Re: POS features
I have been thinking more about the POS options. I wasn't sure where the best place would be to place these thoughts in the WIKI so I will do one more post here with my thoughts.
There are two different approaches that I think could work here fairly easily.
Idea #1:
Modify the "Direct Invoice" feature to do the following additional things:
a. Calculate Change from an "Amount Tendered" field if the payment method is "Cash"
b. Give the Option to "Print Receipt" for the customer after the sale.
c. Have a credit card # field and Expiration Date fields for typing or using a card swiper to fill in the credit card # and exp. date for processing credit cards through a payment gateway. (Authorize.net)
d. That also means that there would need to be a place to add payment processor info. just like a variety of ecommerce shopping carts have. (Paypal, Authorize.net, etc.)
Idea #2:
Don't have a POS system in Front Accounting, but make it very quick to do a "Direct Invoice" to multiple Sales Orders in Front Accounting.
That would allow people to use other POS systems and all they would have to do is get all their sales data into the Front Accounting database as "Sales Orders"
This could be done fairly easily through an "Import Orders" function. I think there are already import features being worked on for importing orders from websites.
**The key would be to get all your orders from your POS system into Front Accounting as Sales Orders and then be able to do a "Mass Direct Invoice" on all those sales orders to do all the debits and credits for those sales without having to spend a ton of time doing delivery and invoicing and payments on all those sales orders one at a time.**
Maybe under the "Invoice against Sales Delivery" there could be an option called "Mass Direct Invoice Sales Orders" or something like that which would take you to a screen that shows you a list of your sales orders with a check box by each sales order that you could select and then hit a button called "Process Orders" or something like that which would then do everything that a Direct Invoice would do on those orders your selected.
Anyways, I really like this idea, because it makes it so people can use specialized POS systems for their individual needs and then quickly get their sales data into Front Accounting where with a few clicks of a button all their accounting can be done on those sales orders that have already been delivered and paid for at the point of sale.
A feature like this might also be appreciated by those who are importing their sales data from their websites.
Well, hopefully my thoughts made sense. I am up for helping on either idea, both with time and money if someone is up for getting either one of these ideas in place. Let me know your thoughts and if you have other ideas.
