Description: a modern and easy to use software package to manage your business (customers, invoices, orders, products, stocks, agenda, e-mailings, shipments…).
Potentially Dolibarr could take over a lot of functionality, there is a ticket module and a IMAP email fetcher for it (both GPL V3 but for sale, €171). The stable install is packaged as a .deb. Their forum looks like a blast for the past after getting used to Discourse!
I want to hide under the duvet after looking at some of the code [1] - a massive sprawl of global variable style, jQuery in php strings, lots of commented out code, and all seemingly untested code that handles payments … and 880 issues in the tracker.
To be fair I didn’t look at the code the other projects.
Here they differentiate themselves from systems such as Odoo and Dolibarr:
100% Open Source
Unlike other open source business platforms, ERPNext is fully Open Source, because unlike them, we don’t think sustainability and open source live at odds.
Most open source platforms in the ERP / CRM / E-Commerce space are open core . These communities makes money from closed extensions and services to monetize their efforts. We believe this is not only wrong, but not sustainable.
Agreed, but they used the model of a Free and open source core product but commercial, non-free apps, see the app pricing page, I’m not opposed to paying for software but it would add up, for example we might need:
I just found Ansible Playbooks for ERPNext and loads of Ansible Roles, I need to spend some time looking through these, we might not need to reinvent the wheel… however I’m not so keen on things like their MariaDB tasks, and Nginx tasks which don’t use the Stretch packages, they use upstream ones, it looks it is written for Jessie.
“Small businesses will not be ready for this significant change to their practices if it is introduced on 1 April, particularly with Brexit taking place three days earlier,” said Lord Forsyth. “The government must delay its introduction.”
I have a new ERPNext install up and running at erpnext.webarch.co.uk and expect that it’ll be ready for some more testing next week, I’m very hopeful that we will be able to use ERPNext for:
Invoicing
Ticketing / issues
Timesheets
Generating our website
Online ordering and payments
But we need to play with it some more before committing to it…
We have some issues to work through on GitLab:
I expect that by the next management committee meeting, which is on 12th December 2018, we will be in a position to make a decision regarding the use of ERPNext.