• First off, great work on making a very neat plugin. The only problem I see in using it as my everyday POS system is that it needs mouse movement for many of the things. I do not have enough hands to hold the barcode scanner, the products, operate keyboard, and also operate mouse. Not to mention that mouse significantly slows down the billing speed.

    My suggestion is to make it more keyboard friendly and minimize the need of mouse in the following ways:

    • Remove unnecessary tab stops. Right now, clicking on Tab cycles through even the non-editable elements, e.g. product name in the cart.
    • Optimize tab sequences for the most used operations. For example, when I open the number pad UI to change quantity/price, I would most likely want to type a number on keyboard and hit Enter. So the existing quantity/price should be in focus and selected, and next tab stop should be the green Enter button. As of now that button is about 15 tabs away.
    • Use other keys apart from Tab. For example, we can use arrow keys to navigate to products/categories instead of using repeated Tab keys, or we can use the Enter key for ‘submit’ button selection (like the green checkmark key in price/quantity number pad).
    • Create keyboard shortcuts for most used operations, e.g. toggling between text/barcode search.

    These changes will significantly improve the usability.

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  • Plugin Author bizswoop

    (@bizswoop)

    Thank you for the feedback and all the great suggestions on improving the keyboard experience with the POS. We agree! The keyboard friendliness can be improved.

    So far, we have focused more on mobile optimizations and touch, but the good news. On our development roadmap we have already planned to improve the keyboard UX. All the suggestions you listed are on our plan to improve and optimize in upcoming releases.

    We will keep the support forum post open as we work to improve the keyboard experience overall. As you continue to use the POS with a keyboard, please provide us any new suggestions you think would be good. Including any recommended hotkeys.

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