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yes!! love all this. what POS do you use? i have a chicken and egg problem with POS providers. i've had to reverse engineer the ETL to accept FTP files, making

yes!! love all this. what POS do you use? i have a chicken and egg problem with POS providers. i've had to reverse engineer the ETL to accept FTP files, making the sync generic since nobody will let me develop on their system without a customer who wants it. i've been waiting two weeks for basil to add the integration for our first customer. and about to start with ibidie for a test customer. and yes 100% on not using amazon. i was indoctrinated against them as an indie bookseller. i've even avoided using free amazon credits. the docs feedback is great. thank you!!! and square is next step after i finish shopify. i will use that to sell my books at pop-up events and it would be a great little starter system for a small bookstore. then i'll add ingram integration with ordering etc. going towards "the brains of your bookstore". sort of a newer take on POS that integrates with everything, and the basis is the inventory system.

joemi 1y ago
We use Wordstock as our POS, our website is an IndieCommerce site (I'm quite adept at pushing IC to the limits), and we list on a couple marketplaces doing manual uploads of exports from our POS that were processed by scripts I've written. The "brains of your bookstore" goal sounds great. If/when Bookhead becomes a full POS, then my store might consider switching, but until then, we've got 20+ years of history in Wordstock the product and with Wordstock the company, so Bookhead would need to be significantly better than our current system in order to be worth switching to. WS isn't perfect but we're used to it, and they've modified it in many ways as per our requests. And Jeff in their support department is the best customer support person I've ever dealt with anywhere for any reason.
- greenie_beans 1y ago
  this information is so valuable to me, thank you! > but until then, we've got 20+ years of history in Wordstock the product and with Wordstock the company, so Bookhead would need to be significantly better than our current system in order to be worth switching to. i have a hard hill to climb. but i'm glad to know there are other book-ish technologists who understand the value of this and what i'm trying to do. at the very least, i'm working towards some features that could complement what you're doing with wordstock, instead of replacing it, but it sounds like you have the skills where you wouldn't need anything like that. thank you so much for commenting. if you ever wanna work together, hit me up at sam@bookhead.net.

joemi 1y ago

We use Wordstock as our POS, our website is an IndieCommerce site (I'm quite adept at pushing IC to the limits), and we list on a couple marketplaces doing manual uploads of exports from our POS that were processed by scripts I've written. The "brains of your bookstore" goal sounds great. If/when Bookhead becomes a full POS, then my store might consider switching, but until then, we've got 20+ years of history in Wordstock the product and with Wordstock the company, so Bookhead would need to be significantly better than our current system in order to be worth switching to. WS isn't perfect but we're used to it, and they've modified it in many ways as per our requests. And Jeff in their support department is the best customer support person I've ever dealt with anywhere for any reason.

greenie_beans 1y ago
this information is so valuable to me, thank you! > but until then, we've got 20+ years of history in Wordstock the product and with Wordstock the company, so Bookhead would need to be significantly better than our current system in order to be worth switching to. i have a hard hill to climb. but i'm glad to know there are other book-ish technologists who understand the value of this and what i'm trying to do. at the very least, i'm working towards some features that could complement what you're doing with wordstock, instead of replacing it, but it sounds like you have the skills where you wouldn't need anything like that. thank you so much for commenting. if you ever wanna work together, hit me up at sam@bookhead.net.