Hi Alaa Murad, First of all, welcome to the community.
Please see inline for some of the answers (I cannot answer regarding Odoo). Hopefully some other community members can provide you with additional answers Met vriendelijke groet, Pierre Smits *Proud* *contributor* (but unfortunately without privileges)* of* Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org/>, since 2008 *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:15 AM Alaa Murad <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a long follower of ofbiz , but I have some questions before I do use > it in a big project, we have our own custom POS / App and we are looking > to have ERP integrated with it. > > 1. I do see the Accounting section, but I can't see the basic and must > have reports like Balance sheet, P/L statement, cash flow statement > ! am I looking at the wrong place ? ! > Yes. These functions are available in the accounting component, but are a bit difficult to find The way to find them are: 1. in the main menu of the accounting component go to 'Organisation GL Setup. In demo you'll see: https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/accounting/control/ListCompanies 2. click the 'Accounting' button. In demo you'll see: https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/accounting/control/PartyAccountsSummary 3. click the reports buttons. In demo you'll see https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org/accounting/control/TrialBalance?organizationPartyId=Company Then you'll see the various statements to generate > 2. We are planning to use ofbiz for few different companies, they all > 100% independent, can we have one ofbiz instance for all of them ?how ? > In this scenario I would advice to set up 2 tenants to ensure having Chinese Walls between the 2 companies. Each tenant would have its own database, and can have different plugins in play. > 3. How easy to sync/push products, invoices , payments , etc. from our > POS --> ofbiz (i.e. can we insert invoice via APIs) 4. How far behind ofbiz is from odoo (mainly accounting / sales)? > 5. I do see Arabic support implemented to some degree, but is it full > support, for example currency format, RTL (both web and PDF) > 6. Finally, how stable/active is ofbiz ? I see 30-40 emails per month > only in the mailing list, this make me very worry ! > > > Thanks > >
