Did you ever get in touch with that guy Josh Moody from the L.A. bicycle kitchen who presented at bike bike? It sounded like he had written a POS system, don't remember if it was open-source or web-based. Jessica (Free Ride, Pittsburgh)
----- Original Message ---- From: Stuart O Anderson soa@ri.cmu.edu To: The Think Tank thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 1:04:14 PM Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] using the bicycle kitchen's POS system? was :Electronic Tracking
I've been thinking a lot about building a secure web based open source POS system. If anyone else is interested in this sort of project, or is already working on something like it, please get in touch with me.
Stuart
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Brent Bohs bbohs@purdue.edu wrote:
Thank you very much man, we're setting up a co-op around here and are working on a good inventory system for all our parts and frames and such, thanks for your input in all this!! It helps us all! Keep in touch. Brent Bohs
On May 8, 2008, at 1:10 AM, Gern Blanston wrote:
Hi, Yes, Jim Bledsoe is from the Los Angeles' "Bicycle Kitchen". Here in LA we have three individual community bike shops: the Bicycle Kitchen near Hollywood, the Bike Oven in Highland Park, and I'm with the BikeRoWave in Santa Monica. The BikeRoWave choose to get a POS software called Retail ICE that is going to be installed this week. We pieced together the rest from ebay, and some donations. We bought a touch screen and a bar code scanner, to make things easy for the staff. We looked at Intuits 'QuickBook POS' that retails for over $1500, but the Inventory Committee decided to go with the Retail ICE system that comes with tutorials and learning dvd's which was $75. It is cheaper if you don't buy the added dvd's. Total for the whole package was under $700. That includes: The POS software(looks very powerful, with bookkeeping and tax functions), a touch screen moniter, a hand wand scanner, a full sized Scanner/printer. We had a cash drawer and a receipt printer donated to use. We are not accepting credit card payments so no need for the card scanner. I'm really excited for the system to get going, as I envision it helping in soo many ways. Sales, inventory, taxes, contacts, all will be streamlined. As the Inventory Manager/C.F.O. I am looking forward to getting my work load down. I'll provide a more detailed description of Items in the system and a report on its operation soon. I am extreamly busy but will try to answer any questions as soon as I can. I can be reached at getgern(at)gmail.com
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