Sales & POS
However the money
comes in
A secure checkout on your own site, a way to take payment in the shop or at a book fair, and invoices for the institutions who will not pay any other way. All three post to the same inventory and the same reports.
Three ways to be paid
Online, in person, or billed
The same stock, the same customers and the same totals, whichever way the sale happens.
Every Bibliopolis site ships with a secure checkout. Cards, PayPal, coupons, gift cards, multi-state tax and shipping, with no separate gateway sign-up to get through first.
See website featuresTake a payment in front of the customer, or raise an invoice for a library that pays in ninety days. Both take the book out of stock everywhere and land in the same sales history.
Request a DemoTaking it in person
Take payment wherever you are
The point of sale runs in a browser. Whatever you carried to the fair will run it. Take the payment by card or record it as cash, split it across two tender types if that is what happens, and print or email the receipt.
The book comes out of stock the moment the sale is taken, which means it comes off your website and your marketplaces too. Selling the same copy twice at a fair is a solved problem.
Billing
Invoices for the buyers who need one
Institutions, dealers and regulars often cannot pay at the point of sale. Raise an invoice against the customer record, send it, and track what is open and what is overdue without keeping a second ledger in a spreadsheet.
A paid invoice posts to the same sales history as everything else, so the year-end total includes the university that paid in March for books they took in January.
Processors
Bring your own merchant account
Connect the processor you already use and the money goes where it always went. We never sit between you and your funds, and switching processor later does not mean rebuilding your checkout.
The serious part
Where the money is concerned
Payment infrastructure is not a place to cut corners. Ours has been through decades of real transactions, real chargebacks and real fraud attempts.
PCI-DSS Level 1
The highest tier of card-data security certification, independently audited. Card numbers never touch your server, and they never touch ours in a form anyone could use.
Screened before it settles
3-D Secure and your processor's own fraud screening flag a risky transaction before it settles rather than after you have posted the book.
Refunds without a phone call
Full and partial refunds, voids and cancellations are handled from the order itself. A refund on a website order is one action, not a session with your processor's dashboard.
Included
Everything on the money side
All of it comes with a Bibliopolis website, and the point of sale works on its own if you do not want one.
After the money
A sale is the start of the paperwork, not the end
Whatever way the payment came in, what follows is the same: get the book to the buyer, and have the sale show up in the right place at the end of the year.
We will set you up with a demo login so you can take a test payment, record an in-person sale and raise an invoice, and see where all three end up.