WooPOS extends WooCommerce with a hardware-aware register that talks to barcode scanners, receipt printers, and cash drawers. Each register is stored as a woocommerce_pos custom post and each completed sale becomes a standard WooCommerce order in wp_posts with the originating register id, cashier id, and SKU scan record attached as postmeta. SleekAI's data-source wizard maps those records into named variables the system message can reference at request time.

A staff bot scoped to logged-in shop manager and cashier roles can answer which register handled an order, how many items were scanned, and whether a barcode lookup failed. A public storefront bot sees the same WooCommerce stock counts the scanner updates and tells customers whether their item is on the shelf or only online. Display conditions and multibot mode keep the two streams separate.

For shops with long order histories, push the order archive into an OpenAI Files vector store of up to one gigabyte per file so the model retrieves only what is relevant. Every conversation is logged inside WordPress with model name, token usage, and the page URL so a manager can audit what the bot told a customer about a scanned WooPOS sale.

Hardware POS lanes live or die by speed at the scanner. A cashier asks the scanner to resolve a SKU, the SKU misses, and the queue gets longer. A generic chatbot bolted on the storefront cannot see that miss, has no idea the register exists, and cannot tell anybody what to do about it.

SleekAI, by reading the WooPOS scan postmeta and the matching WooCommerce order row, sees the miss the moment it happens and can list every unknown SKU at the end of the shift in plain language. That visibility translates directly into fewer queues and fewer end-of-day reconciliations. The cashier closes the lane with a tight summary the bot quoted from the data, the manager has a list of unknown SKUs to add to WooCommerce overnight, and the storefront bot tells the next morning's online shoppers exactly what is in stock once those SKUs are live.

The other thing this fixes is the customer-facing side. A buyer asking on the storefront whether an item is on the shelf gets the same number the cashier sees, because both bots read the WooCommerce stock that WooPOS updates after every scan. Nobody hears that the last pair of size-nine boots is available right after they walked out of the store.

Cost stays controlled too. SleekAI is a one-time plugin licence with no per-message markup. The AI calls run on the merchant's own provider key.

WooPOS hardware licensing stays separate. The chatbot is part of the same WordPress install everyone already opens, not a fourth dashboard layered on top of the lane.