In ORO POS products are also called Items.
Based on how they are stored, there are three types of Items
- Misc Items. These items can be created while taking an order. They are not stored in Menu.
- Open Items. These items are standard menu items. They are prepared and sold without any stock maintenance. One example a store may sell “Cheese Burger”.
- Inventory Items. These items maintain their own Inventory. “Coke” is purchased and stored. Sometimes in fast store shops, Chicken wings are fried in large quantity and sold.
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Fig: Product types in ORO POS.
We may also define a product by their accounting type.
- Raw Material. They are ingredients that we use to prepare finished food. Usually, they are not sold directly.
- Finished Good. They are shown in Menu and customer may purchase them.
- Both. Some items may be used as an ingredient or may be used as raw materials.
In Retail POS environment there are some special type of items
Variants. When a large number of products have a common description but they have Size-Color variations with price differences.
In addition to them, there are
- Combo Items. Combo items are a list of items sold together as one item in the specific price
- Pizza Items. They are sectional items with own variants like Crust type, Size etc.
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ORO POS item’s price can be Editable, which means cashier can override an item’s price.
Differences in Floreant POS
Floreant database uses a simplified schema with the following differences
- Raw materials. If Inventory plugin is installed it creates a separate table for raw materials.
- Combo Item. Floreant has no such option.
- Variants. It does not take care of variants.
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