ERP Software Suggestions

Asked by Charlene Tessier

Hello from Vancouver,

I am searching for some open source ERP software for a friend's business. He only has two or three products and I don't want something overly sophisticated or complicated. His main purpose is to be able to track the purchases made by customers, to retrieve customer sales history, to process invoices, credits etc. I was looking at TinyERP (I think its now called OpenERP) or OpenBravo. He would prefer one where he could access it remotely like OpenBravo. If you have been using ERP for your small business I would like to hear your thoughts, comments and suggestions. Lastly is OpenBravo truly free? I went on the site and it seems I have to sign up and talk to a sales rep who will try to sell me different modules etc.

Thank you in advance for you help!

Charlene

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said :
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If you are dealing with finances you may want to use gnucash its
pretty nice :) also a simple google search here can help you out.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:17 PM, cmmtessier
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> Hello from Vancouver,
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> I am searching for some open source ERP software for a friend's business. He only has two or three products and I don't want something overly sophisticated or complicated. His main purpose is to be able to track the purchases made by customers, to retrieve customer sales history, to process invoices, credits etc. I was looking at TinyERP (I think its now called OpenERP) or OpenBravo.  He would prefer one where he could access it remotely like OpenBravo. If you have been using ERP for your small business I would like to hear your thoughts, comments and suggestions. Lastly is OpenBravo truly free? I went on the site and it seems I have to sign up and talk to a sales rep who will try to sell me different modules etc.
>
> Thank you in advance for you help!
>
> Charlene
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Charlene Tessier (cmmtessier) said :
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Thank you for your suggestion.

I am using gnucash now but its just an accounting software. I require a database to manage may customer info, sales information, supplier information. An ERP software - preferably open source - small size ( I don't want a mammoth like SAP). Is anyone using TinyERP or Open Bravo and are these any good? If not what do you suggest?

Thank you.

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Best Randall Ross (randall) said :
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Hi Charlene,

Try OpenERP. It's amazing.

Cheers,
Randall
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Charlene Tessier (cmmtessier) said :
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Thanks Randall Ross (rrnwexec), that solved my question.