[ic] Accounting?

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Dan Browning)]

At 07:58 AM 8/12/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Dan Browning wrote:
>
>>At 09:42 PM 8/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>>I'm curious to know how Interchange handles transactions. Is there any
>>>ledger type accounting included?
>>
>>
>>Interchange does a lot, but it doesn't try to do all the accounting (GL, 
>>AR, etc.) itself.  For Quickbooks, the extensions/quickbooks directory in 
>>the tarball has been around for quite some time.  More recently, Mike 
>>Heins has been working on a SQL-Ledger module originally written by 
>>Daniel Thompson <danht@callthenet.com>.
>>Checkout the latest 4.9 CVS to test that out.
>>
>>>If not, how difficult would it be to
>>>integrate with a third party accounting system?  If anyone knows of any
>>>open source Perl Accounting scripts, please reply.
>>
>>
>>SQL-Ledger is written in Perl.  I highly recommend another open source 
>>accounting/ERP/CRM system, Compiere (http://www.compiere.org).
>>Compiere developers are interested in integrating it with IC (its about 
>>50% down the TODO list), but it hasn't been started yet.
>>Another option available to you is engaging a competent IC consultant to 
>>integrate IC with whatever backend you want (i.e. already use).
>>There have been two integrations with MAS90, another via DBI::Proxy 
>>(forgot the backend name), and many others I'm sure done by various 
>>consultants.
>
>Compiere does have a lot of promise, but the challenge is that it is not a 
>ERP system yet as it hasn't any manufacturing or MRP systems at least as 
>the last time I exchanged messages with the developer back in June...

Well, you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.  ;-)  Not everyone 
manufactures their own products, so it fits the definition of ERP for a lot 
of people (and these days, everyone makes their own definition).  But a 
funny twist is that (being an open source project), someone is already 
working on additional MRP features:

<quote Michal Materny>
I am working on mrp with some elements of master scheduling. Alpha stage is
planned at november. Scheduling solution will be based on Preactor so only 
interface
will be provided by me.
</quote>

So you may want to look at Compiere again in a few months.  :-)  Cheers,

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