DHPOS
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| Cash Register | |
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 Screenshot of DHPOS v6.39f |
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| Developer: | Dale Harris |
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| Latest release: | 6.39k / February 16, 2007 |
| OS: | MS-DOS |
| Use: | Business |
| Licence: | Proprietary |
| Website: | dhpos.com |
Cash Register, also known as DHPOS after its creator, is a free Point of sale software, written in QuickBasic.
[edit] History
Dale Harris was the manager of a key store in Chicago. In 1997, his host store gave him a new cash register:
"Then one horrible day in 1997 the host decided to improve my life by giving me a new register. This register had my stock table on the mainframe and would transmit all of the sales and merchandise information to the home office of the Company I work for. Theoretically that meant that I no longer had to do any paperwork at all which was good because this register gives me NO INFORMATION AT ALL about what I sold during the day, not even total sales for the day. Gee, even my first [[[Cash_register|register]]] would do that."
This prompted him to write a new POS system to emulate his old register:
"As a Template I used the previous PC based register software that I loved. Of course I had no access to the source code but I did know how it worked as far as the screens and inputs were concerned. So from memory (because I no longer had access to the actual program, that was gone) I started to write the program. I worked on it on and off for about 6 months and got about 75% of it to work."
As Harris found that the new system met his needs, he began to promote it on the internet as freeware for other small business owners. His POS system is now used by over 200,000 small businesses and other private users.
