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Getting Started

Getting Started

When you first activate Spectre POS for your pro shop, the WordPress admin walks you through a short setup wizard. After that, day-to-day administration happens under the SpectrePOS menu in the WordPress sidebar.

The onboarding wizard

The first time you open the WordPress admin, you are taken to the SpectrePOS onboarding wizard. It has three steps:

  1. Store Details — confirm your address, city, state/province, postcode, and country. Spectre uses this to pre-fill your tax rates based on where you operate.
  2. Inventory — choose whether to track inventory for the bowling catalog Spectre syncs into your store. If you opt in, stock tracking is enabled in bulk after the catalog finishes syncing.
  3. Finish — completes setup and takes you to the Apps page.

Once you finish the wizard you won't see it again. If you skip it, your administrator can re-trigger it through the SpectrePOS menu.

The SpectrePOS menu

In the WordPress admin sidebar, SpectrePOS is the home for everything pro-shop specific. It sits just under the Dashboard and has these entries:

  • Apps — connect Stripe, manage integrations like Gift Cards and Mailchimp (where available).
  • Settings — payment methods, checkout behavior, general POS settings.
  • Open POS — launches the POS cashier app in a new tab.

You'll also use the standard WordPress / WooCommerce menus for day-to-day data:

  • Products — manage your catalog (see Managing Products).
  • Orders — see all sales, issue refunds.
  • Customers — your customer database.
  • Users — add cashier accounts (see Cashiers & Permissions).
  • WooCommerce → Settings → Taxes — fine-tune your tax rates (see Taxes).

Your first-day checklist

Once the wizard is done, work through this short list:

  1. Connect Stripe to accept card payments. SpectrePOS → Apps → Stripe → Connect with Spectre (see Connecting Stripe).
  2. Sync the bowling catalog (this runs automatically during step 2 of the wizard; see Catalog Sync if you need to track or re-run it).
  3. Review your tax rates under WooCommerce → Settings → Taxes. The wizard pre-fills them based on your location — adjust if needed.
  4. Enable payment methods under SpectrePOS → Settings → Payment Gateways (Cash and Card are both off by default).
  5. Add cashier accounts under Users → Add New, assigning the POS Cashier role (see Cashiers & Permissions).
  6. Customize your receipt and email branding (see Receipts & Email Branding).

After that, your cashiers can sign in and start ringing sales.

Where to go next

  • Connecting Stripe — accept real card payments
  • Catalog Sync — what gets imported and how to track it
  • Payment Methods — enable Cash and Card
  • Cashiers & Permissions — let your staff sign in
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