Hi all, I am the IT director for a Bible College & Seminary. After spending nearly a year looking at the various accounting/crm/campus management packages and the associated very large price tags, we started hunting in the open source world to see what was available. LedgerSMB stands out as the best potential candidate for us to date. However, our needs are somewhat different than those of the typical business. So there will have to be some additional "modules" developed in order for LedgerSMB to become a complete solution for us. Here is a quick summary list of "additions" we would require:
General: Fund/Non-Profit Accounting (There are some stirrings on this I think...) Membership (CRM type stuff, but somewhat different for non-profit types) Donations Fixed Assets (This has been discussed recently in channel.) Payroll (I realize this is in progress already.) Budgeting Ecommerce Interface w/PayPal CC processing (a nice-to-have and not as important....) More Context Related: Library Management (think "rental") Academic Records/School Management (This is in progress in house, but needs to be adapted to lsmb at some point.) Facilities Management The financials will need to be IASB/FASB compliant. As well as SOX, etc. Any medical records of any real detail contained in the School Management module would require some level of HIPPA compliance. And I believe that there are several "acts" of law other countries that might be of interest to those using these modules in them. After some email discussion with Chris Travers, it appears that the 1.3 code base (once stable) will be the place to start development on some of these things. I realize that there are some other oss apps out there that do crm/membership/donations stuff (ie civicrm) but we would like a unified solution rather than a patchwork of various solutions. I would like to hear what others want/need or would like to say concerning these items both from the user and development standpoint. I have a requirement document that was the result of a joint discipline committee (ie. accountant, software, hardware types) which I can forward to give a more detailed view of what we need in the long run although this may not apply to others. Some of these additions could be developed in such a way as to benefit both non-profit and for-profit businesses as well. So... is there any interest? It sure would be nice not to go it alone here. -- Chris Nighswonger Network & Systems Director Foundations Bible College & Seminary www.foundations.edu www.fbcradio.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
