Loyverse Liquor CMS Integration Manual

After you sign-up with Octopus Bridge, you will be given the login details. Login details are your Username and Password. You can login to your account at http://gui.octopusbridge.com/octopus

Once you login to Octopus Bridge using your login details, you are automatically redirected to the Product Management tab where you will be able to see all the items uploaded from the POS.

In the product management module, a user can perform the following actions:

Advance Search: To view advance search, click on the + button on top right corner of the screen.
Push Products to Shopping Cart: To push products to the shopping cart.
Select All Pages: This will Select all the products listed under the Product Management module
Items Per Page: This will allow to select the no. of items you want to display per page.
Select All Items on Current Page: Clicking on this checkbox will allow you to select all products on the current page.
Edit Product: Click on Product SKU or Product Title to edit product information.
Delete Product: To delete a product, click on the checkbox in front of that particular product and click on “Delete” icon located in right side of the screen.

Advance Search

You can search for a specific item with the following search criteria:

Source Category
Item SKU
Item Description
Item Keyword
Parent SKU
Brand
Marketplace
Item Status
Location
Style
In stock?
Supplier
Date Added
Price Range
Stock Level
Image Status
Custom Fields
Store

If Product items are not shown after doing search, it means that the product item is not yet synced from the POS. Also, make sure that in searching items, you are using the correct Item SKU or Parent SKU. Example below shows that item is not yet found in Octopus Bridge.

Edit Product

Clicking on Product SKU or Item Name will redirect you to ‘Edit product’ page. This is where you can edit products’ information that are linked from the POS to Octopus Bridge. You can perform the following actions in Edit Product page:

Edit Product Name: You can create new product name to be displayed in your E-commerce platform. Make sure to click on the box to prevent over-writing Product Name from the POS.
Create Parent SKU: Make sure to create a Parent SKU for creating matrix items.
Create Product Description: If you want to create a new description to be displayed in your E-commerce platform, make sure to check this box to prevent POS description from over-writing description in your E-commerce platform.
Matrix item attributes: If you are creating a matrix item, make sure to input Style Name and Style Value.
Upload Product Images: You can upload up to five images per item in Octopus. Make sure to reload page after uploading image/s.

Publish Items to Shopping Cart/Marketplace

After you have updated an item under ‘Edit Item’ page, you can go ahead and publish this item to a specific Shopping cart or Marketplace. Under Product Management tab.

1. First you need to select which item/s you want to publish. The example below shows we are selecting three items.

2. Next, select which Shopping cart or Marketplace you want to publish the item. In the example below we are selecting Shopify as our shopping cart.

3. Then click on the Add icon on the right to publish. Once you are done, items can now be viewed under the Shopify 'bucket.

Import Products

If you do have a point-of-sale system or want to quickly edit items by Exporting / Importing multiple items, Import Products is a great option.

1. Click Add New Template to start .

2. Click History to select a file previously uploaded on Octopus Bridge.

3. Click Import New to import a new template after it has been created.

4. Action:

Notify- you can type in your email to get notifications if modifications are being made in the file.
Modify- click to update files.
Delete- delete existing files from the list.

POS Code Mapping

You can use POS code mapping if you want to map POS values to octopus bridge values. POS values are commonly in a coded format. For example, blk. You need to set blk into black which is more understandable for users viewing the website. You can also map multiple values at the same time using a spreadsheet format.

POS Code Upload Format: You can download the excel format by clicking on the “POS Code Upload Format” link.
Choose File: Once you have made changes in the excel format, select spreadsheet file to upload.
Click on upload after selecting file.
Select Field Name.
Replace All Value: Click to replace value after selecting Field Name.
Item per Page: Clicking this will create a drop-down box where you can select how many product items to be displayed per page.
Search: You can search specific value using the search bar.
Channel Value: Edit Channel value here.

Order Search

You can search for a specific order with the following search criteria:

Source of Order: You can select the shopping cart/marketplace from where the order was placed
Order Status: Ordered/Shipped/Declined
Order No: Specific order number of shopping cart/marketplace
Username/email address: Customer’s username or email address
Date Filters: Sort order on a specific date period
SKU: Item SKU Number

All Orders:

Order Date: The date and time when the order was downloaded

Channel Mgr Order #: Each order, when downloaded into Octopus, is given an Octopus order number. This number is also pushed to the point of sale system for reference.

Marketplace Order #: This is the order number received from your website or marketplace. The number is prefixed by the platform abbreviation for easy reference. This number is also downloaded into the point of sale system.

Customer Bill To and Customer Ship-To Details are received from the website.

Total: The total amount of the order.

Status: Depending on where the order is coming from, it would be either in Pending/Processing or Paid status. Orders coming from marketplaces are marked Paid as they are already paid for. Orders coming from websites built on Magneto/Woo/etc might be marked as Processing depending on how the website is set up.

Tracking: This feature is only applicable for Offline POSs, such as RetailPro, RMS etc. Octopus Plugin updates the Tracking Number on our system generated by the Shipping company of the Merchant. It also works for the merchants, who uses Ship Station and Ship Work integration with Octopus.

Action: When orders are downloaded from website into Octopus, all items must match with items uploaded from the POS. For example, if an ordered item has a different SKU than what was uploaded from POS, the order will NOT be downloaded. In such cases, Edit link will show. This allows you to Edit the order and fix the SKU number so that it matches with one of the existing items. After the SKU has been fixed, the order would download during the next sync cycle. Orders not showing Edit indicates that the orders have been downloaded into POS and cannot be edited.

Page Tab: You can navigate to a particular page by clicking on that particular page number.

Downloading Orders

Orders are downloaded automatically from the E-commerce platform to Octopus on a scheduled basis. You can also manually download orders from a specific E-commerce platform. Just click on the orders tab in the Shopping cart module you selected then click on the ‘Download orders from Shopify’ button.

Order Details

In order details page, you can view all the order information downloaded from the e-commerce platform to Octopus.

Order Details: Order details section contains the following information:

Order No
Order Date
Current Order Status
Billing Address
Shipping Address
Customer Contact Details

Order Summary: Order summary section contains the following information:

SKU
Identification number
Seller SKU
Description
Quantity
Unit Price
Shipping Amount
Tax
Discount
Grand Total

About Loyverse

Loyverse is a cloud-based POS (point-of-sale) mobile applications. Our tools help merchants around the world to manage their sales, inventories. This POS system facilitates retailers to manage inventory and sales orders, process transactions, and penetrate deep into their store’s analytics. With multi-store capability, Loyverse keeps inventory synchronized across all stores. The POS system enables users to create, monitor, and allocate SKUs to products as well as create variations of the product such as size, color, condition, and material using a matrix system. Loyverse various reports allow users to monitor sales and inventory and get an understanding of sales, profits, and changes over time.

Loyverse Setting Details

The Settings tab is where you enter Loyverse API details to connect Octopus with Loyverse .

To generate API token for Loyverse , login to Octopus, go to POS > Loyverse > Settings page and click on Generate Token button. It will redirect you to Loyverse website and ask for the login details. Login and authorize Octopus application. This will generate API details and automatically populate.

Please select Sync Status to Enable if you want to automatically update Octopus products from Loyverse.

Note:- You can select the Sync Status as Disable while you’re still setting it up. Please remember to go back and change to Enable after setup is completed and tested .

Loyverse Custom Rules

This is where we set up custom rules that help set up integration between Loyverse and Octopus. These settings include scheduling, style mappings, inventory management, mappings of pricing/sizes, etc.

Schedule Setting Panel –

1. Scheduler Time: This setting allows you to automatically update/upload product data from Loyverse to Octopus. Scheduler time is set by time intervals.
2. Next Time Synch: This shows the time when next synch cycle will run.
3. Last Sync Cycle: This shows when the last synch cycle ran.
4. Sync All Inventory: Check this box if you want to sync all products from the POS.
5. Pull Inventory From: Select which Inventory you want to pull from Loyverse.
6. Size Attribute Name: Color, Size, etc.

7. Save Order Source As: When an order is downloaded into Loyverse, how should it be saved.
8. Save Brand As: Select Brand or Supplier name.
9. Price: Select Price, Price with Vat, Cost, Price List price, Price list with Vat depending on the price you want to display in your E-Commerce platform.
10-12. Price Levels (Price A, Price B, and List Price): Select which price to map with different price levels.

LockDown Setting Panel: After the initial product pull from Loyverse, you can define which attributes of an item should NOT be overwritten in Octopus. This feature is useful if you are using Octopus to manage your items. Please see the image below:

Connecting Octopus to Liquor CMS

Go to https://gui.octopusbridge.com/octopus
Login using user octopus account credentials.
Once you have logged in, go to shopping carts/Liquor CMS.

Click on settings and enter the following information:

Liquor CMS API Key: Enter your Liquor CMS API key here
Liquor CMS Base URL: Enter your Liquor CMS store URL

Enable Pass-through: When setting up the configuration for the first time, this option should be set to No.

Setting No, means that any items uploaded from the POS to Octopus will remain at Channel level. These items will not be pushed to your Liquor CMS platform unless it is done manually. This is the recommended setting while configuring the system for the first time.
You also may set this to No if you have set up your POS to upload All items into Octopus, but you do not want to send All items, automatically, to your eCommerce platform. Setting this to No gives you the opportunity to make items web ready before publishing them to your website.
Once you set it to Yes, any items uploaded from the POS will automatically be pushed to your Liquor CMS platform. This is recommended only when the settings have been fully configured and tested.

Sync Status: Select Enable

Liquor CMS Product Module

In Product Management, when an Item is selected to be published to an eCommerce platform, it is first sent to the specific Shopping Cart Module (SCM). SCM for each supported shopping cart, including marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay, gives users the ability to define shopping cart specific rules.

These rules may vary based on the eCommerce platform that you are using. For example, Items being sent to Liquor CMS may have a different Product Name, Prices, and Quantity as compared to items being sent to eBay.

Whereas ‘Product Management’ module shows all the products uploaded from the POS, Liquor CMS Product module shows only those items that are actively synchronizing with Liquor CMS.

Hover your mouse to the Shopping Carts tab
Select Liquor CMS under the dropdown menu
Click on Liquor CMS products

All Liquor CMS Products

This screen shows items that have been enabled to sync with Liquor CMS and should already be in sync. To manually publish items to Liquor CMS, Select All Pages and Publish.
You can also use Check Boxes to select a specific item to publish.
Product SKU: The dot is an indicator if a product is successfully synchronizing with the website. Green means successfully added, while red means it is not successfully synced. If Red, you can use the Log files to troubleshoot.
Liquor CMS ID: When an item has been successfully set up to sync with Liquor CMS, it shows its Liquor CMS ID. If an ID is missing, it means the item is not yet synced with Liquor CMS.
Add Product to Liquor CMS: This button allows you to add products to an Liquor CMS website.
Search tab: This tab allows you to search for a specific item by entering the product SKU or keyword.
Item per Page: Clicking this will create a drop-down box where you can select how many product items to be displayed per page.

Map Brands

This option allows to ‘map’ POS Brand structure to Liquor CMS Brands so that POS brand labels are placed in the right item when loaded into Liquor CMS platform.

The left-hand side shows the POS Brand structure.
Downloaded website brands from Liquor CMS platform are shown on the right-hand side with a drop-down box.
The drop-down menu shows mapped and unmapped brands. To map additional brands, click unmapped Brands from the drop-down menu, then select which brand to map.

Download Categories

In order to make sure products are displayed in the correct product category in Liquor CMS, make sure to create your Department & Category structure in Liquor CMS first. Once created, you can Download Category structure into the Channel.

To download Liquor CMS Category:

First you need to click on the Download Category tab
Then click on the ‘Download’ button
Once you download categories it will show how many categories that are downloaded successfully.

Note: Always download categories to update Octopus every time you create/update a new category in Liquor CMS

Map Categories

When items are uploaded from a POS into Octopus, they are uploaded with POS Department & Category structure. At the Octopus level, it’s called Source Categories.

POS Category structure may or may not be the same as Liquor CMS Category structure. This option allows to ‘map’ POS category structure with Liquor CMS categories so that POS items are placed in the right category.

The left-hand side shows the POS category structure.
Department & Categories downloaded from Liquor CMS are shown on the right-hand side with a drop-down box.
The drop-down menu shows mapped and unmapped categories. To map additional categories, click unmapped categories from the drop-down menu, then select which category to map.

Map Product Attributes

Merchants using various POS systems may use any of the fields within a POS while creating items.

Map Fields option allows a merchant to map Liquor CMS product fields with their own POS product fields.
For example, Liquor CMS website Product Name (Title) can be mapped with any of the POS data fields provided in the pull-down menu.
This also provides an option DO NOT UPDATE to not send certain POS data to Liquor CMS website.
Some fields, such as, SKU and Quantity are mandatory and are automatically updated in the website.
The left-hand side shows the Liquor CMS fields. The right-hand side shows the POS fields

Note:

Sync Brands should be set to No in case of Liquor CMS websites.
Sync Brands should be set to Yes in case of a CMS Max website.
Sync Category should be set to No in case of Liquor CMS websites.
Sync Category should be set to Draft in case of CMS Max websites.

Liquor CMS Custom Rules

Under Custom Rules, Merchant can set various rules before publishing the product data into online store.

Custom Title: The Product Name can be edited and made Search Engine friendly.
Stock Rule: The quantity inserted in the box will be reduced from the Product Management stock. For example: In Product Management, if total quantity of an item is 50 and you inserted 10 in the ‘Enter Value’ field; in Liquor CMS, the quantity of the item will be shown as 40.
Out of Stock Rule: Select the Checkbox if you want to delete products from Online Store when stock reaches at ‘Zero’.
Product Status: Select the Checkbox, if you want to post your product into Liquor CMS as ‘Draft’.
Order Inclusive Tax: Select if you are posting product prices with tax included.
Order Tax After Discount: select if you are including tax in your prices.

Note: Please note that the Rule(s) set here will be applied to all the products being uploaded from Channel to Liquor CMS.

Post all products as simple: If you want to post matrix items as standard items.
Least priced item as config: Select if you want to display item/s with the lowest price.
Special Price Rule: You can select either a specific sale date or set a sale price.

Loyverse Liquor CMS Integration Manual

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