Use Point of Sale to ingest data onto the POS Cloud platform with multiple options. Optimize data setup based on different customer scenarios. This ensures a smooth data flow, enabling retailers to gain valuable insights and make informed decisions. With efficient data ingestion, retailers can enhance their operations and improve the customer experience.
Important: All feed files should be saved in a UTF-8 (not to be confused with UTF-8 with BOM) format else you receive an error during upload.
Point of Sale Solutions
Multi-Country - Local Language Content
Use Case: The customer has stores in multiple countries and each region has its own localized content.
Reference: Converse
Region: All feeds need to be loaded in their respective regions.
| Feed | Use Case | Frequency | RunTime (Approximate) |
| Full Product Feed | Full product catalog has to be loaded with localized content |
Once during onboarding. Annual refresh can be done if needed |
1 million rows / 60 mins |
| Delta Product Feed | This file can be loaded to add/update existing product information | Once a day | |
| Full Store Inventory-Pricing Feed |
Complete store inventory feed has to be loaded to get starting store inventory. This file also provides store-level pricing |
Once during onboarding. Annual refresh can be done if needed |
3.5 million rows / 60 mins |
| Delta Store Inventory-Pricing Feed | This file can be loaded to update store levelpricing/inventory | Every 2 hours | |
| Store Feed | This file can be loaded to update all store details | Once every week | |
| Tax Feed | This file can be loaded to update tax tables for online/offline | Once every week | |
| Associate Feed | This file can be loaded to add new associate | Once every week | |
| ASN Feed | This file can be loaded to add ASN data | Once every week |
Multi-Country - Same Language in All Regions
Use Case: The customer has stores in multiple countries and uses English (or any other language) as a single language for all regions.
Reference: SuitSupply
Master Region:
| Feed | Use Case | Frequency | RunTime (Approximate) |
| Full Product Feed | Full product catalog has to be loaded with localized content |
Once during onboarding. Annual refresh can be done if needed |
1 million rows / 60 mins |
| Delta Product Feed | This file can be loaded to add/update existing product information | Every 2 hours | |
| Product Pricing Feed | This file can be loaded to load product pricing for other regions | Once every week | |
| Product Sizing Feed | This file can be loaded to load product sizing for other regions | Once every week | |
| Full Store Inventory-Pricing Feed |
Complete store inventory feed has to be loaded to get starting store inventory. This file also provides store-level pricing |
Once during onboarding. Annual refresh can be done if needed |
3.5 million rows / 60 mins |
| Delta Store Inventory-Pricing Feed | This file can be loaded to update store levelpricing/inventory | Every 2 hours | |
| Store Feed | This file can be loaded to update all store details | Once every week | |
| Tax Feed | This file can be loaded to update tax tables for online/offline | Once every week | |
| Associate Feed | This file can be loaded to add new associate | Once every week | |
| ASN Feed | This file can be loaded to add ASN data | Once every week |
All Regions:
| Feed | Use Case | Frequency |
| Store Feed | This file can be loaded to update all store details | Once every week |
| Tax Feed | This file can be loaded to update tax tables for online/offline | Once every week |
| Associate Feed | This file can be loaded to add new associate | Once every week |
| ASN Feed | This file can be loaded to add ASN data | Once every week |
Multi-Locale - Within a Region
Use Case: The customer has stores in a country that has multiple locales.
Reference: Bouclair
Region: All feeds need to be loaded in their respective regions.
| Feed | Use Case | Frequency | RunTime (Approximate) |
| Full Product Feed | Full product catalog has to be loaded with localized content for each country as additional rows |
Once during onboarding. Annual refresh can be done if needed |
1 million rows / 60 mins |
| Delta Product Feed | This file can be loaded to add/update existing product information | Every 2 hours | |
| Full Store Inventory-Pricing Feed |
Complete store inventory feed has to be loaded to get starting store inventory. This file also provides store-level pricing |
Once during onboarding. Annual refresh can be done if needed |
3.5 million rows / 60 mins |
| Delta Store Inventory-Pricing Feed | This file can be loaded to update store levelpricing/inventory | Every 2 hours | |
| Store Feed | This file can be loaded to update all store details | Once every week | |
| Tax Feed | This file can be loaded to update tax tables for online/offline | Once every week | |
| Associate Feed | This file can be loaded to add new associate | Once every week | |
| ASN Feed | This file can be loaded to add ASN data | Once every week |
Data Exports
These export jobs are supported by Point of Sale.
Master Region:
| Feed | Use Case | Frequency |
| Orders (Backup of API) | Export TLog of order in XML / JSON | Realtime / Once a day |
| EJ | Full export of all store events | Once a day |
| Delta Store Inventory | Export of product with inventory movement for the current day | Once a day |
| Inventory Movement Events | Realtime export of inv events based on receiving, STS, RTV | Realtime |
| Quiz | Associate survey responses | Once a day |
| Digital Contracts | Homemakers use cases to push customer acknowledgments for financing contracts | Once a day |
FTP Providers
Point of Sale feeds can work with any service that provides an FTP connection. These are some of the FTP service providers who are currently deployed with POS: Exavault, FileZilla, Goanywhere MFT.
References
See Review Feed File Specifications the specifications of each of the data feed.