I have been doing some checking, and I can see that OFBiz has support for barcode readers for POS, and I assume for inventory control. I have not, yet, figured out what I'd need to do in porder to configure any of that. However, I have just learned something today that changes my views of what is needed for what I want to do, but seems to add a wrinkle to the process of configuring barcode reading in OFBiz.
I just learned that for any cell phone brand, there is a wide range of barcode reading apps (though some fo these are targetted toward consumers' interest in comparison shopping, looking for the best price for their purchases). Thus, my question is two part: 1) Where will I find instructions for the general task of configuring OFBiz and generic barcode readers to work both with the task of inventory control on the one hand and handling sales through POS on the other? 2) In what way(s) does the use of a cell phone along with one of those barcode reading apps change what needs to be done in order to use them to take inventory and hanlde sales through POS? Presumably, in the realm of ecommerce, the bar code reading would be involved in the vendors shipping departmnt as they gathr product to ship and then ship to the customer, and of course that would need to be configured. I imagine the user will have a browser open to his account in a n OFBiz site, and the barcode reading app installed, on his cellphone. So, how would one have the result of the barcode reading process sent to the browser, which in turn sends that data (if correct) along with a user entered number representing the number of products counted/bought to the server? I would expect that this would significantly reduce the cost of equipment the business would need to use as well as allowing, e.g. general contractors and subcontractors to take inventory on their jobsites (i.e. well away from their warehouses and the technologies found there) - with obvious advantages that would result from that. Thanks Ted
