Hacking POS Terminal for Fun and Non-profit

Re:Hacking POS Terminal for Fun and Non-profit by godzillabrennus on Friday July 18, 2014 @06:09PM (#8055857)

I've worked with aloha in the past. These are usually installed in their own physical switch by the server. They think that makes them secure... It's a joke. Squirrel POS is just as bad. I try to push these kinds of folks onto cloud based systems these days.

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Re:Hacking POS Terminal for Fun and Non-profit by QuiteMouse on Saturday July 19, 2014 @12:26AM (#8056688)

Cloud based POS sounds like a nightmare if you had downtime...

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Re:Hacking POS Terminal for Fun and Non-profit by dr00l on Saturday July 19, 2014 @01:29AM (#8056786)

Most Cloud based POS have an offline mode, which still allows you to process transactions. Vend (vendhq.com) stores a local copy of the information needed to process sales (products, taxes, payment types) and allows you to continue processing sales, although it restricts you to selling and you can't manage inventory etc

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Re:Hacking POS Terminal for Fun and Non-profit by r1cka on Saturday July 19, 2014 @12:15AM (#8056669)

What cloud based systems do you typically recommend?

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Re:Hacking POS Terminal for Fun and Non-profit by godzillabrennus on Sunday July 27, 2014 @05:30AM (#8092334)

Lightspeed POS is a solid choice. It depends on the customers needs.

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