Godwin,
Will it be able to swipe credit card? Interface with a cash drawer? Or scan a UPC? My concern with any web-based system is that you don't have access to the necessary lower level hardware of a useful POS system.
Also, how much will you be charging for tech support, or what level of on-going support can users expect? Or will use be at your own risk with no implied support?
Name Suggestion: PIF - Pedaling/Paying It Forward
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison c: 801-688-0183
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Ryan Sharpe sharpe@sacbikekitchen.orgwrote:
At the risk of being too family-unfriendly, gratuitously offensive to Godwin's herculean task, and over-aware of the cobbled-together nature of some of our various operations, I'd be tickled if it were named "That POS".
--Ryan S.
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:13 PM, summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com < summitcyclingcenter@yahoo.com> wrote:
I Appreciate what you are doing. Name-I suggest Velocomp POS.
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----- Reply message ----- From: "Godwin !" goodgodwin@hotmail.com To: "The Think Tank" thethinktank@bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Shop software Date: Sun, Jul 1, 2012 6:50 pm
Trying to squeeze in the extra time this week to open up to developers soon but first:
*Non-technical*
- *Nominate a name!*
that a maple tree produces but I'd like to hear better ideas if anyone has them (and maybe get some sort of consensus)
- Right now the code name I'm using is 'Samara' after the fruit
- *Will my shop / organization be able to use it?*
so that it can work with the way your organization does, although I'm not going to promote it over any of the other options
- Yes. The intention is to make everything completely customizable
Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal and eventually hopefully IPad and Android. Setting it up to work offline will also be possible.
- It will be web-based and (if required) compatible with
- *What will it do?*
after that I'd like to implement other features from news feeds to keep everyone informed to budget planning and audit modules (everything will be optional)
- The focus at the beginning is to create a point of sale system,
- Whatever else you can dream of and find someone to help build
- *Why are you doing this?*
that we can combine our efforts where we can and diverge when we need to
- To create a common tool that will work for everyone's needs, so
projects
- Because I like software development and especially interesting
- Not to overshadow other people's efforts such as *freehub*
- *When will it be ready?*
- No clue. I've made a number of promises in the past but I realized that I really need to stop making them, we all know what volunteering is like
other tools out there and if you eventually want to switch we may be able to work together to get that done.
- Don't wait for it if you need something now, there's lots of
of course https://github.com/asalant/freehub/wiki/
- Check out: http://erply.com/, http://www.merchantos.com/, and
*How to get involved*
*GIVE IT A NAME!* - It's likely that your shop name will be more prominent (if this name is even visible at all) but it would be nice to have something to call it when downloading or when talking amongst ourselves *Design a logo* - You might want to wait for the name
Otherwise wait for my next email (but don't hold your breath), I'll be setting up a development environment so that people can jump on as they can. We'll be more in need of experienced PHP developers in the beginning stages to round out the framework, less experienced developers can hop on in the later stages to build modules and themes.
Feel free to send questions or feedback (critical or otherwise) directly to me if you'd like, .godwin
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