[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":392},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-2345366":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":46,"post_text":48,"what":49,"said":88,"maker_in_thread":211,"shape":222,"grid":227,"attempts":354,"same_week":355,"maker_shows":32,"maker_hidden":384,"reader_version":385,"card":386},"2345366","FaceCash","A web-based cash register","title","Show HN: We made a web-based cash register","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facecash.com\u002Fregister.html","facecash.com","thinkcomp",1300588581,2011,75,54,161,1097,15,"notable","web_saas","point of sale","web_app",[21,24,25,26],"cash register","mobile payments","restaurant pos","mixed",-0.224,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},5,13,1,14,33,{"idea":36,"performance":39,"design":41,"execution":42,"docs":43,"pricing":44,"privacy":45},{"positive":37,"critical":38},4,2,{"positive":40,"critical":30},0,{"positive":32,"critical":38},{"positive":40,"critical":38},{"positive":40,"critical":38},{"positive":40,"critical":40},{"positive":40,"critical":32},[30,47,32,32,32,32,40,32,47,47,32,47,32,32,47,40,40,47,47,32,47,30,47,40,32,47,40,40,47,40,32,30,40,32,40,40,40,30,32,47],3,null,{"problem":50,"audience":62,"pricing":73,"motivation":48,"time_to_build":48,"stack":79,"openness":86,"stage":87,"team_size":86},{"value":51,"source":52,"evidence":53},"Restaurant and retail checkout and card payments run on slow-to-upgrade hardware-bound POS systems","commenter",[54,58],{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},"2345543","pshapiro","This is a great idea in part because of the incredible stagnation in the upgrade path for a restaurant's POS technology. In my experience the entire hardware+software system gets…",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"2345882","lancewiggs","Personal payments = the overall Facecash product - think PayPal, though I'm sure they would rather you didn't. Cash register = something to use to run a check-out, including a…",{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"Restaurants and retailers, especially quick-serve","maker",[66,69],{"id":67,"by":11,"text":68},"2345473","This is kiosk mode, so it's designed to let merchants place a kiosk in-store in order to decrease lines. It's a restricted version of the full application. You'll have to sign up…",{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"2346488","tbgvi","Welcome to the club, my company Cashier Live (http:\u002F\u002Fwww.cashierlive.com) has been at this for about a year now. We're focused on retail, and from what I can see here you're…",{"value":74,"source":64,"evidence":75},"Takes 1.5% of each FaceCash transaction on the merchant side, plus coupon fees",[76],{"id":77,"by":11,"text":78},"2345670","FaceCash is a mobile payment system that more or less just happens to have a cash register. We take 1.5% of each FaceCash transaction on the merchant side, plus fees (also on the…",[80],{"value":81,"source":64,"evidence":82},"Authorize.Net for card payments",[83],{"id":84,"by":11,"text":85},"2345474","Either through the merchant's Authorize.Net account or through manual entry of what was processed on an external swipe machine. The point is to get everyone to take FaceCash, of…","unknown","launched",{"praise":89,"objections":109,"requests":146,"questions":177,"alternatives":196},[90,102],{"value":91,"source":52,"evidence":92},"Good idea to move POS to the web and fix slow upgrade cycles",[93,94,98],{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"2346463","tomlin","In all honesty, this is probably fairly rare. I'd imagine about as rare as a cooking oven burning out, running out of a specific ingredient, or having your head cook call in…",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"2345737","rplacd","That sounds wonderful, actually - a nice way to combat the \"fire and forget\" mentality there that I've encountered.",{"value":103,"source":52,"evidence":104},"Kiosk demo is appealing",[105],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"2345936","jordo37","I loved looking at the demo you linked to below (https:\u002F\u002Fwww.facecash.com\u002Fkiosk.html?id=3587). Any way we can get that front and center on the page? I would assume any POS target…",[110,124,131],{"value":111,"source":52,"evidence":112},"Offline operation: if internet goes out, the register stops working",[113,117,121],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"2345684","stanmancan","I spent 2 years in the POS industry (about 3-4 years ago since I left). I've thought about this a couple times, but it keeps coming down to the same thing; if your internet goes…",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"2345908","yuvadam","Web hosted POS? What about a fallback when the WAN goes down?",{"id":122,"by":115,"text":123},"2353322","Credit card processing isn't the only problem. That goes down with the internet right now too. The problem is communication between the terminals, kitchen, bar, ect. The way POS…",{"value":125,"source":52,"evidence":126},"Trust in security of stored bank and card data",[127],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"2345689","paul9290","Cool idea and wonder those who use the web based system would their personal URL be something like facecash.com\u002Fmcdonalds ? Overall its web based and my online bank account has…",{"value":132,"source":52,"evidence":133},"Kiosk has bugs and confusing item layout",[134,138,142],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"2345511","reledi","I believe I found a few bugs with the kiosk mode: 1. Items are not grouped together when the same item is added at a later time (or is this a feature?) 2. Updating an order…",{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"2345496","callahad","Bug: The \"Back\" button isn't removed after adding a nested item (e.g., Capuccino -> Large). Also, you've got a typo on \"Cappuccino\" :)",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"2348196","devicenull","I'd suggest allowing grouping of items, allowing groups like 'Drinks', 'Sandwiches', etc. It's somewhat confusing in that example because there doesn't appear to be any sort of…",[147,158,170],{"value":148,"source":52,"evidence":149},"Offline mode with local storage and later sync",[150,154],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"2345716","markkanof","Maybe use HTML 5 local storage if an internet connection isn't available, then sync up with the server when it is?",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"2346322","barefoot","My only reservation after looking at this. You could imagine the \"POS\" acronym changing meaning very quickly in the event of connection failure. That said, maybe they could…",{"value":159,"source":52,"evidence":160},"Show the product demo more prominently on the landing page",[161,165,166],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"2345502","conductr","cool app. From a conversion perspective, might want to try and show the product a bit more on the landing. Too much text for my taste. $0.02",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"2345680","jijoy","Interesting . But why you guys don't have a demo upfront ?",{"value":171,"source":52,"evidence":172},"Email and regular receipts",[173],{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"2346519","srik","Hope you allow regular receipts too. Email receipts might be harder to convince?",[178,189],{"value":179,"source":52,"evidence":180},"How card payments are accepted and whether a barcode scanner or terminal can connect",[181,185],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"2345466","kevinburke","How do you accept credit cards?",{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"2345975","retube","How do you interface with a barcode scanner or credit card terminal?",{"value":190,"source":52,"evidence":191},"How the company makes money",[192],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"2345557","MichaelApproved","From what I see, everything is free. How do you make money?",[197,207],{"value":198,"source":52,"evidence":199},"Vend (vendhq.com) online POS",[200,204],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"2345613","hatfork","see also: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.vendhq.com\u002F",{"id":205,"by":60,"text":206},"2345471","I'm not seeing a cash register - I'm seeing a personal payments system. For an online cash register check out http:\u002F\u002Fvendhq.com\u002F",{"value":208,"source":52,"evidence":209},"Cashier Live",[210],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},{"comments":212,"answered":213,"key":214},12,8,[215,216,219],{"id":67,"text":68},{"id":217,"text":218},"2345499","Thanks, we'll look into it. And I'll try to find that typo!",{"id":220,"text":221},"2345656","Item 1 is a feature; you might want one taco with rice and one without. We'll look at the others. 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