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Apart from the WOAPI, the "Online Ordering" environment has more components and technologies that can be seen in the previous diagram. Reference: /wiki/spaces/DEVKB/pages/1534722051

📋 What is Pressable?

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Pressable is a leading provider of managed WordPress hosting, in other words, Pressable is the place where the WordPress sites are stored and managed.

📋 What is WooCommerce?

WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin that serves as an eCommerce platform that makes it easy and affordable to sell any product and service on a WordPress website. It allows you to sell digital and physical products, take secure payments, manage inventory, and sort all your taxes automatically.

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🔌 Plugins

But what really NorthStar develops, are the different plugins that are capable of doing ordering and payment operations, and of course, provide a good user experience via responsive and custom frontends.

So for this, it is important to know the main plugins that are under constant development.

🛍️ Theme Plugins

For the front end, these are the main developed plugins.

📋 Online Ordering (OLO)

This is the main plugin, that provides a structure from the parent plugin that is “My Restaurant“, Using this theme allows you to provide an experience and workflow focused on Online Ordering and QR Ordering (both explained later in the content).

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📋 Kiosk Ordering

This completely original plugin provides a front capable of delivering kiosk ordering operations (explained later in the content).

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💵 Payment Plugins

Each payment plugin is customed to interact efficiently according to the NorthStar services.

📋 Beyond Pay

Beyond Pay for WooCommerce supports recurring payments for the official WooCommerce subscription extension. Reference: https://www.getbeyond.com/payment-gateway/

📋 Authorize.NET

Provides one of the most advanced integrations for WooCommerce while providing the security and reliability that come with using Authorize.NET for payment processing. Reference: https://www.authorize.net/

📋 Clover Payment

Allows a merchant using a WooCommerce site to securely collect card information from buyers and process the payment using their Clover merchant account. Reference: https://www.clover.com/

🛒 Ordering Plugins

📋 NorthStar Online Ordering

The plugin automatically adds the required pages to the website and allows pulling products and executing ordering operations from the NorthStar services using the WOAPI.

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📋 How do these plugins interact?

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🛒 What do end products does NorthStar deliver?

🛍️ Online Ordering

This type of WooCommerce website makes the ordering process easier for customers and streamline restaurant operations. Having an online ordering system can make day-to-day operations more efficient for a restaurant.

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This type of WooCommerce website is similar to “Online Ordering (OLO)“, but in this case, it integrates a QR menu/location as part of the principal workflow, becauseQR codes for restaurants have become increasingly popular. Customers can quickly see the menu by scanning the 2D barcode with their cameras.

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📋 Glossary