1. npoacct

There are a number of existing accounting projects. Some of these are listed under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_accounting_software.

If your project isn't listed here, feel free to add it!

These projects will be evaluated for suitability and/or adaptability. We have an template you can use to evaluate these projects to the UseCases we've collected so far.

List of projects under evaluation

• ERP5
  • Contacted
  • Template filled in by Yusei
• ERPNext
  • Contacted
  • Evaluated by Joar
  • ERPNext's strange would-be copyright assignment policy is problematic for various reasons; bkuhn has raised the issue on the ERPNext Developers' Forum.
    • This issue has now been resolved
  • Updated by Rushabh (ERPNext)
• GNUCash
  • Evaluated by Joar
    • Confirmed as reasonable by someone in the GnuCash IRC channel.
  • Contacted on IRC
• Ledger
  • Evaluated by Joar
• LedgerSMB
  • Contacted
    • Evaluated by Chris Travers from LedgerSMB
• hledger
• npo-ledger-cli
• OpenERP
• ?OpenBravo : http://www.openbravo.com/
• Postbooks
• SQLLedger
• Tryton
  • Template filled in by Joar

Projects Temporarily Rejected

These projects have been rejected temporarily (i.e., evaluation is on hold) because of some issue that seems unresolvable at the moment, but may be resolved at a later date and will remove the blocker of looking more closely at the project.

• BeansBooks
  • Not free software
    • The developers have been reached in an effort to solve this issue.
• OpenPetra
  • The linux client has not been a focus of the OpenPetra developers, and as of 2013-11-25 with the setup described in http://www.pokorra.de/2013/11/install-openpetra-on-linux/ it crashes intermittently for various reasons.
• ApacheOFBiz
  • Contacted
  • As a user: Due to OFBiz's apparent lack of documentation, e.g. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBENDUSER/12.2.6+Reports, the evaluation has been discontinued.
• Kuali
  • Contacted
  • As a developer: Discontinued due to the opacity of the Kuali organization.
• Bookyt
  • Contacted
    • Replied to my inquiriy about help with evaluating Bookyt but has not contributed any evaluations so far.
  • As a user: The project seems to be in an early state, if anyone would like to spin it up and try it you're welcome.
• ADempiere
  • As a user: ADempiere is hard to get clear information about, the resources that are available are hard to navigate.

Projects Rejected

These projects have been evaluated as part of this effort and rejected, both for a basis of this project or for any code reuse. A few of the primary reasons are given on this page, but the whole evaluation can be read on the linked page.

• Frontaccounting
  • Straight PHP with no framework
  • Data model somewhat messy, accounting not clearly separated.
  • Only one or two developers.
  • Workflow not easily configured.
• ?webERP: http://www.weberp.org/ NOTE: Frontaccounting is a fork of webERP.
  • A brief look at the source code seems to indicate that webERP suffers from the same issues as Frontaccounting.
• GNUEnterprise

  GNU Enterprise is not a Finance/ERP/Accounting software (yet). While the original project goal was to create exactly that, the maintainers at that time decided that as a first step, good development tools for database centered applications should be created. The focus of development then was strongly on these tools, and while they are to a certain extent usable to actually create database applications, further development in the project has come to a halt because most (all) developers shifted their energy to other projects.
  -- Reinhard Mueller

• Garradin
  • Entirely in french, would need l10n, i18n and might not be suitable for US or international use. Disclaimer: I cannot read french, these are assumptions.