Hi!
2011/3/9 Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre@galecia.com>:
Is anyone out there using the Koha OPAC as a self-checkout station? I ask because I know this can be done with Evergreen (King County Library System is doing it) and it makes a self-check station cost $300 instead of $2000. All they did was tweak the OPAC a bit and put a scanner (or RFID reader) on a low end PC and bingo...self check. Has anyone tried that?
Have you seen Koha's "very basic self checkout module"? http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x7980
You can see a demo of it here: http://head.bibkat.no/cgi-bin/koha/sco/sco-main.pl Login as username demo, password demo.
Since all the checkout requires is the card number of a user, it seems awfully easy to tamper with the accounts of other users than your own with this system...
Thats why you don't have a keyboard attached. Just a barcode scanner, then it's exactly the same as any other selfcheck machine. The danger is in letting people type cardnumbers in, (if you opened a self check machine and connected a keyboard, same thing ;)) So I would put the pc in a locked cabinet so people can not tamper with it (like plugging in a keyboard) Chris