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[Gustavo Adrian Marino <gamarino@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, intendend for the community also

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From: Gustavo Adrian Marino <gamarino@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2013/10/30
Subject: Re: [Openerp-community] The Future of the Point of Sale
To: Ray Carnes <rcarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Running POS on its own installation of OpenERP seems the most promising
strategy.

Advantages:

   - Easy to handle customer registration
   - No need for local storage in javascript, just relay on local server
   - Easy to handle large amounts of product without any initial load
   process
   - Easy workflow handling
   - HW could be an AllInOne with direct connection to scanners, scales and
   card reading devices
   - Standalone mode. It works even when no Internet is available. If there
   is power, you can sell

On the other side (local server - general server connection), it changes
completely the problem. It is totally comparable to the connectors to
Magento or other e-commerce platforms.

It should be based on smart synching of main tables (product, customer) and
smart sending of news (new tickets, new invoices) to the general server).
In fact, we should think that several POS could be connected
simoultaneously to the general server (which in fact could be Sass type
server)

In cases like small restorants, tablets with WiFI could be used to get
orders directily into the local server.

This distributed strategy seems to be far more ambitious and it solves many
current issues of the current implementation

My 2 cents


2013/10/30 Ray Carnes <rcarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Agreed.  Good suggestion.
>
> You need a CRAZY SMALL amount of resources.
>
> 512MB of memory would probably be enough for UBUNTI + POSTGRESQL + OPENERP.
>
> These day's even a phone has more memory than that.
>
> Ray.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Openerp-community [mailto:openerp-community-bounces+rcarnes=
> ursainfosystems.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Martin Collins
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 8:14 AM
> To: openerp-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openerp-community] The Future of the Point of Sale
>
> On 2013-10-30 08:28, Frédéric Van Der Essen wrote:
> >
> > Offline mode is an interesting feature, but it has a very
> > very high cost on the complexity and evolution of the pos. That is
> > because supporting something offline means that we have to implement it
> > in javascript in an interoperable way with the server.
> ...
> > So there will always be feature available on the server and missing on
> > the POS.
> ...
> > Supporting a large number of products (> 16 000) is currently made very
> > difficult by the fact that browser database do not support full text
> > search and thus we are limited by the performance of javascript search.
>
> Have you considered running an instance of openerp-server on the posbox
> and using postgres replication to sync with the main server when online?
> Crazy? Not as crazy as rewriting it in javascript...
>
> Martin
>
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