[HacktionLab] stock control for a rad bookshop

[mark]

Thanks folks.

Yussi, yes please could you put me in touch with the developer.

Charlie, thanks but you're right, that would be overkill.

Cheers,
Mark


Yussi Divnal:
> Freedom bookshop has a custom point of sale/stock management software,
> called open bookshop, I'm not sure if the source is online, but I can
> contact the developer if he's not on this list. Idk how good the code it,
> but the software is more then fit for purpose.
> 
> Let me know if you want me to ask the developer about it.
> 
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2019, 13:12 Charlie Harvey, <charlie at newint.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Toolswise - Maybe Apache OfBiz - though it might be a little heavyweight
>> for what you need - https://ofbiz.apache.org/index.html
>>
>> For the human factor, you have to convince people why they need to use
>> your thing, and spend quite a lot of time helping them get theri heads
>> round it in my experience...
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> On 29/09/2019 16:07, mark wrote:
>>> Hey hacktionlab,
>>>
>>> I've joined a collective which runs a rad bookshop in Durham. I'm
>>> considering the creation of a stock-control system, as there's nothing
>>> of the sort in place at the moment.
>>>
>>> I got a glimpse of how such things could be done from Protag at the
>>> Albert Meltzer library in the 1 in 12 club, which was an inspiration.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any recommendations for free softwares applicable to
>>> the task, or advice on the human factors in implementing such a thing?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mark
>>>
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