The transfer
Twelve pairs scanned onto the trolley, one label, and Store 2 can already see it coming. Eleven accepted, one rejected, the count stays true.
Sports & outdoor
Every source, every store, one stock count you can act on.
Ski, bike and outdoor retailers run several stores, a warehouse and a website on one Magento, with staff who change every season. The team sees salable stock per source and moves boots between stores from the iPad, seasonal cashiers sell from day one without being able to refund, the drawer closes in francs and euros, and the launch email goes to the list that grew all summer.
- Asked for a size 43 boot
- Transferred from the warehouse
- Collected at Store 2#000000146 · 289.00 CHF
What you run into
The problems this kind of business actually has.
The 43 is in the other store
Stock lives in three places and the website sells what the warehouse thinks it has.
Staff who change every season
New cashiers need to sell on day one, and nobody wants them refunding or discounting unsupervised.
Two currencies in one drawer
Resort and border stores take cash in two currencies and count it at midnight.
Launches and restocks that move in minutes
A drop sells out before the email has finished sending, and the restock goes to the wrong people.
What fits
The features that answer them, across the three products.
Multi-source inventoryPoint of Sale Salable stock per source, transfers between stores with per-item accept and reject.Permissions, PINs and shiftsPoint of Sale Magento-role permissions, PIN-guarded refunds, multi-currency cash-up.Offline sellingPoint of Sale A mountain store with patchy signal keeps selling.Card payments at the tillPoint of Sale Regional acquirers per store, Klarna in-store financing for the expensive bike.Opt-in, pixel and SMSMarketing Automation The list grows after every order, and SMS reaches the people who chose it on launch morning.Trade shows and eventsPoint of Sale Sell at the expo and the race village from the same catalogue.
In practice
Three moments from a working week.
Closing in two currencies
Cash counted once per currency, reconciled against the day, the report printed with the VAT breakdown and filed in Magento.
Launch morning
The email goes to everyone; the SMS goes to the contacts who chose it. The first size sells out in the time it takes to make a coffee.
The products
One Magento, one customer record, one set of numbers.
Everything ebizmarts builds writes to the same Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source store, so the till, the checkout and the marketing platform see the same customer, the same stock and the same order.
Point of SaleThe iPad and Mac point of sale that runs every sale as a Magento order: counter, phone, field and events.Payments SuiteOpayo by Elavon, Apple Pay and Google Pay, Recover Checkout, saved cards, B2B payments and in-store terminals for Magento.Marketing AutomationCustomers, orders and carts flow into Intuit Mailchimp already scored and segmented, with Pulse journeys on top.
Other industries
Builders', timber and electrical merchantsTrade counters with account customers, yards with no signal, and stock spread between a yard, a warehouse and a website.Furniture, bathroom, kitchen and lighting showroomsMore range than floor space, considered purchases, deposits and balances, and deliveries weeks later.B2B distributors and wholesalersPhone orders, reps on the road, invoices on terms and payment links, all on one Magento order book.Fashion and beautyLoyalty and gift cards that work in both channels, stores that fulfil web orders, and brands that keep their audiences apart.Direct-to-consumer brandsMobile checkouts that finish, carts that come back, segments that start from real orders, and pop-ups and fairs that take real orders.
Questions
What merchants in this sector ask first.
Which Magento versions have multi-source inventory at the till?
Magento 2.3 or later with MSI enabled. Single-source stores get real-time stock from the default source.
How do seasonal staff get set up?
Give them a Magento admin role and a PIN. They sell from their first hour; refunds, discounts and tax removal need a manager's PIN.
Can a shift be counted in two currencies?
Yes. Cash is counted per currency, reconciled against transactions, and the cash-up report prints with totals by payment type.
Can different stores use different card acquirers?
Yes. Gateways are configured per device and store, so a chain can keep local banking in each country.
Tell us what you sell and how.
Half an hour on a call and we will map your counter, your checkout and your marketing onto the features that fit, with your own catalogue.