raw materials

Earlier, I declared that Checkout, the Mac-based point-of-sale software that we use, was “pretty good”. Every day has me revisiting that opinion.

The single biggest functional problem I have with it now is that it is dirt slow. Painfully slow. The reporting functionality is nearly useless, it is so slow. And on top of that, the date selector for the date range on reports is just terrible, and you have to wait for it to regenerate the report as you change each part of each date value.

I think my biggest problem overall, however, is that there is now a huge amount of valuable data that is trapped in one of the more byzantine database schemas I’ve ever seen. I haven’t had the stomach to deconstruct the whole thing, or maybe I’m just not taking the right drugs. The import and export functionality in the application itself is nearly useless, of course.

I wish Checkout worked as well as it looks.

I am sure some of this will be addressed in some future version, but it has been months since the last maintenance update and no word on when a new release of any sort might see the light of day.