Kateryna Lychkovakha 
Odoo ERP system software is employed company-wide to handle and boost all business processes. Odoo supplies seamlessly integrated functional business apps named Odoo apps that make an ERP solution. Open-source software, Odoo, is available with SaaS subscription pricing as the Enterprise edition or as the Odoo free Community version.
Odoo apps include the following points:
- Subscriptions
- Planning
- Consolidation
- Invoicing
- Accounting
- Manufacturing MRP
- Timesheets
- Field service
- Website builder with Odoo CMS
- Inventory management and warehouse management
In the following article, we’ll get through the PoS (Point of Sale) Odoo features and their importance for each enterprise.
The POS protects the specified area for registering the sale and the revenue and outcome of goods or services. This allows having better control of the flow of resources inside your store. The Odoo ERP system covers all the main Sales characteristics such as Payment system, Checkout, Store Management, etc. Let’s look at its main features.
Payment System
- Payment methods
Cash, checks, and credit card payments are available. Renewed types of payment methods can be added as well.
- Credit and Debit cards
External payment terminals manage all electronic payments.
- Currency rounding
Payments can be rounded to the most diminutive denomination of the currency.
Offline Payments
Invoicing
Generate and print invoices for your business customers.
Accounting
Payments are directly integrated into Odoo Accounting to make bookkeeping simple and reliable.
Customer tips
Supports customer tipping either as an added amount or by converting change to a tip.
Store Management
- Order history
View all past orders and search by customer, product, cashier, or date.
- Daily sales
Keep track of daily sales and totals for every payment type.
- Cashier accounts
Manage multiple cashier accounts and secure them with badges or pin codes.
- Stock & Inventory
Monitor your stock real-time, manage your inventory across all locations, and review shipments with the Odoo Stock integration.
- Franchises
Pre-configure your franchise’s stores, overview their sales, and centrally manage their stock and accounting.
CheckOut
- Prices & discounts
Set customer prices or offer percentage-based discounts on either a single product or the entire order.
- Parallel orders
Put orders aside and process multiple orders at the same time.
- Weighting at the counter
Calculate product weight during checkout with the electronic scale integration.
- Multi-step checkout ( Coming Soon )
Sell at one Point of Sale and pay at another with multi-step checkout.
- Sell on the move
With iPad and Android tablet support, sell anywhere within your store or restaurant.
- Dynamic barcodes
Embed price, weight, and discount information directly into your barcodes.
Products
- Product categories
Organize your products with hierarchical product categories. Order them by popularity and display different types at different points of sales.
- Product Search
Quickly find products by name, barcode, or description with the built-in search function.
- Units of measure
Sell your products with custom or preset units of measure and update your stock accordingly.
- Multiple barcodes
Configure multiple barcodes for the same product with barcode nomenclatures.
- Product variants
Sell different sizes, colors, or configurations of the same product with product variants.
Web App
- Browser support
Odoo POS is a web-based application and can be deployed on any device and OS running Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.
Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, Linux, Android, and iOS are all supported operating systems.
- PC compatible
Odoo POS can also be used on standard PCs and tablets as well as industrial touch-screen terminals.
- Works offline
Odoo’s POS will keep working while offline. The web browser can be closed offline without loss of data.
- HTML5 mods
Odoo’s POS is Open-Source and can be customized with HTML5/JS extension modules.
Customer Loyalty
- Register customers
Identify your customers by registering their email and contact address, allowing you to offer discounts and keep track of individual sales.
- Identify customers
Look up your customers with the built-in search feature or identify them with a barcode printed on their loyalty card.
- Business Customers
Register your customer’s VAT number and apply them to invoices.
- Loyalty Cards
Reward your customers with loyalty points and exchange them for gifts or discounts. Points can be earned by product, order, or sale amount.
Final Words
Looking at everything mentioned above, we can conclude that Odoo truly makes your online store work effectively and efficiently. Odoo PoS covers all the vital points of the business management, thus if you want to boost all the sales processes, contact our dedicated team and we’ll cover you with all the arising questions.