This API is for handling transactional, Point-of-sale and ERP integrations.
Locally’s “Buy It Locally” cart enables retailers to accept reservations or payments for in-store pickup, delivery, and ship-to-store from hundreds of major brand sites, Locally.com, search engines, and more. Normally, Buy It Locally sends stores order alerts via email or SMS, and payments are captured in Locally’s cart via the retailer’s connected Stripe merchant account.
Buy it Locally works well for the majority of our retail and brand partners. But we also appreciate that large, sophisticated retailers and brands require solutions that are more tightly integrated with their own systems.
Therefore Locally has made available the following API flows to aid in the development of seamless ERP and point-of-sale integration:
PushCart Integration
PushCart allows retailers to receive real-time transaction data from the Locally platform as they occur, effectively “pushing” the shopper’s cart to an external system such as a Point of Sale, Sales Order Management, or ERP for fulfillment. Locally continues to handle the shopper's experience while the transmission of cart data happens behind the scenes. Read more about the Push-Cart integration flow
Cart-to-Cart Integration
With Cart-to-Cart, Locally redirects the shopper checkout entirely to a retailer’s ecommerce site, enabling the shopper to complete the transaction and make their payment through the enterprise retailer’s existing Buy Online, Pickup In Store (BOPIS) solution.
Locally offers a variety of hand-off methods to redirect shoppers from Locally to a retailer’s site and track the outcome. Read more about the Cart-to-Cart integration.
Ship-to-Store Integration
Using local retailers as ship-to-store pickup sites, service points, or in-store returns is becoming a key need for every brand. Locally makes this easy by leveraging your existing, managed dealer network. We enable each dealer who is participating in Buy it Locally to accept shipments for prepaid customers. The process is seamless, shipping fees are minimal as compared to residential shipments, and is supportive of your wholesale channel. Read more about the Ship-to-Store integration flow