I want to know if Shopify POS allows selling of service through the POS?
Specifically speaking if the POS will be used in a computer laboratory rental whereas:
A customer walks in the store the cashier inputs time-in
Cashier inputs time-out then POS calculates total hours and total cost of the service.
Is this possible with Shopify POS?
You could set this up with a simple Shopify App. When the order is booked the App registers the time at the POS and the item is marked OUT. When the item is returned the POS user finds the order and marks the item as IN. Now the hours out are known. So apply those hours as a number of units (hours) and using a unit price (cost per hour), the order would be worth X. If it was nothing but a draft order, at that point it could be turned into a real order in exchange for the money.
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I found similar question in the forum, and from this answer I come to know about Career service. Which looks promising initially, but after reading the doc from here, I found that there is an issue for my use case.
This is my use case:
There will be multiple items in the cart with different delivery dates set(I store delivery dates in the line_item property)
now when user go to checkout the shipping rate has to be calculated based on the delivery dates(which are stored in the line item property for each line item)
shipping price should be calculated like ...... if there is only one delivery day, we need to offer x price, if there are two different delivery dates we need to offer 2x price and so on....
so the issue is, Carrier Service uses Server side cashing and it will only ask for price if any of these(variant IDs, default shipping box weight and dimensions, variant quantities, carrier service ID, origin address, destination address, item weights and signatures) field change. It doesn't include line item properties(where I have stored delivery dates).
I have also checked the shopify scripts from here, but after some mockups I come to know that we can only provide discount to the existing shipping rates and can not add new shipping method, or increase shipping price for existing shipping method.
Please help me to find a solution for this problem.
I am trying to get the Net Sales of orders of our Shopify store on daily basis. I can do it with the Orders API, but there seems to be a mismatch for the refunds returned by the API and the refunds/returns that show up in the dashboard.
In fact, the API doesnt show any refunds for the orders at all but there does seem to be some amount deducted from the Total Sales of Orders which make the actual Net Sales for that particular day.
I can retrieve the orders for one day by this example URL. I iterate through all the orders and add up each Order's amount which gives an exact number of Total Sales which match up to the number in the dashboard. But this Total Sales value doesnt take into account the refunds/returns.
/admin/api/2021-07/orders.json?status=any&created_at_min=2021-08-17T00:00:00-04:00&created_at_max=2021-08-18T00:00:00-04:00&limit=250
There is a refunds in the returned json for each order as well in the above call but that is empty for all the objects.
I have explicitly tried to retrieve the refunds as well by following API call but it also returns empty for all the orders.
/admin/api/2021-07/orders/{order_id}/refunds.json
You may have a look at the Dashboard Sales image for one day. Please note in this image, I can get the exact value for Total Orders from the API but can not retrieve a single refund/return for any of the order.
Would you be having an idea what are these Refunds/Returns shown in the Dashboard? If so, is there a way how can I accurately calculate the Refunds/Returns by the API as well, so I can accurately calculate the Total Sales for one day?
You should be working with Transactions. Specifically, the refund transactions. An Order has many transactions. So given some order, you can get at the interesting transactions, and calculate your important values, like Net. I have aced this for many clients, as Shopify does not report this type of value very well. So I generate reports with Net, refunds, taxes, etc, providing much clearer guidance than the standard Shopify reports.
I am tweaking Vehicle Routing Problem to cater our business needs using the provided Optaplanner example.
Capacity = Total number of hours available to a vehicle in a day(X hours)
Demand = Time to move to a Customer + Serving Time at Customer's location
The problems I'm facing -
Scheduling should be done on day to day basis with new Customer orders added and removed dynamically. How to do?
(Assumption - Customer orders will be available before scheduling but new Customer order might come while scheduling)
How to reset the Capacity? (Every other day vehicles are renewed with X hours. Every other day vehicles will have X hours available again.)
Vehicle may not need to return to the Depot at the end of the day and can start from the Last Customer location to get to new Customer another day.
What if the vehicle consumes all it's available hours during the transit before reaching the Customers location? Will it result in ageing for that particular customer?
Any insights about any of the problems mentioned above are appreciated.
I would like to know how does e-commerce sites maintain their databases?
Let say they are selling a product name X from a marchant M
Now the merchant increases or decreases the cost of the item. It is manually edited in the e-commerse backend ? Is this part automated?
If there is an id associated with the item, is id given by the merchant or the e-commerce site?
There can be 10 same product items provided by 10 different merchant. Now the specification of the product is same but the amount varies from each merchant. if let say every merchant change the cost of the item and tell us the cost. How can we in automated fashion edit the backend in such a situation
The shop owner with the website is adjusting their prices independently of the wholesaler. This can be done manually in an online product admin interface, or it can be done through some kind of data feed of all products like XML or CVS. The data feed can be coming directly from a retail point of sale system. If the wholesaler raises the prices - the shop owner still has stock on hand of the product they bought at the previous price. When the shop owner takes delivery of the new stock and enters that inventory into the system - at that point they would adjust the prices.
A product has a UPC code (or EAN if in europe) which is universal for that product. For example all products on Amazon have a UPC code which is how they organize different sellers for the same product
VERSUS a SKU or Product ID - which is unique to the shop owner. That is what the shop owner uses to track inventory and prices. The universal UPC plus unique SKU is how amazon determines the product that is sold.
In your last example - you are talking about functioning as a "marketplace" like Amazon.com Amazon lets merchants determine their own prices - but very important to know the price is ranked as price + shipping cost. Because some merchants will lower the product price to try and come out on top but then they inflate the shipping cost to make up for it.
I have a question regarding Authorize.net.
Heres the scenario:
User signs up and is charged $5 right away for a sample product (and credit card is registered into ARB recurring billing profile). Two weeks later they are subscribed to the monthly product subscription if they don't cancel, and are charged a 'membership' fee on their first monthly payment.
So payments:
First purchase: $5
First month: $20membership + $30/mth
Rest of the months: $30/mth
From my research it looks the first purchase and then setting up a monthly payment with recurring with a two week trial period will be easy.
However, how should I deal with the first month membership payment? It is a one off payment that needs to be delayed two weeks after the first payment. This system being built is very simplistic and am not using any database backend, so solutions must be able to be done at time of purchase, or through the authorize.net backend.
ARB offers trial periods which allows you to set a special price to be charged for a set time period before the regular subscription price kicks in. This will do exactly what you need. As for when the subscription starts, just set the start date to be two weeks from today's date.