I've been trying to get to grips with OpenERP for over a year now and considering this is now a version 5 product, there still seem to be a lot a basic teething problems. From a UK accounting perspective, OpenERP will NEVER be successful here until the accounting module is fixed/completed. The accounting software market in the UK is very mature and OpenERP cannot compete in its current state.
There are many other English speaking markets where OpenERP will never be successful because of the poor support for our accountancy practices. This is such a shame because OpenERP has so much potential. I want OpenERP to work and I'd love to be able to recommend it to my clients. Of all the OpenSource accounting/ERP products available, it's the only one that actually installs quite easily and generally works without crashing all the time. It's the only one that actually provides a genuine ERP framework too. But, my one piece of advice would be to STOP EVERYTHING. Don't do anything except fix the accounting module(s). Time and time again on this forum there are questions about how to do basic accountancy on OpenERP, people get really confused, and they never come back. - OpenERP need a "Bank Payment/Receipts" facility. A bit like "vouchers", but the vouchers module doesn't work and will only pay invoices. "Bank payments" need to be able to pay invoices and just do accounting movements from or to the bank code. - OpenERP desperately needs a "Bank Reconciliation" feature. Not what is currently called Bank Reconciliation, but a *real* Bank Reconciliation feature, for reconciling the already processed "Bank Payments" (above) Once again, I really do hope that OpenERP is successful, but I really don't think it will ever get a good grip on the English speaking market until it can handle our accounting practices. I hope this is all taken as constructive criticism. I would hate to see a fork of OpenERP appearing because that would more than likely just be damaging to everyone concerned. I think there is a real danger of somebody (with a lot more time on their hands than me) forking the OpenERP project if the basics do not get fixed. Just my "two pence" worth :-) Does anybody else agree with me? MattLG -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59291#59291 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman2/listinfo/tinyerp-users
