Vinou Office · POS integration

Till and inventory management in one system

Every receipt an entry, every sale a stock movement – and nobody types anything up again in the evening. With the POS integration, your till and Vinou Office grow into one system. Here are two proven ways, honestly compared.

Why your till and inventory management belong together

Wine shop, farm-gate sales, events, phone and online shop – direct sales are more valuable to wineries than ever. At the same time, wherever an electronic till is used, German law (KassenSichV) requires a certified technical security device (TSE).

Vinou is deliberately not a till system and does not handle fiscalisation – certified till manufacturers do that better. Instead, Vinou makes sure your till does not become a data silo: sales, stock movements and, if you like, even customer data flow automatically into your inventory management.

You ring up sales as usual. Stock, reports and customer history update themselves in the background.

Two ways, one goal

Local POS or cloud POS

Local POS

with LaCash

A LaCash representative or partner sets up your till to your requirements – from a single terminal to a complete wine shop. The till stands on your premises and works on its own; if the internet goes down, you simply keep selling. A shared exchange drive connects it to Vinou: receipts and stock movements go to Vinou, categories and items go to the terminals – including the layout of the till screen.

Advantages

  • works without internet
  • only one-time till costs after purchase
  • set up individually by a professional

Disadvantages

  • higher initial investment
  • data synchronised with a delay
  • setup only via a representative or partner

Costs: LaCash invoices hardware and setup directly to you, once. We configure the interface to Vinou once; the exchange drive costs a small monthly fee.

Cloud POS

with ready2order

Book an account and get started – in the simplest case you sell with your smartphone today. You add terminals, receipt printers and card readers to your ready2order account step by step. Vinou talks to ready2order directly through a real interface (API) – if you like, right down to your customer accounts: every till sale lands with the right customer, and wine shop, phone sales and online shop share the same data.

Advantages

  • ready to go at once, often without a consultant
  • low hardware costs
  • works directly on customer accounts

Disadvantages

  • ongoing account fees with the provider
  • stable internet connection required
  • till data stored with the cloud provider

Costs: You book the ready2order account directly with the provider. Vinou charges a one-time setup depending on the integration depth, plus a monthly operating fee.

Which till suits your business?

You want a self-contained system that you own? Then a lot speaks for the local POS: it works without internet, and after the purchase there are no subscription fees on the till side. To be fair: the initial investment is higher, setup needs a partner, and data reaches Vinou with a delay.

You think in channels rather than tills? Then the cloud POS is hard to beat. If you combine wine shop, phone and online shop, working directly on customer accounts gives you a complete order history per customer – and thanks to low hardware costs you can often start tomorrow. On the other side are ongoing fees and the need for a stable internet connection.

Both are fully fledged, proven integrations. What matters is how much you want to use customer data across channels – and whether one-time or ongoing costs suit your business better. That is exactly what we advise you on.

Process

Four steps to an integrated till

1. Requirements

Together we note what your business needs: range, sales channels and the reports you want.

2. Define the interface

You choose the till variant, we define exactly how the interface works.

3. Quote

You get a transparent list of all one-time and ongoing costs – on the till side as well as on the Vinou side.

4. Implementation

We configure the integration, test it with your real item data and support you up to the first receipt.

Prices

What the integration costs

One-time product

POS integration

Sales and stock sync automatically between your till and Vinou.

  • Cloud tillfrom 690 €+ 19 € / month operation
  • Local tillfrom 1,480 €+ SSH drive 10 € / month
Get in touch

All prices net plus VAT. Several businesses: 50 % off the app subscriptions of each additional client.

Which variant suits you?

Get in touch – we support you from the first question to the first receipt. All details are in the white paper (in German).

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