I have been doing more research on this forum and was not able to find anything on self service.
Would it be possible to set up sambapos on a tablet, connecting through RDP to a main system, for customers to order in a fast food take away. For example the customer picks what they want then when they finish they click send button which then displays their order for approval on the main system running sambapos.
I understand the fact you can set up rdp but im i right in saying you would need windows server running on the main system as windows 8/10 home/pro doesnt allow 2 concurrent sessions.
I guess one of the issues is locking the certain menus out so that customer cant ticker with the system.
Your thoughts or advice would be most appreciated.
Depending on the number of tablets you looking to use…
If you already have non windows tablets I would either have a headless desktop/terminal pc and RDP to that.
If not got tablets yet get windows tablets as will run samba locally and just link to the sql on the host/server.
I kinda understand what you guys are saying. Install sambapos on windows tablet and connect to a dedicated sql server on windows machine also running samapos. this options allows main sambapos + multiple windows tablet running samapos.
Alternatively run RDP on a windows machine and connect any tablet to the machine running sambaPOS. This option allows any tablet but only one session unless i buy a windows server machine which allows multiple rdp connections.
You need to buy a Windows server OS + the licenses for RDP. Its around $3000 for typical 3-5 terminal system. Thats software only. You can maybe shrink that down to 1800 or so if you really do some research and buy OEM versions. But thats only for the software.
If you need to run multiple tablets via RDP the cheaper option would be SFF or USFF desktops setup headless as terminals. Even with a SFF PC per tablet its cheaper than RDP server.