RE: POS with integratable backend

2004-01-30 Thread Ryan Kime
I haven't worked with it, but IBM has a POS line of hardware and software. The software is Java-based and the GUI screen templates are designed using XML (SureVision). Might be worth checking out, though it could be overkill: http://www.pc.ibm.com/store/products/ Dell is also selling POS syst

Re: POS with integratable backend

2004-01-30 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:57 PM 1/29/04 -0500, Matt Liotta wrote: >My brother is starting a retail business that needs to purchase a POS >for. I am not really familiar with the POS market and haven't been >impressed with what he has found so far. I'd like to see a POS that I believe that Simply Accounting (http://www

Re: POS with integratable backend

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Liotta
Indeed, see another email in this thread where this was addressed. -Matt On Jan 30, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Jim Davis wrote: > I thought that Intuit had such a beastie - something that integrated > directly with QuickBooks. > > > I looked a while ago and if I remember correctly the whole shebang - >

RE: POS with integratable backend

2004-01-29 Thread Jim Davis
I thought that Intuit had such a beastie - something that integrated directly with QuickBooks. I looked a while ago and if I remember correctly the whole shebang - with hardware - was less that $2,000.  I'm not sure how random-accessible the datastore is, but most Quicken software has some capab

Re: POS with integratable backend

2004-01-29 Thread walker
The version I have experience with drives 5 bikes stores in the SF bay area. I think the internal db is oracle. I would take a look at it, there are a ton of other companies writing extensions to the system. One co built an ecommerce solution that ties into it, another si writing a purchasing a

Re: POS with integratable backend

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Liotta
I looked into Intuit's, but it didn't appear to offer an integratable backend. It does integrate with Quickbooks, so maybe some of the same integration techniques used with Quickbooks would work, but I understand that API not to be very good. In regard to Retail Pro, how was it? I'm scared to s

Re: POS with integratable backend

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Liotta
Maybe I was unclear or missed what I am looking for on that site. I am   talking about a POS system deployed in a retail operation. You know,   the cash register thing. -Matt On Jan 29, 2004, at 11:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something like this? > > http://www.instantestore.com/default.cf

Re: POS with integratable backend

2004-01-29 Thread walker
I've worked with Retail Pro- http://www.retailpro.com/ Robust system, and you can talk to the database. Might not be ideal for "small retail". Have you checked out Intuit's POS system? Might be nice to have something that integrates with Quickbooks. -w At 08:57 PM 1/29/2004, you wrote: >My br

Re: POS with integratable backend

2004-01-29 Thread peter . tilbrook
Something like this? http://www.instantestore.com/default.cfm?XID=1 Peter Tilbrook Transitional Services - Enterprise eSolutions Centrelink (http://www.centrelink.gov.au) 2 Faulding Street Symonston ACT 2609 Tel: (02) 62115927