I wish there was a good open-source POS 6 months ago! But I didn't find any that fit my startup's needs. I think it's awesome that you're doing this as it'll he

I wish there was a good open-source POS 6 months ago! But I didn't find any that fit my startup's needs. I think it's awesome that you're doing this as it'll help retailers a lot. We can exchange notes. A basic POS is the type of thing that should have been solved already so we can move onto newer and better things. I'm one of the co-founders of AvidTap (http://avidtap.com http://avidtap.com). We're a mobile retail company providing additional value by bringing the latest mobile technology to help retailers engage customers and enable a better way to shop. Think mobile wallet using NFC and Bluetooth LE (iBeacon), mobile loyalty, personalized experience, etc. We want all of our partner stores to be able to say hi to their customers by name, remember what their regular orders are, and just generally make it a more personal shopping experience. In the beginning we looked around for an open-source POS since we believe we'll be adding value on top of it, but unfortunately all the existing ones don't fit our needs or can't enable our target pricing. We ended up building one. For a brief look at what we do, check out our HyperDrive demo day pitch here: http://hosting.desire2learncapture.com/Communitech/1/watch/393.aspx http://hosting.desire2learncapture.com/Communitech/1/watch/3... You're spot on in terms of the pricing. When we looked at the market, we talked to people that are still using the old fashion cash registers bought at Costco between $100 to $300. Then at the other end of the spectrum there's the really expensive POS system costing $10K per station just to start. Or nowadays you can go with Square Register and get dinged a lot more per transaction than the rate an established shop would be able to get. We've been able to convert people using all of these systems to our system. My company's solution (http://avidregister.com http://avidregister.com) is a complete POS package that sells for $425 for the hardware. We also let our customers buy the hardware themselves if they want. After that it's $15/month subscription fee to help us add features, for support, and for the additional mobile features we provide. Some people really need the tech support and hand-holding. If you're interested, AvidRegister is downloadable on Android Play Store and has a demo mode. Note that it's only optimized for certain screen sizes. The good thing about it is that it'll still work if the Internet goes down. It was one of our requirements. We worked hard to get our pricing to basically the cost of an old fashion cash register so that everyone can have a modern system. That way AvidTap can then bring everyone to the mobile retail age like what Starbucks is doing already. We're using well known brands for receipt printer and cash drawer. If we use cheap no-name ones, then our hardware cost can go even lower. We also looked at potentially using Raspberry Pi but we had supply issues with that, on top of having to find touch screen that's within our price range. We ended up developing our own POS system to run on Android tablets. It's a really nice system IMO. Android tablets can go below sub-$100 now btw. Let's get everyone a modern system so all retailers can move onto better things. I'm happy to exchange notes should you wish to look into Android tablets too.