Small-town merchant built his own B2B point-of-sale app with AI

Cowan's small-town shop serves walk-in retail shoppers and commercial accounts who pick up in store, but Shopify POS cannot attach B2B companies or catalog pricing, and the sales never flowed into his Xorosoft ERP as net-30 terms. Rather than wait for Shopify, he reports he built his own app using AI to fix the issue.

How it works

Built a custom app using AI to bridge Shopify POS with B2B company records, catalog pricing and ERP billing

Why it’s worth knowing

A small-town shop owner with both walk-in retail and commercial accounts shipped his own point-of-sale app because Shopify's could not tell the two apart.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on community.shopify.com. See the original ↗

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