Tillbon – Barcode Till for WooCommerce

You have a shop with a counter and a WooCommerce webshop, and every sale at the counter makes the webshop stock a little more wrong until the next count. Tillbon fixes that. It adds a till inside wp-admin: scan an article, it lands in the basket, check out, and WooCommerce records an ordinary order that books the stock off. One stock, for the shop and the webshop.

It was built behind the counter of a real tackle shop, and it is shaped by the problems that came up there.

Scanning that just works

• Scanners that send no Enter key. About half of all scanners only type the digits and stop. Scan twice and the codes glue together. Tillbon closes each scan on a short keyboard silence instead, so it works with every USB scanner out of the box.
• The AZERTY problem. A scanner sends key positions, and almost every scanner leaves the factory set to a US keyboard. On a Belgian or French computer the digits arrive as &é"'(§è!çà. Tillbon translates them back automatically, and only ever touches a code made up entirely of those characters, so it cannot damage a correct scan.
• A scanner test screen. Scan anything and it shows exactly what your scanner sent, how fast, and with which ending, and tells you which setting to change. Support question answered before it is asked.
• Finds the article. Searches the WooCommerce GTIN field, the SKU and an optional custom field, and knows that a 12 digit UPC and a 13 digit EAN with a leading zero are the same article.
• Unknown barcode? Attach it to the right product from the till. A painless way to work through products that still carry an in-house code.

Selling

• Basket with quantities, a discount as a percentage or an amount, and a note.
• Your own payment method buttons: cash, card, voucher, whatever you use.
• Customers: search registered customers and earlier buyers, or scan a loyalty card. Hand out a new card by scanning it onto a customer.
• Put a sale on hold when a customer walks back into the shop, serve the next one, and pick it up again later, on this till or another device.
• Take goods back in one scan: every receipt carries a barcode that opens the sale. Lost the receipt? Scan the article and pick the sale from a list. A real WooCommerce refund, with the stock put back if you want.
• Reopen an earlier sale to change it or print its receipt again.
• A receipt sized for 80 mm thermal printers (Epson, Star and the usual clones), printed through the browser, no driver per model.
• Keeps selling when the internet drops: sales wait in the browser and are sent as soon as the line is back.

Closing the day

Open the till in the morning with the cash you start with. In the evening Tillbon tells you what should be in the drawer, you count what is there, and it shows the difference plainly. Takings per payment method, refunds, and a history of earlier day closes that a shop manager can correct or remove afterwards. Fill in an address and the day report arrives by e-mail when you close: turnover, payment methods, returns, VAT per rate, the cash check and the best sellers, for you or your accountant.

Stock reports

A sold out list sorted by what sold best in the last 90 days, so the first lines are the ones costing you money today, and a running low list based on your WooCommerce low stock threshold. Both download as CSV.

Multilingual shops

With Polylang or WPML one barcode sits on every language copy of a product. Tillbon books the sale on the shop’s main language, so stock is never taken off the French copy of the article.

Tillbon Pro

A separate add-on for running the shop, not the till: stocktakes with a scanner (count one brand at a time and watch the list of what is still to find shrink with every scan), booking in deliveries from the supplier’s packing slip (CSV or Excel), barcode labels, purchase prices and stock value, and staff codes so the day close shows the takings per person. The till itself is complete without it. See counterpos.app.

Privacy

Tillbon stores nothing outside your own WordPress database and sends nothing anywhere. It needs no API keys: it runs on your logged-in session, with capability and nonce checks on every call.