Tilo is a till (point of sale) for shops, cafés, restaurants and bars. It runs on an iPad, iPhone, Android phone or tablet, or in a browser. One till is free, for good.
One stock for the website and the counter
- The till sells the products in your WooCommerce shop: names, sizes and colours, prices, barcodes, pictures and stock.
- Every paid sale at the till goes to WooCommerce as an order and comes off WooCommerce’s stock, so the website and the counter never sell the same last item twice.
- WooCommerce coupons are taken at the till.
- Orders placed online to collect in the shop are listed on the till, marked ready, handed over and signed for.
Which shops have it, on your product pages
Under “Add to basket”, each product page can show which of your shops have it, with their addresses: “In stock”, “Only a few left” or “Out of stock”, or how many, as you choose. On a product with sizes or colours it changes as the customer picks one. Google is told too, with each shop as a place the product is available, which helps it show in “near me” searches.
Put it under “Add to basket” on every product page, or place it yourself with [tilo_stock] on a product page or [tilo_stock id="123"] anywhere.
Loyalty points in the shop too
If your website runs a loyalty plugin, customers earn points in it for what they buy at the till, and can spend them there as money off. The till shows their balance. A return takes earned points back and gives spent ones back. Customers are matched by their email address or phone number. Works with WooCommerce Points and Rewards, YITH WooCommerce Points and Rewards, WPLoyalty, Points and Rewards for WooCommerce and myCred. Points follow your loyalty plugin’s own rates where it has them; otherwise you set, on the Tilo POS page, how many points each £1 earns and how many points take £1 off. Switched on in Tilo, under Integrations, WooCommerce, At the till.
Selling
- Card payments on a card terminal connected to the till.
- Cash, split payments, deposits, returns and exchanges, gift cards and loyalty points.
- Keeps selling when the internet goes down, and sends the sales when it is back.
- Receipt printers, cash drawers, barcode scanners and a customer-facing display.
- Several shops and tills, each with its own stock, staff and PINs.
- Tables, bills and kitchen screens for cafés and restaurants.
- In English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese.
Free to start
One till is free for good, with no card needed. Paid plans add more tills and shops; see pricing.
External service
This plugin uses Tilo (https://mytilo.co), a service run by Backroom Studio Ltd.
- Connecting. When you choose Connect to Tilo, WooCommerce asks you to approve Tilo and gives it a REST API key for your shop. Tilo uses the key to read your products and coupons and to create orders for till sales. The plugin itself stores no key.
- Shop stock on product pages. Only after you paste a code from Tilo on the plugin’s page: when a product page is shown, your site’s server sends Tilo that code and the product’s SKUs, and Tilo answers with your shops’ names and addresses and whether each has the product. The answer is kept on your site for five minutes. Nothing about your customers is sent, and shoppers’ browsers never contact Tilo.
See Tilo’s terms and privacy policy.