I'll admit I've been a little depressed about the state of open-source software lately - especially when it comes to GPL licensed projects.<p>So to see a new project like this - one that isn't just developer tooling or bleeding edge new-tech experimentation for nerds - it's refreshing! There's nothing wrong with the other sorts of projects - but good GPL software that is actually useful out of the box to average people - that's the dream. At least that's the dream that drove me into this industry in the first place. Thanks for creating and sharing your work.
From the same people who also made ERPNext, "the world's best 100% open source ERP" which was built in their own (open source) web framework called ... Frappe <a href="https://frappe.io/frappe" rel="nofollow">https://frappe.io/frappe</a>
I just opened a new entity and was looking for an accounting package that was not Quickbooks. It turns out the hardest integration for accounting software isn't some file format or API - its accountants. In the US at least, Quickbooks is the defacto standard, and I've had a terrible time trying to find somebody that is willing to deviate from it.<p>That said I am open and eager to try something new. I really respect the Frappe and ERPNext team, and enjoyed this home page a lot so I downloaded it to my Linux box. I had some really odd UI glitches from the start, mostly just with electron window management (setup screen is not resizeable, then I accidentally resized the main window to 1 px wide). I found that the date picker was hilariously wrong - it would show 30 or 31 for all dates of the month except for the first row, then jump back to the prior month every time I selected a date. I could not remedy this with manually typing in a date entry. Screenshot: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/7XjT9i3" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/7XjT9i3</a><p>Other little issues:
- no app icon on Ubuntu (gnome) desktop
- I wish the account names were 'frozen' to the left side of the P&L and Balance Sheet reports. I have to scroll left and right to read the reports.
- I kind of need a description line on my invoice line items, or I'm going to need to make a ton of items, which will kind of mess up reporting.
- Some of the UI and language isn't really customized for US norms. Its not a big issue but sometimes feels awkward.<p>I hope this is helpful feedback. I'm going to talk with my accountant soon and see if they would be open to trying something new, but until then I'm stuck with Quickbooks. I just can't stand paying for a product that is chock full of ads for other products, and which walls off competitors by design.<p>I do love the stack, and would like to be able to just keep the sqlite.db in Dropbox and share with my other machine and accountant.<p>Best of luck. I could definitely see myself paying for this in the future, preferably one time or annually.
This looks great. Is there any plan to add time tracking? It's the only reason I'm still with my current *books hosted solution, even though I'm not particularly happy with it.
I use Quickbooks Self Employed and would love to migrate, but absolutely require three of their features before I can:<p>- Automatically pull transactions from credit cards and banks.<p>- Allow me to manually and automatically tag transactions as business and personal and which tax deduction category it belongs to (rent, apps/software, computers, utilities, etc)<p>- Estimates my quarterly federal tax payments based on income and transaction deductions.<p>Any support for those features?
Hey, this is cool, I'm looking to switch from a proprietary accounting app to something open-source.<p>It being open-source is important mainly because accounting apps UX usually sucks for some specific types of data entry and I want to be able to fix that for my use cases to get the annoying job done faster and get back to programming.<p>I immediately hit some dealbreakers with Frappe though (and filed them as issues, hopefully they are useful), most importantly that I cannot figure out how to delete General Ledger entries (if it is possible at all), see <a href="https://github.com/frappe/books/issues/129" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/frappe/books/issues/129</a>.<p>In terms of product feedback, I also recommend that you add a "spreadsheet mode" in which you can quickly and immediately edit most of the ledger data in one view, (without having to open popups and so on), with effective search-and-replace. That is a key accounting tool feature to get things done fast. For example, I currently use Banana (<a href="https://www.banana.ch/en/features" rel="nofollow">https://www.banana.ch/en/features</a>) which is spreadsheet-based and pretty effective for this task (but could still be a lot better).
Two notes.<p>Fiscal year end start or end normally is sufficient to define the fiscal year. Why is both a start and end date needed for the fiscal year here? That's usually an immediate tell that system was designed by programmers not accountants.<p>Why can't users type in a fiscal year - the date picker is broken, the size of the date picker jumps around for different months, lot's of repeating dates etc.<p>The system allows datepicker to pick odd fiscal year ends (ie, leap years and mid month dates) are these fiscal years properly supported?<p>ERPnext looks great though - I look forward to trying it and supporting it - I imagine it's more refined!!
Just want to say this is an awesome work and much needed product in the market.<p>Hope you get good leads for ERPNext premium offerings through this. It's important for more open source projects to flourish in the market.
This looks great, we've been a long time ERPNext customer, but we really only use the accounting and invoicing systems. This might be a better fit for us.
Is there an online version of this? I see one of the "features" is that it's not cloud-based, but it is a web app... so can I self-host it, or would I be stuck with Electron and sharing files on a thumb drive like a caveman?