Anyone know anything about point-of-sale systems?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-03-19 02:35pm

As the thread title says. I'm looking for a vendor and I don't know this market too well at all.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2007-03-19 02:55pm

Online or physical?

I was seminvolved in setting up some casio cashregsiers for a golfshop some years ago.

Wery easy to do, just insert cd install crap and point to database. Then connect the registers to the lan and they find the server through broadcast.

Search for casio cash registers

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-03-19 03:55pm

I think IBM and some of the other computer companies provide POS machines and the relevant services. Some of the fast food outlets I have gone to use IBM.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2007-03-19 04:58pm

What's the use case?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-03-19 05:31pm

The Kernel wrote:What's the use case?

Nothing fancy. Small retail, but with the ability to import data from E-stores etc.

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2007-03-19 07:06pm

there's actually a site that sells either the software (actually a very good software suite) or the entire rigup, from the main computer, to the scanners, etc.

I located them when I was doing research on equipment for the gameshop I'm intending to open.

http://www.pcamerica.com/ they sell everything, pretty much, from the base "I just need this to get going" all the way to "wiz-bang now we POS'ing" solutions.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » 2007-03-21 03:46am

if you can handle sql and php you should be able to hack one out to your needs. and you wouldn't need anything more then web browser on the client machines. Wyse makes some POS hardware...

I hacked out a POS using dBaseIII+ for a pizza store in highschool, simple stuff, kept track of names, phone #s, address, and previous orders.

The worst part is populating the database (did that for radio shack... data entry sucks).

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-03-21 03:51am

well since I keep repairing the ones my company buys, yeah I do. My most prevelant comment is "Don't Buy Retail Pro (tm) as the ones my company uses, the POS stands for something else.