Open Source Point of Sale Reviews

Hello this is a great application but when I used this app then I found a small bug in this application. I'm using Win 7 (64bit), with Mozilla Firefox 17.0 and have enable flash player 11.5. Now what happens when I run Graphical report then it does not load flash movie i.e in our case graphical view is not visible for me.Since I;m new in this field and may be I did some mistake but is any one know what and where I'm missing something. or there is a but in this app for particular scenario.

opensourcepos, thanks!

My wife just loves this for her shop, very intuitive, easy to use and not overly complicated.

That being said the environment I am using it in is not high pressure fast paced sales, and the extra pointing and clicking is a small price to pay for the reporting and inventory control that OS POS offers.

Hello, I have a "Portugues BR" traduction include in "Open_Source_Point_of_Sale_2.0" if you want french version mail me ... mullernato@yahoo.com.br I made some changes in the system, I want to participate in the development of Open source point of sale, you can add me to commit??

Hello, I have a "french" traduction include in "Open_Source_Point_of_Sale_2.0" if you want french version mail me ... J'ai créé une traduction Française de la version "Open_Source_Point_of_Sale_2.0" et l'ai intégrée au package, si vous ête intéressé, envoyer moi un mail. rocks.laurent@gmail.com

Hi AK, Reason is due to the cart items stored in the cookie is being limited by the cookie 4KB limit. A workaround is to save the cart session in the database. Search the forum for "shopping cart" for the workaround. Posted by Achilles Kiwanuka — 2012-06-26 Was this review helpful? | Quite good app! However i was surprised that it can only sell seven (7) items in both sales register and items receiving register! Any solution to this?

Useful project, thanks!

Quite good app! However i was surprised that it can only sell seven (7) items in both sales register and items receiving register! Any solution to this?

cool apps. very clear and simple. also easy to use (custom also)... and thanks, it's codeigniter

Excellent work.

Very Good, I recommend it!

Nice and Easy to use.

This is a great piece of software. Being PHP based and open code has made it easy to make a few minor changes without re inventing the wheel.

this program works very friendly.

Fantastic project. Great job. Thanks for description !

With a bit of PHP experience and a basic LAMP setup, this thing works beautifully!

error loading if user change language to Indonesia... error with database i think.

I will be rolling this out to run a small specialty retail store next week. I am not sure how well this would work in a high volume fast paced environment, the programming would hold up, but the interface being browser based does not seem to lend itself to quick keyboard commands and field tabbing, lots of pointing and clicking. That being said the environment I am using it in is not high pressure fast paced sales, and the extra pointing and clicking is a small price to pay for the reporting and inventory control that OS POS offers. Being PHP based and open code has made it easy to make a few minor changes without re inventing the wheel. This is a great piece of software.

Great OS for POS applications

Evidently this program started as a student project some years ago and was known as PHP Point Of Sale. The original version was limited and didn't have enough features to suit any serious business. The project appeared to be shelved for some time then re-emerged and was developed to a point where it was of use to some types of small business. The author's Forum attracted a lot of attention and many requests for additional features were posted. Shorly after version 11.3 of PHP Point Of Sale was released the author announced it was going commercial and users would have to pay for the program in future. Version 11.5 was donated to this new project so a free open source version would still be available for use and ongoing development. After some "rebranding" PHP Point Of Sale 11.5 became Open Source Point Of Sale 1.0. The program is web based and requires a web server, a MySQL database, the PHP script interpreter, and Javascript to be enabled in the user's web browser. A tool which is almost essential is a graphical front end for the database, such as phpMyAdmin, SQL Buddy, or something similar. The popular choice is phpMyAdmin and that is included in integrated server packages such as XAMPP and WAMP. Electronic point of sale (EPOS) programs are "horses for courses". A program which is ideal for one user may not suit other users at all. One of the good things about free open source programs is that they can be tried and tested as much as necessary at no cost. The home page of Open Source Point Of Sale 1.0 is the same as PHP Point Of Sale apart from the name. Frankly it looks rather "Mickey Mouse" wih the business name overlapping the first image link, the word "config" hanging down over the date and time, and some of the images and hyperlinks off the page. That doesn't affect the functionality, though, and those points can be fixed quite easily if someone has the interest and time to do it. Adverse criticism in the forum posts has included matters such as the number of clicks needed to process a simple sale. One message referred to the fact that the "Customer" field on the Sales screen is blank and asked if a default customer name could be made to appear in the box to save time. As an example, a generic customer name of "Cash Sale" may suit the majority of users running convenience stores with fast-moving items. But having to select that customer name for each new sale can be niggling. Whatever appears as "Customer appears on the receipt. It can be left blank but that may not be desirable. Setting the configuration of the store is logical and straightforward. Similarly with Suppliers, Items, Item Kits, and Customers. Existing lists of Items and Customers can be imported from CSV (Comma Separated Values) files. Earlier version of the original program imported from files in Excel format and the option on the Items and Customers screens is still shown as "Excel Import". Some users have experienced difficulty importing data, especially from lists with thousands of records. That is no fault of the program and importing can be done successfully by understanding what happens during an import and by paying strict attention to detail. Another way of importing data is directly into the MySQL database. That may take more understanding and practice. One user reviewed the program along with various other free and commercial products for a retailer who ran a mobility shop. Among the other programs were WASP (commercial), Proffit Center (free), Retail Man (commercial). Also some shopping cart programs were evaluated to see if they could be used as an over-the-counter EPOS system. The short answer to that was NO, mainly because of the difficulty of producing a till receipt locally and quickly. Out of all the programs tested, Open Source Point Of Sale emerged as the most suitable free offering and Retail Man the most suitable commercial product - for that particular business at that time. One upside aspect of Retail Man was that it could handle the business accounts and produce the essential financial statements such as Tax returns, the annual Trading Account and Balance Sheet (but only for the store). A downside aspect, aside from the ever-increasing license cost, was that the program was designed for Microsoft operating systems. By contrast Open Source Point Of Sale is web based, cross platform, and can be run in most modern operating systems using any one of most modern web browsers. Open Source Point Of Sale is not designed to handle business accounts but it can produce Reports which give the bottom line numbers required for the accounts. Probably there will be an ever-growing list of features which users would like to see added to the program; but for many businesses Open Source Point Of Sale will never be appropriate. Marketing critics have written that businessmen should concentrate on efficiency and profit rather than messing around with PHP programming trying to get scripts to do something they weren't designed for. Perhaps the best advice to prospective users of 'OSPOS' is to try the program "as is", test it thoroughly, ensure you know exactly what it does, check the numbers it produces and ensure they are correct - BEFORE you use the program for business. If is adequate and will do what you want at the present time it may be worthwhile pursuing. Perhaps an improved version will be released later and be better for your business. The usual cautionary note applies, though. What would happen if the developers disappeared overnight and you were stuck with what you have now? The answer is that business is an ongoing challenge and you should do continuous research into what products and services are available at what cost - in case you need them. Overall, Open Source Point Of Sale is a viable program for many small businesses and it's free! Congratulations and thanks to Chris Muench for his persistence and generosity; to Tom Pappas, and to the others who made constructive contributions to the program.