Ugh... bad netiquette replying to myself... fifty lashes... Check out OpenBravo POS: http://www.openbravo.com/product/pos/ Openbravo is the new incarnation of TinaPOS, which looked cool and then died a while back.
Also when I search Sourceforge, I tend to sort on 'last file' date to weed out projects that have languished on the SF servers for years with no updates. Rubin On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:44 -0400, Rubin Bennett wrote: > Not free, but may fit what you're looking for: > http://www.merchantos.com/sign-up/ > > More generic options: > http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=point+of > +sale&type_of_search=soft&pmode=0&words=%22point+of+sale% > 22&Search=Search > > There are a number of pieces to keep in mind when deploying a point of > sale solution: > Inventory > Sales > Registers/ cash drawers > Back office functionality > Services: How to charge for Tune-ups/ overhauls, etc. Also how to do > things that have 'recipes', like changing a flat: Labor rate Plus > part(s). > > My very first network (back in 1995) was a Bicycle shop POS system, back > in the bad old days of WFW3.11 and LANTastic (oh, the horror!). I used > Checkpoint (a fairly ugly but functional POS system based on FoxPro, and > we also used Bike-a-log for cataloging parts and ordering. I was the > service manager of the shop and my boss and his wife needed a new > network set up in the new, 15,000 square foot store we were building. > > We had wands for scanning barcodes, barcode printers, 4 registers, a > receiving workstation, a server, and 4 backoffice workstations. I had > no freakin' idea what I was doing back then, but I got it working. > > If you need help I may be able to offer some guidance; I do love my > bicycles (just bought my first bike in 14 years... a Cannondale Rush 5L! > Now I just need to get out and ride the damn thing :) > > Rubin > > > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 10:55 -0400, Paul Flint wrote: > > Greetings List Lurkers, > > > > Does anyone out there have any recommendations for software to operate a > > Bicycle Rental and Repair store? Some of the requirements include: > > > > 1. Standard Point of Sale > > 2. Rental Form > > 3. Reservation via web > > > > These are notional and I am currently thinking flexibility. > > > > Maybe Sugar CRM? > > > > Regards, > > > > Flint > > > > /************************************ > > Based upon email reliability concerns, > > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > > > Paul Flint > > Barre Open Systems Institute > > 17 Averill Street > > Barre, VT > > 05641 > > > > http://www.bosivt.org > > http://www.flint.com/home > > skype: flintinfotech > > Work: (202) 537-0480 > > Fax: (703) 852-7089 > > > > Consilium > > gratuitum .~. > > valet /V\ > > quanti /( )\ > > numerantur ^^-^^ -- Rubin Bennett RB Technologies http://thatitguy.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802)223-4448 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor safety" --Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
