Features
Everything an independent store does in a day, in one system.
Ring sales, receive shipments, order from vendors, print the labels — and run one business across the counter and your BigCommerce store: pickup in store, store stock on the website, prices and coupons that agree, online orders at the register.
Register
A counter that moves as fast as your busiest Saturday.
Scan a UPC or a SKU, or tap a quick key for the things you sell all day. Touch-first on an iPad, a Mac, Windows or a Chrome box; nothing buried three menus deep.
- Held sales, split tender, quick-cash buttons, change due
- Cashier switch by PIN on a shared terminal
- Drawer open / paid in / paid out / close with variance
- Returns and exchanges with restock per line, gift certificates and store credit as tender
Inventory, serials & lots
Scan the box, record what matters, post.
Receiving is a worksheet until you post it. Posting puts stock on the shelf and pushes the new count to your BigCommerce store in one transaction. Serialized products ask for a serial per unit; lot-tracked products ask for the lot and its expiry; everything else is a quantity.
- One catalog and one stock count shared with BigCommerce, per location
- Serial numbers per unit for electronics, appliances and equipment — on the receipt and in the customer’s history
- Lot numbers with expiry for candles, soap, food and cosmetics: oldest sold first, recalls answered in a minute
- Every quantity change is a ledger entry you can read back; per-location reorder points and bins
Purchase orders
From low stock to a vendor PO in three clicks.
Pick the vendor, tap “Add low stock”, scan anything else, and send a branded PO. Receive against it when the boxes land. Save a template for the order you place every month.
- Auto-fill from reorder points per vendor
- Barcode scanning straight into the PO
- PDF with your logo and ship-to; PO templates for standing orders
- Partial receipts tracked line by line
Tracked from the box
Some products are a SKU with a quantity. Some are a serial with a history. Some are a lot with a date.
Black Beach POS handles all three without making you pick one for the whole store. The register, the receipt, the receiving and the website all point at the same record.
BigCommerce
The store is the catalog. The counter is the truth for the shelf.
Connect with a store API account and Black Beach POS imports the catalog, keeps the link per product and variant, and writes stock back per inventory location as it moves at the counter — sales, receiving, counts, returns, transfers. With Flxpoint in the middle, the POS steps aside and lets it own the online number; either way exactly one system writes stock to the website.
- One-click catalog import; product, order and customer webhooks keep things current
- Stock per store pushed to BigCommerce inventory locations after every movement
- Scheduled sale prices that go live and come off the storefront on their own
- Store credit and gift certificates work in both places, one balance
- Explicit inventory authority: the POS, or Flxpoint when a distributor feed sits between
Buy online, pick up in store
Pickup that lands in the right store’s queue.
Switch a store on and it appears at checkout as a $0 pickup option, with the BigCommerce location, pickup method and per-store stock created for you. Paid pickups land in that store’s register queue; mark ready, mark picked up, and stock leaves the pickup store’s shelf rather than the default one.
- One switch per store; multi-store retailers get one option per store
- Per-store pickup queue at the register: mark ready, mark picked up
- Checkout greys out a store that can’t fill the whole cart and says which item
- Pickup emails to the customer when the order is ready
Store stock on the website
“Is it on the shelf?” Answered on the product page.
Shoppers see what each store has — In stock, Low stock, Out of stock, or the exact count if you prefer — on product pages, in quick view and in the cart, read live from the register rather than from a figure that lags. Each location decides whether it shows.
- Availability or counts, your choice; low stock follows each store’s reorder point
- Per-location opt-out for a warehouse or a studio that doesn’t take walk-ins
- Services and classes never show as out of stock
- Read-only, rate-limited, locked to your store’s domain
Pricing, coupons & customer groups
The same price online and at the counter.
Sale prices with a window, in store only or in store and online. Coupons built at the POS that publish to BigCommerce with the same code, and online codes honoured at the register when you say so. BigCommerce customer groups mirrored in, so a wholesale account or a loyalty tier pays the group price at the counter without anyone touching a discount key.
- Scheduled sales the storefront follows automatically
- Coupons in both directions, with windows and caps kept in step
- Group pricing resolved the way BigCommerce does it: product rule, then category, then storewide
- Every discount on the receipt with its reason
Online orders & returns
Online orders at the counter. Counter history online.
Scan a receipt or type an order number and the register opens it, whether it was rung here or placed online. Note it, refund it, add or remove an item, cancel it — or take an online order back in store with the refund on the original order and the stock back on the shelf. Your customers see their counter purchases, store credit and gift cards inside their BigCommerce account.
- One search for POS sales and BigCommerce orders, from the register
- Returns and exchanges for either kind of sale, with restock per line
- “In-store purchases” tab in BigCommerce My Account, read live from your server
- Custom register pages: tiles for services, classes, fees and whatever you sell all day
Labels & tags
Price tags and shelf labels from the browser.
Thermal rolls, jewelry tags or Avery sheets — pick a stock, choose what prints, add your logo and a footer line, preview, print. From the products list, a product’s page, or straight from a receiving you just posted, one tag per serial for the serialized items.
- Several templates per shop; the first is the default
- Sale price with the regular price struck through
- Serial-number tags that scan straight into the register
- Any printer that prints from a browser; no driver, no agent
Customers, credit & used goods
Take the trade. Sell the consignment. Keep the customer.
Profiles with lifetime spend, store credit and gift certificates on one balance that works at the counter and on the website. A trade-in is a valuation and a payout on one ticket: the item goes into stock as used goods with its condition and cost, and the customer takes the value as an allowance on today’s purchase, as store credit, or as cash from the drawer. Consignments follow the same path with an asking price and a fee, and pay the consignor when the item sells.
- Store credit spendable at the counter and on your BigCommerce store
- Consignment agreements with fee, minimum price and term; payout in cash, check or credit; return to owner if it doesn’t sell
- Used goods carry condition, cost and source on the product
- Customer records mirrored with BigCommerce so one person is one person
Multi-location & staff
Every store, every register, one login.
Locations carry their own tax rate, receipts and registers. Staff see only the stores they work at, with roles that decide who can discount, refund or close a drawer. Owners see everything, with a dashboard that rolls it up.
- Per-location registers and drawer reports
- Roles for cashier, manager and owner; PIN switch on a shared terminal
- Stock transfers between your own stores
- Audit log of who did what, from which register
