Combined Reporting: SAP + POS Systems
How do you get one set of numbers you can trust? askotter reads SAP and POS Systems together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does combined reporting with SAP and POS Systems work for a small business?
askotter reads SAP and POS Systems side by side so it can combine your accounts into one clean report you can ask questions of. One report covering every connected account, cleaned up and answerable by text.
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- From SAP
- Financial accounting, Inventory and materials management, Production planning.
- From POS Systems
- Transaction data, Product-level sales, Customer identification.
- Status
- POS Systems is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing SAP or POS Systems. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
How do you get one set of numbers you can trust?
GA4 says one thing, Stripe says another, and your booking system disagrees with both. Matching them by hand takes hours, and the answer is still fuzzy.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads SAP and POS Systems side by side, so it can combine your accounts into one clean report you can ask questions of.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our digital marketing services work.
How SAP and POS Systems records line up
SAP and POS Systems both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Shared between the two: the customer email address.
What combined reporting uses from each
Combined reporting needs a shared identifier or a shared time grain.
From SAP that means sales order numbers and customer accounts. From POS Systems it means receipt emails and loyalty phone numbers.
POS Systems is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
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SAP on its own
SAP holds the booked order, the invoice and the customer master. It has no record of the marketing that produced the order.
Timing. SAP data usually reaches outside systems in scheduled extracts, so it runs as current as the extract schedule your ERP team sets.
Access. Read-only OData services or scheduled exports set up with your ERP team.
POS Systems on its own
A POS sees the sale at the counter. It only knows who bought when the customer gave a phone number or email for a receipt or loyalty account.
Timing. Many POS systems settle and export transactions in end-of-day batches.
Access. The POS vendor's API where one exists, or a daily export.
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