[olug] Looking for good POS software

[Justin]

If he accepts cards then your friend pays a fee for services, no one in
this world has a free merchant services account.  He may as well and use
something like square.  It is also web based and they can check in where
ever they want.  They usually have the funds transferred over by the next
business day.  They should create a separate account for card transactions
and use it as a shield to not tie up business capital during operations.
Transferring the funds over to another account helps and people not doing
this has been the basis of their issues with companies like PayPal and
Square as they are required to do certain things for their risk model,
insurance, and PCI compliance.  The fees are not that much and they can
just manage the inventory spreadsheet template they offer.  You can sign up
for access to their developer API and write an add on yourself.  It is web
based and avoids a lot of PCI compliance responsibility from you on to the
vendor as well.  You could also charge a fee for credit card use or glass
half full and offer a cash discount.  I have used it successfully and they
have a lot of nice features including a web presence.  Just remember to
watch state to state laws as that is what sent Tommy Chong to prison not
drugs; but smoking paraphernalia.

Hope that helps good luck.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Sean Sinclair <seanfsinclair at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I haven't tried any these but synaptic suggests lemonpos, hoteldruid, or
> dolibarr.
>
> Lemonpos
>
> This package is a configurable general point of sale, not focused to a
> specific
> sector. It can be used at a general store, a fast-food restaurant or a
> book store.
>
> hoteldruid
>
> HotelDruid is designed to make hotel rooms, bed and breakfast apartments,
> or any other kind of daily rental easy to manage from a web browser.
>
> Main features:
>  * automatic assignment of reservations to rooms by user-defined rules;
>  * creation of public web pages displaying room availability, etc.;
>  * saving, printing, and emailing of documents and invoices;
>  * electronic point of sale;
>  * management of groups and privileges for multi-user operation;
>  * generation of statistical reports.
>
> It uses an SQLite database by default but can be configured for use
> with MySQL or PostgreSQL.
>
> dolibarr
>
> Dolibarr ERP & CRM is an easy to use open source/free software for small
> and medium companies, foundations or freelances. It includes different
> features for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship
> Management (CRM) but also for different other activities.
>
> It's a web software you can install as a standalone program or on any web
> hosting provider to use it from anywhere with any web browser.
>
> Dolibarr was designed to be easy to use. Only the features that you need
> are visible, depending on which modules were activated.
>
> This is an example of most common used modules:
>
>  * Customers, Suppliers or Prospects directory,
>  * Contacts directory,
>  * Orders management,
>  * Commercial proposals management,
>  * Invoices management,
>  * Products and services catalog,
>  * Stock management,
>  * Foundations members management,
>  * Bank accounts management,
>  * Point of Sale,
>  * Payments management,
>  * Commercial actions management,
>  * Contracts management,
>  * Standing orders management,
>  * Shipping management,
>  * Donations management,
>  * Bookmarks management,
>  * Mass Emailings,
>  * Reports,
>  * Wizards to export and import data,
>  * LDAP connectivity,
>  * PDF exports,
>  * And a lot more modules...
>
> You can also add third parties external modules or develop yours.
>
> On 03/05/2015 11:13 AM, Justin Reiners wrote:
>
>> Linux, even web based would be awesome, know of any good ones? This is for
>> my good buddies vape shop in town.
>>
>>
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