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emre:
Hello rvandam. There is really no problem with taking my time. That's why I'm here. I'm only trying to use my time effectively. (solving most problems with less effort)

While writing this I was aware of you have no problem with paying for customization services. But this is not the issue. During V2 development I've implemented maybe a hundred V2 feature requests and that made SambaPOS a useful tool for everyone. But I've stopped V2 development. I code no new features for V2 other than critical bug fixes. Why I stopped that?

New features means new issues to care about. While adding new features a software never becomes stable. You need to stop it at some point and start developing a new version. This is the only reason. Having a stable release that can be used on production environments and having a development release to implement new features. At this point getting payments does no change.

During may-july 2012 period I tried developing both V2 and V3 versions together because of the high demand but I couldn't handle that. I know we lost a lot of valuable members because of that but If I didn't do so there won't be a V3 release and there won't be a V2 release we could call stable. Trust my software development experience. What we are doing is the best choice for making something useful.

At the beginning of the project I thought we'll attract some attention like other successful open source projects but I was wrong. For a reason restaurant owners does not spread the word so our community looks like a 1 developer and 2-3 active user :) That's why you can't find someone to code your needs or answer your questions. Developers or other solution providers won't care us if they don't know how much potential we have. What I learned is things won't happen by itself and I need to care about things other than coding. I'll attend to meetings, contact with people and tell everyone what we are doing ...

I plan to release first V3 beta in mid February. I think V3 beta will increase community activity and we'll quickly find bugs, implement new features and make V3 a great product. I hope it will attract more attention too.

Also.. Thank you very much for your support offer. Your first SambaPOS experience will give the idea about our needs.

rvandam:
Emre, thank you for the insight. I do respect your choices, and now I fully understand why you have taken them.

Now that I know that V3 is not so far away, I will reconsider some feature request from our staff members (they keep coming :) ). When V3 beta is released I will install it next to V2 and see if it is stable enough to deploy.

This weekend I was able to modify the source code, and the change price button is now available for all users at our pos. I have no C# experience (only a bit Python) so it was more hacking then real programming.

If our system is fully settled (either V2 or V3) I will make some noise about Sambapos. I have no problems that my colleagues know about this well hidden piece of excellent software.

emre:
Great! I'm glad to hear you solved it :) Now you have more control on your system and that's the idea behind open source...

rvandam:
The power of open source is addictive :)

oiqbal:
Hi rvandam,

As good as the support team of SambaPOS team is and the software it self is very functional and empowering we are using to manage our multiple chain of cafes with this software.

I understand and agree that minor modifications are required on a need to need basis which is where we've had done some modifications to the application to cater to our needs. Coming from a software development background it was easy for me to get those changes done by hiring some developers.

If you are interested maybe we can offer you the changes you need, you can share your list of changes required and maybe we can review and see if they are doable.

You can reach me at my email address oiqbal@visualsparks.com. Thanks.

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