Hi Frederic, We are currently working on such a module at the moment for a multinational organisation. This bank statement module incorporates all the functionality described below and is integrated to our account_voucher_enapps module for payments and ea_import for flexible statement importing.
No timeline on completion but I’ll keep you posted. On 1 June 2012 15:49, Frédéric Clementi <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I think this conversation must also be posted on the expert mailing list as it concerns a lot of people ... The position of OpenERP about this is also unclear for us. Thanks for asking, James. Frédéric CLEMENTI Business Solutions Camptocamp SA Tel : + 41 (0)21 619 1041 http://www.camptocamp.com <[email protected]> 2012/5/31 James Jesudason <[email protected]> Hi Fabien, As you know, Canonical has been implementing OpenERP for our internal finance system. We started entering finance data at the start of April and are currently in a period where we are doing double-entry (in OpenERP and the legacy Navision system), and reconciling the differences. There have been a number of challenges in this process, partly operational issues (we have an external provider that manages and book-keeps Navision), and partly software issues. That process of double-entry and reconciling the two systems (which has been challenging!) will continue until at least the end of June. We hope, by then, that we will have confirmed that OpenERP can be used successfully and transition to using it as our primary system. One of the challenges that we have had with OpenERP is with the banking framework. The lack of an approved and supported banking framework module has been a challenge as this is an important part of the phase 1 functionality that needs to be working in OpenERP. We commissioned Credativ to build a banking module for HSBCNet as they had done that work for another company, and they used the account_banking module as a base framework for their account_banking_uk_hsbc. I had concerns about that as the framework did not appear to be well-supported. However, they had the basic functionality working, and then I had to take over the development in order complete the work (the integration needed someone with an HSBCNet account to be able to fully test the work). With the release of 6.1 we needed the account_banking module upgraded, and so I spent a considerable amount of time upgrading the module and testing the functionality. Whilst the basics of the module do work well, I have concerns that the module is trying to do too much, which makes it very difficult to test and keep up-to-date with OpenERP. I've been discussing the options for having a leaner, more focused banking framework within OpenERP that we know will be supported going forward. Most of these discussions have been with Frédéric at CampToCamp, and he suggested that I contact you to discuss the possibility of incorporating an 'official' banking framework within OpenERP. Initially I was thinking of getting account_banking certified, but I don't think that is the ideal option as it has become too complex. Instead, what I've been thinking of is a basic framework that is very similar to the core of the account_banking module. The framework should allow other companies to write their own 'plugin' modules for different banking systems. The basic functionality that I feel is needed is: * Bank statement import * Generating payments from payment orders * (optional) A rule-based invoice-matching system (match a bank statement line with one or more invoices, to speed up statement reconciliation) I would like to get your thoughts on having an official banking framework and what would be the best approach to move this forward. As an experiment, I started coding a basic module, one that is based on the plug-in approach that is in account_banking, and it was not too complicated to get a simple statement import from HSBCNet working. I was able to 'extract' the core code of account_banking to create a much leaner module. This includes some original code done by EduSense, so if this was to be used we may need some agreement from them. One of the challenges that I have is that Canonical has some more immediate needs - we need to ensure that we can use OpenERP for making payments. The current account_banking does allow us to do that, but setting up bank accounts correctly in OpenERP is not straightforward and that can easily lead to payments failing. Also, many of the payments that we make are international and a number of suppliers need intermediary banks to be entered to make the payment (as some banks cannot receive overseas payments). The current banking and payment structure does not allow for intermediary banks to be specified or used. Whilst I could just focus on meeting our own needs, building a custom module that will only suit us, I'd prefer to find an approach enables us to have an official, supported framework that will be a core part of OpenERP. Your feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks James _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-expert-accounting Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-expert-accounting More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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