{"id":704,"date":"2004-08-19T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/704"},"modified":"2004-08-19T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-19T12:55:00","slug":"red-kryptonite-kept-me-from-posting-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/704","title":{"rendered":"Red Kryptonite Kept Me From Posting Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my silence, I *was* on the web yesterday, just not on LJ. Instead, I&#8217;ve been spending my rare moments of free time researching a new point of sale and inventory system for the Snail. Our clunky old registers get the job done, but I have a hunch that there&#8217;s something better out there, if I&#8217;m just willing to hunt for it. And I&#8217;m willing. <\/p>\n<p>Is anyone out there working at an Indigo or somewhere else with our mix of print and toy product for sale, who can recommend their systems supplier (<lj user=\"summum_bonum\">, I&#8217;m looking at you)? I&#8217;ve only ever worked at small indy stores, so our systems were always WordStock or other such cheapo junk. I&#8217;m thinking of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/canada\/BusinessSolutions\/Retail%20Management\/default.mspx\">Microsoft Business Solutions RMS (Retail Management System)<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www-1.ibm.com\/businesscenter\/us\/industries\/retail\/solutionarea.jsp?id=5810\">IBM&#8217;s Business Partner POS Systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advice welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my silence, I *was* on the web yesterday, just not on LJ. Instead, I&#8217;ve been spending my rare moments of free time researching a new point of sale and inventory system for the Snail. Our clunky old registers get the job done, but I have a hunch that there&#8217;s something better out there, if <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/704\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}