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UNICENTA OPOS THE FEATURES, FAILURES AND
COMMUNITY.
ABSTRACT This document seeks to give an in-depth view of
Unicenta opos, its features and differences with
Openbravo opos. It comprises of the differences and
improvements made to openbravo to bring about
Unicenta opos.It also covers a brief testing.
Sponsored by
By
Dr.-Ing Stanley A. Mungwe
And
SONDI Mikael
Steve Jobs Project Cameroon
September 2014
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STEVE JOBS PROJECT
CAMEROON http://wiki.idempiere.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_Project
UNICENTA OPOS
THE FEATURES, FAILURES AND COMMUNITY.
Sondi Mikael Raphael
wiki.idempiere.org/User:Ralph
Dr.-Ing Stanley Mungwe
Chairman and CEO
ITKAMER
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Table of Contents Introduction: ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4
................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Improvements made to openbravo ........................................................................................................................................ 6
Testing unicenta opos ........................................................................................................................................................... 21
Exploration ........................................................................................................................................................................ 22
Core: .................................................................................................................................................................................. 27
Problem 1: ..................................................................................................................................................................... 27
Problem 2: ..................................................................................................................................................................... 30
Problem 3 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 30
Problem 4: ..................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................................................. 33
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Introduction: Unicenta is a point of Sale application that originated from openbravo. Unicenta forked openbravo in 2009, but
their website went up and registered in the wayback machine in 2012. Since then, they have had much
traffic/modification on their website, till date as shown below:
Their sourceforce.com page has had much traffic in 2014 as shown below.
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Improvements made to openbravo Throughout this document, the screenshots on the left will be from Openbravo pos and those on the right will be from
Unicenta opos. Let’s begin!
- Responsive date and time at the home page of unicenta pos throughout all application screens
- Modification of button icons
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- Modification of button text / text
ADMIN/sales
- Button tooltips
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- Addition of the following fields in the customer list view: postal, telephone number, email address
At admin/customers/customer account
- Addition of a ‘new customer’ button at admin/sales -
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- Reduction of the size of the vertical six buttons so that each of them appear. This only works well in
some themes of open bravo
- Addition of two extra buttons in the open drawer and print panel
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- Removal of the ‘cash closed button’ in the main panel
- Addition of the ‘presence manager button in the admin panel’
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- Addition of the utilities panel with one button; ‘tools’
- Addition of the check-in/check-out button in the system panel
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- Breaks and presence manager upon click of check in/check out
- Automatic hiding of the left side bar of the admin sale view on startup
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- Modification of the panels in the Close cash view
- Customers’ view
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- admin/customers: modification of the panel below to include transactions and photo
- Admin/reports customers
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- Admin/Sales by customer
- Removal of all tax prefixed buttons
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- The tax buttons are instead found in the sales panel
- Modification of the stock movement view in admin/stock
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- Configuration screens
- Displaying the change/balance to be given to a user in a separate window that is more visible to the user.
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- However, in both systems, the balance is not displayed in the receipt printed. In the two cases below, the cash
given requires some balance, but this balance is not displayed on the receipt.
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- In unicenta pos, multiple databases can be selected from a drop-down menu, while in openbravo, the default
database cannot be modified from the GUI.
- Ability to import products by specifying their attributes in .csv files.
- Clear database log, price changing, checking new products added, Missing price in file, etc. as below:
- Clear database log, price changing, checking new products added, Missing price in file, etc. as below:
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- Clear database log, price changing, checking new products added, Missing price in file, etc. as below:
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Testing unicenta opos
The test is going to be done according to what the community all over the world has done. This
document will cover the functional test case. Here, we are going to consider the bugs/incidents encountered
by users of unicenta opos all over the world. This is going to be more efficient than me testing it personally,
because the world community has various cases of expectations from unicenta opos. This also entails the
check of whether the bugs encountered in the previous versions of unicenta opos have/haven’t been solved as
of the latest version of unicenta opos (v3.70).
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Exploration Here are some of the major problems that some users of unicenta opos encounter.
Here is the receipt mentioned above.
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And the problems ‘seems’ to be solved as below:
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Here is another problem:
Check out these numbers in their sourceforge.com discussion: https://sourceforge.net/p/unicentaopos/discussion/
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They also have feature trackers at sourceforge to find out what features their customers would like to be included in
unicenta’s next release. At https://sourceforge.net/p/unicentaopos/feature-requests/
They also have support requests at https://sourceforge.net/p/unicentaopos/support-requests/
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Here is their ‘bugs’ page: at https://sourceforge.net/p/unicentaopos/bugs/124/
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Core: Here, we will cover the testing of unicenta opos. This testing is going to be done according to the bugs reported by the
users of unicenta around the globe. So, we will be taking each bug reported in the project page at sourceforge.com and
test it on the new version of unicenta opos (version 3.70).The bugs will be chosen according to the importance of the
faulty feature. Let’s begin!
Problem 1: We will start by taking the ‘Refund problem’ at: https://sourceforge.net/p/unicentaopos/bugs/82/
This was reported in version 3.55 on the 15th November 2013.Unicenta has had the following releases:
- 3.55
- 3.56
- 3.60
- 3.70
And the version I have installed on my computer is version 3.70 and I tell you that this bug has not been fixed yet!
Let me show you.
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- Here is a paid receipt.
- I will now refund the receipt several times
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- So that we have this:
- And … Have a look at the new receipt. It was refunded 33 times! Yeah 33 times. The sad thing is that this bug is
also present in Openbravo POS.
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Problem 2: Refunded tickets have different IDs from the original ones. This bug is also present in Openbravo pos.
Problem 3: Current debts not deducted on refund. This bug is also present in Openbravo POS.
Original ticket
Refunded ticket
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- Here is the receipt where Customer: ’ sondi mikael’ has a debt of 14,798.00 USD
- But even after refunding the 2 TVs bought above, the debt still appears as below:
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Problem 4: Performance problems with product images
- And some patches were submitted by another user to solve the problem. But the reason why I report this bug is
that, the settings of the JVM can be changed in the start.bat/start.sh files. It will be good for us to have a look at
this file. Below is part of the content of the file:
REM Apache Axis SOAP libraries.
set CP=%CP%;"%DIRNAME%lib/axis.jar"
set CP=%CP%;"%DIRNAME%lib/jaxrpc.jar"
set CP=%CP%;"%DIRNAME%lib/saaj.jar"
set CP=%CP%;"%DIRNAME%lib/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar"
set CP=%CP%;"%DIRNAME%lib/commons-discovery-0.4.jar"
set CP=%CP%;"%DIRNAME%lib/commons-logging-1.1.jar"
set CP=%CP%;"%DIRNAME%locales/"
set CP=%CP%;"%DIRNAME%reports/"
start /B javaw -cp %CP% -Djava.library.path="%DIRNAME%lib/Windows/i368-mingw32" -Ddirname.path="%DIRNAME%./" -splash:unicenta_splash_dark.png com.openbravo.pos.forms.StartPOS %1
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Conclusion
Inspired by Dr.-Ing. Stanley Mungwe (Chairman and CEO of ITKAMER)
We have now come to the end of the document. I hope you have had an insight into Unicenta opos, features
and the community. I think unicenta is gaining most of the POS contracts because they do not have a good competitor.
They are just messing around with a project that was crumbling some years back (Openbravo pos) and giving no tribute
to those that deserve it. However, they are slowly virally infecting the internet and closing up, even to the partners,
probably to psychologically influence the market on the quality of their product.
Hope you enjoyed!
E-mail us for comments.
