Candy Store POS/inventory system

[Kendal <r....@gmail.com>]

Greeting -- I just joined this list as I attempt to get my feet wet 
with this hitherto daunting project.

Ofbiz's potential intrigues me; however, my immediate need/interest 
is to get a simple POS system going for a friend's retail candy 
store. My first inclination has been to rebuild the project in such a 
way as to strip out the extraneous components that do not apply to my 
application, so that I can show my friend an application/method that 
will succinctly meet their needs. My friend is a woman with no time 
on her hands except to enter in product pricing and quantities and to 
review sales and inventory lists from time to time. Other 
functionality would be distracting to her.

I have commented out elements within component-load.xml files, only 
to have numerous Exceptions printed out in the log files. So instead 
I thought I would ask you the experts directly... how do I reduce 
Ofbiz to a simple retail POS/inventory system?

Thanks for all -- it's a great achievement that I hope apply!

kendal

Re: Candy Store POS/inventory system

["David E. Jones" <jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>]

In general, if you want to reduce effort then change as little as  
possible. Everything you change you end up maintaining.

OFBiz isn't designed to be a simple easy to use OOTB type of system.  
If that's what you are looking for chances are QuickBooks POS or  
something will work much better for you, and ultimately probably be  
cheaper as well. OFBiz is a pretty serious enterprise system with  
loads of functionality and is generally used by groups that do a lot  
of customization on it.

-David


On Apr 4, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Kendal wrote:

> Greeting -- I just joined this list as I attempt to get my feet wet  
> with this hitherto daunting project.
>
> Ofbiz's potential intrigues me; however, my immediate need/interest  
> is to get a simple POS system going for a friend's retail candy  
> store. My first inclination has been to rebuild the project in such  
> a way as to strip out the extraneous components that do not apply  
> to my application, so that I can show my friend an application/ 
> method that will succinctly meet their needs. My friend is a woman  
> with no time on her hands except to enter in product pricing and  
> quantities and to review sales and inventory lists from time to  
> time. Other functionality would be distracting to her.
>
> I have commented out elements within component-load.xml files, only  
> to have numerous Exceptions printed out in the log files. So  
> instead I thought I would ask you the experts directly... how do I  
> reduce Ofbiz to a simple retail POS/inventory system?
>
> Thanks for all -- it's a great achievement that I hope apply!
>
> kendal
>