Software for Membership Tracking and Inventory?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday May 20, 2004 @06:28PM from the running-a-business-on-free-software dept.

ZeLonewolf asks: "I'm a consultant to a customer who owns two franchises of a fitness gym. The computers they use to keep track of members and inventory run DOS programs written in the early 90's by a company that has long since gone out of business. My customer needs an upgrade badly. Replacement software to keep track of members and handle check-in and membership expirations, as well as inventory and point-of-sale data, costs $5,000 and up, so a free software solution is desirable. Does GnuCash do the job? Have Slashdot readers successfully set a small business up with Free/Open Software? What software have you had success with?"

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Even $100,000 to write one would be cheap. by Futurepower(R) · 2004-05-20 19:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

I've written a point-of-sale system myself, and a fully-featured, relatively bug-free system might cost at least $100,000 to write. It's a LOT more work than it first seems to make it easy to use, for example. Retail operations are far more complex than they first appear.