POINT OF SALE SYSTEMS: http://www.myfreepos.net/
I have worked in the industry for several years. I came across this software when a friend of friend needed a inexpensive restaurant point of sale software.
Essentially its free for TWO SYSTEMS but with limitations. You can register each system for 99.00 each - this allows you save your "NAME" at the top of the receipts etc.
Overall this is really decent software, it does the functions required of it for inexpensive price. I had some issues configuring it to work with printers and cash drawers but once I figured it out it worked quite well.
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MY DEPLOYMENT:
I deployed two systems with single receipt/bar printer and cash drawer behind the bar, Second waitress station just off the bar for floor orders, and a single PARALLEL printer for the kitchen (At the time the company that was selling the printers were out of stock and there was a time line). A third wireless PC was setup in a upstairs office for running reports etc.
I had to run a 50FT parallel cable from the Bar POS to kitchen.
As a additional setup - I installed DROPBOX on both stations and backed up the POS databse. This will give the client a full offsite backup if anything ever happens. Also the second station can become the main station as it also contains the full copy.
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TO THIS DATE the POS deployment has processed over 44,000 reciepts and still going strong. I havn't received a single phone call regarding it only one asking where to order paper from.
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My Goal this time around is to build the same setup at home on my server running as a virtual machine. I plan on using Remote FX to redirect USB and hopefully get the serial touch to work (I have an old POS serial touch screen) This along with a USB printer I am hoping I can use a thin client and get a POS system running.
If this works I believe it will be the first THIN client based POS. There are web based ones currently but this would allow a conversion for current POS systems to be located offsite and backed up.
CLOUD POS is the final goal. Take OLD POS system and make them cloud based. Centralized and protected.
I have worked in the industry for several years. I came across this software when a friend of friend needed a inexpensive restaurant point of sale software.
Essentially its free for TWO SYSTEMS but with limitations. You can register each system for 99.00 each - this allows you save your "NAME" at the top of the receipts etc.
Overall this is really decent software, it does the functions required of it for inexpensive price. I had some issues configuring it to work with printers and cash drawers but once I figured it out it worked quite well.
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MY DEPLOYMENT:
I deployed two systems with single receipt/bar printer and cash drawer behind the bar, Second waitress station just off the bar for floor orders, and a single PARALLEL printer for the kitchen (At the time the company that was selling the printers were out of stock and there was a time line). A third wireless PC was setup in a upstairs office for running reports etc.
I had to run a 50FT parallel cable from the Bar POS to kitchen.
As a additional setup - I installed DROPBOX on both stations and backed up the POS databse. This will give the client a full offsite backup if anything ever happens. Also the second station can become the main station as it also contains the full copy.
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TO THIS DATE the POS deployment has processed over 44,000 reciepts and still going strong. I havn't received a single phone call regarding it only one asking where to order paper from.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Goal this time around is to build the same setup at home on my server running as a virtual machine. I plan on using Remote FX to redirect USB and hopefully get the serial touch to work (I have an old POS serial touch screen) This along with a USB printer I am hoping I can use a thin client and get a POS system running.
If this works I believe it will be the first THIN client based POS. There are web based ones currently but this would allow a conversion for current POS systems to be located offsite and backed up.
CLOUD POS is the final goal. Take OLD POS system and make them cloud based. Centralized and protected.
