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We used Elementary OS for our point-of-sale systems at our small chain of resale clothing stores. It's been very solid, and my staff, who are not technically in

We used Elementary OS for our point-of-sale systems at our small chain of resale clothing stores. It's been very solid, and my staff, who are not technically inclined at all, have no trouble with it. We're super happy with this choice.

noobermin 6y ago
Can you share more details? Kind of cool to hear linux being deployed in non technical businesses.
- _spduchamp 6y ago
  We resell clothes and all our inventory comes from our customers. We have buyers on site that examine and select items from pieces that customers bring in. We price the items and give the customer 25% of that price in cash or we give them 50% store credit which lasts forever and works at all our locations (currently 3). When my wife started the business, all the credit notes were slips of paper in cardboard boxes. We'd have to chat over to the other stores to resolve credit when customers came in to use it and we were at a breaking point. After looking at several POS systems and not finding anything that met our needs, I hired a local dev company to build a POS system using Ember-electron front-end and a Solidus/Rails API on the backend. We extended Solidus to support a buying process and customer credit. That project was then handed to me to finish and bring in to production. I failed dearly. I was in way over my head trying to get this all working. I can maintain code, but I can't craft a thing like that. By sheer luck and connections I found a fantastic developer who we hired to finish and continue developing the system. She continues to develop and extend the system and It's been working really well. The physical terminals are NUCs with Elo Touch screens and Cherry industrial keyboards. NUCs run Elementary OS, and we have our custom Ember-electron POS app running on there that talks to the API running on AWS. The terminals have 2D barcode scanners, and print to various networked printers for receipts, trade slips, hangtags, and price stickers. They're also semi-integrated with our keypad terminal for card transactions. The backend is a JSON API built on Solidus core. If you have any questions, let me know.

noobermin 6y ago

Can you share more details? Kind of cool to hear linux being deployed in non technical businesses.

_spduchamp 6y ago
We resell clothes and all our inventory comes from our customers. We have buyers on site that examine and select items from pieces that customers bring in. We price the items and give the customer 25% of that price in cash or we give them 50% store credit which lasts forever and works at all our locations (currently 3). When my wife started the business, all the credit notes were slips of paper in cardboard boxes. We'd have to chat over to the other stores to resolve credit when customers came in to use it and we were at a breaking point. After looking at several POS systems and not finding anything that met our needs, I hired a local dev company to build a POS system using Ember-electron front-end and a Solidus/Rails API on the backend. We extended Solidus to support a buying process and customer credit. That project was then handed to me to finish and bring in to production. I failed dearly. I was in way over my head trying to get this all working. I can maintain code, but I can't craft a thing like that. By sheer luck and connections I found a fantastic developer who we hired to finish and continue developing the system. She continues to develop and extend the system and It's been working really well. The physical terminals are NUCs with Elo Touch screens and Cherry industrial keyboards. NUCs run Elementary OS, and we have our custom Ember-electron POS app running on there that talks to the API running on AWS. The terminals have 2D barcode scanners, and print to various networked printers for receipts, trade slips, hangtags, and price stickers. They're also semi-integrated with our keypad terminal for card transactions. The backend is a JSON API built on Solidus core. If you have any questions, let me know.