Hi,

Im going to invest in a lumberyard and I need a point of sale system. I would like to use linux and a GPL point of sale system. This is in spain so I probebly have to translat the system to spanish and in that way support the chosen system. I have been searching in freashmeat.net but I wonder if some one here got any experiance setting up these systems and what I should think of? Any recomendations?

thanks!

How about the moneybox is it connected to the serial port? And the customer etc database is it on a server normaly?

Its a lot of systems out there and they look realy profesional.

Interesting you bring this up. As someone who has worked in the restaurant industry for much of my life, I have had plenty of experience using various POS systems (geared towards food service) and the one common thread they all have is that they cost way too much, and generally don't have features that the managers/owners want. As they are proprietary, there is very little the manager can do to get the features he needs/wants. After some searching I found no OSS POS system and was thinking about writing my own.

My idea is that it would be the typical client/server model. The backend runs on a (Unix) server, and you connect to it using a client, which could be written for any OS (as it will be OSS). For small operations the client/server could be the same machine. I also plan to make it highly customizable and modular, to ensure it could be used for any sort of application, food service or otherwise. I also want it to tie into some sort of accounting backend so that you could write reports, export sales data into a spreadsheet etc...

I don't have much code just now (I am currently moving across country so my time is limited) but I intend to put serious time into it when I get settled, and hopefully have something usable in a few months. I am prototyping in Python, and after some profiling I may rewrite bottlenecks in C++.

Ok - here's a couple of links I collected a while ago:

http://l-ane.sourceforge.net/
http://www.bananapos.com/pos/home.html
http://easypos.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gnuenterprise.org/downloads/current.php

Thanks crashmeister, don't know how I missed those when I did my search. Will have to look a bit deeper but I think I will continue my project anyways as it seems to have a more specialized goal. Certainly kalleanka may be able to adapt one of these to his needs. Gnu Enterprise seems to be the most complete/polished after a cursory look...

hanks for the links. The banana one looks nice.


I searched freshmeat and these seems to be populare "Enterprise CRM and Groupware System", Compiere and Tiny ERP.


I will probebly test some of them.

I checked my mandrivadistro and they have the Banana on it. Looks nice. Its always easier when its on the cd from start.