Agreed. In the past I had mentioned Apache's Open for Business project. It does fairly sophisticated accounting as well as multi-facility inventory management, customer relationship management, tracking project hours and manufacturing line control. For actual small to medium size businesses, the ledger is just a part of the problem.
I think one of the largest gaps for new businesses, especially non-technical ones, is understanding how to get started. Having a LiveCD with an easy installer that gave you an accounting appliance with one of these systems could be a big aid. The software is already there, its the training and packaging that are the big gap. This is why companies like Quickbooks and Microsoft are able to sell a fairly expensive product even though there are Free Software equivalents. A "Mom and Pop" sandwich shop needs something that they can turn on and use. On 05/02/2013 03:24 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > There is open source accounting software. LedgerSMB, Tryton, GnuCash... > > Why are we reinventing the wheel? If we want to support better NPO > integration doesn't it make sense to start with that? _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
