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Cash Register POS / Dale Harris POS

Screenshot of Version 6.40e
Developed by	Dale Harris
Latest release	6.40e / Feb, 22 2008
OS	MS-DOS + all Windows versions
Genre	Business
Licence	Freeware
Website	DHPOS.com

Cash Register POS, also known as DHPOS after its creator, is a free Point of sale software, written in QuickBasic.

[edit] Purpose

DHPOS is freeware software that will convert any DOS or Windows computer into a fully functional cash register / POS system.

This project was originally started (2001) by Dale Harris as a way to alleviate boredom one summer and to prove to himself that he could write a better POS system than the professionally written POS software that he was forced to use in the chain store that he worked at^[1]. After finishing up the software he uploaded it to his website for anyone to download for free.

Interest was immediate. Soon users from everywhere on earth were downloading the software and emailing him with suggestions for new features and other ways to improve the software. Many of these suggestions have been added to the software and new versions come out with new features several times a year (as of 2007.) This project continues because, according to the author, it is needed. While large corporations can afford to pay for expensive POS software the mom & pops and even many medium sized businesses just cannot. Just a plain cash register may be affordable for them but it will not provide the information that modern businesses must have to compete.

The current version (2007) of the software has hundreds of features that make it suitable for most small to medium businesses. The major limitations are a maximum 13,000 different items in the stock table and a maximum of 60 lines in a sale. This would make it unsuitable for a large grocery, book store, or hardware store. The software will drive receipt printers, cash drawers, pole displays, barcode scanneers and other POS type hardware.

Currently there have been over 200,000 downloads of this software (to more than 60 countries) from the main site, plus it can be downloaded from many other freeware sites. If users that received this program from other users are added in there is no way to reliably estimate the number computers that are running this software.