What iVendNext offers a grocery chain

Grocery and supermarkets · checked 2026-11-09

This page lists what a grocery chain can use in iVendNext today. The format is Grocery and supermarkets: a chain of supermarkets, from convenience and express stores to hypermarkets, with fresh food that carries a date and a weight. Every supermarket runs the same till, the iVendNext POS at /pos, at the lane, on a tablet or on a phone. The receiver and the stock officer work on iVendNext Handheld, and head office works in iVendNext Desk.

Every part below is in the till, in iVendNext Desk or Handheld, in the App library or a connector from iVendNext today. Each part says who uses it, what it rests on and where you can have it. To set the parts up, follow Setting up a supermarket. For the apps a supermarket turns on, see Grocery on iVendNext.

What you get in a grocery chain

What the chain needs	Who uses it	What it rests on	Where you can have it
The scan, and produce by PLU	Cashier	The till scans a barcode, or finds an item by its code or name. A weighed item, such as produce sold by PLU, opens the scale screen, where the net weight goes in. Typing the weight by hand needs the manual-weight permission, which a manager grants. An item that is both weighed and sold by lot sells at the quantity the cashier types. See Scanning and searching and Selling Tracked Items.	The till, in every country.
A pack labeled with its price and weight, rung at the label's total	Cashier	A Barcode Mask reads the label your scale prints: the item, and the price, the weight or both. A label that carries a price rings at the label's total on a sale, and a whole return or exchange of that sale takes the same total. A label that carries a weight sets the line's quantity. A label that carries a price needs a connection to the store's system, and the till says so offline.	The till and iVendNext Desk, in every country.
The deli counter's own label	Deli clerk, cashier	The deli clerk types the pack's weight, which needs the manual-weight permission, and the till prints a label that carries the price for that weight. The cashier scans the label at the lane, and it rings at its total.	The till, in every country.
The lot that expires first, sold first	Cashier, receiver, store manager	The till's lot choice on the till profile: Suggest or Enforce first expiry, a manager and a reason for any other lot, and a minimum of days left on a lot, which warns or refuses. The till proposes the lot offline too; choosing another lot by hand needs a connection. The lot a cashier sells prints on the receipt, with its expiry date where the till profile asks for it, and a lot close to its date shows N days left when the cashier searches for the item. See POS Profile and Selling Tracked Items.	The till, in every country.
A recalled lot stopped	Head office, cashier, receiver	Expiry and recall: one press blocks the lot at every online till, shows each store's stock of it and lists the customers it was sold to. The till keeps a recalled lot out of the lot pick, and a stock entry that moves a recalled lot out is refused, except into a quarantine store, as a Material Issue or back to the supplier. A delivery with too little shelf life left is refused at goods-in.	App library, free, in every country. Its service runs on CitiXsys hosting in the United States.
Short-dated stock marked down	Stock officer, store manager	Expiry markdown: you give each item group its steps, such as 25% off from 5 days before the date. One press a day gives each lot inside a step its own lower price, and the till rings it. While any lot has a price of its own, the till does not sell lot items offline.	App library, free, in every country. Its service runs on CitiXsys hosting in the United States.
Beer, wine and tobacco age-checked at the lane	Cashier	Age-restricted sale check: you set the age on each item group. When the cashier scans an item with an age limit, the till shows the latest date of birth that may buy, for the cashier to compare with the customer's ID. The sale records that the check was made, and Pay is refused for a line that has no check. Offline, the sale goes through and is flagged.	App library, free, in every country. Its service runs on CitiXsys hosting in the United States.
Promotions, loyalty and coupons	Cashier, head office	The till's promotions: a price rule, a multi-buy such as 2 for $5, buy X get Y, a percent or an amount off, and a fixed price for a set. Loyalty points earned and spent at the till, with the member's balance in view during the sale, come from iVendNext Loyalty. Your own coupons can add rules with Coupon rules. See Promotions, Coupons and Discounts.	The till, in every country. iVendNext Loyalty comes with a key from iVendNext. Coupon rules: App library, free, in every country.
Returns	Cashier, store manager	The till takes a return with the receipt, including part of a weighed line, and a return without one with a manager. A labeled pack returns whole, with its receipt, at the total it rang; a part return is priced at the item's rate for the quantity returned. See Returning With a Receipt and Returning Without a Receipt.	The till, in every country.
The price checker, and Where is it?	Customer, cashier, floor staff	Price-checker kiosk: a tablet on the floor where a customer scans an item and sees its name, picture and price. Bin locations: you record the aisles and bins of a store, and the till's Where is it? key tells the cashier which bin each item is in. Where is it? is on the tills and tablets of every store with a till theme, not on phones.	App library, free, in every country. Their services run on CitiXsys hosting in the United States.
Click and collect	Store staff	Click and collect: the web orders a store must pick, and who collected each one. See Click and Collect.	App library, free, in every country.
Transfers, counts and write-offs	Receiver, stock officer, store manager	iVendNext Handheld: receive goods against an order, move stock between stores in three steps, take stock out for damage or shrinkage, and count stock by barcode, on a rugged handheld or a phone. Posting needs a connection.	iVendNext Handheld comes with a key from iVendNext.
Sales tax in each store	Cashier, accountant	An Item Tax Template on each store's warehouse, at that store's rate, and a template at no tax on the item groups your state exempts. The till reads the template and posts the tax line by line. See Important Retail Settings.	The till and Desk, in every country.
Your web store	Head office	The WooCommerce connection: products, prices and stock go to the web store, and paid web orders, payments and refunds come back. See Connections.	Comes with a key from iVendNext, in every country.
The chain's own ERP	Head office	Connectors to SAP Business One, SAP S/4HANA, Acumatica, NetSuite and Sage X3.	Every country. Each connector comes with a key from iVendNext. Any other ERP is connected by a partner or your own developers.

The age check and expiry markdown each count dates in one time zone for the whole site.

What a partner or your own team adds

An iVendNext partner in your region, or your own developers, sets up and extends what these parts do not cover. Examples are your chain's own labels and slips, extra reports, and links to systems not listed above. They can copy the apps and change them. See How to customize.

For the order a supermarket is set up in, see Setting up a supermarket.