title: POS web based advantages/disadvantages over desktop app
body: <p>I have to develop a POS System for a "padel tennis" club, and basically my requeriments are the following:</p>
  
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  <li>Sales are from restaurant products and coupons reservations for padel courts (for example coupons with 5 hours).</li>
  <li>Coupons are paid in the club, but courts can be reserved through their web page.</li>
  <li>As we have all the database in the club, I need to have a server within the club with a web-service ready to make reservations of courts in our database.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>My first approach is to make a web based POS hosted in the same server where goes the database and the web service, but as it goes only on a LAN network (it has no sense sale a bottle of watter in other place than the restaurant), it makes me doubt to make a desktop application for the POS system. </p>
  
  <p>It's not very common a POS system as a web application but I think that it would have no practice limitations (using AJAX and Javascript in order to avoid unnecessary page reloads and make it more "desktop similar") and it could offer the benefits of web applications (manage it online, scalability ... )</p>
  
  <p>All the connections in the LAN with the web server would be over SSL, so security is almost guaranteed</p>
  
  <p>I would like to know if this is a right approach for this scenario and if there are any disadvantages respect a POS desktop app</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot!</p>