harssh/spree-pos

Point Of Sale input screen for Spree

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SpreePos

A Point Of Sale (POS) screen for Spree.

POS screen hooks into the Admin Tabs and is meant to be used to sell inside a shop, possibly with a touchscreen and a scanner.

Allows for quick checkout and basic adjustment of line item prices also with discount percentages.

A minimal transaction is one scan, and pressing of print button.

Basic bar scanner input (sku/ean search) or search by name. No Customer, no shipping, no coupons, but these are achievable through the order interface.

POS creates orders (just like the admin/order) and in fact lets you switch between the two views freely by adding links back and forth.

Pressing new customer will create a new order (in checkout), which is finalised when print is pressed.

ONLY pressing print will finalise the order, if you do not press print (ie press new customer) the order will be left in "checkout" state and thus not be a sale in your system.

Inventory

As an extra feature, you can use the pos screen to receive goods (from your orders) and do inventory.

To use this, you scan your products and adjust the quantities, but then press either

• the add inventory icon to add the current list to your inventory, or
• the inventory icon, which will adjust the inventory (on_hand) for those products/variants to the amounts in your list

In both cases the list will be emptied, ready for either the next inventory or next customer.

Dependencies

spree_html_invoice ..... but

The dependency is not made explicit in case you don't need receipt (see configure section).

By default POS relies on html-invoice to print a receipt. You can configure this away by setting :pos_printing to the url where you want to redirect after print. By default it is "/admin/invoice/number/receipt" which relies on spree-html-invoice to be installed. To remove this dependency you could redirect to the order show like so

SpreePos::Config.set(:pos_printing => "admin/orders/number") #and number gets substituted with the order number

You can install spree-product-barcodes to print product labels if need be. Otherwise use the existing upc barcodes on the products and scan them into the sku.

Configure

An Order must be shipped, so you must configure a ShippingMethod to be used. If you don't the first will be taken, rarely what you want.

SpreePos::Config.set(:pos_shipping => "MethodName") #Usually something like "pickup" with cost 0

POS uses the first Spree::PaymentMethod::Check in the current environment for payment. So this is actually not configurable, but the PaymentMethod has to be configured for POS to work

If you don't change the :pos_printing config as described above, you must add

gem 'spree_html_invoice' , :git => 'git://github.com/dancinglightning/spree-html-invoice.git'

to your gemfile. If you do, you will want to configure the look of the receipt

EAN

Many sales and especially POS systems rely on barcode scanning. A barocde scanner functions identical to keyboard input to the product code. You may use the sku field for this but we use that for the suppliers code (or our own).

So there is a migration supplied that provides a ean (European Article code, may be upc too) for the Variant class, and fields to edit it and search by it.

Installation

Add to your Gemfile with

gem "spree_pos", :git => "git://github.com/dancinglightning/spree-pos.git"

and run bundler. (read about the dependencies if you haven't yet)

Copyright (c) 2011 [Torsten Ruger], released under the New BSD License