Thanks for the replies, here's my thoughts on the feedback so far:
First, please note that the next step for us is focused on the
hardware, so while I'm all ears for the rest, it will not happen
before we've completed what's covered in the campaign, and the work I
do after the campaign may not be on the POS for some time.
So while we all seem to agree that customer discount, pricelist,
fidelity cards, etc. are a big missing part in the POS, considering
the planning and manpower available, it may not happen before a while.
That is unless the community can get together and contribute changes
going into that direction ? It would definitely be welcomed ! Another
way is to make the campaign an even bigger success so the goals can be
extended ? I'm sure you can do something about that as well :)
So, about adding customer to orders, setting custom pricelists,
managing fidelity points, customer frequency etc. I think we all agree
on what needs to be done, we just need to find a way to get it done.
Secondly, there are some requests that make perfect sense - like the
order on one station, and processing on another one, better workflow
integration - that are made very difficult to implement because the
offline mode. 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.
This is a very complicated thing to do, for example we suffered many
bugs due to the accounting not being done _exactly_ as on the server.
So there will always be feature available on the server and missing on
the POS. What we need to do is to find which of those missing features
are the most important, and which we can live without. And for the
missing features, maybe we need to communicate better about that, and
fail less silently - which is not easy to do.
"If, the development include "Serial Port" in a generic way,
"PySerial" maybe, we have +10 countries which the print feature can
not use ESC/POS protocol."
For this campaign I can only guarantee that we'll support ESC/POS.
I'll look into the library provided to see what I can take from it. I
suppose that once we've put up good foundations, it will be a trivial
task to add support for different protocols.
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. Supporting that many product also makes product
synchronisation at load much more complicated. My estimation is that
the upper limit we can achieve is 50K products, which should be doable
as part of some big pos implementation project ?
And payment by invoice is already in trunk.
As for the development branches I'll post them once I've cleaned all
the mess :)
- Fred.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Ronald Portier <ronald@xxxxxxxx
<mailto:ronald@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Just for your information:
One of our customers has given me the demands they will have for a POS
solution:
- Support for a large number of products: > 16.000
- Pricelist depending on customer
- Payment by invoice
I think the demand to support a large number of products should be
supported out of the box.
I can imagine the other demands to be customer specific. Like each
customer will have their demands/wishes.
So easy extensebility/customization of the POS might be the number one
requirement.
Kind regards, Ronald
Eric Caudal schreef op 30-10-13 02:07:
> I have 1.6 billions Chinese here using their RFID ID card to buy
their train
> ticket! Can we start using it in OpenERP ;)
>
> More seriously, main demands on my side are:
> - possibility to switch vendor in safety way (enter a password
or swipe a
> rfid/barcode card)
> - VIP card management for points management AND prepayment (you
load your card
> by credit card)
> - Prepaid Gift certificates (unique number previously generated
to be swiped via
> barcode or RFID)
> - Possibility to have a 2-step sale (one shop keeper prepares
the sale one is
> checking out)
>
> Probably asking too much but:
> - Promotion/message (appearing on ticket) based on VIP card holder.
> - Special message when VIP card holder (birthday, attentions,
etc...)
>
>
> Eric CAUDAL
>
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> On 10/29/2013 11:28 PM, Stefan wrote:
>> On 10/29/2013 04:04 PM, Peter Langenberg wrote:
>>> Alan,
>>>
>>> You even drive on the wrong side of the road ... can't
consider you as
>>> generic ...
>>>
>>> UK is not in the EU, ask Cameron :-)
>>
>> Yes Peter, but while both your country and mine are near enough
to still cling
>> on to the shameful tradition of 'blackface' Pete accompanying
our fork of
>> Santa Claus, I never heard of such a card either...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stefan.
>>
>>
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