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SambaPOS Open Source Restaurant POS

Fundraising Campaign for future SambaPOS development and side projects.

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SambaPOS Open Source Restaurant POS

SambaPOS Open Source Restaurant POS

SambaPOS Open Source Restaurant POS

SambaPOS Open Source Restaurant POS

SambaPOS Open Source Restaurant POS

Fundraising Campaign for future SambaPOS development and side projects.

Fundraising Campaign for future SambaPOS development and side projects.

Fundraising Campaign for future SambaPOS development and side projects.

Fundraising Campaign for future SambaPOS development and side projects.

Emre Eren
Emre Eren
Emre Eren
Emre Eren
1 Campaign |
İstanbul, Turkey
$7,586 USD 26 backers
15% of $50,000 Fixed Goal Fixed Goal

Hello

I'm Emre. I'm leading a small team who develops open source (GPL) POS application called SambaPOS. SambaPOS is a touch screen POS application for Restaurants, translated into 16 languages and used in production for more than 2 years by thousands of restaurants in more than 50 countries. 

We've recently released SambaPOS Version 3 Beta. It brings awesome features on SambaPOS V2 such as advaced rule framework, order state tracking, custom entities, accounting, warehouse management, customer loyalty management, promotions and other hundreds of useful features restaurants love to use. SambaPOS is easy, flexible enough to fit any type of business and stable.

Why we started this Campaign?

SambaPOS users expectations are big and we have to improve our development power and support quality. For this reason we'll launch a start-up and build a dedicated full time working team behind SambaPOS project. This campaign will help us to afford beginning costs.

Not for Profit

We don't mean profiting from this campaign. Like we did until now we'll invest every cents of the contributions and income generated from commercial sales back to SambaPOS project and open source development.

What we'll do?

We broke our plans into two parts. First part is our open source development plans for SambaPOS and the second part is for the commercial applications.

Plans for SambaPOS

These are our plans for the SambaPOS application. We'll release these as open source with SambaPOS project and we are planning to release everything until the first quarter of 2014.

  • Building a dedicated Team: We'll build a programming and support team for faster and professional development.
  • Better Documentation: Documentation is the biggest issue for us. Generally I'm writing English documentation in my non-development time. We need to approach this more professionally.
  • Migration to V3 from V2: This tool migrates V2 configuration data to V3.
  • Easier Management: SambaPOS V3 introduces awesome features but we still need easier management tools for managing custom SambaPOS features.
  • Hardware Integration: We'll implement support for different brands and different types of hardware we currently do not support.
  • Credit Card Processing: We'll implement integrations for credit card processing services.
  • Task Management: Managing tasks such as reservations, bill payments or other similar time based assignments we need to track.
  • Advanced Inventory & Resource Management: We'll improve inventory management to implement Supply-Chain management features for tracking daily inventory, supplier data, purchases and tracking finances.
  • Advanced Cost Tracking: Inventory is not the only cost generating resource. For better cost tracking other resources we pay for such as personnel wages, rent fees, electricity, heating, kitchen supplies costs and other consumables should taken into consideration. We'll implement expense center management for finer planning.
  • Time Clock: It will be useful for tracking personnel time and calculating personnel wages.
  • Web API Integration: We'll implement a locally hosted Web API for easily integrating third party solutions to SambaPOS.
  • Samba Market: A software market to release third party SambaPOS solutions implemented by solution partners.

Plans for Commercial Projects 

We'll keep SambaPOS application open source and free (as in freedom and free beer) forever and we'll continue its development as our flagship project. However we can't release everything for free because development resources we need to use are not free. These are the commercial projects we'll develop and release as companion SambaPOS solutions. We'll offer subscription plans for online services and commercial licenses for locally installed solutions.

  • Website Builder: An online website builder and website hosting application designed specifically for SambaPOS users. It supports online reservations, online orders and dynamic menu management. It works integrated with SambaPOS so when you receive an order or a reservation it will automatically appear on SambaPOS and trigger rules you've configured. You'll easily build your website, publish it under your domain name and stay in touch with your visitors.
  • E-Menu: A native IPad application for customers to submit & track their orders, display and use their promotion coupons and use their loyalty cards for additional actions. It works fully integrated with your Restaurant Website and other online social services you use.
  • IPad POS: A native IPad POS application for your personnel to receive, track, manage orders, tables, reservations, manage promotions and receive payments.
  • Kiosk: Windows & Ipad application to create professional looking customer or personnel kiosks, till displays, kitchen monitors, deliverer kiosk or dedicated screens for operating custom SambaPOS workflows configured for your business needs.
  • Multi Branch Integration Server: This server application runs on your server and gathers all data generated from branches to track and analysis real time branch operation.
  • Advanced Reporting Tool: This reporting tool generates custom reports and supports advanced reporting functions such as drill-down data analysis, custom filtering, cube presentations, comparisons, statistical analysis, segmentation and exporting features. This tool also integrates with Integration Server for online reporting.
  • Online Customer Loyalty Management & Mobile App: SambaPOS V3 supports wide range of customer loyalty features and this project brings it to online. Customers can visit your website to create promotion coupons, receive personal deals or create feedbacks. All can be done through your website or the mobile application customized for your restaurant. Since it integrates to powerful SambaPOS Rule system you can create rules to send promotion deals to customers that matches specific criteria such as visit count, last visit date or other data.
  • SambaPOS Plus: There are lots of great professional third party software solutions that can add great functionality to SambaPOS. However even we purchase these software we can't use them because we are publishing our source code. SambaPOS Plus is an add-on package that contains additional closed source modules for good looking UI screens, better productivity and more features.
  • Integration to Online Services: This tool integrates SambaPOS to widely used online ordering, reservation and deal services so you'll be able to track everything inside SambaPOS without the need of using other applications.

Support Us

If you are already a SambaPOS user you know us. We did our best for your business and besides programming we did everything possible to create something useful.

Now we can turn it to a big success story both for SambaPOS and for your business. You may think there are similar projects around but none of these solutions are really useful if they do not seamlessly integrate into your current workflow. We know what you need and can't wait to bring these into life.

We need at least $50.000 to be able to launch. For this reason this is a fixed funding campaign. It means if we can't meet our goal this campaign fails and you'll get refunded. You can read more about refunds here http://support.indiegogo.com/entries/21081743-refunds

About Perks

You can contribute any amount you want. SambaPOS itself is the biggest value we've already released but as our appreciation for your trust we'll gift you free subscription licenses for our commercial applications as we release them. Lifetime subscriptions never expires and includes all updates. For local applications it will work up to 3 servers at a time and for online solutions it will work for a single restaurant. Licenses are server based so you can connect unlimited number of terminals. After campaign ends there will be no lifetime subscription offers.

As the campaign reaches its goal we'll immediately start development and we'll frequently release alpha versions. All contributors will be able to access all private test versions, track our progress and stay in touch with us. This access will be open for only contributors of this campaign.

If you can't contribute financially you can still help us by spreading the word, testing, suggesting features and helping other SambaPOS users.

When we'll start delivering Perks?

While setting up our campaign goal we considered our minimum needs to be able to release projects until the end of 2014. We'll start from most convenient projects and while prioritizing them we'll take contributors choices into consideration. If we can generate more funding than our goal we can form a larger team to start all projects at once and deliver them faster.

About the Reseller Perk

If you plan to resell SambaPOS solutions this perk will give you additional discount on the regular reseller discount. That means if the regular reseller discount* is %50, a $1000 sale decreases to $500. Additional %30 on $500 makes $150 and you'll pay us $350. This offer also covers digital product sales through Samba Market and monthly subscription sales. After this campaign ends there will be no similar privileges for new resellers.

*%50 regular reseller discount is just an example rate for easy calculation.

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Choose your Perk

Private Beta Access

$1 USD
Like all contributors you'll have access to private beta releases and if you don't hide your name, you'll be listed at "Contributors" file in SambaPOS source code.
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One year subscription

$49 USD
One year subscription for one project you'll choose.
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Lifetime Subscription

$99 USD
Lifetime subscription for one project you'll choose.
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Lifetime Subscription Plus

$249 USD
Lifetime subscriptions for three projects you'll choose.
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Universal Subscription

$499 USD
Lifetime subscriptions for all projects we'll release.
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Reseller

$1,499 USD
You'll receive additional +%10 reseller discount over regular reseller discount.
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Sponsor Reseller

$2,999 USD
You'll receive additional +%30 sponsor reseller discount over regular reseller discount. If you want we'll also list your name, logo and link on Sponsors section of the "About Us" pages inside SambaPOS and our Website.
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