Author Topic: POS Point of Sale + Invoicing module and Products + Inventory module (Read 9318 times)

Hershel · April 26, 2010, 05:12:47 am

Not sure what you are experiencing but this code has been used on more than one D6 site:

	if (!module_exists('civicrm')) {
		return FALSE;
	}
	civicrm_initialize(TRUE);
  	require_once 'CRM/Core/DAO.php';

Nothing more should be necessary.

Can you try just that? If it fails then email me offline or go on the CiviCRM IRC channel and we can try to figure it out. I am on IRC now.

jsherk · April 26, 2010, 09:38:57 am

Thanks for help on IRC Hershel ...

I finally got it working, and for others that may be looking for same thing, check out the docs Cheat Sheet and the section titled "Direct access to functions within CiviCRM and Drupal":
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Civi-Cheat-Sheet

Hershel · April 26, 2010, 09:45:24 am

Excellent--happy to help and thank you for the detailed docs.

schlach · May 16, 2010, 07:42:37 am

Hi jsherk,

Just came across this post. I've got a similar interest. I'm currently using UberCart from within my CiviCRM / Drupal system. If I had to get a retail POS up and running tomorrow, I'd probably add UberCart POS. Since I've got a little bit of time to work on it, and because my eventual goal is to put in place a system that will power a cooperative grocery store, I'm planning on integrating UberCart w/ IS4C.

IS4C is a full-featured, open-source retail POS currently in use in at least five co-op groceries, with another dozen in various stages of testing and implementation. The price is right (free), and the hardware is cheap ($2000 for a complete lane, and with an older Magellan scanner-scale, this could drop to $600).

My first stage was integrating UberCart sales w/ QuickBooks, via Keith Palmer's excellent QuickBooks php integration framework, with QuickBooks Customers represented as CiviCRM Households (although I believe I'll be converting that to CiviMembers).

The next stage will be integrating UberCart's product inventory w/ IS4C's inventory management system.

My vision for the end result is an open-source, inexpensive solution for organizations of many sizes that need CRM, web sales, and retail sales, all integrated with their accounting software. I'm thinking churches, not-for-profits with gift shops, small political campaigns, and so on.

Let me know how you've progressed on your initial problem, and whether any of this sounds like it might be helpful.

cheers,

Jake Schlachter
Organizer, Miami River Foods Project

jsherk · May 16, 2010, 01:04:17 pm

Hi Jake

I have not had time yet to work on my POS integration at all. I have looked at both UberCart and ISC4 briefly but have not had a chance to install either or try them. I have been investigating OpenERP (openerp.com) as another alternative to CRM solutions, and so the evaluation process of any software is time consuming.

You said:

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My vision for the end result is an open-source, inexpensive solution for organizations of many sizes that need CRM, web sales, and retail sales, all integrated with their accounting software. I'm thinking churches, not-for-profits with gift shops, small political campaigns, and so on.

Well that is exactly what we need!! I am very interested in your progress on this as well.

Our you looking at setting it up more as it's own POS standalone project, or will it be part of CiviCRM and/or Drupal?

Thanks

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