On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 03:08:20PM +1200, William Hamilton wrote: > I am after some comments form people using SL as a point of sale > application. I have a client who has asked me to develop an application > to track sales, inventory and commissions for sales people in the store. > > SL sprung to mind as a good option.. any comments or experiances?
Yeah. You'll definately want to review their business procedure for the POS transaction. Then what you do is customize a module for that procedure. For example... does your client want this POS app to hook into an existing accounting system? There's a couple modifications you'll want to add in. For example, ripping out the javascript code from google.com that puts the cursor onto the first input field. This allows the cash register person to quickly type in codes and press enter (which automatically "updates"). Same with barcodes. Then, do a homepage that links directly to the POS screen. Like I said. I can put a copy of the modifications I made for this business -- if you *really* want it. It's crusty, and uses the 1.6.x stuff. The POS module was cobbled together by combining the customer search and inventory sent (invoice) modules together. Your app will look very different, because you'll want to have seperate accounts for each of the sales people, password protected, and something that allows them to look up items, enter them in, and automatically figures out commissions. -Qaexl- http://www.next-horizons.com/qaexl/
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