Ask HN: Do you think there's room for a Point of Sales webapp?

Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's room for a Point of Sales we... by Yesh on Monday August 15, 2011 @01:33AM (#2885654)

Not sure of the market you are targeting. It has been my past experience developing and selling stock/sales system in India that it's very hard to break in with a browser based remote model (vs. FoxPro, curses) based interaction model. The main reason being adoption. Some of these adoption issues are.

- Hot keys

- Popups (like FoxPro) and selections.

- Local vs remote (availability) vs sync later. Syncing has to be automatic with extremely good fail over mechanism.

- Install once and forget about it. What I mean here is that retailers (at POS) are not thirsty for new features/functions.

- Forgiving.

My2Cents worth.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think there's room for a Point of Sales we... by davidjairala on Monday August 15, 2011 @01:52AM (#2885707)

Hi Yesh, thank you for your comment, it raises some very good points and concerns I've been having lately.

The target market is pretty much small to medium retailers who are looking for an affordable POS solution.

I love the idea of having hot keys on the webapp though, it would really make the whole processing faster.

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