Overview

Yellow Dog’s integration with GHS pulls sales data from daily sales files provided by GHS.

Sync Approach

Our integration consists of two elements:

  1. Our GHS sync application that pulls in sales data from GHS’ daily sales files.

  2. Our Process Sales application, which completes the processing of that sales data so that item on hands and calculated costs are updated, and ensures that the data is available in YD reports.

Sync Frequency

Our sync runs once daily after the daily sales export from GHS is produced.

Configuration Options:

Our GHS integration can support 

  • multiple instances of GHS against the same Yellow Dog database

  • multiple revenue centers against the same Yellow Dog store

Requirements

Client:

The client is responsible for determining how they will match GHS sales to Yellow Dog items and ensuring that the items are configured to match accordingly.

There are two options of which Yellow Dog item value can be matched to the GHS product number:

  1. SKU - requires ensuring that the YD SKU matches the GHS product number

  2. Item Number - requires importing the GHS product numbers as Item Number for the YD items

Yellow Dog:

Yellow Dog is responsible for 

  • configuring and scheduling the sync application and process sales application for the site

  • ensuring that item numbers have been properly imported into the YD database if the customer is matching sales on item number

POS:

GHS is responsible for the following:

  • Confirming the GHS sales file export location; the Yellow Dog sync application will need to be installed in a location that can access the export files.

  • Confirming the export file schedule so that Yellow Dog’s sync can be scheduled for a daily time after their export has been completed.

  • Confirming the export file naming convention; we expect .txt files with names that end in “_SALES”

    • Note that GHS also exports other types of files, such as Revenue, but our integration will only read the Sales file and will ignore the others.

Data Exchange

Sales Data from POS

GHS exports sales files daily, which Yellow Dog’s sync application uses to pull in sales data daily.

Our sync application supports a single Yellow Dog store per instance. 

Sales can be matched on GHS Product number to Yellow Dog SKU or Item Number.

We pull in the following sales data:

Modifiers are not supported in this integration

Workflows - Where Performed

Accounting Export :

Limitations