Accounting CRM
Comparisons :
criteria :
- rich client? (or web-based)
Contents |
ERP with Rich clients
OpenERP (formerly tinyerp)
Rich client (gtk, maybe kde) under linux and windows + server + web client. Based on python/turbogear.
They have good support for French, and some KDE-related things(!) in screenshots, though it's not very clear yet what this is.
They have some documentation, although I haven't proofread it yet.
Both rich client and web client. Both are clean/good. Huge number of modules. (stocks, french account, invoices,contacts, mails). Can only use postgresql.
Overkill for SME.
openMFG and postbooks
postbooks is the free version and openmfg the $$ one. The company behind those is 'xtuple' and it appeared several times in sf top 10 lists.
It uses a rich client (qt4 : linux/win/windows) and a database (two-tiers).
svn easily available from sf (though it's very very slow, as often with sf), using the url https://postbooks.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/postbooks/xtuple/trunk
There's no README or whatever, running 'qmake' (as there are *.pro files) gives "Project ERROR: Could not set the OPENRPT_DIR qmake variable." and not other helpful message.
http://opensi.org/
Use a (xul) firefox plugin to connect to the server. Not really 'rich client'.
Focused on accounting. Seems good, very professional. Some accoutants have helped designing it.
I was not able to test. There's no demo available online, but i got cvs sources (2005-12-13)
Now there is a demo, which doesn't work (2006) Their bugtracking doesn't work (gna), but the forum seems to be useful.
I managed to install the plugin, but never managed to connect to the demo "error 403"
2009-10-06 : tried to install the last 'client' and got the message "OpenSi 4.5.3 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.5.3."
They really have a problem with the QA
ERP / web-based only
openbravo
No demonstration ? this is a .com Supposed to be for 'small and medium sized companies', but it seems to be focused on not-that-small companies.
pro:
- they use mercurial, and continuous integration, and even give instruction for gentoo setup.
- nice screenshots, maybe less bloated/more clear than what you usually find in such software
pimengest
php, pgsql
free& gpl, but doesn't do accounting. Everything else seems cool. Do CRM, billing, suppliers payements, stocks, time-tracking, permissions.
The demo site doesn't work (2004-11-16)
openaguila
said to be easy to use. But is never cited as competitor by the others (?)
You need to subscribe to reach the demo.
compiere
Not for very small companies.
adempiere is the result of a break between the corporation between compiere and the 'communauty'.
Mostly web-based. What they call 'client' is a 'webstart' stuff you download/launch from the website. Everything (server, client) is based on java.
tine20
Demo on http://demo.tine20.org. Web-based.
good:
- Nominated at "Trophe du libre 2009".
- they have (phpunit based) unit tests
- long term goal mention use of some technology to enable offline working (something like google gears)
- slick interface.
bad:
- php/zend
2009-10-06 : tested the demo, editing a contact makes some js error and blocks the application. I dont know if this is possible to add several notes+date to a contact.
openbluelab
Not a lot yet, but promising. No rich client ?
neogia
Developped in java, accessed through a web browser. The main interest is the financial module, called tercompta, created by, for, and according to French chart of account.
dolibarr
php,mysql,apache... Most notably for french companies.
invoice , taxes(tva), bare minimum on accounting
Once used by orzel for his invoices, but the software is a nightmare to maintain/update. i gave up.
CRM only
sugar
LAMP Used internally by KDE e.v.
vtiger
LAMP. a fork from sugarcrm (reason : sugar not free enough)
tested on january 8th, 2009, version 5.0.4:
- installation ok (from source), though it needs 4 minutes to do "stuff", they wont tell you what it is doing and that sounds bad to me.
- nice interface
- impossible to create a product (blank page with "Action name is missing. Please check the action name.").
- there's an 'inventory' module, but seems only for reselling objects, not for internal stuff.
- lot of php errors/warning, the installation process says not to log/display them...
- it seems the CRM module can only import CSV data for contacts (in which specific variant ?)
- settings only allow jpeg for log, and once given a jpeg, doesn't display it (html shows "" for the image filename)
pros:
- has free connectors for outlook, msoffice and thunderbird.
cons:
2009-10-06 : the demonstration is looking great, though as there's no 'fake' data it's quite hard to get an idea. Got quite a lot of bugs, such as "Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in /home/vtiger/demo/fr/demo/include/database/PearDatabase.php on line 42" when clicking on "prospect" or "TCPDF error: Unsupported image type: gif" when trying to export pdf.
eggcrm
The webpage contains screenshots, demo, documentation and download, though lot of stuff is in French only.
LAMP-based.
Used and recommended by a freelance sales manager working for one of orzel's client.
It's the new kid on the block.
pros:
- said to better fits the needs for SME
- there are import/export features, even though quite basic
cons:
- not considering offline mode is a design decision (see this forum post
- (as such) no thunderbird/outlook connectors
- each installation i've done, i've had problem creating the 'admin1' user, which prevent connecting once installed. Has been there for >1 year.
- the "free" software you download has limited functionality and contains ads for updating...
2009-10-06 : i'm impressed by the demonstration. It works, it's much simpler than others, and it's even beautiful.
To see
http://www.pimentech.fr/pimentech/site/solutions/pimengest (web) http://obm.aliacom.fr/ <---- agenda pas ininteressant... LinCompta, FreeGica...
