Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 10, 2006 11:07 PM
Most of the time people use the invoicing system to manage most of what you require. For example, create a customer named "spoilage" and sell him all the spoiled goods at 100% discount... THis way, not only are your books accurate financially but your inventory numbers are updated as well (if you use GL, the number of on-hand items is not reduced by the number of spoiled ones).
Now, as to GL, SL is pretty limited to straight financial information. You do have departments listed, and you could use projects to track some of this, but that is about it. LedgerSMB however, provides a standard way of attatching custom information to any database object, so if you need something like this, it could be implemented pretty easily. I haven't seen this feature in any other fork.
The other big issue with SQL-Ledger is that the documentation is proprietary and hopefully is better than the outdated/flat-out-inaccurate bits on the site, but it is too expensive for people to buy just to see if they might like the software.
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Re:Wrong limitations
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 10, 2006 11:07 PMNow, as to GL, SL is pretty limited to straight financial information. You do have departments listed, and you could use projects to track some of this, but that is about it. LedgerSMB however, provides a standard way of attatching custom information to any database object, so if you need something like this, it could be implemented pretty easily. I haven't seen this feature in any other fork.
The other big issue with SQL-Ledger is that the documentation is proprietary and hopefully is better than the outdated/flat-out-inaccurate bits on the site, but it is too expensive for people to buy just to see if they might like the software.
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