## Motivations
- to own the means of production we also need to own the software
- community ownership of the infrastructure that powers it is important for stability
- needs to support customer and worker co-ops
- federation of co-op systems
- member only co-op are how small businesses should exist in a community

## Design Requirements

### Crawl
- Member only co-ops
- Handle looking up products
	- SKU numbers
	- PLU numbers
	- UPC numbers
- Non fixed quantity products
	- what units do we use
- IMS and POS system need to be able to operate independently
- Track orders per account
- generate inventory reports
- Internationalization of UI
	- Accessability for users of all backgrounds

### Walk
- inventory velocity reports
- opt in item location lookup
- integration into other systems to order supplies
- track costs vs revenue
	- broken down store wide
	- broken down per member
- accept payments for items
	- cash
	- multiple currencies?
	- crypto???

### Run
- federation
- Single Sign On
- accept card payments for items
	- the big processors
	- whats europe doing nowadays
	- SNAP/EBT
- Product requests

### Fly
- nix config with a software suite that sets up all of the systems (POS, IMS, auth, member matrix server)

## Design plan

systems:

- card payment bridge
	- talking to credit card readers is complex and needs drivers. We should make some kind bridge software that runs on a very very cheap device like a pi or something.
- payment system
	- payment module should be separate from point of sale module so we can keep the concept of pricing as separate as we can
	- track cost of items
- point of sale system
	- in charge of tracking what items are a part of what order
	- requests preview information from payment module
	- forwards order session to payment system
	- send completed orders to inventory management system
- inventory management system
	- track what is in stock
		- track estimation of how much product exists
		- track shrink rates
		- track product velocity
	- get messages from point of sale system to update inventory amounts
	- handle audits
- finances system
	- track revenue vs expenses
	- forecast budget
- authentication system (how do we track member id numbers relating to this?)
- web portal
- matrix server