The 5 licence version of dPos may be installed on up to 5 computers and if these are networked together they can all share a common database. The computer that holds the database is known as the Server computer, and the others are Client computers. You should consider whether you want your server computer to be one of the Point of sale machines, or whether it should be a separate computer in the “back office”. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.
If the server is one of the point of sale machines then that could save the purchase of another computer for the back office. On the other hand it means that any administrative functions carried out on the server may interrupt normal selling operations. The server machine may conveniently be in the back office and have a page printer attached rather than a receipt printer/cash drawer, and may contain additional software, such as a spreadsheet program like Excel and an accounts program. The client machines do not need to be large and powerful if they are not required to run other software at the same time as dPos.
Whichever approach is chosen the server machine needs to be sufficiently powerful to operate the database and handle any other workload you require.
Another consideration for multi-point operation is security. While you may wish to have the server machine connected to the internet, it is advisable to have client machine connected only to the local network and not permanently connected to the internet.
Unless you have a good reason to not to do so, we recommend that you create non-administrative dPos users (see below) for your dPos system, so that the user needs to login in before using the system. This will also ensure that all sales are recorded along with the users ID.