Accounting

Cin7 Core on Oliver POS

Cin7 Core (formerly DEAR Systems) receives Oliver POS counter sales through the WooCommerce + Cin7 Core integration — inventory-and-accounting platform with in-store sales unified to one ledger.

How Cin7 Core works with Oliver POS for WooCommerce

Cin7 Core (the rebranded DEAR Systems) is the inventory-management and accounting platform popular with growing retailers, manufacturers, and wholesalers. Its native WooCommerce integration syncs orders, customers, products, and stock movements. Oliver POS writes register sales into WooCommerce, Cin7 Core picks them up, and the inventory + accounting reporting reflects in-store activity in real time.

What Cin7 Core pulls from WooCommerce

The native Cin7 Core + WooCommerce integration syncs orders as Cin7 Core sales orders or invoices, customers as Cin7 Core customers, products as Cin7 Core items, and stock movements both ways. Cin7 Core then handles the journal entry (either in its native accounting module or by pushing to QuickBooks Online or Xero, depending on the deployment), inventory deductions, and BOM rollups for manufacturer-retailers.

Oliver POS sales become WooCommerce orders; Cin7 Core picks them up identically to online orders.

Why in-store sales matter on the Cin7 Core ledger

Cin7 Core customers usually pick it because they outgrew QuickBooks-only or Xero-only inventory and need a proper inventory engine that still talks to their accounting platform. The value of Cin7 Core is having one source of truth for stock and accounting; a disconnected POS undermines both.

Oliver POS on WooCommerce gives Cin7 Core a clean retail feed. In-store sales decrement Cin7 Core inventory in the right warehouse, post the right journal entry, and flow through to the downstream accounting platform if QuickBooks or Xero is the underlying ledger.

How the WooCommerce + Oliver + Cin7 Core sync works

Cashier rings the sale on Oliver POS, captures the customer, tenders. Oliver writes a WooCommerce order. Cin7 Core's WooCommerce integration posts a sales order with line items, customer, warehouse, and tax codes; Cin7 Core Accounting posts the journal entry (or pushes it to the configured QuickBooks/Xero ledger); inventory deducts from the mapped warehouse.

Best fit for retailers who…

Cin7 Core on Oliver POS suits growing retailers that outgrew their original accounting-platform-only setup — brands with multiple warehouses, manufacturer-retailers needing BOM and assembly, and wholesalers selling both DTC and B2B. The WooCommerce + Oliver POS pairing keeps the Cin7 Core architecture intact while modernising the register.

What you get and how to set it up

Features Oliver surfaces from the Cin7 Core plugin, plus the 4-step install most merchants run through.

Features at the register

  • In-store sales flow into Cin7 Core the moment a register sale closes
  • Online and in-store revenue land on one P&L, one tax-liability account, and one set of books
  • Per-tax-code splits (GST/HST, VAT, sales tax) handled by the Cin7 Core WooCommerce connector
  • Refunds and voids posted back to the original invoice or journal entry
  • Payment-method totals match the bank-feed deposits used for reconciliation
  • Same Cin7 Core subscription, same chart of accounts, and same workflow as your online store

Setup in 4 steps

  1. Install the Cin7 Core (DEAR) + WooCommerce integration on your WooCommerce site and connect your Cin7 Core account
  2. Map the WooCommerce sales, tax, COGS, and payment-method accounts to your Cin7 Core chart of accounts
  3. Install Oliver POS, sign in to the register, and confirm the customer-capture prompt is enabled at checkout
  4. Run a small live test sale at the counter and confirm the invoice, journal entry, or sales receipt appears in Cin7 Core with the right totals and tax splits

Common questions about Cin7 Core on Oliver POS

Does Cin7 Core push Oliver POS sales through to QuickBooks or Xero?

Yes, if your Cin7 Core deployment uses QuickBooks Online or Xero as the underlying GL. Cin7 Core posts the journal entry to the configured accounting platform; Oliver POS sales follow the same path because they arrive in Cin7 Core through the WooCommerce sync.

Will Cin7 Core BOM and assembly handling work for Oliver POS sales of kitted products?

Yes. Cin7 Core treats a sales order with a BOM the same way regardless of source. Oliver POS sales of kitted SKUs trigger the same component deduction as an online order of the same SKU.

Does Oliver POS have a partnership with Cin7 Core?

No. Oliver doesn't partner with Cin7 Core or any other accounting platform. We support Cin7 Core because its WooCommerce connector already pulls orders, refunds, taxes, and customers from your store — and Oliver writes every in-store sale into WooCommerce as a standard order, so the same connector picks it up automatically. Your accounting subscription, your ledger, and your contract stay between you and Cin7 Core.

Does Oliver charge extra to use Cin7 Core?

No. You pay Cin7 Core's standard published pricing directly to Cin7 Core. Oliver doesn't take a markup, doesn't insert itself into the data flow, and doesn't charge a per-transaction or per-journal-entry fee on top.

Do register sales from Oliver POS reach Cin7 Core?

Yes. Every Oliver POS sale is written to WooCommerce as a standard order with the customer, line items, taxes, and payment method attached. The Cin7 Core WooCommerce connector treats that order the same way it treats an online order: it posts the same invoice, journal entry, or sales receipt, with the same tax splits and the same customer record. There's no separate "POS sync" to configure.

How fast does a register sale reach Cin7 Core?

It depends on the Cin7 Core connector's sync mode. Connectors that push per-order (most Cin7 Core integrations support this) post the invoice or sales receipt into Cin7 Core within seconds of the cashier closing the sale. Connectors set to a daily summary post a single end-of-day journal entry with per-tax, per-payment-method, and per-outlet splits. Either way, no manual entry is required.

Will my in-store and online sales reconcile against one set of books in Cin7 Core?

Yes. Oliver POS writes register sales into the same WooCommerce store that powers your online checkout, so by the time orders reach the Cin7 Core WooCommerce connector they're already a unified order stream. Cin7 Core sees one revenue feed, one tax-liability total, and one customer ledger — no manual reconciliation between an online and an in-store set of books.

Read our full guide to Cin7 Core on Oliver POS

A long-form walkthrough of running Cin7 Core alongside the Oliver POS register on a WooCommerce store.