Point of Sale System With Remote Capabilities by Justin Dansby CPSC 463 SPRING 2004 Dr. Pargas

Introduction Design new Point of Sale System (POS) for Mellow Mushroom Current POS system ALOHA is limited in remote access Incorporate new functions Decrease time to access data

Problem Statement Current POS System does not allow an easy means of remote access Current POS tracks inventory by what is sold Use ASP.NET to create real-time database functionality Use ASP.NET to ease access to data Current POS System food database hard to maintain and requires a restart between changes Develop a new POS System that solves these problems

Tables Used All tables are in 3NF Kitchen Tickets Table – tick#, svrid, ourcost, salecost, food id, date sold Employee Tickets Table – tick#, svrid, tableid, date, description Clock Table – svrid, clock in time, clock out time Inventory – pizza id, quantity

Employee Functions Clock In/Clock Out View timesheet Open a new ticket Sell pizza Close ticket Open closed ticket

Manager Functions Obtain quantity, profit, and sales information remotely View employees currently working View inventory Update inventory

Technology Used C#, PHP, Perl, VB.NET ASP.NET Calendar control ASP.NET DataView, DataTable WML Login ties directly into Clemson network Web Service – SOAP, PHP, Perl

Login Netware Authentication Hogwarts Web Space Client

Web Service Hogwarts Webservice Dirty Network PHP/Perl SOAP client Client MS Sql Server

Future Work Increase WML functionality Increase Efficiency POS system will determine what supplies kitchen needs Add a drop down list of login names

Conclusions  Spend more time seeing what is available before trying solution  I learned a lot of SQL, WML, SOAP, PHP, C#, VB.NET, WebServices