Inventory management or Point Of Sale software

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Techrat

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Can anyone suggest something to me? I really need just basic inventory management, to be able to list all my stock and have items subtracted when I scan the barcode. I have had a brief look at a few free POS applications, but frankly they are not so simple to get to grips with. They all rely on databases and I have no experience with them so it makes it seem so complicated, and I don't think I have that much stock that I really need a database. Failing that does anyone know where I can learn (for free) at least some basics on databases so that maybe I can use this software.

The free apps that I have looked at so far:
Posper
Turbocash
UnicentaPOS
Odoo

TLDR. Do you know of some free (or reasonably priced) inventory management software that does not need a database?
 
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shauntir

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It is highly unlikely that you would find such a piece of software of good quality that does not use a DB. I used Odoo for some of our accounting and it was really simple to install and setup.

Download https://bitnami.com/stack/odoo as a packaged up stack for your OS (Windows?). Just setup the username/passwords and other settings as you see fit. Google tutorials on how to use it but it really is self-explanatory.

This way, the DB and software is on one machine and you don't have to worry about learning how to configure it etc.
 
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ZCFOutkast

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Odoo's brilliant but it requires that PosBox to your peripherals running well in its POS.

Rather get an old v3 TurboCash. Uses BDE which is not much of a database.:D

Haven't run it myself but suggested it to a few people a number of years ago and they did ok with it.

There's a decent channel for it if you need help but I've never used them.
 
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