Vollstart POS Desk Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Turn any tablet or iPad into a cash register. Vollstart POS Desk is a free, self-hosted Point of Sale plugin for WordPress — no WooCommerce, no cloud subscription, no monthly fees. All your data stays in your WordPress database.
Selling
- iPad & tablet POS terminal — touch-optimized interface, 3 themes (dark, light, high contrast)
- Products & categories — prices, SKU, EAN barcodes, images, flex pricing, unit-based (weight/volume)
- Action sheets — quick-access product lists for promotions, seasonal items, or inventory checks
- Customer management — customer records with optional self-onboarding portal (/join/), purchase history and customer lists
- Barcode scanning — camera-based and hardware wedge scanner, EAN-13/EAN-8 with checksum
- Weigh tickets — scale products with decimal amounts, printed ticket with QR code
Payments
- Cash — with change calculation and optional cash drawer (WebUSB)
- Card — manual entry or Stripe/SumUp card reader (Pro)
- QR payment (SEPA/EPC) — customer scans QR with banking app, zero transaction fees
- Invoice — registered customers can buy on account (Pro)
Receipts & Reports
- Receipt printing — thermal printer compatible, auto-print option, configurable header/footer
- X-Report & Z-Report — daily close-out with cash count, opening float, cash difference
- Report delivery — Z-reports via email and/or webhook (JSON with HMAC) to accounting tools
- Transaction history — filterable DataTable with CSV export
- Dashboard — today’s revenue, sales count, average ticket, terminal status
Setup & Hardware
- Terminal management — auth token URLs, open/close register, session tracking
- Customer display — live cart view on second screen facing the customer
- PWA / App — installable on tablet or phone, works like a native POS app
- Multilingual — 11 languages included (DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, NL, PT, HU, JA, ZH)
Why Vollstart POS Desk?
- No monthly SaaS fees — Cloud POS systems charge 30-100 EUR/month. Vollstart is free, Pro is 49 EUR/year.
- No transaction fees — QR payment lets customers pay directly to your bank. Zero processing fees.
- No vendor lock-in — your data lives in your WordPress database. Export anytime.
- No WooCommerce required — no shop setup, no e-commerce overhead. Just install, add products, start selling.
Built for
- Small retail stores — ring up sales without a bulky POS system
- Event box offices — sell tickets at the door, scan barcodes, close out the night
- Repair shops — check out completed repairs and print receipts
- Pop-up shops & markets — set up in minutes on any tablet
- Food trucks, cafes & bakeries — fast checkout with favorites and quick numpad
- Butcher shops & delis — weigh products, print tickets, scan at checkout
The free version is fully functional — unlimited terminals, unlimited products, and all core POS features listed above. The Pro add-on adds the features listed below for businesses that want more.
Pro Features (49 EUR/year)
Scale your business:
- Staff PIN login (individual accountability per receipt)
- Customer purchase history in the customer portal
- Customer loyalty points
Sell smarter:
- Discounts, coupons, and loyalty points
- Custom receipt templates (Twig editor with live preview)
- Monthly and yearly analytics with charts
- Receipt via email (with optional PDF attachment)
Accept more payments:
- Stripe card reader (tap, chip, Apple Pay, Google Pay)
- SumUp card reader
- Invoice-on-account for registered customers
Advanced features:
- Inventory scanner with stock management
- Price check kiosk
- Self-service kiosk (self-checkout terminal mode)
- Scan & Go (customer scans products with phone, pays at register)
- Online orders with pickup & delivery
- Product catalog with QR codes for online shopping
- Dynamic receipt ads (rule-based promotions on receipts)
- WooCommerce POS gateway (pay WooCommerce orders at the register)
- Vollstart Wallet integration (customers save receipts digitally)
- NFC tag support
- Cash drawer (WebUSB ESC/POS)
- TSE/KassenSichV compliance (Fiskaly cloud TSE, DSFinV-K export)
- DATEV accounting export
That’s less than 5 EUR/month — a fraction of what cloud POS systems charge.
Premium features require the separate Pro add-on plugin.
Third-Party Services
This plugin optionally connects to the following external services:
Open Food Facts (EAN product lookup)
When the “EAN product lookup” option is enabled in Settings, this plugin sends the scanned EAN barcode to the Open Food Facts API (openfoodfacts.org) to retrieve product name, ingredients, and image. No personal data is transmitted. This feature is disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled by the site administrator.
- Service: Open Food Facts
- Terms: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/terms-of-use
- Privacy: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/privacy
Stripe (Pro add-on only)
The Pro add-on plugin integrates Stripe for card-reader payments (tap, chip, Apple Pay, Google Pay). The Stripe.js SDK (js.stripe.com) is loaded by the Pro add-on when a Stripe card reader is connected at the terminal. The SDK collects payment data directly in the browser and submits it to Stripe — no payment data passes through your WordPress server. Stripe handles all payment data under their own terms.
- Service: Stripe
- Terms: https://stripe.com/legal
- Privacy: https://stripe.com/privacy
Stripe Terminal (Pro add-on only)
The Pro add-on uses Stripe Terminal’s SDK (js.stripe.com/terminal/) to control physical Stripe card readers connected to the terminal computer (Wise Pad 3, etc.). The SDK runs locally in the browser and communicates directly with the card reader hardware. No card data is stored on your WordPress server.
- Service: Stripe Terminal
- Terms: https://stripe.com/legal
- Privacy: https://stripe.com/privacy
SumUp (Pro add-on only)
The Pro add-on integrates SumUp for card-reader payments. The SumUp SDK (gateway.sumup.com) is loaded by the Pro add-on when a SumUp card reader is connected at the terminal. The SDK collects payment data directly in the browser and submits it to SumUp — no payment data passes through your WordPress server. SumUp handles all payment data under their own terms.
- Service: SumUp
- Terms: https://www.sumup.com/en-us/terms/
- Privacy: https://www.sumup.com/en-us/privacy/
Vollstart Wallet (optional, free)
When the “Vollstart Wallet” option is enabled, receipts include a QR code that customers can scan with the Vollstart Wallet app. The receipt data is exposed via a public REST endpoint (only the data the merchant has chosen to publish — receipt number, items, total). The endpoint is open by design so the mobile app can read it without auth.
- Service: Vollstart Wallet
- Privacy: https://wallet.vollstart.com/privacy
Third-Party Libraries
This plugin bundles the following libraries:
- DataTables 2.3.7 — Table sorting, filtering, pagination (MIT, github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc)
- DataTables Responsive 3.0.6 — Responsive layout for DataTables (MIT, github.com/DataTables/Responsive)
- JsBarcode 3.11.6 — Barcode generation for product labels (MIT, github.com/lindell/JsBarcode)
- qrcode.js 1.0.0 — QR code generation for labels (MIT, github.com/davidshimjs/qrcodejs)
- qrcode-generator 1.4.4 — QR code generation for EPC payment and weigh tickets (MIT, github.com/kazuhikoarase/qrcode-generator)
- html5-qrcode 2.3.8 — Camera-based barcode and QR code scanning (Apache-2.0, github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode)
- Twig 3.24.0 — Template engine for receipt and label templates (BSD-3-Clause, github.com/twigphp/Twig)
Screenshots
POS Terminal — sell from any tablet with the touch-optimized dark theme
Product management — add items in seconds with price, SKU, barcode, and image
Daily close-out — reconcile cash, generate Z-report, email to accountant
Dashboard — today’s revenue at a glance, terminal status, recent sales
Weigh ticket — scale products, print QR ticket, scan at checkout
Receipt — professional receipt with business info, items, totals, QR code

