Setting up a hardware store

Hardware and DIY · checked 2026-10-24

This guide takes a hardware store from the first conversation to a live store. An iVendNext partner in your region usually runs these steps with you. A team with its own developers can run them itself. iVendNext gives the product, the apps and a guide at every step.

Check the fit

Put your own list of requirements against the apps in Hardware and DIY on iVendNext. What the till and the apps meet unchanged is ready. The rest is set-up or an extension.

Set up the stores

Set up stores, warehouses and yards, tills and their profiles, users and roles, and the price lists for retail and for trade.

Link your ERP and web store

iVendNext connects to SAP Business One, SAP S/4HANA, Acumatica, NetSuite and Sage X3, and to WooCommerce for your web store. Any other ERP, including a regional one, your partner connects with the partner kit. Purchasing and goods-in can stay in the ERP. For Acumatica and WooCommerce, see the Integration Core guide.

Load the range

Load items and their variants, each item's units and pack sizes, the items sold by length or weight, your project kits, and lots for paints and sealants.

Install the apps

Install the apps your stores need: Bin locations, the trade counter's rules (Customers by store and Payment method rules), the Price-checker kiosk, Warranty terms and Click and collect.

Set up the counter hardware

Put scanners, cash drawers, receipt printers and pole displays at each counter (see Counter hardware). Give goods-in and counts a handheld, and each price checker a tablet.

Train your staff and go live

Go live store by store: cashiers at the counter, staff on the floor and in the yard, the stock team and the back office.

Day to day

Your partner supports what it delivers. iVendNext supports the product. The daily work at the till is in iVendNext POS, starting with Starting your day.