Specter as the business system, WooCommerce on the web

A system with real weight in purchasing and stock, connected to a web shop that has to show the same truth.

More articles set a higher bar

Shops that picked Specter usually did so because they needed more than a till. Purchasing, goods receipts, supplier terms and an article register far larger than anything that ever appears on the shop floor.

That is also why the link to the web looks different here. The question is not only how data moves, but which part of the register should go out at all.

We treat Specter as the master register and let WooCommerce be a selection from it. The order you keep in purchasing carries through, so what appears online is actually backed by stock.

What is synchronised between Specter and WooCommerce

The connection allows for a register that is larger than the range you actually want on display.

Articles are pulled from Specter, with rules for which ones get published.
Prices and price lists follow, including campaigns and customer-specific terms where they exist.
Stock levels are mirrored per location so the web never promises more than is covered.
Orders from the web enter Specter and become part of the normal order flow.

How we structure the work

A larger register means the selection rules have to be set first. Otherwise everything is published, and the web shop becomes hard to navigate.

We go through the article register and decide which parts belong online.
We build the connection to Specter and verify it against a limited part of the range.
We widen the selection as you see that the data holds.

You carry on purchasing, receiving and pricing in Specter. The web should never become a place where somebody maintains articles by hand.

Specter remains the master register.
The web shows a selection, not everything.
Orders and stock stay together.

The order you keep in purchasing should be visible all the way out in the web shop.