Hank szrezter has one built on 4d. He has been selling it for a long while
Regards Chuck Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 3, 2019, at 12:38 PM, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dave, > One of the first big 4D projects I took on was interfacing 4D with an OS/2 > based POS system. From that I tinkered with the idea of writing one for a > while. It's certainly doable and I'm sure some enterprising Devs have > accomplished it. That said I would suggest you look at whatever task you > need to accomplish from a results oriented perspective. > > If the requirements are pretty low volume and you anticipate them staying > that way you may want to roll your own POS to accommodate. > > If the expectation or current need is fairly robust then the POS system > needs to be more than a bolt-on solution. In this case I'd look at existing > solutions with an eye toward the best fit for the client AND ease of > interfacing with the 4D app. > > POS is one of those things that in theory is pretty straightforward but it > is a massive crate of devilish details with added benefit of needing to > interface with various flavors of hardware and payment processing. What > fun! Throw in a smattering of accounting, user training and so on and it > just gets better and better. > > Like I say, if the scope of your needs are narrow you may be better off > doing your own. Otherwise let a POS company worry with that stuff and > concentrate on how to get your database to pull the good parts out of their > system. > > To return to my opening story that is exactly what my database did. It > pulled a daily data dump from the POS system and converted this into data > we were using. This was a restaurant so we wanted menu analysis, bar > inventory, accounting, and so on. There was a similar process for the time > clock (different system back then) and all those data were aggregated for > payroll, accounting and management. Pretty cool for the late '80s. > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 5:03 AM Dave Tenen via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> To all of the 4D universe, >> >> Does anyone have any experience with a 4D based POS systems? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Dave Tenen >> >> >> Personal Chef >> >> Coming to you from Spec Pond and I swear the fish was >> [----------------------------------------------------------------] >> this big!!!! >> >> [email protected] >> >> ********************************************************************** >> 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) >> Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html >> Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech >> Unsub: mailto:[email protected] >> ********************************************************************** > > > > -- > Kirk Brooks > San Francisco, CA > ======================= > > What can be said, can be said clearly, > and what you can’t say, you should shut up about > > *Wittgenstein and the Computer * > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
