Flower Store In a Box has limited integration with Vend Point of Sale System.
You can:
Link Vend Customers with your website / dashboard customer
Link your Vend Products with your website dashboard customers.
To setup the link between Vend and your dashboard you will require the following:
Your Vend Handle will be the first part of the URL for your vend access IE:
To find or generate an API key:
Next go to your Flower Store In a Box Dashboard and go to the Vend Settings:
Settings :: Vend Settings
Copy your Vend Handle and Vend Token and then click the button Update vend Settings.
Let the page save and then choose the following:
Register
This is the name of the register in Vend. If you want you can also create a new register in vend called Website and link here.
User
Choose the user that any changes will be allocated to in vend, you can also create a generic user and call it Website.
Tax
Choose the Tax type for your business
Payment Type
This is the type if payment that will be generated by the dashboard (not yet supported) when an order is shared from the dashboard to vend.
Generic Product For Web Sales
When an order is generated in the dashboard and sent to Vend it will use a generic product rather than the exact product in Vend or your dashboard. Create a Generic Product in your dashboard catalogue and then choose this product here.
Push Products to Vend
This will depend on how you want to set up the Vend Integration, see below.
Once done save the settings and you are ready to link your customers and products.
There are two ways to manage your Vend / Dashboard Products:
If you create all of your products in Vend and wish to continue to do so then you will “link” or “add” your vend products to your dashboard products. See below.
This is not really recommended unless as there are more criteria in the dashboard than in Vend.
This is the recommended way of managing the integration between Vend and Flower Store In a Box
To Push a product from your website to Vend go to:
Products :: View Products
Scroll to the bottom of the category list and then click the button Vend
A list of all your products will be displayed where you can either link to an existing product in Vend or Add as a new product in Vend.
If the product name already exists in Vend you will get an error if you try to add it again. Instead you can link the product instead.
To Push a product from Vend go to:
Products :: View Products
Scroll to the bottom of the category list and then click the button Vend
A list of your products in Vend will be shown with a drop down of your website products.
Choose a product from the list and click the button Link.
When a product is linked to vend you will see a green Vend icon under the image on the
There are two options for you to integrate your customers with Vend. The first is you can link existing website customers to existing customers in Vend.
Or you can add a website customer to Vend.
To link existing customers simply edit the customer in your dashboard and then choose the corresponding customer in vend from the drop down list and save.
View the customer in the dashboard and in the left hand menu choose the option:
Add to Vend
The customer will now be added to Vend.
Added: 2019-11-15 and last modified: 2019-11-15