Creating & tracking invoices for products
Greetings.
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Until now we've been writing invoices and receipts by hand, and haven't had any formal system to track invoices to ensure they're paid. We're therefore looking for some free GNU-Linux software that can help us create and track sales invoices for our products. It doesn't need too many bells or whistles; in fact, the interface should be fairly simple because we have a lot of volunteers working here who aren't too computer-literate.
I had a look at some applications in the "Point-Of-Sale" category in unsuitable for any or all of the following reasons:
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* in alpha development stage * no localization support (we're in the UK, whereas a lot of programs are stupidly hard-coded for US$ and American addresses) * specific to service providers rather than product providers
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Can anyone recommend a package suitable for our purposes? Here's a list of some packages I've been looking at, along with some comments.
----------------------------------------------- Advantages: * Web interface via Apache, PHP, and PostgreSQL. Disadvantages: * Does way more than we need, so the interface is a bit complicated. * Very little documentation. * I've been having a lot of installation problems; software seems very buggy.
-------------------------------------------- Completely unsuitable as the localization to the US is hard-coded. I checked on the community support forums, and apparently even something as simple as changing the currency involves non-trivial coding. Too bad, because it looks like the software could have been very useful for us.
------------------------------------ This was attractive as it claimed to be easy to configure and use. However, it requires Oracle 10g, which the installation instructions claim requires 6 GB of space. In order to even try this out we'd have to buy a new hard drive. I'm happy to do this if anyone thinks it's worth it.
----------------------------------- This appears to be geared towards service providers; the screenshots and documentation imply that there's no support for products.
----------------------------- Haven't had a chance to check this one out yet, as their website is currently down.
--------------------------- Completely service-based; no support for products.
Regards, Tristan
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