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aloupos:
emre, it's Anthony by the way.  Nice doc on tagging tickets, that's exactly what we needed.  what do you think about the credit card functionality I described above?

emre:
Hi Anthony :)

Most restaurants uses mobile Credit Card POS devices in our country so we didn't prioritize Integrated Credit Card Processing feature. Integrated provisioning part might be a separate module so we'll be able to change provisioning implementations. I have to learn if we'll implement it individually for each bank or not. I'll do some research to be able to understand how it works.

Currently we are implementing a simple accounting system in SambaPOS 3.x. After implementing it Credit Card Payment type will be an account and you'll be able to track different Credit Card types under sub accounts. Tips, other services and taxes will be all accounts so we'll have more control over them.

On latest (2.63) release you'll be able to force tip calculation with service templates and tip totals displayed separately on work period report. You can also print additional lines for tip amount. If you can give me more details about how you'll use that, I can prepare an additional tutorial for it.

Thanks.

aloupos:
Hi Emre,

Thanks for the response.  The credit card functionality is mostly US specific, but here every POS has it.  I understand if it's not a priority for you, i'll bolt something on to SambaPOS outside the code base trying to maintain the same look and feel -- unless you have a better idea.

If you want the source I'm happy to share it with you, maybe later you'll integrate it into SambaPOS as a module. 

We also handle tips differently here.  We don't fix the tip amount, the customer chooses what to leave.  For cash this works out fine, because they just leave it in the folder for the server -- we don't need to manage it with the POS.  For CC, we need to manage 1) The actual transaction, which is actually 2 transactions (pre-authorize and the actual charge with the tip amount), and then 2) paying the tip back to the waitress. 

I like your idea about doing something with cloud/asp.  The market in New York would be huge for this.  If you're interested in working together on this to form a business plan, get funding, etc. let me know.

emre:
Hello aloupos.
Sorry, I responded a little late because I had to fine tune some SambaPOS features to be able to create a reply.

- If you know how we can provision Credit Cards we can implement it together into SambaPOS. This was not my priority because I don't know how it should be implemented for US :) Will we do it online or will we connect to pos device or anything else?

-I created an additional tutorial to demonstrate how tips (or similar payments) could be tracked with SambaPOS. I wonder if this configuration solves our issues or not.
http://doc.sambapos.org/doku.php/en/tips/how_to_track_and_change_tip_amount_while_creating_ticket

SambaPOS contains some hidden gems and it is a little hard for me to describe them properly. Let me know if something is not clear enough.

Thank you...

Johan Hartono:
hi emre,

I just want to brought up the topic that alberto_lc was asked regarding reports on inventory. it happens that we have the same issue here. Any help will be greatly apreciated. Thx.

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