Re: Anyone using LedgerSMB in Australia?

["Trevor J. Christensen" <..hidden..>]

LedgerSMB is bar-none the best potential open source package out there.  I have tried them all - everyone.  I run a business which requires 90% of what a full blown accounting system does.  LSMB has some very serious short comings and some very annoying ones.  I had to do a substantial amount of custom modification to the DB, the user interface, and to the report system to meet my needs.  In retrospect, a purchased product would have been a wiser choice for me.

LSMB has a ways to go.  Had it not been started as a fork of SQL-Ledger it would not have so many problems - which have to be, methodically, resolved one by one over time.  When version 1.4 hits the street, it will be a much more mature and feature filled and extensible product.  The developers are very aware of the needs and the problems.

If the needs are relatively simple, this is the only choice for an open source accounting package in my opinion.  If the needs are more comprehensive, wait until version 1.4.  There are other packages which currently look nicer and work better in some respects, but because of the development team and their vision, expertise, and commitment, LSMB has the most potential as a small to medium business accounting package.  I fully expect LSMB to be very widely used.

Trevor


Phil Rhoades wrote:

People,


On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 22:43 +1100, James McDonald wrote:
  

wr2006 wrote:
    

Does not look like there are to many AU users.  I have been using it for the 
past 9 months and it works fine.  If your worried about GST, that works fine 
too - there is an AU chart of accounts.

As far as the project goes, support is generally good through the mailing 
list.  Not sure were the project is heading - there does not appear to much 
of a road map.  But maybe I have not been looking in the right place!

There are some very annoying things that it does or does not do but hopefully 
they will get sorted out in the near future.

If you have any AU specific questions,  I will do my best to answer them.  But 
be aware that I am far from being an expert.

WR

  
      

Thanks very much for the reply WR. I am slowly putting together the 
structure of a business to support myself just in case the co I work for 
closes down (optimism isn't my forte).

Ledger is part of my strategy I will be using it to produce nice invoices.

It will be good to be able to bounce ideas off you.
    

I changed from sqll to lsmb a while ago - I'm no guru though . .

Regards,

Phil.