Re: [SL] newbie question regarding laptop POS

[Matt J. <sir...@gm...>]

PARTIALLY OFF TOPIC

Hey man!

No comfort here, except to say that you have asked what I've been putting
off wondering, since I run Joomla! with VirtueMart as well for my site-based
sales.

I have actually been looking around for alternatives, because I am tired of
fooling with odd SEO, flaky checkout and such on VirtueMart, wondering if
there is a simpler, clearer alternative out there.

For example, I have been very interested in Volusion, especially if it can
offer me just turnkey, guaranteed rock-solid checkout (that doesn't fail or
give errors at random times to my customers) and guaranteed best-in-class
SEO and marketing help. Sucks that it isn't FREE FREE FREE, but hey, I am
learning you can't trip over a dollar to save a dime.

I am tired of fooling around...I have lost so many sales due to flaky, too
long, error-prone checkout. SEO has actually not been too too terrible, but
it is still inconsistent and gives me the "grass is greener on the other
side of the fence" feeling that there is something that is a better VALUE
out there, see?

Anyhow, back on track, I would be very interested in what you are interested
in. Even a pan-solution solution, a generic import that could be reworked
from csv exports and such, would be sweet. I tried the generic SQL-Ledger
import thing and it didn't work for me. Kept failing out.

I wonder if we could pool some monetary resources and get this added to the
project on a faster-track basis.

Anyhow, just putting my vote in and saying HI to a fellow Joomla/VirtueMart
user!

Best,
Matt




On 3/15/07, Hall Family <hei...@io...> wrote:
>
> Hello, this has probably come up before but I can't find the answer I'm
> looking for.
> I have a mixed OS environment consisting of the following computers
> (Linux server - Kubuntu server edition  - household lan )
> Mac G3 - 10.3.9
> Windows XP Home
> Compaq Presario 1685 Laptop ( non-wireless but does have ethernet ) this
> will be the GPS and POS machine
> and finally another linux server that my websites are hosted on in
> another city where I do NOT have root access nor postgresql capability.
>
> My thoughts are this.
> I would like to be able to have a central place where my accounting
> takes place that is accessible from any of the other machines.
> I'm thinking the laptop would be a good candidate for this as it will
> need to be used when we go to craft shows and such to sell our
> products.  I doubt we will have wireless capability because most are in
> farm country.
> I need it to store the credit card processing information and sale
> history, print a receipt/invoice for the customer.
> I use joomla as my CMS and Virtuemart as my ecommerce software.
> My ideal scenario is that sql-ledger would be able to import via csv or
> some other method my days activities ( virtuemart uses mysql ) and
> updates its accounting accordingly.  Lacking that we don't do so much
> business via the net that we couldn't enter them by hand for now.
> but when we come home from shows, we need to be able to synchronize the
> data thats on the laptop with the server. ( if its not the main machine
> already ).  Similarly when we are in the office at home I want to be
> able to access the sql-ledger program from any of the desktop machines
> or laptop be it xp or mac or even the linux clients.
>
> I don't know the best way to install/build sql-ledger to fit my needs,
> or if it really will.  I'm not very good at accounting and really am
> tired of looking.  I would really appreciate any and all help.
> Thanks
> Troy
>
>
>
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Regards,
Matt