Storefront
The storefront is the customer-facing catalog side. It shows items that the business has decided to make visible online and lets customers send an order request.
Simple meaning: this is the public product listing page, not the cashier POS screen.
What it does
Main job
- Show only products that are marked visible for storefront.
- Let the customer pick a store.
- Show only items that the selected store can actually supply.
- Create a sales order request instead of a finished POS sale.
- Payment is not taken on the public storefront page. Staff records payment later on the Sales Orders page when fulfilling the order.
Simple example
Example
A customer opens the catalog, selects North Care Branch, and sees only the products available for that branch. They send an order request. Staff later handles that request from the Sales Orders page.
Important rules
Plain rules
- If a product is hidden for storefront, customers do not see it.
- If the selected store does not have enough stock, the order should be blocked.
- Storefront ordering creates a sales order request, not an immediate drawer sale.