Integration with POS and online payment platforms

Purpose

1.1. Automate financial data capture, reconciliation, and reporting across POS and online payment systems in aquarium attractions for error-free, real-time insights.
1.2. Facilitate automated syncing of transactions, automate sales aggregation, and automate revenue tracking from ticketing counters and online portals.
1.3. Ensure consistent data between front-of-house (POS terminals), mobile ticketing, online booking, and e-commerce payments by deploying automation across touchpoints.
1.4. Automates analytics pulls, ledger updates, refund reconciliations, and tax compliance reporting for accounting operations in aquariums.
1.5. Drive efficiency by automating data entry to ERP, auto-notifying staff of discrepancies, and automating export to central dashboards.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automated transaction creation via POS terminals or online gateways (sale, refund, adjustment).
2.2. Automated end-of-day batch settlement by payment processors.
2.3. New sale or refund entry triggers automating reconciliation workflows.
2.4. Scheduled imports/exports for automating financial closing operations.
2.5. Automated alerts on mismatched manual versus automated transaction logs.

Platform Variants

3.1. Square POS
• Feature/Setting: Automate transactions export using Square API ("ListTransactions"), auto-pull sales data to financial reporting tools.
3.2. Shopify POS
• Feature/Setting: Use Shopify Admin API ("orders/paid"), automating syncing of sales and payment records to CRM.
3.3. Lightspeed POS
• Feature/Setting: Lightspeed Retail API ("GET sales endpoint"), automating sales record push to accounting systems.
3.4. Clover POS
• Feature/Setting: REST API ("Retrieve Payments"), automate extraction of daily payment data for reconciliation.
3.5. Toast POS
• Feature/Setting: Toast Partner API ("PaymentDetails"), automating synchronized transaction logs to ERP.
3.6. Vend (now Lightspeed)
• Feature/Setting: API ("GET Registers Sales"), automates daily automated summarization for reporting.
3.7. Verifone
• Feature/Setting: Verifone Cloud Services API for automating real-time payment event notifications.
3.8. Stripe
• Feature/Setting: Stripe API ("GET /v1/charges"), automate automated payment pulls for ticketing and membership integrations.
3.9. PayPal
• Feature/Setting: PayPal REST ("list-transactions"), automate exporting completed sales/refunds for backend accounting.
3.10. Adyen
• Feature/Setting: Adyen API ("/payments/details"), automates online gateway-to-dashboard automation.
3.11. Worldpay
• Feature/Setting: Worldpay Business Manager API ("order inquiry"), automate scheduled automated reporting of all processed payments.
3.12. Elavon
• Feature/Setting: Elavon Reporting API for automating daily transaction summaries.
3.13. Braintree
• Feature/Setting: Braintree Transactions API ("transaction.search"), automate reconciliation of online payments/refunds.
3.14. SumUp
• Feature/Setting: SumUp API ("/v0.1/me/transactions"), automate pulling mobile POS sales to financial systems.
3.15. Sage Pay (Opayo)
• Feature/Setting: Opayo Reporting API for automated transaction history exports.
3.16. Authorize.Net
• Feature/Setting: Transaction Reporting API ("getTransactionList"), automate integration with general ledger.
3.17. QuickBooks POS
• Feature/Setting: QuickBooks API ("/salesReceipts"), automate automating sales capture for bookkeeping.
3.18. Revel Systems
• Feature/Setting: Revel API ("GET Sales"), automates daily automated export to cloud-based ledgers.
3.19. Fiserv/First Data
• Feature/Setting: Fiserv Gateway API ("TransactionSearch"), automate extracting transaction records for comparison.
3.20. Ingenico
• Feature/Setting: Ingenico ePayments Reporting API, automate aggregating both POS and web-based payment events.
3.21. Sage Intacct
• Feature/Setting: Intacct API ("get_ap_payments"), automate synchronized payment reconciliation automation.
3.22. Square Online
• Feature/Setting: E-commerce API ("ListOrders"), automates syncing online ticket/webshop sales to financial workflows.

Benefits

4.1. Automating reconciliation eliminates human entry errors and speeds up reporting.
4.2. Automated financial consolidation simplifies compliance and audit trails.
4.3. Automation allows instant visibility into multi-channel sales and refunds.
4.4. Automating notifications proactively flags mismatches or potential fraud.
4.5. Automates the export of ready-made files for accountants or BI dashboards.
4.6. Scalable automation supports high visitor volume and reduces manual workload in busy aquarium environments.
4.7. Automated attribute mapping ensures rich, structured data for analytics.