Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 11, 2006 10:12 AM
We use SQL-Ledger, and it works reasonably well for us. However, there are annoyances:
1) We occasionally get weird roundoff errors when dealing in foreign currencies. This is pretty unsettling in an accounting program!
2) The code itself is pretty ugly. Lots of cut-n-paste, badly organized, difficult to customize and not easy to follow. I haven't looked at Ledger-SMB, but IMO the code needs a major overhaul, not just minor tweaking.
3) It would be really nice to have triggers. For example, when a payment is posted, it would be nice if a script could be run that (in our case) renews our customer's download account for another year. In general, we need better integration with our CRM system (Sugar) and our various other bits of back-end infrastructure.
In spite of those complaints, I've found SQL-Ledger to be very handy, and have paid for the manual to support its development.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 11, 2006 10:12 AM1) We occasionally get weird roundoff errors when dealing in foreign currencies. This is pretty unsettling in an accounting program!
2) The code itself is pretty ugly. Lots of cut-n-paste, badly organized, difficult to customize and not easy to follow. I haven't looked at Ledger-SMB, but IMO the code needs a major overhaul, not just minor tweaking.
3) It would be really nice to have triggers. For example, when a payment is posted, it would be nice if a script could be run that (in our case) renews our customer's download account for another year. In general, we need better integration with our CRM system (Sugar) and our various other bits of back-end infrastructure.
In spite of those complaints, I've found SQL-Ledger to be very handy, and have paid for the manual to support its development.
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