Installing Ultimate POS on Localhost:

 

Server requirements

Make sure your server meets the following requirements:

1. PHP Version – UltimatePOS Version 5 or higher  PHP >= 8.1
2. OpenSSL PHP Extension
3. PDO PHP Extension
4. Mbstring PHP Extension
5. Tokenizer PHP Extension
6. XML PHP Extension
7. cURL PHP Extension
8. Zip PHP Extension
9. GD PHP Extension

Server Recommendation

• Ultimate POS can be installed in Localhost.
• If you want to make it accessible online- We recommend using Cloud host – as it provides better flexibility or control of the server. You can use AWS or Digital Ocean or search for some others. Our demo site is set up on the Digital Ocean.
• You can also use Shared hosting. Like for example BigRocks, NameCheap, GoDaddy etc.

1. After downloading, extract the file onto your desktop using a zip software (like winzip or winrar or something else ) as shown below.

Installing in Localhost:

1. In case you want to install the system locally, here are the steps:
• 2.1 Download & Install a server like WAMP(for Windows) or XAMP(for windows or Linux) or something else as per your preference having Apache or nginx server.
• 2.2 Go to the htdocs folder.  htdocs folder is commonly present inside the xamp/htdocs.
• 2.3 Copy the codebase folder (For example UltimatePOS-CodeBase-V2.8.1) present inside the unzipped file in step 1.
• 2.4 Rename the folder to UltimatePOS. (For example: UltimatePOS-CodeBase-V2.8.1 to UltimatePOS)
• 2.5 Now open http://localhost/UltimatePOS/install or http://localhost/UltimatePOS/public/install
  Here you will see a screen with “Doing some pre-installation checkup…”
• 2.6 Make sure all checks are shows as Green-Tick. If there is something with Red-Cross then fix it and refresh the page to check again. After all Green-Tick click on “Go to Next Step”
• 2.7 Follow the installation instructions as displayed in the screen.
• 2.8 After all installation is done, Go inside public folder and delete the install folder present.
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