WooCommerce POS – Point of Sale
kilbot By kilbot

June 29, 2024

WooCommerce POS – Point of Sale Plugin

WooCommerce POS is a simple application for taking orders at the Point of Sale using your WooCommerce store.

WooCommerce POS is a simple application for taking orders at the Point of Sale using your WooCommerce store. It’s great for phone orders too!

🕒 Install and start taking orders in less than 2 minutes.

🎥 DEMO

You can see a demo of the WooCommerce POS plugin in action by going to https://demo.wcpos.com/pos with 🔑login/pass : demo/demo
or download the desktop application:
⬇️ Download WooCommerce POS for Windows
⬇️ Download WooCommerce POS for Mac (Intel)
⬇️ Download WooCommerce POS for Mac (Apple Silicon)

✨ FEATURES

  • Available cross-platform via browser or desktop application (iOS and Android coming soon)
  • Offline storage for fast product search and order processing
  • Manage product stock levels and pricing quickly
  • Add new customers or checkout via Guest account
  • Add miscellaneous products to cart, ie: products not in WooCommerce
  • Live chat support within the application
  • Pro: Use any WooCommerce gateway
  • Pro: Create multiple POS Stores
  • Pro: Analytics for POS and Online sales
  • Pro: Priority Discord support (usually < 1 hour)

📋 REQUIREMENTS

  • WordPress >= 5.6
  • WooCommerce >= 5.3
  • PHP >= 7.4

Installation

Automatic installation

  1. Go to Plugins screen and select Add New.
  2. Search for “WooCommerce POS” in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
  3. Install the plugin
  4. Click Activate Plugin to activate it.

Pro installation

If you have purchased a license for WooCommerce POS Pro please follow the steps below to install and activate the plugin:

  1. Go to: http://wcpos.com/my-account/
  2. Under My Downloads, click the download link and save the plugin to your desktop.
  3. Then go to your site, login and go to the Add New Plugin page, eg: http://<yourstore.com>/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=upload
  4. Upload the plugin zip file from your desktop and activate.
  5. Next, go to the POS Settings page and enter your License Key and License Email to complete the activation.

Manual installation

To install a WordPress Plugin manually:

  1. Download the WooCommerce POS plugin to your desktop.
  2. If downloaded as a zip archive, extract the Plugin folder to your desktop.
  3. With your FTP program, upload the Plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory online.
  4. Go to Plugins screen and find the newly uploaded Plugin in the list.
  5. Click Activate Plugin to activate it.

Screenshots

  1. WooCommerce POS main screen

    WooCommerce POS main screen

FAQ

Where can I find more information on WooCommerce POS?

There is more information on our website at https://wcpos.com.

  • FAQ – https://wcpos.com/faq
  • Documentation – https://wcpos.com/docs
  • Blog – https://wcpos.com/blog

Changelog

1.6.3 – 2024/06/29

  • Fix: Critical error preventing bulk update of products

1.6.2 – 2024/06/20

  • Fix: Error preventing resources (products, orders, customers, etc) from loading on Windows servers

1.6.1 – 2024/06/18

  • Enhancement: Changed the way POS Only and Online Only products are managed
    • Moved from using postmeta (_pos_visibility) to using centralized settings in the options table (woocommerce_pos_settings_visibility)
  • Improved: Payment template settings, you can now disable all wp_head or wp_footer scripts
  • Fix: ‘Invalid response checking updates for products/tags’ error

1.6.0 – 2024/06/12

  • Improved: Performance for large stores
  • Added: Log screen for insights into the POS performance and events
  • Added: Cart setting to enable/disable show receipt after checkout
  • Added: Cart setting to enable/disable auto-print receipt after checkout
  • Fix: Prevent order create duplication from the POS
  • Fix: Cart subtotal showing tax when tax display is not enabled

1.5.1 – 2024/06/03

  • Fix: “Sorry, you cannot list resources.” error for cashier role

1.5.0 – 2024/06/03

  • Fix: the POS will now correctly sync stock quantity after each sale
  • Fix: cart tax logic has been improved to fix rounding issues
  • Fix: shipping tax will now use the correct class
  • Fix: re-opening orders now functions correctly
  • Fix: quick discount calculation
  • Fix: orders created with different currencies will show the correct currency symbol
  • Added: split option to allow multiple cart lines for the same product
  • Added: stock filter for products
  • Added: Fees can now be a fix percentage of the cart total
  • Added: order status can now be changed from the Orders page
  • Added: extra display information for Orders, such as ‘created_via’ and ‘cashier’
  • Added: cart will only show open orders associated with the logged in cashier
  • Pro: cart will only show open orders from the current POS Store
  • Pro: current store will stay selected after refresh or application re-open
  • … numerous other bug fixes and performance improvements

1.4.16 – 2024/03/28

  • Fix: nonce check failing for Guest orders when checking out with the desktop application

1.4.15 – 2024/03/20

  • Fix: another potential error introduced to Pro updater in previous version 🤦‍♂️

1.4.13 – 2024/03/19

  • Fix: potential error introduced to Pro updater in previous version

1.4.12 – 2024/03/18

  • Security: Fix Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity to Authenticated (Customer+) Information Disclosure (reported by Lucio Sá)
  • Fix: Pro plugin not showing updates for some users

1.4.11 – 2024/03/09

  • Fix: regression in tax calculation when POS settings are different to Online settings
  • Fix: regression in product variation images, use ‘medium’ sized product image instead of full size
  • Fix: remove POS Only products from frontend WC REST API response
  • Fix: generic get meta method should not be used for ‘_create_via’
  • Fix: add enabled POS gateways to the Order Edit select input
  • Fix: other minor PHP warnings

1.4.10 – 2024/01/23

  • Fix: compatibility issue with WooCommerce < 6.7.0

1.4.9 – 2024/01/21

1.4.8 – 2024/01/21

  • Fix: duplicating Products in WC Admin also duplicated POS UUID, which caused problems

1.4.7 – 2024/01/18

  • Bump: web application to version 1.4.1
  • Fix: scroll-to-top issue when scrolling data tables
  • Fix: variations not loading after first 10

1.4.6 – 2024/01/16

  • Fix: decimal quantity for orders
  • Fix: load translation files

1.4.5 – 2024/01/14

  • Add: show change in checkout modal and receipt for the Cash gateway
  • Add: use ‘medium’ sized product image instead of ‘thumbnail’
  • Fix: compatibility with alternative login urls, eg: WPS Hide Login

1.4.4 – 2024/01/12

  • Desktop App: fix login for Desktop Application v1.4.0

1.4.3 – 2024/01/12

  • Pro: fix update notification for Pro plugin

1.4.2 – 2024/01/12

  • Urgent Fix: users with role ‘cashier’ unable to access tax rates API

1.4.1 – 2024/01/12

  • No change, just messed up the release to WordPress.org

1.4.0 – 2024/01/11

  • Added: Support for High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)
  • Added: New API for Variation Barcode Search
  • Pro: Set unique Product Price and Tax Status for each Store
  • Pro: Fix Store login for Authorized Users
  • Pro: Fix Analytics for POS vs Online Orders
  • Pro: New updater
  • Plus: Added a lot of PHPUnit Tests, fixed numerous bugs for a more stable POS!

1.3.12 – 2023/09/29

  • Fix: WordPress database error Not unique table/alias: ‘wp_postmeta’ for query

1.3.11 – 2023/09/27

  • Urgent Fix: product and user search not returning results for some users

1.3.10 – 2023/08/29

  • Urgent Fix: pages with slug starting with ‘pos’ redirecting to the POS page

1.3.9 – 2023/08/18

  • Fix: limit query length for WC REST API, this was resulting in 0 products being returned for some users
  • Fix: pos meta data showing in WP Admin order quick view
  • Fix: cashier uuid not unique for multisite installs

1.3.8 – 2023/08/08

  • Fix: login modal for desktop application

1.3.7 – 2023/07/31

  • Fix: rest_pre_serve_request critical error reported by some users
  • Fix: change ‘woocommerce_available_payment_gateways’ filter priority to 99
  • Add: setting for servers that don’t allow Authorization header

1.3.4 and 1.3.5 – 2023/07/29

  • Urgent Fix: product descriptions being truncated to 100 characters

1.3.3 – 2023/07/28

  • Fix: “Nonce value cannot be verified” when dequeue-ing scripts and styles in POS checkout modal

1.3.2 – 2023/07/27

  • Urgent Fix for variations not downloading for some users

1.3.1 – 2023/07/27

  • Urgent Fix for login modal problems

1.3.0 – 2023/07/27

  • Major stability improvements!
  • Fix: Login is now via JWT – no more ‘Cookie nonce’ errors
  • Fix: Many fixes to local data sync and search should make the POS much more enjoyable to use
  • Add: Dequeue WordPress styles and scripts on POS checkout page
  • Fix: various fixes to the POS settings in WP Admin

1.2.4 – 2023/07/25

  • Fix: empty products effecting some users due to malformed meta_data

1.2.3 – 2023/06/21

  • Fix: coupon form on POS payment modal
  • Fix: use woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail instead of full sized images for products and variations

1.2.2 – 2023/06/21

  • Add: basic support for coupons until a more complete solution is implemented
  • Fix: customer select in settings
  • Pro: add Analytics for POS vs Online sales

1.2.1 – 2023/06/12

  • Fix: Critical error introduced with PHP 7.2 compatibility

1.2.0 – 2023/06/12

  • Refactor: data replication to improve performance
  • Refactor: product search, search by sku and barcode for products now works
    • Note: barcode search for variations is still not working, this will be addressed in a future release
  • Bug Fix: ‘Cannot use object of type Closure as array’ in the API.php file
  • Bug Fix: Creating orders with decimal quantity
  • Bug Fix: Update product with decimal quantity
  • Fix: remove private meta data from Order Preview modal
  • Fix: turn off PHP version check by composer, note that PHP 7.2+ is still required

1.1.0 – 2023/05/19

  • Fix: disable Lite Speed Cache for POS page
  • Fix: add id audit for product categories and tags
  • Fix: add min/max price to variable meta data

1.0.2 – 2023/05/05

  • No change, just messed up the release to WordPress.org.

1.0.1 – 2023/05/05

  • Fix: Product and Variations not showing in POS
    Description: The WC REST API response can be too large in some cases causing a 502 server error.

    • Product and Variation descriptions are not truncated to 100 characters for the POS to reduce response size.
    • Yoast SEO is now programmatically disabled for the POS to reduce response size.
    • A message is now logged when the WC REST API product or variation response is too large.

1.0.0 – 2023/05/03

  • Complete rewrite of the plugin with improved functionality and performance.
  • Although extensive testing has been done, there may still be bugs.
  • We recommend updating only when you have time to deal with potential issues.
  • You can always revert to the old version if necessary, https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-pos/advanced/
  • If you need assistance, join our Discord chat at https://wcpos.com/discord for support.

Details

  • Version: 1.6.3
  • Active installations: 7,000
  • WordPress Version: 5.6
  • Tested up to: 6.5.5
  • PHP Version: 7.4

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