Guest Posted February 12, 2003 Share Posted February 12, 2003 I'm setting up a website for a large equine supply center, they have over 10k items, and they have no inventory setup!!! no telxon bar code pos in the store or website, its all a mental inventory of the employees, and they want to join the modern revolution or databased inventories. Has anyone ever integrated Oscommerce into any Point of Sale systems for computers in the store? This is a crucial component, because the website needs to know what was sold in the store, at the minute it was sold and vice versa with the website sales and the store inventory. Basically I need to link a point of sale system to the web database I use. Thanks in advance!!! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 12, 2003 Share Posted February 12, 2003 I'm setting up a website for a large equine supply center, they have over 10k items, and they have no inventory setup!!! no telxon bar code pos in the store or website, its all a mental inventory of the employees, and they want to join the modern revolution or databased inventories. Has anyone ever integrated Oscommerce into any Point of Sale systems for computers in the store? This is a crucial component, because the website needs to know what was sold in the store, at the minute it was sold and vice versa with the website sales and the store inventory. Basically I need to link a point of sale system to the web database I use. Thanks in advance!!! Chris We checked into this for our store and didn't find anything. So now we keep two different inventory lists (Yes, it's a pain). P.S. 10K items and no type of Inventory setup? How the hell are they staying in business? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Alternative Solution, Yeah, its pretty sad that they have no inventory system, its just 3 store managers and a host of other employees keeping a mental inventory, its extremely rudimentary for this day and age of modern databasing and online shopping, but thats ok, because now we can set them up with a system that is completely scalable so they can start small and build upon it later. For now what I'm going to do is research some different shopping cart solutions that either integrate seemlessly with a POS or write some sort of database bridge that could be executed through a cron tab, say every 30 minutes, that would make all the local and remote database changes. wouldn't be as good as being live, but would be better than having no communications between physical and virtual inventories. But for now what I'm thinking is, a different approach. I'm thinking about setting up an alternative "In Store" OSC interface of the store for the checkout. So in other words I would have two stores running with the same database, one would be hidden from the public under an obscure folder of some sort instead of catalog it would be... say "xy2l3849dkaasjja33" yeah thats it. anyways, then we would order some new computers with touch screens to place the orders when a customer comes up to the counter, that way when it checks out it automatically changes the quantity, not quite as sophisticated as having a POS with scanning and UPC, but would be a neat little band-aid so to speak. Thanks MotoZine, PS. are you involved with motocross? I race the 125/250 A class up in District 6 in NJ/PA. I just work with these here puters to actually make hay, but motocross is just so damn fun, been racing my whole life!!! Take care, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 13, 2003 Share Posted February 13, 2003 Maybe this could help ! http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...ions,577/page,4 HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdfwilliams Posted February 14, 2003 Share Posted February 14, 2003 The Manual Order Entry contibution may be a good place to start: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,585 Please keep us posted. I could really use some sort of POS interface. Thanks, Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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