I have a more clear idea on what I'm after now...
Is it possible to have a separate "Kiosk" style setup in filemaker that
can access my existing Filemaker database? E.g; one file containing my
inventory and contact tables, the other (Kiosk) generating invoices and
operating the POS system?
Please excuse me if it seems obvious, I'm a bit of a novice!
Cheers,
Lewis
On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:11:20 +1000, Lewis <lewisb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi Harry,
> We just bought a cash drawer/receipt printer & Barcode scanner which
> hooks up via USB.
> I guess the problem I'm having is we already have a very complex
> Filemaker database in use (with our inventory mirrored on our website),
> and I'm having trouble getting my head around how to incor****ate a
> standard retail pos into the equation. I was hoping someone here might
> have an fp7 I might have a peak at?
> To Nicolay,
> Fileworker does look suitable, but I'm assuming it is not open source,
> I'd like to be able to tweak it... unfortunately Ich spreche kein
> Deutsch!
> I found something similar here,
> http://www.christianjames.net/products.html
but that seems like an
> all-in-one solution.
> Thank you both very much for your helpful suggestions!
> Cheers,
> Lewis
>
> On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:04:13 +1000, Helpful Harry
> <helpful_harry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On 2008-07-03 04:19:17 +0200, Lewis <lewisb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>> I'm wondering if anybody has had any success with incor****ating a
point
>>> of sale type system into filemaker?
>>> Is there a plugin of somesort available?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Lewis
>>
>> A well-built FileMaker solution can act as a full cash register / POS
>> system quite easily.
>>
>> For a small shop you can get away with just a computer and printer
>> running FileMaker (regularly backed up with backups stored off-site of
>> course). No plug-ins are needed. The user simply manually enteres data
>> via a keyboard, perhaps picking items using a two-step pop-up menu
>> system, eg. menu one says "Food Items" and menu two narrows down
>> products to just food so they can choose "Cadbury Chocolate Bar".
>>
>> For a more "sophisticated" (read as "expensive") system you can add a
>> handheld barcode scanner and even an electronically opening cash
>> drawer, but you would probably need at least one plug-in so that
>> FileMaker can choose which "printer" to use (the printer for the
>> receipt or the "printer" to open the cash drawer) at the appropriate
>> step in the process. The barcode scanner itself doesn't need a plug-in
>> and can be set-up to convert the barcode to the appropriate code number
>> and then tab to the next field (either Quantity to be manually entered
>> or the net item line ready for the next scanned code), with the
>> operator starting and ending each transaction process.
>>
>> I've never looked into it, but it may even be possible to link the
>> FileMaker solution to credit card / EFT-POS / cash card purchases as
>> well, but many shops do these as two separate processes anyway.
>>
>> Helpful Harry
>> Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hard****ps
>> ;o)
>>
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