um, actually i was thinking more along the lines of setting up a POS for your business lang, and not sell POS solutions. So in that case, business owners really have to order from accredited suppliers? If that's the case...then there's really no chance of LemonPOS being used as a live POS unless a supplier implements it in one of their products? Yah, not surprised about the SM thing; they pretty much lord it over their tenants. --- On Wed, 4/21/10, Johann Vincent Paul Tagle <[email protected]> wrote: From: Johann Vincent Paul Tagle <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [plug] "DIY" POS and the BIR To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 21 April, 2010, 7:07 PM You will need BIR accreditation, and from thereon you can sell you POS solution - I'm not sure if BIR also requires this but I guess to be competitive with other POS providers you should bundle in the BIR permit processing (you need one per installation) to your offering. To sell to stores who will set up shop at malls though, you also have to comply with mall requirements - interfacing with their system to report sales, etc. SM also requires hardware certified by them - they no longer allow use of desktop CPU - has to be "POS hardware", though I saw some who assembled their own and got it successfully accredited. Hope this helps Johann On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:49 PM, plug bert <[email protected]> wrote: Hello All, Just curious: is it possible for any business establishment to set up its own POS from off the shelf hardware and open source POS software? Does it need to be certified/registered with the BIR, or should businesses acquire POS software/hardware from certain certified/licensed providers only? From what i hear a baseline POS already costs something like 80k; just wondering if it's possible to DIY the thing, say with an old pc running Ubuntu and LemonPOS. tia _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- Web application and database consulting: www.sagadasolutions.com -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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