Can you check out my POS for Phoenix Cart?

[frankl]

Nearly finished!

https://youtu.be/gu6WW8zhyI4

[burt]

Looks great!
What is the `real life` use, that a shopowner might use it for?

[BrockleyJohn]

Looks great!
What is the `real life` use, that a shopowner might use it for?

It does look slick; presumably it's an interface for staff to serve customers in the shopowner's bricks-and-mortar store, while keeping all the stock control and order/payment records in Phoenix.

Point-Of-Sale & stock systems are surprisingly expensive and then you have to do a stock/orders integration with Phoenix on top to keep the stock figures in sync.

Nowadays POS & stock systems are cloud-based so there's no additional dependency on your internet connection by relying on Phoenix being available and you're saving $$s a month on SaaS fees.

For many retailers you'd want at least barcode as a search option too, (if not a direct add by barcode field) and I guess that scanning a serial number barcode against a product during checkout could be supported through the Add a Note option.

The sort of additional things that a purpose-built POS system does is send the amount to the card machine on a card payment, open the till drawer on a cash payment, print the receipt without intervention. Of these, depending on how careful the staff are, it's quite possible the most important is sending the correct amount to the card machine. In the UK there's an online API with Payment Sense that can do this for many of the card terminal providers.

I suspect that in real life you'll need to be able to sell things in store whose entries are incomplete for publication and possibly have some products that are collect only.

[burt]

I'm thinking it might be used to create an Order for customer who is unable to use the Internet in the normal way?

[ecartz]

For many retailers you'd want at least barcode as a search option too, (if not a direct add by barcode field) and I guess that scanning a serial number barcode against a product during checkout could be supported through the Add a Note option.

Or just products_model. Maybe a new action? Barcode readers are surprisingly easy to set up if you can get the system to show the right web page. Possibly a shopping cart content module with an auto-focused text input. Or even have the form configured into the bar reader.

[frankl]

For many retailers you'd want at least barcode as a search option too, (if not a direct add by barcode field) and I guess that scanning a serial number barcode against a product during checkout could be supported through the Add a Note option.

Good idea. Search by GTIN, if GTIN matches automatcally add to cart.

The sort of additional things that a purpose-built POS system does is send the amount to the card machine on a card payment, open the till drawer on a cash payment, print the receipt without intervention. Of these, depending on how careful the staff are, it's quite possible the most important is sending the correct amount to the card machine. In the UK there's an online API with Payment Sense that can do this for many of the card terminal providers.

I checked out how to add a card machine / interface. From what I see it is quite complicated, but doable.

For now there are 2 simple payment options in frankPOS - cash, and credit card (where credit card is processed separately, and then the last 4 digits of the card are entered into the POS sale as a reference).

Till drawer opens with a signal from the (usually thermal) receipt printer.