Shiloh POS
Point-of-sale and webshop — powering Petals Bonaire.
Shiloh POS is a system I built for a friend of mine, the owner of Petals Bonaire, the flower shop.
It didn't actually start with Petals. It started a long time ago in the Netherlands, with another friend who happened to work in the flower industry. He wasn't happy with the software options for running a flower shop, while he himself worked for that kind of business. So he asked me if I could build a better system. That didn't work out then, but I'd learned a lot about the flower industry and set up certain structures.
Sometime around 2022, when I came back to Bonaire, I saw how my friend was working with his Excel lists and Google Forms. And I thought: this can be better. That's how Shiloh POS came about.
It's basically the predecessor of what Commerce is now. Everything implemented in Commerce was either tested in Shiloh POS, or flagged as something it was missing. So Commerce is a more complete application, but Shiloh POS is enough to run a whole business on.
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Shiloh POS has a system to process orders and a webshop. If you go to petalsbonaire.com, that's Shiloh POS. Staff work in an admin panel where they can process orders, with various order statuses you can manage yourself and that determine which actions get triggered.
Almost everything can be managed in the application itself. If something needs to change often, I build a way for the user to do it themselves. Personal empowerment, you could say.
What's unique about Shiloh POS: it's a web application, but it has a direct connection to Petals' network. That lets it drive printers. This is important for Petals, because flowers come with a label with text for the recipient. We can print those directly via Shiloh POS on the label printer in the shop. Before this it was a whole hassle of copy-paste, opening the right application, pasting, sending, waiting, bluetooth connection. Now it just works.
What makes this possible is Shiloh Hub, the server that bridges the web application and the local printers.
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