Tom Nope, the POS module runs on a local machine, not a web app. It is essentially a cash register that might be usable for walk in customers.
On the other hand, it sounds to me like you can use the eCommerce module for your needs OOTB (with some possible look and feel mods). the customer facing ecommerce code is slick, complete, and easy to customize. Using my newly acquired lingo, "AFAIK", there is nothing in Ofbiz that does the "pick up from a store or delivery from the closest store" automacigally. Assuming that the client fills in a a delivery address, it should be a simple matter to add some logic to automatically choose the store at order time. Ofbiz supports multiple stores and multiple warehouses. The backoffice UI is complete, but in my view, difficult to train users on (unlike the ecommerce code which is slick). Also, I admit my amazement that you can make money with an ecommerce grocery store with "No Inventory, no employees, no warehouse management...". You can checkout the ecommerce site here: https://demo.hotwaxmedia.com/ecommerce/ and here's a commercial site built with Ofbiz http://www.graciousstyle.com/ and here's a link to lots of users: http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Apache+OFBiz+User+List Just imaging your products and probably the removal of the blog and forum stuff. Skip -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Jiji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: ofBiz for a Super Market Thanks Skip for the clarification, but im not sure if I need it since my project is only a web ordering system Type of E-Commerce. No Inventory, no employees, no warehouse management, no cash transactions. Here is the typical use case, Client goes online, adds all his products to his cart and checks out, chooses to pick up from a store or delivery from the closest store. Then then order is emailed to the specific store and the stockboy picks and packs the order and the cashier charges it, then its delivered or picked-up. So Does the POS component help build my project ? Thanx -Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: ofBiz for a Super Market Thomas The pos module is in the "specialpurpose" directory. This is a standalone module for Point of Sale, a fancy cash register. It runs on a local machine normally with a touch screen, cash drawer, scanner, etc. It fully supports all these devices and in fact is fairly nifty. Havealook with ant run-pos It runs a standalone java client on the local machine. The UI is plain looking, but don't underestimate it functionality by that. Skip -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Jiji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: ofBiz for a Super Market Hi Jacques, No i didnt, is this component in the OOTB package or it is available in the community ? if so, where ? Im assuming that Points of Service (POS) will help implement the organization for each physical store ... Am I right ? -Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Jacques Le Roux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ofBiz for a Super Market Did you have a look at the POS component ? Jacques De : "Thomas Jiji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, Im getting ready to jump in OfBiz to build a supermarket E-Store (Multi-Facility, Pick up-Delivery, recurrent Shopping lists, recipes). I've been reading alot on ofBiz this past week but i still need a confirmation for this issue. 1) Using the ofBiz Service Engine or any other form of API, is it possible to build a Rich UI ( Lazslo, Flex ...) on top of that API ? 2)Has anyone seen a Supermarket e-store built on ofBiz, because i didnt see one the the Project List It would be much appreciated to get an answer back. Thank you. -- Thomas Jiji
