Touch Screen Software

[mpen]

I've managed to aquire a touch screen till with all the bits and bobs and I'm looking for some software suitable for a sandwich shop, can anybody recomend any or has anyone any for sale, it use to run geller software but at £500 a go its a bit out my price range.

thanks
Mark

[FireFleur]

Jump to unix, you will pay a bit more per hour to have custom software developed but it will be developed quicker and more robustly on the whole.

As for standard stuff:

http://www.conan.de/touchscreen/evtouch.html

Touch Screen software is no different to pointer driven software, once the driver is in place.

You could have the system built to run on an intranet in firefox in kiosk mode, or a GUI.

There are some projects already done for EPOS:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/tuxshop/

[movietub]

POS maid is inexpensive (in fact dirt cheap) and works with touch screen well. We used it in our shop and quickly realised it is really designed with the catering trade in mind.

[bigmouth241]

I'll second the "go to Linux \ Unix" thing.

Loads of open source \ free stuff out there which is great.

Also, I'm not sure on pricing but we've been supporting MiniPOS at a client site & thats not bad.

[bovine]

why on earth would he want to get his own software developed? That would be just daft. Im in the epos industry and the systems now need to be have a lot of functionality - some of these packages have been developed for years and we are still requesting new features on a daily basis. There really is no point re-inventing the wheel.

When sourcing your software, make sure it can look after eat in and takeaway vat shifts(assuming you have an eat in area) - take special note if using systems that werent devleoped for the uk.

I would have suggested ICRtouch software setup by a local dealer, but this would be out of your price range. To be honest for epos software i would be looking at £400 - 500 per pos licence with £200-300 setup and programming (which would include valuable support). We sometimes get customers coming to us with cheap touchscreens they bought online, but when they factor in our additional costs to get software, get it setup and running it would have been cheaper to buy from us in the first place!

Obviously im biased though:)

edit - just a point with regards unix/linux etc - make sure you can get a touchscreen driver that works with your screen before spending too much time loooking at this. There are a few different screens used and they are not all the same and generally need different drivers to work and allow you to calibrate them. If you dont have the right one, it wont work.

[movietub]

why on earth would he want to get his own software developed? That would be just daft. Im in the epos industry and the systems now need to be have a lot of functionality - some of these packages have been developed for years and we are still requesting new features on a daily basis. There really is no point re-inventing the wheel.

When sourcing your software, make sure it can look after eat in and takeaway vat shifts(assuming you have an eat in area) - take special note if using systems that werent devleoped for the uk.

I would have suggested ICRtouch software setup by a local dealer, but this would be out of your price range. To be honest for epos software i would be looking at £400 - 500 per pos licence with £200-300 setup and programming (which would include valuable support). We sometimes get customers coming to us with cheap touchscreens they bought online, but when they factor in our additional costs to get software, get it setup and running it would have been cheaper to buy from us in the first place!

Obviously im biased though:)

edit - just a point with regards unix/linux etc - make sure you can get a touchscreen driver that works with your screen before spending too much time loooking at this. There are a few different screens used and they are not all the same and generally need different drivers to work and allow you to calibrate them. If you dont have the right one, it wont work.

I agree with that completely!

When I was looking for new ecommerce hosting people kept telling me to get my own database and backend developed for the website. Realistically whats already available at the top end costs £100k + to develop and has all the functionality you could ever need.

for example if the POS software needs to do something special then choose a system with a few bolt ons that costs £200 p/m to rent. Expensive but no where near as expensive as working with programmers for 12 months only to discover you need to write in new functionality a year later!

Never any need to write your own software unless your entire business hangs off the fact that the software is both unique and worthless to anyone else. If it's concievable a few other people will need the same type of software it will be out there somewhere.

[Pap_sak]

try these guys, they have a down loadable demo. Paid for the unlocked version and am very happy. Down load it and see if it works, decent price too.

http://denverresearch.com/

[coreyspeed]

I have been looking at using this software,

openbravo pos openbravo.com/product/pos/

it is competly free and works on both windows and linux, i would suggest waiting for the new version to be released, as there is a lot more functionalty.

very good software.

[Jamesevans]

Hi. I'm looking to buy a distribution licence / source code for EPoS outward for my business to resell.

Please let me know if anyone can help.

Cheets

[airposjen]

PLEASE don't go spending lots of money on an ePOS system when you can get really powerful and robust software which won't break the bank!

I suggest testing out AirPOS which will run on Android, Windows, iOS (by March 30)

You can download a free trial at airpointofsale.com and it's free to use forever for one till in one location. You pay £30 per month per till after that.

Let me know what you think!