hello! Wow, great app you are making! I am a new creator and I am planning to make a restaurant management app too! A few questions on the app:
Is it possible to print out the orders at the cashier counter and the kitchen? if yes, how to link to the printer?
Is it possible to link to the POS system where it automates the cashier machine to open and prints out the receipt? if yes, how to do the linkage to cashier machine?
For the sales report, is it possible to export the data to excel file for filing and viewing? if yes, how to include this export function?
I hope any contributer can help me answer these questions.
Hello! I have not created my app yet. I am trying to find out which of the builder - Kodular or Thunkable- is able to support me in building these features before I decide where to build my app
When i posted this i didn’t added that, but now i have. And yes it is possible, i use a kitchen display to show the orders but i also print tickets for customers, the only way i could do it was through an extension. I used this one: ESC/POS Simple Converter - App Inventor Daniel
But you can check this one too: Extension POSConverter/Bluetooth/Receipt Pack
They are 20USD and 22 USD each. The way it links to the printer is via Bluetooth, if you buy the extensions the developers may send you an .aia for you to work on it.
Yes, but it depends on your printer, my cash drawer is connected to the printer and it opens out when i send a printing. You won’t connect the cashier machine to the app but your printer.
Yes and no, you may only export an .csv file wich can be imported in excel later.
And for your second question feel free to work with Kodular, it has special components that will help you to make a professional app.
Hi, im not willing to share the .aia right now. You could PM me and we can see if maybe i can make an apk for you to use hosting your own FirebaseDB.
But if you want to create your own app check this one Restaurant Order App, as a template to start Koding to have a reference or for inspiration
I get it. There is no problem in getting a test of this platform in apk. Maybe I work in one when I vacate other pending projects under development. But having this working in the restaurant must go great.
Have you thought of adding a customer app, to order and pay takeout orders from home? You will receive the order and the kitchen could update it with the estimated time for pickup. So the customer could skip a line or avoid waiting.
That is an amazing restaurant app! I build apps for a private business using Kodular so that surely is a hard worked app. I wonder how it works because I am making a walkie talkie communication app.