Re: [SLUG] open source point of sale solutions

From: J. David Boyd (jdboyd@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2003 - 14:44:58 EDT


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Josh Tiner wrote:
| What's up everyone:
|
| I just got off the phone with my brother in Louisiana. Apparently he has
| just managed to acquire a pizza parlor there. It's been there for years,
| and is quite successful. The pizza shop was a mom n' pop operation with
| no computers / databases etc powering it. Just an old Samsung cash
| register, pencil, and paper.
|
| He's actually wanting me to find a way to get it up to modern standards.
| I was wondering if anyone out there knew of some Open Source point of
| sale solutions that would be ideal for this situation. He's been
| considering spending about $5000 on a POS system, but if he does that
| would lock him into a contract deal, and he would pretty much be stuck
| with the software as long as he does business.
|
| Ideas? Ideally the solution would handle POS, inventory, label printing
| for the boxes, and manage employees. I know it sounds like a tall order,
| no pun intended, but I was really hoping something is available out
| there before he goes out and makes a purchase that would put him a
| little behind his financial budget.
|
| -jtiner
|
|
Check out this magazine article on an open source POS being used in a
coffee shop with Mandrake Linux.

http://www.open-mag.com/1543683279.htm

It uses an open source POS from
http://burrellbizsys.com/products/lane-pos.html

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