If you sell through a network of resellers, you can publish a map on your store showing the shops that stock your products, so end consumers can find the nearest one.
Step by step
- In the side menu, go to Sales → Customers and open the customer that is a point of sale.
- On their record, find the Points of Sale block and tap Add Point of Sale.
- Fill in Name, phone and website.
- Enter the address in the address search box and pick one of the suggestions, so it gets geolocated. This is the step that matters: without a geolocated address the shop does not make it onto the map.
- Tap Save.
The shop appears on your store map, at your store address followed by /puntosdeventa.
If the Points of Sale block does not appear on the customer record, the section has not been switched on. See the section below.
A point of sale is a customer
This is what confuses people most. There is no separate "point of sale" entity. A point of sale is an address stored inside a customer record.
So if you want to publish a shop that does not buy from you and has no account, you still have to create the customer. It never has to buy anything or use the account: creating the record and loading the address is enough.
There is no "turn this customer into a point of sale" checkbox either. What puts them on the map is having at least one address loaded in the Points of Sale block.
Several shops on one customer
A customer can have as many points of sale as they need. The Add Point of Sale button adds another row, each with its own name, phone, website and address. That is what you use for a reseller with several branches.
The two ways to load them
- From the panel: under Sales → Customers, open the customer and load the address on their record, as above.
- From the customer's own account: the customer can sign in to their profile on the store and load their shop address themselves. It gets published without you doing anything.
The second option scales better: the reseller has every reason to add themselves, because the map sends end consumers their way.
Switching the section on in your store
This depends on which store version you have, and it is the only thing that differs between them.
If the button at the top right of the panel says STORE: go to Configuration → Customer registration and switch on the Point of Sale toggle. Two more fields appear below it:
- Custom Title: the section heading. Left empty, it reads "OUR RETAIL POINTS OF SALE".
- Description: the subheading. Left empty, it reads "To buy our products at retail, find the point of sale closest to your home:".
If the button says EDIT STORE: there is no toggle. Open the editor and create, under Content → Pages, a page whose URL is puntos-de-venta. With that page created, the section is active and the Points of Sale block appears on customer records. You also get a block called Store locations that you can drop into any page, the home page for instance.
How it looks on the store
It is an interactive map with a search box. The visitor types their area and finds the nearest shop. Search works by point of sale name and by address.
Removing a point of sale
You delete the row from the customer record: in the Points of Sale block, tap the red cross in the corner of that address and save. It disappears from the map.
To remove the whole section from the store, switch it off wherever you switched it on.
QR codes
VentasxMayor generates QR codes, but there is no QR per point of sale. The QR codes that exist are four, and they point to your store, not to a reseller:
- Store QR: under Configuration → General, next to the domain.
- Product QR: from the product record.
- Category QR.
- Saved catalog QR: from the catalog list in the Catalog builder.
None of these codes carries a reseller's own prices or identifies them in the system. If you want a reseller to use a QR with their own price list, the route is to build them a catalog under Catalog → Catalog builder with their list assigned, and use that catalog's QR.
Stock at a point of sale
A point of sale does not manage stock of its own. It is a contact record with an address on a map: name, phone, website and location. It neither deducts nor reports inventory.
If you cannot find it
- You do not see the Points of Sale block on the customer record: the section has not been switched on. See the section above.
- You loaded the address and it does not appear on the map: the address was not geolocated. Type it again in the search box and pick one of the suggestions instead of typing the whole thing out.
- You want to add a shop belonging to someone who is not your customer: create the customer record anyway. It is the only route.