Ledger itself offers a crude inventory management system. Consider the
following file:
2020/07/01 Owner
Equity:Owner Deposit
Bank:Checking Account 100 USD
2020/07/01 Doorknob Manufacturer
Assets:Materials 10 Doorknobs
Bank:Checking Account -5 USD
2020/07/02 Carpet Manufacturer
Assets:Materials 4 Rugs
Bank:Checking Account -50 USD
When you run a balance report on this file you get:
$ ledger -f inventory.dat bal | cat
10 Doorknobs
4 Rugs Assets:Materials
45 USD Bank:Checking Account
-100 USD Equity:Owner Deposit
--------------------
10 Doorknobs
4 Rugs
-55 USD
The problem is that you can't use more than one type of inventory item in a
single transaction.
On Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 11:21:55 PM UTC+8 Ajoeibin wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Quite a few years ago I chose to use Ledger-cli as I thought, and have
> found, that a purely text based record keeping program was/is more
> flexible than anything that I've tried and/or looked into like a
> ledger or even the ERP programs. (Long may Ledger live!!)
>
> Getting into rolling my own hardware solutions for some things (very
> specialized application stuff generally) I have bought quite a bunch
> of 'goodies' . Now comes the problem - - - - how do I keep track of
> what I have?
>
> Sounds like a simple problem - - - - but - - - there is a severe
> dearth of tools in the Linux world for inventory management. Most
> things billed as 'inventory control systems' seem to think that $40 to
> even over a $100 per month is a reasonable fee for software for
> inventory management. Given how terrible most retailers are at
> inventory management I'd bet that these tools might not quite be as
> wonderful as they bill themselves to be.
>
> Does anyone out there in Ledger land have any suggestions as to a very
> reasonable (best open source) inventory management program or system?
>
> (Looking for something where I could even use a bar code(s) scanner
> with remote access possible being a very useful adjunct.
>
> TIA
>
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