Does the Advanced Plan offer demand forecasting and an inbuilt POS?

[Edian]

Hi,

I am new to the eCommerce world and would like to understand something.

I have a retail business, one online store and one physical store.

I require a POS, and demand forecasting system.

I am aware of Shopify Plus and the Shopify POS, but I want to understand if there is an alternative?

Meaning, does Shopify Advanced Plan enable me to do demand forecasting, and do I need a POS for my online store? Is it built-in automatically, or do I need to implement a POS?

Loaded question, I apologise. Would love the feedback.

[Wedevagency]

@Edian Hi Edian, you will need to implement POS. Are you looking for help with this?

[D_nys_Mipler]

Hey, Edian

It’s nice to meet you!

My name is Denis, and I am product manager at Mipler: Advanced Reports app.

Recently, we released a new article on how to forecast demand and plan your inventory in a better way.

An article includes Google Sheets template with predefined formulas.

So all that you need it’s just pasting reports from the Shopify into our template and get completed forecast for your inventory.

How it looks with our demo data. Images are clickable.

Tab 1 — Simple view without overloading you by additional data:

And Tab 2 — Here you can find advanced calculations:

Kindly find below an article here: [LINK]

There you can find all the definition including how to set up and use the template developed by our experts.

Direct link to the template: [URL]

I hope both article and template will be helpful to you.