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CigarFlux
For Retailers

Make your inventory searchable

Publish your catalog, and shoppers in your area can check what you have before they leave the house. Signing up and listing are free. Import from your point-of-sale system or a CSV.

Information

Why retail

Some of what shoppers want is only sold in stores

Those products never show up in an online listing, so they never show up in a price comparison. Shoppers end up calling around or driving from shop to shop. A store that publishes its catalog fixes that for its own shelf: shoppers in the area search by product, see which shops carry it, and go where it is.

01 / Cost

Free to join, free to list

Registration and listing cost nothing. Nothing about a listing can be paid for, including its position in results.

02 / Inventory

Import it from your POS

Upload an export from Square, Clover, Lightspeed, KORONA or Shopify, or a plain CSV. The format is detected from the file, and rows are matched to the catalog by UPC or product address. Rows that cannot be matched wait in a review queue; nothing is guessed. To skip the file, tick a whole brand or choose exact packages by hand, or send availability through the inventory API.

03 / Reach

Shoppers find you by product

A shopper watching a product gets one notice when a nearby store lists it, with your store name and cross streets.

04 / Demand

See what people near you are watching

Each product shows how many people in your area are watching it. Counts appear only once at least 3 people are counted, so no shopper is identified.

05 / Accuracy

Stock reports keep listings honest

If shoppers keep reporting a product missing, the listing is flagged and you are told first, so you can fix it before anyone else makes the trip.

06 / Verification

Verified by a person

A new store is listed as unverified until a moderator checks it. Nothing a store enters about itself changes that.

Resources

Working references for keeping your CigarFlux inventory accurate, and where to find authoritative tobacco-retail guidance. CigarFlux does not provide legal certification.

Inventory checklist

  • Match the exact product and the exact package: a pack and a carton are different listings.
  • Refresh your listings whenever you check stock.
  • Mark a product temporarily unavailable instead of deleting it, so its history stays.
  • Use the UPC or GTIN, or the CigarFlux product address, in feeds.
  • Review unmatched import rows rather than guessing a match.

Feed formats

POS exports: Square, Clover, Lightspeed (X-Series and R-Series), KORONA and Shopify, detected from the file. CSV: a slug or upc column, with an optional active column. API: store-specific availability and an optional shelf price. Every import keeps a run history and a count of unmatched rows.

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