A number of points about your insightful comments: 1/ Kin has already voiced concern for ease of report generation as a show stopper. After all, computers ARE supposed to make the job easier, correct? 2/ So what license would the authors reporting solutions be under? The full program should be powerful, comprehensive, and easy to use,.. yet I seem to suspect some sort of cripple ware system. 3/ Is ad hoc reporting solvable in the other fork?
Mel On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 11:02 -0700, Shawn Grover wrote: > I've used SQL-Ledger in the past, though it has been years. My > experience was that as an accounting system, it was pretty solid. There > was some dispute around management of the project and a fork was started > (LedgerSMB). I'm not sure of the state of either project as I stopped > using it. (The owner left a bad taste with me when I submitted a > support question asking how to go about modifying one of the reports, > and he responded with a modified report and an invoice expecting to be > paid for the "work I asked him to do"...). > > In the end, the complex reporting system was the nail in the coffin for > SQL-Ledger (for me). It uses LaTeX to generate the reports which are > output in PDF format. While tweaking LaTeX was "fun", asking the system > for any information not already provided required modifications to the > report AND the underlying system that only the author seemed to be able > to do. So creating custom or ad hoc reports via the system was cost > prohibitive. > > But SQL-Ledger *was* under active development. It looks like it still > is (he's calling it an ERP system now and not just an accounting > system...) So, things may have changed drastically since I last looked > at it. > > Food for thought > > Shawn > > On 11-11-24 09:15 PM, Hendrik Schaink wrote: > > You may want take SQL-Ledger in consideration, published and supported > > by an Edmonton company. Highly capable and configurable, it appears to > > have special appeal for larger organizations with more intricate > > bookkeeping requirements. > > > > Description page: > > http://www.sql-ledger.com/cgi-bin/nav.pl?page=about.html&title=About > > > > Features page: > > http://www.sql-ledger.com/cgi-bin/nav.pl?page=features.html&title=Features > > > > Home page: http://www.sql-ledger.com/ > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > Hendrik > > > > > > On 24/11/11 10:20 AM, Royce Souther wrote: > >> Is anyone using accounting software on Linux? I was looking at Quasar from > >> http://linuxcanada.com they are a Calgary company and I know a lot of > >> people that are using it but my new client needs payroll and job costing > >> and it looks like Quasar does not have that. Quasar can export to a payroll > >> program but they do not say what that program could be. > >> > >> Recommendations please. > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
