bhPOS

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bhPOS is a point of sales software aimed at the Linux operating system. Not very active lately, bhPOS has nevertheless many features a point of sales system requires:

- A user/group, department/site, interface/interface authority, login/login type station/station group hierarchy. This allows for sites, departments within sites, groups within departments, stations and/or users within groups, enabling a powerful point of sales system.
- Fully secure mapping of any of the above.
- Station access/login by keyboard code, barcode, magstripe, or smart card.
- Definable areas for station keyboard mapping (different key maps for different areas).
- Definable times for station keyboard mapping (useful for menu changes in restaurant systems).
- Definable areas for message groups/departments/sites.
- Customizable user interfaces (for company logo, etc.).
- Easy to use, non-mouse based interfaces (though you can use a mouse if you desire).
- Easy receipt customizable layout (headers, items, transaction summaries, payment summaries, footers, etc.), as well as endorsement, cheque and slip layouts.
- All printable layouts are stored as XML documents.
- MICR validation/support (E13B, and CMC7).
- Supervisor override at any time on a sales terminal, for functions such as payment authorization, cash adjustments.
- System messaging by user, interface, group, department, site.
- Station requests (request supervisor, request change, request remove gun toting maniac from queue, etc.) for z fully adaptative point of sales system
- System persistence in power fail conditions - when the power comes back on, everything is the same as when it went off (new).
- A notification system
- PLU and Play feature - unknown barcodes are automatically put in a temporary cache for subsequent lookups.
- Real time system Management Information System (MIS).
- Real time station snapshot (mode, status, cash in drawer, etc.)
- A web based management information system (for platform independance),
- Remote printer queue on server (multiple sources for kitchen printer redirection).
- Multi-threaded remote print server daemon (for kitchen printing without delay or data loss).
- Signature pad support.