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Cash registers - can you access you own data? 1

Submitted by jeronimo989
jeronimo989 writes "A customer of mine has a small shop and asked me to look for an electronic cash register. One of the requirements is that he wants to be able to retrieve the sales data from the cash register in some accessible format so he can import it in the software of his choice (which happens to be OpenOffice), either by downloading the data on a flash card, connecting a laptop via USB or even via a direct modem connection. As far as the cash register itself is concerned, he doesn't need anything too fancy; any 'entry level' machine for small businesses is probably OK (as long as it keeps an electronic journal, of course). Which options do we have? Are there cash register manufacturers out there that allow accessing the sales data directly (in an open format)? Does anyone in the slashdot crowd have experience with setting up a link between a cash register and PC, preferably using free/open source solutions?"
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  • I work for a POS reseller that resells Casio products for low-end customers. They have a very wide range of mid-level cash registers that do exactly what you want.

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