PostBooks was an open source accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning business (ERP) system targeted at small to medium sized businesses.
Specifically, PostBooks is a full-featured, fully-integrated accounting, ERP, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, based on OpenMFG, a high quality, proprietary ERP suite.
This software is divided into 8 functional modules:
- Accounting (general ledger, accounts receivable and payable, bank reconciliation, financial reporting).
- Sales (quotes, order entry, sales reporting, shipping).
- CRM (universal address book, incident management, opportunity management, to-do lists, project management).
- Purchasing (purchase orders, receiving, vendor reporting).
- Product Definition (items, infinite-level bills of material).
- Inventory and Distribution (multiple locations, other advanced warehouse features).
- Light Manufacturing (work orders, strong support for make-to-order).
- OpenRPT open source report writer. OpenRPT is licensed under the GNU Lesser Public License.
PostBooks has a huge feature set (see below) and provides developers with a well-documented and easy to use API for common functions such as& invoicing and obtaining client information.
Features include:
- Database reporting.
- Contacts.
- Opportunities.
- Incidents / Trouble Tickets.
- ToDo’s / Tasks.
- Quotes.
- Sales Orders.
- Accounts Receivable.
- Purchase Orders.
- Account Payable.
- General Ledger.
- Shipping / Receiving.
- Inventory (Single Warehouse).
- Item Master Information.
- Bills of Materials .
- Work Orders.
- Financial reporting.
- Multi-Locations in Warehouse.
- Assemble-to-Order Configurator.
- Kitting.
- International Language Packs: Chinese, French, Portugese, Spanish, Russian, and Turkish.
Website: xtuple.com/products/postbooks
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Developer: xTuple
License: Non-free since 2019
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