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Building An Open Source Point Of Sale System (hackaday.com)
submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

As an x86 system, the Latte Panda runs Windows 11, along with a simple kiosk software package written in Python. The software uses Google Firebase as a database backend.

This doesn’t feel as Open Source as I expected

[–] artyom@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It seems like a basic function of a POS should be to be able to accept payment, but I don't see any way for this machine to do that...

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would think of a Point of Sale being more like a cash register or the terminal where a waiter sends an order to the kitchen in a restaurant. Credit card transactions are usually handled by a separate device that connects to the PoS, except for a few devices created by credit card processing companies. It seems like it’s easier ever since the introduction of security chips to hand that off to specialist vendors.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Connects to the PoS

Did you see somewhere to connect a CC machine?

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I didn’t watch the video but assumed there’s at least some USB ports on the device based on it running Windows.