barcode scanning/reading integration

[amarsyed]

Hi,

Could a barcode scanner work with the front end or admin web applications?  I have OSCommerce at the moment and I feel that if I move to konaKart it would be worth trying to get barcode scanning integrated.  I know you can get fairly cheap USB barcode scanners from Ebay in the UK.  I guess a simple way would be to have barcodes generated for each SKU and whenever a user wants to search an item they would have to put the focus within the SKU search field (if there is one) and possibly hit enter.  This would ease a lot of manual typing time.  Advanced usages would be to have barcodes that perform specific functionality but that might require a custom client (java) program that invokes the server API.
As a start functionality provided to generate barcodes through the admin app and allowing a barcode reader to enter the barcode value into the admin app, would be excellent.

thanks

Amar

[julie]

Hi Amar,

Yes there is an SKU search field in the Admin App so what you are saying is that a bar code reader may work out of the box if it can populate that field ? Also as you point out, anyone can use the API directly to create a "vertical UI" that solves a specific business use case.

As a start functionality provided to generate barcodes through the admin app

Could you expand on that idea with a few more details on how you'd expect it to work ?

Thx,

Julie