On Sunday 26 August 2007 16:08, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Sunday 26 August 2007 06:27, Patrik Hasibuan wrote:
Dear my friends,
Our company is developing an application for POS. It includes: Cashier Machine, Barcode reader, Cash Drawer, Credit Card reader and inventory+repository. It's basically a PC but equipped with the devices for a kind of shop.
We are insist to make opensuse as the priority of its platform. And we need to buy the machine as the development environment. They are: 1. PC Desktop; 2. Barcode reader; 3. Cash Drawer; 4. Credit card reader.
So now, the question is which devices we should choose to buy so we do not have too much work to build the application because our "Development Time Frame" is not enough to also build the device driver, typical device manager software and so on.
Most of the POS OEM peeps write wintendo API's. Back when I worked for a POS software development company ('93-'95) we did all our work in DOS or OS/2.
However, if you look around, you'll find some that do write UNIX/Linux apis.
Your barcode scanner will be a simple serial/usb interface. It may not even have a driver.
The cash drawer and credit card reader may or may not have an interface. I'm using ones from various manufacters. I'll look on monday to see if they have *nix drivers.
You probably want to look at the individual devices and see what you can find. I know that large retailers here in the US often use *nix for their systems. (I think Lowe's uses it, for example.)
IBM may be a good bet for *nix integration.
If it's possible please also give me the information to buy the device from. Virtual shop (website) is also OK. We are in Indonesia as the hint if you have the information of the shop where we can buy the device in offline-way.
Being in Indonesia, I'm surprised you don't have local suppliers.
-- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com
I was looking into this area a few years ago, as i was in the progress of starting my own company. There were quite a few POS applications for Linux. IF you decide in developing you own propriety system it shouldn't be much of a problem either. Have you made any searches online? http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Linux+point+of+sale+system&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 yields a lot of interesting hits. There is a Swedish company called Torex that does POS systems for restaurants, complete with scanners, touchscreens, creditcards and such. They service /amon others) Hotels, Fashion, Giftshops, Fastfood and a lot more. They run their application on either Windows or Linux platforms. Fast and easy to learn, Very versatile. http://www.torex.se/ You may want to take a look into that. -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j@rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob: : +46 (0)763 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >