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Building a low cost POS System with Raspberry Pi and Saleculator

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Getting Started

  • Introduction
  • Installing Saleculator on Windows
  • Printer setup
  • Performing your first sale!
  • Basic POS Operations
  • Understand Saleculator User Interface
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Building a low cost POS System with Raspberry Pi and Saleculator
  • Activating Saleculator
  • Building a Saleculator Point of Sale System (Linux)
  • Using MySQL for Saleculator
  • Saleculator Webin Introduction

What's New?!

  • Dynamic product labeling and more
  • Updates focusing multi-retail management
  • Introducing a whole new UI
  • Custom POS Reports and more
  • Cash counting while closing
  • Now Print, Email, or Save your reports with a single click! Check the latest update.

Saleculator Features

  • Different Billing Methods or Modes in Saleculator
  • Cash Closing in Saleculator
  • Close cash reports
  • Multiple outlet control from a single point
  • Bill settlement

Tutorials

  • Cashier Guide
  • Manager Guide
  • Administrator Guide

How To's

  • Happy hour sale
  • Edited bills report
  • Printing reports in thermal receipt printer
  • Assign product categories to user roles
  • Printing encoded product cost on label
  • Installing AnyDesk in Saleculator
  • Get quantity from price embedded barcodes
  • Print Open Items in Close Cash Report
  • Update cumulative stock balance in stock diary
  • Using Saleculator for subscription based billing
  • Automatic Billing On Events
  • Printing Expiry Date On Product Labels
  • Dynamic item pricing based on auxiliary item
  • Applying tax on an open item
  • VAT Update Resources for UAE and KSA
  • Apply discount on a selected item
  • Print total amount in words
  • GST Update for India
  • Setting offer to choose any 5 items for the price of 3
  • Buy One Get One Sale
  • Tag-Along items
  • Print accounts report on every 1st of month
  • Show stock of selected item or stop selling out of stock item
  • Change warehouse for current sale
  • Stock movement in close cash report
  • Configure second display with Saleculator
  • Allowing Saleculator to access gmail account for sending mails
  • Setting a shortcut on sales screen to call another screen
  • Updating Saleculator to the latest version
  • Assign dining tables to waiters
  • Payment report based on payment type
  • Dynamic printer or print format selection
  • Tax based on customer
  • Multiple taxes
  • Setting Printer.Ticket for 80 column pre-printed form
  • Get the credit card type
  • How to backup Saleculator data
  • Support for individual person billing sitting in the same table
  • Print Token/Sequence number in receipt & KOT
  • Print total amount in Arabic numerals
  • How to setup KOT Printing
  • How to use auxiliary product as item note or modifier
  • Calculate cash balance in the drawer
  • Printer item wise sales report in close cash report
  • Foreign currency support
  • Print last bill from sales screen
  • Automatically return to billing mode after KOT
  • Embedding Chrome browser in Saleculator POS
  • HO to Branch Sale
  • Print priority notification on KOT
  • Restrict KOT cancellation
  • Calculating quantity from amount
  • Price/Weight/Quantity embedded barcode configuration
  • Installing Saleculator Webin on Windows
  • How To Bulk load data using Saleculator Webin
  • Laundry Operations With Saleculator POS
  • Handling Customer Debts Using Saleculator Software
  • Assigning USB printer to LPT port in Windows
  • Using Saleculator for Salon Business
  • Setting Static IP for the Raspberry LAN connection
  • Reset Saleculator from Root Shell
  • How to setup receipt and KOT on the same printer
  • Adding Taxes to the bill receipt
  • Printing Receipt with KOT
  • How to print duplicate receipt copy
  • Remote access WEBIN and Putty
  • Deleting Products and Categories from Saleculator POS Menu
  • How to restore a backup from the raspberry root using a flash drive
  • Adding service charge button and resource
  • Adding Menu Search option on the sales screen
  • Printing receipts on A4 & A5 printer sheets
  • Adding shortcut buttons for Cash, Card and Debt payment modes
  • Downloading PLU file for Label Scale
  • Transaction cutting above certain amount limits
  • Retrieve The License Key from the Root
  • Protected: PIN Reset
  • Installing Saleculator on Android Tab/Phone
  • Manual Update of Date and Time from Raspberry root
  • Print Barcode Label using WEBIN
  • How to enable the buzzer sound (Beep) for your KOT printers
  • Create User Roles as per your needs and permissions (E.g, Create a Role for sending KOT only!)
  • Change product button size
  • Billing transaction for Advance payment customers
  • IMPORTANT! Close cash report changed in version 3.8 U2 onwards
  • Adding new reports in Close Cash report
  • Accepting advance payment
  • How to setup Saleculator Kitchen Display System – KDS
  • Automatic data backup
  • Delete transactional data older than given days
  • Customize product button font style
  • Payment report based on card service provider
  • Setting customer reward points
  • Printing discount amount/service charge below the total amount in the receipt
  • Updating Webin to the latest version
  • Category wise sales report with parent category and profit
  • How to print barcode labels from Saleculator
  • Print category wise sales report in Close Cash
  • Print receipt log in Close Cash report
  • Setting a default tariff for all new bills
  • Apply a discount or tariff based on customer category
  • Round Off the total bill amount
  • Discount on total bill amount
  • Printing a coupon along with the receipt
  • Capture additional information and store in receipt
  • Capture additional information about an item from sales screen
  • Setting product property
  • Adding ZATCA Approved QR code to the invoice
  • Adding a payment option for Tip collection
  • Print Arabic product names on the receipts
  • How to delete the pictures from all product buttons
  • How to add Onscreen Keyboard for Saleculator on Raspberry Pi
  • Adding UPI enabled Payment QR code on the Bill Receipt
  • Access Raspberry Root using only LAN cable and Putty App (Without Internet)
  • MySQL command to Update Tax to all the products on the catalog automatically
  • Connect your Raspberry to the WiFi network
  • How to setup KOT4 for additional printer
  • Setting Up the Server and Client (Windows)

Hardware Setup

  • Setting-up Network thermal printer
  • Connect a network thermal printer directly with Saleculator
  • Setup HP or Samsung Laser/Deskjet Printers
  • A4 Laser printer setup for reports
  • Using Bluetooth weighing scale with Saleculator on Raspberry Pi
  • Using Label Scale with Saleculator

Troubleshooting

  • Fixing Database Not Loading error in Saleculator M5
  • Fixing issue, which required double tapping on touch screen to get click working
  • Protecting Saleculator Database from Ransomware Attacks
  • Enabling Tapping To Click for touchpads
  • Installing WiFi adpaters
  • Enabling support for more than 4 serial devices
  • Switch screen mode from portrait to landscape
  • Running remote Saleculator in Windows using Putty
  • Recover data from ibdata and .frm files
  • Resources supporting 42 character printer
  • Disable Saleculator screen turning blank due to inactivity
  • Persistent names for usb and serial devices
  • A quick rescue to free space when mysql run out of space
  • Remove duplicate item entry in sales screen
  • Recover data from a crashed MySQL instance
  • Using Putty to remote access Saleculator command shell
  • Updating Saleculator SSL certificates manually in JAVA keystore
  • Fixing issue of CUPS pausing the printer
  • How to solve repeated activation key requests?
  • MySQL Warning: IP address ‘192.168.1.98’ could not be resolved: Name or service not known
  • How to fix if Saleculator is stuck on loading screen
  • Installing eGalax touchscreen driver on Linux
  • Saleculator stuck at command shell
  • Fixing “Not enough stock” error when billing products
  • How to fix no network connection issues while activating the license key
  • Delete transactions for heavy back-office data
  • Fixing “This product does not have attributes” error!
  • How to resolve “Danger: Cannot connect to database. Database not available” error on Windows
  • Corrupted/Damaged SD Card issues
  • Fixing Arabic language issue on the barcode label printout
  • How to reset the negative inventory unit values to zero
  • How to fix the disordered sequence of Ticket# in the sales log report
  • Fixing “mysqld.exe System Error” while installing MySQL on Windows
  • Fixing error “The entity name must immediately follow the ‘&’ in the entity reference.”
  • Fix issue of monitor turning blank while Saleculator loading
  • Solving common disk errors
  • Find tag ending issues in XML resources
  • Fixing “There is no stock of this item” error when trying to refund an item.
  • Data backup using command prompt (Windows)

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Building a low cost POS System with Raspberry Pi and Saleculator

Saleculator works well on low spec boards. If you want to setup a low cost POS system, Saleculator on Raspberry Pi would be the best choice. This article will teach you how to install Saleculator POS software on Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi 3 B+ - DEV-14643 - SparkFun Electronics

Hardware Requirements

  1. Raspberry Pi 3 or Pi 4
  2. 16GB SD Card
  3. DS3231 Real Time Clock with Battery
  4. 5V/3A Power Adapter
  5. Raspberry Pi Case
  6. Touchscreen or normal monitor
  7. HDMI to VGA Adapter, if your monitor doesn’t have HDMI
  8. Keyboard and Mouse
  9. Card reader
  10. Windows Laptop or PC

Software requirements

Win32DiskImager: Software for writing Saleculator image to SD card. You can download it from the below link:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

Putty: Software for remote accessing the Raspberry Pi. You can download it from the below link:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

Have these softwares installed and ready on your windows system.

Procedure

1. Copy Saleculator image to the SD Card

Using card reader plug the SD card into your windows computer. Now download Saleculator Image from below link

For Raspberry Pi 3 Model B:
https://www.saleculator.com/download/SaleculatorM5-2018-3-16GB.zip

For Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and Pi 4: https://www.saleculator.com/download/SaleculatorM5-2018-3BPlus-16GB.zip

After downloading the image file, unzip and copy it to the 16GB SD card using the Win32DiskImager.

Double click the Win32DiskImager to load it and you will get a window like the one shown below.

Click on the folder icon and load the image file. Once you plug in the 16GB SD card to your system it will show under the Device dropdown. Click “Write” button and it will start the copy process. This will take a while to complete. Once done copying click the “Exit” button. Remove the card reader and the SD card from it.

2. Connect the Raspberry Pi

Connect the monitor with HDMI port, Keyboard and Mouse with the USB ports, Ethernet cable with Ethernet port and the power line to the power port. Insert the 16GB SD card into the Micro SD card slot.

RTC DS3231 incl. Battery - For Raspberry Pi - DS3231RPIMOD
DS3231 RTC Connected to Raspberry Pi


Turn on the Raspberry Pi device. You will see Saleculator boot loader screen and then the activation screen.

You can get a 30 days trial key from below URL to activate Saleculator:
https://api.saleculator.com/trial

3. Update Date and Time

You can update the date and time directly on the Raspberry PI or remotely using Putty. To access remotely using Putty, please refer the below document:
https://www.saleculator.com/documentation/using-putty-to-access-saleculator-command-shell-remotely/

To access Saleculator command root directly from the machine press Ctrl + Alt + F1 on the keyboard connected to the Raspberry Pi. Once inside the command shell, login using the user name “root” and password “saleculator”

To update the date and time, type below command and hit enter key
raspi-config

Choose option 4 and enter

Choose option 12 to change the time zone

Choose the geographical area

Choose your location

Hit enter to choose the location and hit the tab key to select “Finish” and hit enter again.
Type “clear” and hit enter.
Type “Date” and hit enter and cross-check if the time matches your zone and is correct.

4. Installing “Latest Saleculator.jar” file From the root

(To access the root press Ctrl+Alt+F1 keys on your keyboard! Enter the user name as root and password as saleculator)

To delete the existing old jar file and replace it with the new jar file:

Type:
1. cd /opt/Saleculator
(Enter, To access Saleculator folder)

2. ls
(Enter, To check the available files under Saleculator folder)

3. rm -r *
(Enter, To remove all the files available in Saleculator folder)

Download latest jar file:

Type: wget www.saleculator.com/download/test/saleculator.zip (Enter)

Unzip and delete the zip file leaving the new .jar file and lib
Type:

1. unzip saleculator.zip
(Enter)
2. rm saleculator.zip
(Enter)
3. cd
(Enter)
4. reboot
(Enter)

Activating Saleculator

For activating Saleculator, please refer to below document:
https://www.saleculator.com/documentation/activate-saleculator/

Updating Saleculator to the latest version

For updating Saleculator to the latest version, please refer to below document:
https://www.saleculator.com/documentation/updating-saleculator/

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Updated on March 5, 2021
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