A brief guide to the workflow and architecture in the Squirrel POS System for Credit/Gift/Debit Cards. A guide for users and custom developers.

The SecurityLock Squirrel POS extension allows you to control access to the PaidIn function in Squirrel by Badge Number. This extension will work with Squirrel version 1.4x and above.

Well, more product ideas today. Let’s build a business around providing web access to essential Squirrel functions and data for restaurant owners and managers and employees. So, what does this look like? A suite of small apps. All accessible via our website. Customers pay a monthly subscription fee for the services they want. First month could be a free trial. We get everyone’s email. Everything is accessed via a browser, probably using Javascript/Ajax to provide [...]

Well, I’m finding out how much fun it is to get a routing issue resolved. What’s wrong is that it seems impossible to ping or traceroute (or send data over port 4554) to website.moneybar.net. This is a problem from my hosting account at site5.com as well as from home here in Vancouver (via Novuscom.net and Peer1). HTTP traffic is okay, and evidently pinging works from some other sites. Everyone says the issue is with someone [...]

It occurs to me that there is possibly a business opportunity in developing new requisition, check, receipt, and credit card voucher formats. If it were possible to produce a new format inexpensively, have them available on the web through a catalogue, and then retail them for an acceptable price, then I believe that restauranteurs would be open to paying for formats that more closely match what they like. In addition, if customizations were inexpensive as [...]

What I want to do to make an automatic process to retrieve driver kits from the Squirrel FTP site (if they are available. If not they should be), install them in a build environment, and automatically compile and update the drivers. Extend this to be a service to offer to other vendors that have interface drivers used in the squirrel system. They could submit source code (versioned as well), and use the automatic build process.

Well this morning seems to be about ideas for short-term development contracts for Squirrel Systems.

Okay, well there are lot’s of things on the horizon. This Tuesday I’m going to be speaking at the Gift Card Association at Steamworks. Cool Balance is building the Gift Card Association website. I’m building a lens at www.squidoo.com/restaurant-software to see how well that system works. Content is almost non-existent so far. I’m needing to learn about writing contracts to manage the relationship between Cool Balance and Squirrel Systems, Cool Balance and Second Stream, and [...]