Hi, I worked on an application a while ago that used portable barcode readers. We required the users to sync up daily though via serial cable. The RF readers are the same idea though. Checkout www.barcodehq.com. Good luck!

Marty


>Hello,
>
>I have a client that want to walk with his clients into his kind of store and fill an order at the same time! No inventory qty involved. He wants to scan the bar code of the product and add it to the order (with the price) without going back to the main computer.
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>What would be the best ways (and easiest!) to do that ?
>I was thinking about a kind of hand computer but I should be powerfull enought for 5000 items in a small catalog. Any computer to suggest ?
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>Radio frequency maybe ?
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>Any suggestion very welcomed!
>Thanks
>Eric