Re: [TheThinkTank] using the bicycle kitchen's POS system? was :Electronic Tracking
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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I keep going back and forth on this myself.
...Enter my inner dialog...
With the help of others I can make one but if one of our common goal is education and teaching practical jobs skills -- we may want to just write a grant and buy a system that people would use in the real world. Am I just being frugal and taking the "I'll just make and maintain it myself for that price" mentality or on the other hand we could just buy a more expensive system that comes with support but most importantly gives people employable skills. What to do? Maybe I need to research what other open source solutions are out there and see if one could be easily modified and more importantly maintained by the most people possible (non-obscure language / technology)
...and where are my underpants?
...Exit inner dialog...
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bike_Collective_Software
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Jessica McPherson jessica_mcp@yahoo.com wrote:
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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