{"id":26416,"date":"2017-01-26T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T09:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/why-every-business-should-consider-open-source-pos\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T12:46:53","slug":"why-every-business-should-consider-open-source-pos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udsenterprise.com\/en\/why-every-business-should-consider-open-source-pos\/","title":{"rendered":"Should businesses consider Open Source POS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An open source POS, where the source code is exposed for your use, offers significant <strong>advantages<\/strong> over a proprietary system that keeps its code rigidly under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>Open source systems play well with others. Their ability to <strong>integrate and connect with third-party products<\/strong> from accounting and customer relationship management software to order management and inventory systems makes them an attractive proposition for business owners who need to expand beyond the feature set of a <strong>proprietary POS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Faster development:<\/strong> Another advantage of open source systems is that they are often <strong>backed by a large community of developers<\/strong> who are continually building new functionality and <strong>improving<\/strong> on old features. <\/p>\n<p><strong>-Lower cost:<\/strong> In this case, &#8220;lower cost&#8221; means <strong>&#8220;almost free&#8221;<\/strong>. You still need to buy the hardware, but the software itself is free to use. <\/p>\n<p><strong>-Better security:<\/strong> If the source code is out there for anyone to see, doesn&#8217;t that mean it&#8217;s open to malicious programmers who want to hack into your data? Isn&#8217;t that a <strong>security nightmare?<\/strong> On the contrary, the <strong>large community<\/strong> of developers that builds new functionality <strong>also searches out and repairs security flaws<\/strong>. In that way, an open source POS is actually <strong>more secure<\/strong>, and these are some of the many options for securing it: <\/p>\n<div class=\"codehilite\">\n<pre>Chromis\n\nDrupal POS\n\nFloreant\n\nOdoo\n\nOpen Source Point of Sale\n\nUnicenta\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/17\/1\/open-source-point-sale-system target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">opensource.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The POS is the lifeblood of a business<\/strong>, and that means you need to <strong>choose one carefully<\/strong>. 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