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Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

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Syncs with their phone app, to keep a track of bills and expenses. Based on the Espressif ESP32. Quite handy for small shop owners who can't have a full-blown computer+screen cash register. Disclaimer: I am working as a freelancer for their next version of hardware that will be based on Linux.

What is the hardware like in the next version?

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[Serious] Can you not just connect a physical numpad to your phone and use the phone screen as display?

I think you could, but you wouldn't leave your phone in the shop for other employees to use. You would have to buy a dedicated phone for the purpose... At that point you can also buy a dedicated calculator instead.

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i have a fundamental problem with "accounting" for small businesses. 1. if they are registered with GST, they should probably start maintaining inventory and for that,this device is not useful. 2. if they are NOT registered with GST, they can't even bother with this because nowadays UPI is becoming the norm and all sale gets recorded there anyway. this would only serve the niche of "not-registered for GST and using c…

I think having a single place to record all your transactions would be a good feature. And if they have a way to send receipts to customers via SMS/whatsapp, it would be a great.

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i have a fundamental problem with "accounting" for small businesses. 1. if they are registered with GST, they should probably start maintaining inventory and for that,this device is not useful. 2. if they are NOT registered with GST, they can't even bother with this because nowadays UPI is becoming the norm and all sale gets recorded there anyway. this would only serve the niche of "not-registered for GST and using c…

If the device is cheap enough(so theft is not a concern), and it has a wifi signal, a barcode scanner could easily be plugged in, or added wirelessly so it can track SKUs or whatever the shop uses. It syncs to a more powerful device which can maintain inventory counts .

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would you people be interested in opening up the api to connect to third party softwares? i have [gnukhata]( https://gnukhata.org/ ) which is AGPL licensed accounting software and this would be great synergy between local hardware and software.

Genuine question: would this software also have to become AGPL licenced, if it's connecting over a network?
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