, no problem. A sale recorded with the screen open and no connection is kept on the phone and goes in on its own when the connection is back, without duplicating.

The business assistant (today's pending work, a store review, a chat, a forecast and a daily summary by email) and the extras for a busy store (cashiers with a PIN, several tills, a Stripe card reader, a customer screen, direct printing to Star and Epson receipt printers with the cash drawer, and a fuller receipt editor) live in a separate add-on, Dox POS Pro. The register works fully without it. Third-party libraries The Counter's camera scanner uses ZXing (zxing-js/library 0.21.3, Apache License 2.0) on browsers that cannot read barcodes on their own, such as Safari on the iPhone. It is bundled in assets/vendor/zxing with its license, loaded only when someone taps Camera, and never loaded from outside the site. Source code: https://github.com/zxing-js/library External services The register can load its two fonts from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com). This is off by default: a fresh install uses the fonts of the phone or the computer and the plugin does not connect to any outside service. If you turn on the "Load the fonts from Google Fonts" switch in WooCommerce > Dox POS > Brand, the browser of whoever opens the register requests those fonts from Google, which receives their IP address and the usual data of a web request. With the switch on, the settings page loads the fonts the same way while you pick one, and when you type a font name the plugin asks Google whether a font by that name exists. No store, order or customer data is ever sent, and turning the switch off stops every request. Google terms: https://policies.google.com/terms Google privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

0.48.0

• New: the Counter, for a physical store. Turn it on in WooCommerce > Dox POS > Sales and the register gets a Counter tab: scan barcodes with a USB or Bluetooth scanner or with the camera (ZXing on Safari), quick buttons for products without a barcode, keyboard shortcuts (F2 to F9), sales on hold and a discount.
• New: charge cash with suggested bills and the change in large type, by card, or split between several payment methods. Each sale is a WooCommerce order handed over at the counter, with the tax worked out from the store address.
• New: open the till with its float and close it counting the drawer. The closing shows the sales by payment method and whether the cash matches, is short or is over.
• New: receipts for 58 or 80 mm paper printed from the browser on any printer, with a basic editor in Settings > Sales (top, bottom, logo, what it shows) and a barcode that opens the return of that sale.
• New: returns at the Counter: scan the receipt, choose the pieces and give the money back in cash or by the same method. The pieces go back into stock.
• New: a Counter cashier role that only reaches the Counter, a maximum discount for whoever does not manage the shop (Settings > Sales > Discounts, 0% turns discounts off) and a blind till closing for them.

0.47.1

• Improved: with Colciudades on a store in Colombia, a city typed by hand in the register ("medellin", "MEDELLIN", "bogota") is saved with its name from the list ("Medellín", "Bogotá"), ignoring accents, capital letters and extra spaces. The register fixes it when you leave the field, and the server does it again when the order is saved. A place that is not on the list (a rural district, for instance) is saved as typed.

0.47.0

• Changed: on the phone, Sell and Inventory no longer have the two tabs at the top. When you add something, a bar appears at the bottom ("View the order" or "Review and save") that opens what you picked, with an arrow to keep searching and an "Empty all" button that asks first.
• New: a size that is already in the order (or in what arrived) shows how many with a "+2" and has a minus button next to it to remove one without going to review.
• Changed: on the phone, "Download Excel" and "Upload costs" sit under the Inventory search.
• Changed: Products opens with the list of products and a "New product" button. Each product opens in its own card with an arrow to go back (to the list, or to the tab you came from). If you leave with unsaved changes, the register asks whether to save, discard or keep editing.
• Changed: when the register opens on the Dashboard, the Dashboard goes first in the bottom bar on the phone.

0.46.0

• New: the actual size of a piece. When several sizes share the same units (a bodysuit labelled 18-24 months that also fits 12-18), mark the size on the label with the _dox_pos_real_size meta (yes) on that variation. The register then highlights it in the product sizes (Sell, Inventory and the product card), and the sizes that share it say "Also fits · it is the 18-24 months one".
• New: when the register or the website sells another size of that group, the order line says "Actual size: 18-24 months", so whoever packs knows which piece to take. It shows in the register orders, in the WooCommerce order and in the emails to the store, but not to the customer.
• Fixed: the units in stock on the Dashboard counted the sizes of hidden products.

0.45.0

• New: the register sign-in screen can offer "Sign in with a code by email" next to the password, when another plugin on the site provides one-time codes (through the dox_pos_login_code_enabled, dox_pos_login_code_send and dox_pos_login_code_verify filters). The cashier types the 6-digit code from their phone into the register, with no password. Codes are only sent to accounts that can use the register, and the register checks the session that was really opened before letting anyone in. Without such a plugin nothing changes: the register asks for username and password as always, and Dox POS sends no email of its own for this. Full changelog: https://help.doxstudio.com/dox-pos-changelog/