Open Source POS Project

I would strongly recommend to try Floreant POS http://www.floreantpos.com

It may hurt web based application love but Web based application works better where application does not need to interact with hardware. Web pages has security restrictions, so cannot send data to small printer or kick cash drawer!

In addition to that Applications also utilize full resource of a system. It can even cache data for faster load, for example Restaurant Menus are almost same and gives added security.

There are so many vendors with different hardware in different platform that our recommendation is to use Java as platform. Floreant POS, developed in Java runs smoothly on any platform. In addition using hibernate made its code easier to customize.

MySQL is most popular but it has two limitation - recent version of mysql is heavy and it enforces ISVs to agree with Commercial License from Sun Microsystem. Floreant used Apache Derby that has less than 2M memory footprint and released under more flexible apache license.

We are looking for someone who can write or giv us a PHP/MySQL based POS System that we can use in one of our customer stores.

The idea is that we are developing an mini-erp system on php/mysql for this company that has about 3 retail stores, and it will beasy for us to integrate your source to us.

- Surendra

We have been doing Linux based POS systems for big retailers all over Southern Africa for 20 years now. Starting off with a 4th GL called CERES, created and developed in South Africa, so not only was the solution completely open source, but was proudly South African. A lot of our Furniture retailer still use the CERES based linux POS system. We have since started doing Java POS systems to keep updated with the GUI interfaces required by our clients. All our back office and frotnend servers run on Linux, and one client still running on Unix.

Hi.

I made a POS system for my sister's coffee cart business. The primary goals were speed, ease of use, stability, and basic POS functionality. It also needed to be about cash register sized or smaller. It's designed for use with a touch screen. I coded it in C using the GTK+ toolkit (2.0) and do some complicated stuff in perl. The software is designed with modularity and flexibility in mind. It uses mysql as a database. It processes credit cards using perl to interact with yourpay.com. CC processing specifically is designed with modularity in mind, so yourpay.com could be replaced with something else fairly easily. Credit card numbers are captured using a swiper that plugs into a serial port. The cash drawer is also controlled via a serial interface. I'm using Star parallel printers which are great little machines and well supported under Linux. The touch screens work well. I developed it using Debian Sarge and run it under Gnome, but any window manager could work. I think it should be fairly easily portable to a variety of devices. It's been used in a production environment for 6+ months. The reporting needs some help, but I just haven't had the time needed.

I'm currently working on increasing modularity (with a goal of separating the POS logic from the GTK+ front-end) and improving the credit card processing module, including making cc transactions run asynchronously so the GUI remains responsive. I plan to soon start working on making the menu more easily editable. (right now you need some xml editing skillz to change an item/option price.) Other future plans include adding customer tracking and affinity-card (gift card) support.

so far: it's very stable, the baristas like it, the reporting (via apache/cgi/mysql/perl) gives enough information for day to day simple things and to make doing taxes possible... It's possible to run several transactions at once... can accept multiple forms of payment for each transaction... .... it does all kinds of cool stuff. I'm proud of it. I think it should already be possible to run more than one POS off the same database... and without much more work (adding some record/database locking) it will be possible to work on the same transaction at any connected terminal without having to worry about losing or corrupting data.

I made it because I had the time, thought it was an interesting project and had a customer. Now, it would be nice to make some money from it. Maybe you'd like to hire me to do something? I'm a very good programmer, with plenty of C/C++/perl experience. :)

The coffee business is located in Reno. It's called Hi Point Coffee. I'll most likely be publishing the POS software on sourceforge under the name HiPointPOS, or something like that.

I work for a company that provides POS solutions to the resteraunt industry. I am looking to input my experience in this field and help to develop a open source system that can provide a variety of POS solutions to many industries. Reguardless of what language it is written in, i will learn it. Open source softeware will allow POS providers to offer a much better product with release from the licensing overhead currently associated with it. Reguardless of the launguate the frontend i written in I believe MySQL to be the obvious choice in the database server choice. I wish to see the open source POS solution become a tight nit group with secure trusted software that is able to provide the features and capabilities that the large companies provide before they do with support for more hardware and options than is currently available. Sorry for any typos but its late saturday night and i'm at a party (of course on the computer available) I assure you my intent in genuine and my effort endless. Please contact me with any further details available.

Sincerely,

Chris Janzow

Does anyone out there, use osCommerce for your webstore? Do you want it connected to your live store? We at R&T Computers are in the process of disigning a POS to do just that. Stop by our webstore at http://rtcomp.no-ip.com email the web master at rtcomp_wm@sbcglobal.net or best of all stop into our live store at 4385 Dixie Hwy Saginaw, MI 48601

A few years ago I started work on one such project using the Mozilla Framework. I still believe this is the way to go, though Java might be decent as well. The reason I think Mozilla is a better fit is because of Internalization.. it's built in, plus you get a rich framework that's cross platform for free. I built a proof of concept interface a looong loooong time ago, but no one seemed to give a damn, so I stopped. IF anyone is interested, signup for the mailing list and drop me a line/post on the bulleting board. The project is MozPos at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mozpos

It installs under Mozilla 1.7 and seems to run fine (though it was developed under 1.1).

Hello All,

I am current build a Java based pos system for a dine-in/carryout/delivery resturant franchise. Have been developing system for a year now. I am interested in additional involvement in you open source project..my project is currently not open source...but future development my move in that direction.... please contact me at maddera@peakpeak.com....looking forward to hearing from you...

I am Planning this software already, if any you java developers would like to contribute to my project please email me at moorjani@svenson.gp and I will send you the project plan, so maybe we get things started.

Uday