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Can You Access Your Own Cash Register Data?

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-bogart-them-totals dept.

jeronimo989 writes "A customer of mine has a small shop and asked me to look for an electronic cash register. One of the requirements is to retrieve the sales data from the cash register in some accessible format so he can import it in the software of his choice (which happens to be OpenOffice), either by downloading the data on a Flash card, connecting a laptop via USB, or even via a direct modem connection. As far as the cash register itself is concerned, he doesn't need anything too fancy; any 'entry level' machine for small businesses is probably OK (as long as it keeps an electronic journal, of course). Which options do we have? Are there cash register manufacturers out there that allow accessing the sales data directly in an open format? Does anyone here have experience with setting up a link between a cash register and PC, preferably using free/open source solutions?"

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  1. Put it on the Internet by PartPricer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please tell him to make it accessible via the Internet and to not encrypt his credit card data. It would make life so much easier for my Russian friends.

    Ever heard of PCI-DSS?

  2. Re:Lame by alzoron · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hell, he coulda have searched Slashdot alone:

    http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/24/2012230
    http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/0116212
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/12/166251

  3. FYI by WK2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just so everyone knows:

    POS = Point of Sale
    POS = Piece of Shit

    For the most part, the POS's in this thread are the first choice.

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    1. Re:FYI by dwater · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just so everyone knows:

      POS = Point of Sale
      POS = Piece of Shit

      For the most part, the POS's in this thread are the first choice. The actual posts in this thread, on the other hand....
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    2. Re:FYI by 87C751 · · Score: 5, Funny

      POS = Point of Sale
      POS = Piece of Shit

      For the most part, the POS's in this thread are the first choice.
      Not after that second assignment.
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  4. Re:Quickbooks Terminal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since before the US completly fucked their dollar. I think they're in competition with Zimbabwe.

  5. Re:Lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is when the "b" is a typo.

  6. Re:Sharp by supersnail · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mod parent down!!
    He answered the OPs question.
    He answered it sensibly.
    He did not recommend any Freeware, Payware or Painware.
    He did not even critique the operating system used.

    We cannot condone such postings. What if everybody came to expect Slashdot posting to be relevent, even credible.

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