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Financial Management Resources

Submitted by John Locke on Sun, 05/23/2004 - 16:57

10. Financial Management

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Software

Web Sites

Free Software for Business accounting

I am on a search for an open

Submitted by David Pratten (not verified) on Fri, 09/22/2006 - 09:27.

I am on a search for an open source accounting application. Aria looks inactive. SQL Ledger is excellent but currently in turmoil and its not PHP which would be a plus for me. I recently came across WEBerp (http://www.weberp.org) which seems reasonably active and is PHP based. I now have a trial install working. Do you have any feedback/ comment on this system?

--David

Hmm. I'll have to check out

Submitted by freelock (not verified) on Sun, 09/24/2006 - 10:32.

Hmm. I'll have to check out Web ERP -- have not seen it yet.

I've been watching the turmoil around SQL Ledger, and I must say, the new fork, Ledger SMB, seems to have some promise. There's a core group of developers dedicated to making it work well, and they're digging up many underlying problems with the original SQL Ledger code. More importantly, they seem to be developing a reasonable plan to address them.

I agree with you, I'd prefer to see a good PHP-based application, but I really haven't seen any other open source financial packages that come close to matching SQL Ledger for a business web-based accounting package...

Let me know what else you find!

--John