How to Automate ClearTEQ POS

The till is where a specialty shop keeps its whole catalogue

ClearTEQ POS is a cloud point of sale and payments system from Auto-Star Compusystems, built for small and medium independent retail: convenience and liquor stores, garden centres, pet shops, beauty supply, gift shops, wine stores, and tea and coffee sellers.

A shop like that has an awkward catalogue. A loose-leaf counter carries a first-flush Darjeeling, a house breakfast blend, and that same blend again in a 50g tin, a 100g tin and a sampler box, each with its own barcode and its own margin. The register has to hold all of it and let a weekend assistant find it without asking.

So the till stops being a till. It is the product file, the price list, the customer record and the day's numbers at once, and in a shop with three staff there is nothing underneath it. Whatever is not in ClearTEQ is on a clipboard by the kettle.

Reordering a blend starts with an importer's login

Selling across the counter is the part that looks after itself. The week that builds up behind it is a set of small errands, each on a different website, each needing a password.

The importer publishes what has landed from this season's harvest, and the good lots go quickly. The packaging supplier holds the tins and the kraft pouches, and its lead time moves without announcement. A wholesale account, the cafe down the road that takes four kilos a month, has quietly stopped ordering, and nothing in the shop is watching for an absence.

Then the events. A tasting is booked through a ticketing page that lives nowhere near the register, so the seat list and the customer list are two different lists. A subscription box renews on a date held by the payment provider. A competitor two towns over posts a price on the same single-origin.

None of it is difficult. All of it means opening a browser, signing in, and writing down what the screen said.

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New-season lots ordered while they last Importer availability read against the shop's own movers, so the order goes in the week the lot lands rather than after it sells out.

Lead times attached to the reorder point Packaging and tin lead times checked on the supplier's own site, so stock is ordered on the supplier's clock, not the shelf's.

Quiet wholesale accounts named The cafe that ordered every month until March comes back as a name to call, rather than a gap nobody in the shop is watching for.

Stock alerts only know what crossed the counter

ClearTEQ covers the shop floor properly, and a retailer using it only to take payments has left most of it switched off.

Inventory Management gives real-time insight into stock levels and reordering needs, so a blend running down is visible before the shelf is bare. Discounts & Promotions builds discounts, bundles and BOGO offers in a few clicks, with Advanced Rules for multi-item promotions, which is how a sampler set or a tin-and-strainer bundle gets priced. Reporting & Analytics gives real-time sales, staff and trend figures with a Dashboard view, Customer History holds purchase history and preferences against the regular who always takes the same oolong, and QuickFlip pulls a product straight into the cart during the busy hour.

Every one of those is built on transactions the terminal recorded and products somebody already entered.

That is the wall. A reorder point knows the shop has four tins left. It does not know that the importer's new-season lot went live on Tuesday, that the tin supplier now quotes six weeks instead of two, that the cafe account has been silent since March, or how many seats Saturday's tasting actually sold. Those facts sit on importer portals, supplier ordering pages and a ticketing dashboard, and not one of them has any reason to tell a point of sale.

Importer availability and tin lead times, gathered before the reorder

The importer posts the new season on its own site and tells nobody. Nothing sets that posting beside the shop's own sales numbers.

This season's importer availability read against the shop's own fast and slow movers, so the order goes in while the lot is still there rather than after it sold out. Packaging lead times checked on the supplier's site and set beside the reorder point, because a tin that takes six weeks has to be ordered six weeks before the shelf empties. Wholesale accounts measured by silence: the cafe that ordered every month until March raised as a name to call.

The customer side works the same way. Saturday's tasting seat count pulled off the ticketing page and set against the register's customer list, so the follow-up goes to the people who actually came. Subscription renewals due this month gathered before the cards start declining. A competitor's shelf price on the same estate tea, sitting next to yours, the morning it changes.

None of that needs an API, a developer, or an integration the importer has no plans to build.

The shopkeeper stops doing the looking up

Each of those answers is sitting behind a password right now, waiting for somebody to open the page and write the number down. The question is only who does it.

WebRun is an AI agent that works a real Chrome browser, signed in as you. It opens the importer's ordering site, the packaging supplier's portal, a ticketing dashboard or a competitor's shop page, reads what is on the screen, and brings it back beside the stock and sales figures out of ClearTEQ POS.

Sending an order, emailing a wholesale customer or changing a shelf price is a decision with money behind it. Each one is drafted and left for you.

The workflows below are already built, and each one names the sites it opens.