RE: Magento & POS Integration
Dear Andrew,
Firstly I want to make sure that it is absolutely possible to download order from Magento and push them into any POS system you want.
We know that you do not want unify order fulfillment process so everybody in your team just have to work with POS backend only.
We enabled the processes you described above successfully for some clients in US, Netherlands and Vietnam with different POS systems.
It helps synchronize catalog data includes product information, product images, product meta data (for SEO), stock.
It also helps synchronize orders, customers data between Magento & POS.
It helps notify business owner for any changes in the system so they really always know how business running without having to ask any question to their staff.
We have some products such as:
Magento Dynamics RMS Integration
Magento Posbill POS Integration, this is for a Netherlands client
Magento Access Database Integration
Here are some screen shots of the products