Openbravo Get Together
Business and Experience
Librepos and Openbravo in retail market
Barcelona, Oct 27th 2007
Speaker: Adrián Romero. Founder and main developer of Librepos. Software Architect at Openbravo.

Agenda
Introduction to Librepos
Functional and technical features
Configurations of Librepos
Demostration
Future plans
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Agenda
Introduction to Librepos
• Librepos in Sourceforge
• Librepos in the World
Functional and technical features
Configurations of Librepos
Demostration
Future plans
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Introduction to Librepos
• Librepos in Sourceforge
– Librepos is a point of sale application designed for touch screens. It is the most popular open
source POS and supports a wide variety of POS hardware like touch screens, receipt printers,
customer displays, barcode scanners, scales, etc.
– First hosted in Sourceforge in Jan 2005
– Near 100.000 downloads
– Very active project. It has been in the position 17 in Sourceforge in the past months.
– Large and active community in forums, trackers...
– Name changed to Librepos in Aug 2007 due a trademark conflict. (Former Tina POS project)
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Introduction to Librepos
• Librepos in the World
– Installed word wide: Spain, USA, China, Surafrica, Kenya, The Netherlands, Canada,
Honduras, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Romania, Italy, Portugal...
•Spain: Hespen & Suarez. http://www.hespenysuarez.com/
•USA: Cando computer services: http://www.candocomputerservices.com/
•Mexico: Editorial Delti. http://www.delti.com.mx/
•Chile: Carlos Moreno: http://www.opensoftware.cl
– Awarded in ABCDatos: http://www.abcdatos.com/programas/programa/z1400.html.
– Analized in Infoworld: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/08/32FEosspos_1.html.
– Analized in PC WEB: http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/news/2005/08/29/012.html and
http://pcweb.mycom.co.jp/news/2005/08/29/012.html (Translated by google).
– Referenced in Barrapunto: http://barrapunto.com/articles/05/01/30/2227231.shtml.
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Agenda
Introduction to Librepos
Functional and technical features
• Technical features
• Functional features
Configurations of Librepos
Demostration
Future plans
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Functional and technical features
• Technical features
– Librepos is a native java application with Swing user interface and runs under serveral
systems: Linux, OS X, Win2K, WinXP.
– Supports multiple languages and is very easy to translate. English, Spanish, Dutch, Italian,
Portuguese, Catalan, Galician...
– Supports several database engines: HSQLDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL.
– Supports several specific POS hardware and protocols: Touch screens, receipt printers,
customer displays, cash drawers, barcode scanners, mag card readers, scales.
– Receipt, and customer display layout based on a flexible template language.
– Macro language for scripts. Discounts, receipts printing...
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Functional and technical features
• Functional features
– General
•Focused on usability.
•Multi user. Role based security.
•Inventory management. Multi store.
•Restaurant module. Tables map, reservations management.
•Master tables edition and images for products, users, categories, receipts.
•Categories and subcategories.
•Multiple reports and charts.
•Openbravo synchronization. Product catalog, Orders.
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Functional and technical features
• Functional features
– Sales
•Fast receipt edition.
•Multiple receipts edition at a time.
•Refunds.
•Cash management, cash counting.
•Multiple payment methods.
•Magnetic card payment gateway.
•Taxes management.
•Sales report. Sales by employee, Sales by product, ...
– Inventory
•Material reception
•Material movement between warehouses.
•Inventory reports. Current stock, Material movements, wharehouses cost and volume
management, ...
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Agenda
Introduction to Librepos
Functional and technical features
Configurations of Librepos
• Stand alone. One store. Multiple stores synchronized. Multiple stores
synchronized with Openbravo
Demostration
Future plans
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Configurations of Librepos
• Stand alone
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Openbravo Get Together – Librepos and Openbravo in retail market.
Configurations of Librepos
• One store
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Configurations of Librepos
• Multiple stores synchronized
Database synchronization
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Configurations of Librepos
• Multiple stores synchronized with Openbravo
Web services
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Agenda
Introduction to Librepos
Functional and technical features
Configurations of Librepos
Demostration
Future plans
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Demostration
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Agenda
Introduction to Librepos
Functional and technical features
Configurations of Librepos
Demostration
Future plans
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Future plans
• Customer module
– Loyalty cards
– Discounts
• Employees module
– Shift management.
• Restaurant module
– Kitchen printers
– Handhelds
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Openbravo Get Together
Thank you!
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