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Drupal user mndonx wrote in to tell us how she's building an UberPOS setup at a bookstore with a custom theme and some added functionality through Views. It's still a work in progress but it's looking great!

Here's what she wrote:

I themed the UberPOS module for use with a bookstore in mind. This store wants to be able to sell books online AND sell them in a brick & mortar store, but not have to run two databases or pay the expensive monthly fees of using integrated services.

Ortogid, an orthopedic salon in Russia, has been working with the UberPOS team to get their setup launched. They've worked to fix bugs and add features. They also sent us the image below, showing their customized UberPOS interface. Looking good!

If you're looking to help fund uberPOS development, please check out our new donation page! :)

I've been going to a lot of Drupal events and talking about uberPOS, along with all the other awesome things going on in the Drupal community. Going to these events really helps me find motivation to improve uberPOS. They also help me learn how to explain the benefits of uberPOS better.

I always suspected this to be possible and I finally got around to doing it. By creating a barcode of my username, a "tab," and my password, I can now login to my website by simply using a barcode scanner. I expect this to be useful as we transition into using UberPOS as our point of sales system at left-click. Cashiers can have an ID card with one of these barcodes on it allowing them to scan it and login. For now, I've affixed my login barcode to my USB stick.

There's been a fair amount of interest in UberPOS which is very motivating.

I'm going to resume some heavy development of UberPOS today and I've started putting together a list of things to do. Mostly these are the 'to dos' we need done before we can make the switch to UberPOS at Left-click. These are also the main things holding back an alpha release.

We demo'd UberPOS last night at the NYC meetup in the WTC. I think it went great, and there was a good turnout of about 40 people! One Drupaler snapped a photo so hopefully we can post that soon.

People had tons of questions and were very interested in how it works and how much the hardware costs. We just posted information about the hardware we're using and how much it costs for people who are curious.

In other news, we bought a credit card scanner to play around with and hopefully get working with UberPOS.

We'll be demonstrating UberPOS to a couple Drupal groups in the coming weeks.

Tomorrow, September 8, I'll be showing off the current release to the Western Mass Drupal group. It's at 6 PM in Webster 102 on the Amherst College campus. Here's the announcement.

Silas and I will also be presenting at the NYC Drupal group on September 16th sometime between 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM at 7 World Trade Center. Here's the announcement for that.

We've released the first pre-ALPHA UberPOS package today. See ours download page to get yourself a copy. Have fun and don't expect everything to work flawlessly yet. If you're interested in getting involved with the development or have any feedback, please let us know!

UberPOS is a brand new, open source point-of-sales system built on top of the Drupal Content Management System (CMS) and Ubercart, a popular ecommerce Drupal module. It provides an interface for cashiers to easily add products to a customer's order, as well as remove them, accept payment, cancel entire orders and print receipts. It currently is being tested, and works well in a shop with a single cash register.