[ale] Open source accounting/inventory/pos?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 16:26 -0500, Bob Toxen wrote:
> GNU Cash (comes installed on Mandreva)

Nice app. My wife uses it for the family checkbook. Quite decent for
small accounting needs/electronic checkbook. Not a good idea for POS
though. No internal security to block cash registers clerks from
accessing the entire accounting system. Plus they seem to have abandoned
the postgresql access for multiple shared users stuff :(
> 
> There also are some low cost solutions for linux that have been
> discussed on ALE before.  There's also rumor that the popular QuickBooks
> now can be used from Linux.  One of these years I'm gonna move from paper
> to one of these.
> 
> Bob Toxen
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> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:26:08PM -0500, John Wells wrote:
> > Guys,
> > 
> > I have a friend who's looking to start a retail store. He's come to me
> > for help in finding the right software, but my knowledge in this area
> > is about 5 years old.
> > 
> > What would you recommend in terms of open source business information
> > systems? He's looking for accounting, integrated with inventory,
> > integrated with a POS system.
> > 
> > It doesn't necessarily have to be open source...he has some
> > funds...but even with an off-the-shelf system he pays for he'd like it
> > to be very flexible (and I believe open source brings this to the
> > table).
> > 
> > I appreciate any help you can offer.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > John
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