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1 Sponsored by 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. By Dr.-Ing Stanley A. Mungwe And SONDI Mikael Steve Jobs Project Cameroon September 2014

2 STEVE JOBS PROJECT CAMEROON UNICENTA OPOS THE FEATURES, FAILURES AND COMMUNITY. Dr.-Ing Stanley Mungwe Chairman and CEO Sondi Mikael Raphael wiki.idempiere.org/user:ralph ITKAMER Page 1 of 33

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4 Table of Contents Introduction: Improvements made to openbravo... 6 Testing unicenta opos Exploration Core: Problem 1: Problem 2: Problem Problem 4: Conclusion Page 3 of 33

5 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 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. Page 4 of 33

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7 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 Page 6 of 33

8 - Modification of button text / text ADMIN/sales - Button tooltips Page 7 of 33

9 - Addition of the following fields in the customer list view: postal, telephone number, address At admin/customers/customer account - Addition of a new customer button at admin/sales - Page 8 of 33

10 - 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 Page 9 of 33

11 - Removal of the cash closed button in the main panel - Addition of the presence manager button in the admin panel Page 10 of 33

12 - Addition of the utilities panel with one button; tools - Addition of the check-in/check-out button in the system panel Page 11 of 33

13 - 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 Page 12 of 33

14 - Modification of the panels in the Close cash view - Customers view Page 13 of 33

15 - admin/customers: modification of the panel below to include transactions and photo - Admin/reports customers Page 14 of 33

16 - Admin/Sales by customer - Removal of all tax prefixed buttons Page 15 of 33

17 - The tax buttons are instead found in the sales panel - Modification of the stock movement view in admin/stock - Page 16 of 33

18 - Configuration screens - Displaying the change/balance to be given to a user in a separate window that is more visible to the user. Page 17 of 33

19 - 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. Page 18 of 33

20 - 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: Page 19 of 33

21 - Clear database log, price changing, checking new products added, Missing price in file, etc. as below: Page 20 of 33

22 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). Page 21 of 33

23 Exploration Here are some of the major problems that some users of unicenta opos encounter. Here is the receipt mentioned above. Page 22 of 33

24 And the problems seems to be solved as below: Page 23 of 33

25 Here is another problem: Check out these numbers in their sourceforge.com discussion: Page 24 of 33

26 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 They also have support requests at Page 25 of 33

27 Here is their bugs page: at Page 26 of 33

28 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: This was reported in version 3.55 on the 15 th November 2013.Unicenta has had the following releases: 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. Page 27 of 33

29 - Here is a paid receipt. - I will now refund the receipt several times Page 28 of 33

30 - 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. Page 29 of 33

31 Problem 2: Refunded tickets have different IDs from the original ones. This bug is also present in Openbravo pos. Original ticket Refunded ticket Problem 3: Current debts not deducted on refund. This bug is also present in Openbravo POS. Page 30 of 33

32 - Here is the receipt where Customer: sondi mikael has a debt of 14, USD - But even after refunding the 2 TVs bought above, the debt still appears as below: Page 31 of 33

33 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 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 Page 32 of 33

34 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! us for comments. Page 33 of 33