[Gllug] EPOS systems

[Jack Richards]

For a low cost solution, try www.linux-pos.org as a jumping off point.

I can personally recomend Quentin Olsons excellent Mercator ( and free 
Mercator ).  GNUPOS and Banana POS are also quite good, if a little limited.

Both require a fair amount of tweeking.

If you are looking at linux, I would suggest getting something that is JavaPOS 
1.7 compliant since getting drivers for POS devices such as VfD, MSR, Scanner 
cash drawer can be a pain otherwise.  Most POS devices are shared with the 
keyboard or have a serial line MUX ( thats on e serial line muxed to 3 or 4 
lines - arbitration done in userland through a kernel loopback driver - 
horrid ! )

As for database, most Commercial POS apps use DB2, Oracle and 
MySQL/POSTGRESSQL.  MySQL is a great choice and is very stable.  It also 
scales well. We have customers with over 5Million SKU running MySQL and is 
flys !

Have fun !

Jack


Quoting Liam Delahunty <liamvictor at gmail.com>:

> Chap upstairs wants to bar code all his stock and run a EPOS system.
> 
> He's a mac user but would be more than happy to try linux solutions.
> At the moment he keeps finding firms selling windows products (which
> isn't a problem really), but the database tends to be Access which I
> don't think will be good enough long term, though I probably just
> biased.
> 
> Anyone had to implement one and have any recommendations.
> 
> He's losing the will to live, so there could be some consultancy work
> here for someone so inclined.
> 
> He'll need the bar code reader / printer, and the stock control s/w.
> He wants to be able to produce sales lists and reorder amounts based
> on supplier codes and simplify the daily grind of reordering stock.
> 
> Ideally it'd produce a file so that he could keep his website stock
> levels up to date too, but that isn't too important.
> 
> Feel free to get in touch off list, and I'll pass your details on to him.
> 
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