I’ve had a few clients lately come to us and state whether SambaPOS can used to run a bookstore.
Of course it can if you can use it for very basic product name, linked to 1-1 inventory.
However requirement such as adding, author, the year, publishing company and other things that need to be stored with each book is a requirement.
They use that information to order more books or special request books.
I can see storing that information in ticket tags would work, I’m just wanting to know if we can use fields similar to an entity screen to store this information for each product.
Use of Product Tags maybe?, That would mean we just need a whole bunch of product tags though.
Hm interesting. Im gonna give it a go and see how well it works.
So some of the main things besides the author, book, year, inventory when special book orders are placed we could use account transactions to pre-order book to stock inventory.
Im wondering, would we be able to add an item to the pos page as it becomes available in inventory.
Like it wont show up in pos screen until a rule is fired which checks the boom is in stock, then makes the book available to purchase.
Also thinking that I may have to set it up similar to how rick has his retail.
Wondering if we can also implement a boom search based on product tag right from pos screen or using a search automation.
Dont know about only showing when in stock but you can have a message and prevent adding to ticket based on inventory with custom automation and order added rules.
Have a look at this, I did some tests for a similar type of search for retail use, it works quite well. Emre has made some updates too to give better display of results, but I’m waiting for it to be released in next 5.2.15 beta release.
For searching product tags, in SQL it would be possible, just alter the queries I have used. However because product tag data is stored in one field as JSON formatted data, you would get better ability to search that data if you use SQL Server Express 2016 or above, since it has built in features to handle JSON data.
Thanks for that Mark. I saw that post, looking forward to giving it a go.
Going to best running some tests and see how well it can work for a book store. Getting a fair bit of clients interested if it works