@ovnicraft, I'm not going to vote because I don't know those solutions enough. However I give you a few ideas:
- when I need my customer to only use a POS marginally, say to encode less than 5 orders per hour, then I use the sale_simple_pos module I made in trunk addons community along with the other handy modules described in the module description. Now, I agree this isn't a true POS. It's only that is cost 0 to use now, and because it uses the sale.order object under the cover nearly every OpenERP extension module (like tax_include, product configurator, visible discount etc) will work with it. I know a few guys also say they are using the official pos module in addons. But I think he doesn't have a lots more feature, won't work with any plugin because not based on the sale.order object and has some dubvious code I would myself never use. - If I could in Brazil, I think I would use OpenbravoPOS or some POS from the same family. I think now it just pretty easy to set up (I mean for an IT guy don't get me wrong). Indeed Openbravo themselves tell no better way to connect OpenBravoPOS than connecting to it Openbravo ERP using a simple Kettle ETL transformation: http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Openbravo_POS_Integration Well, there has always been the NaNTic Kettle plugin for OpenERP https://launchpad.net/openerp-kettle . But I think we recently did better (no offense) by allowing OOOR http://github.com/rvalyi/ooor , the Ruby - OpenERP connector to run inside a Kettle step (thanks to fellow JRuby over JSR 223). That means, not only do create/read/update/delete into OpenERP (like the NaNTic plugin) but actually do anything you would do in a client in just a few lines of child script (see the OOOR API). We will publish a more detailed how to soon, but be aware we are already using it for a French customer (for automatic bank reconciliation with real heterogeneous bank files) and fellow hackers can get the bits reading: http://github.com/rvalyi/jripple http://forums.pentaho.org/showthread.php?t=74137 All right, Openbravo ERP also uses a small ERP plugin to do the trick. But honestly, I think the module we made (along with Openlabs): base_external_referentials (in extra addons branch) + base_sale_multichannels do just all that and much more probably; they are used as the generic infrastructure under the cover of the new Magento connector https://launchpad.net/magentoerpconnect . So hell, it should just be fucking easy from there: just rip the Kettle transfo Openbravo made here http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Openbravo_POS_Integration and adapt it to OpenERP + the module I cited if required. Should be a piece of cake for an IT guy. All right, so quite easy. I think I can replicate the same level of integration of OpenbravoPOS/OpenERP integration in OpenERP in something like 8 days myself (so you folks know my quote ;-), meanwhile anybody is welcome to do it too, we will be happy with it). Now, I should say that unfortunately in Brazil, point of sale systems have to be officially certified to print "fiscal notes" and there is now way I know for OpenbravoPOS to fit in that mafia system in the near future unfortunately (hey Lula couldn't get rid of all the bastards anyway ;-) . That's why the guys I know (mostly Cloves Almeida), rather went for a laborious integration with existing legacy and cheap point of sale system. He specified his work here if one want to get in touch with him: http://bluwiki.com/go/OpenERP_POS All right I hope I gave some insights for decent POS on OpenERP. ------------------------ Raphaël Valyi CEO and OpenERP consultant at http://www.akretion.com -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=49017#49017 -------------------- m2f --------------------
_______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman2/listinfo/tinyerp-users
