Pennylane on Oliver POS
Pennylane invoices and customers update with Oliver POS counter sales through the WooCommerce + Pennylane connector — French accounting and bookkeeping with in-store revenue baked in.
How Pennylane works with Oliver POS for WooCommerce
Pennylane is the fast-growing French cloud accounting platform combining bookkeeping, invoicing, and accountant collaboration. Its WooCommerce integration posts orders as Pennylane invoices and customers as Pennylane third parties. Oliver POS writes register sales into WooCommerce, Pennylane picks them up — TVA returns, FEC exports, and accountant reviews reflect the unified online + in-store revenue.
What Pennylane pulls from WooCommerce
The Pennylane WooCommerce integration syncs WooCommerce orders into Pennylane as invoices (factures), customers as Pennylane third parties (tiers), and refunds as credit notes (avoirs). Pennylane handles French TVA codes, FEC export for the tax administration, and the standard French accountant collaboration workflow.
Oliver POS register sales become WooCommerce orders; the Pennylane connector treats them identically to online orders.
Why in-store sales matter on the Pennylane ledger
Pennylane is built for the French SMB market where accountant collaboration is a core requirement — the "expert-comptable" reviews and validates the books on a regular schedule. The value of Pennylane is in being the unified ledger the expert-comptable works from. A POS that doesn't feed Pennylane forces the expert-comptable to reconcile two sources, which defeats the purpose.
Oliver POS on WooCommerce keeps the Pennylane ledger whole. Counter sales become Pennylane invoices with the right TVA codes; the expert-comptable sees one stream; the FEC export is correct.
How the WooCommerce + Oliver + Pennylane sync works
Cashier rings the sale on Oliver POS, captures the customer, tenders. Oliver writes a WooCommerce order with TVA applied. The Pennylane connector creates or matches a Pennylane tier, posts a facture with line items and TVA codes, and records the payment against the configured Pennylane bank account.
Best fit for retailers who…
Pennylane on Oliver POS suits French SMB retailers — boutiques, specialty food, micro-roasteries, and indie shops — particularly those whose expert-comptable has standardised on Pennylane for client collaboration.
What you get and how to set it up
Features Oliver surfaces from the Pennylane plugin, plus the 4-step install most merchants run through.
Features at the register
- In-store sales flow into Pennylane 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 Pennylane 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 Pennylane subscription, same chart of accounts, and same workflow as your online store
Setup in 4 steps
- Install the Pennylane WooCommerce connector on your WooCommerce site and connect your Pennylane account
- Map the WooCommerce sales, tax, COGS, and payment-method accounts to your Pennylane chart of accounts
- Install Oliver POS, sign in to the register, and confirm the customer-capture prompt is enabled at checkout
- Run a small live test sale at the counter and confirm the invoice, journal entry, or sales receipt appears in Pennylane with the right totals and tax splits
Common questions about Pennylane on Oliver POS
Does Pennylane produce a compliant FEC export with Oliver POS sales included?
Yes. Pennylane's FEC export pulls from the unified Pennylane ledger. Oliver POS sales become WooCommerce orders, the connector posts them as Pennylane invoices with the right TVA and account mappings, and the FEC export covers them automatically.
Is Pennylane compatible with French anti-fraud POS regulations (loi anti-fraude TVA)?
Oliver POS is itself the certified register; Pennylane is the downstream accounting. The Oliver POS register satisfies the anti-fraude requirements at the point of sale, and Pennylane receives the resulting WooCommerce order through its connector.
Does Oliver POS have a partnership with Pennylane?
No. Oliver doesn't partner with Pennylane or any other accounting platform. We support Pennylane 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 Pennylane.
Does Oliver charge extra to use Pennylane?
No. You pay Pennylane's standard published pricing directly to Pennylane. 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 Pennylane?
Yes. Every Oliver POS sale is written to WooCommerce as a standard order with the customer, line items, taxes, and payment method attached. The Pennylane 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 Pennylane?
It depends on the Pennylane connector's sync mode. Connectors that push per-order (most Pennylane integrations support this) post the invoice or sales receipt into Pennylane 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 Pennylane?
Yes. Oliver POS writes register sales into the same WooCommerce store that powers your online checkout, so by the time orders reach the Pennylane WooCommerce connector they're already a unified order stream. Pennylane 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 Pennylane on Oliver POS
A long-form walkthrough of running Pennylane alongside the Oliver POS register on a WooCommerce store.