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Re: Point of Sale in many stores

 

Could it then be done with a completely separate openerp and just export
and import. All session starting etc is done at each store where it is
controlled?

Might be quite a pain to keep all products and stock synchronised though.

Regards


On 1 March 2013 16:49, Houssine BAKKALI <houssine.bakkali@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> problem is how to start a session with accessing the server. sync between
> server isn't a trivial thing to do.
>
>
> 2013/3/1 Andrew Higgs <andrew.m.higgs@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> What might be rather nice is if the store had a db of its own and did
>> some synchronising from time to time to the main db. That would be ideal
>> for us.
>>
>> Our internet here in South Africa (and I am sure other parts of the world
>> too) is not reliable enough for a system which requires it in order to make
>> sales.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> On 1 March 2013 16:37, Houssine BAKKALI <houssine.bakkali@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> The real problem is that you need a connexion to your server(thru the
>>> network or internet) to start a POS session.
>>>
>>> that's the major inconvenient.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/3/1 Olar Alca <oszckar@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrWUZJs2Nk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Andrew Higgs <andrew.m.higgs@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> How would we go about implementing Point of Sale in our stores? I
>>>>> would like to have Head Office getting all the sales information from the
>>>>> stores but where the stores can continue to function when their internet
>>>>> connection is down.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any documentation on this yet?
>>>>>
>>>>> Some questions I would like to get answered are as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>>    1. How would we keep products and employee synchronised between
>>>>>    head office and each store? Preferably each store should just needs it's
>>>>>    own employees on their system.
>>>>>    2. Where would we do stock control? In the store as the sale
>>>>>    happens or at head office as the sales are imported?
>>>>>    3. How can we keep sales and stock separate for each store? Kind
>>>>>    of like cost centres. These would need to filter through all accounts.
>>>>>    4. Drawing a blank right now but I am sure there will be more
>>>>>    questions.....
>>>>>
>>>>> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Andrew Higgs
>>>>>
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