Looking For Simple Accounting/Inventory Management System - Was OpenERP

[Stephen]

that almost looks like you need some CRM as well as accounting. the
listed suggestions above are pretty good.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Bryan O'Neal
<Bryan.ONeal at theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
> Postbooks by xtuple
>
> On 5/11/11, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>> Stephen,
>>
>> Thanks for your replay. I have been reading and playing with it, and it
>> seems that it might be over kill for what I need. I should have started this
>> thread with what I need to get some suggestions, so I will hijack my own
>> thread and start again....
>>
>> I have the following requirements to track the business operations for my
>> non-profit company:
>> 1. track donors and donations by donor. Don't need a complex relationship
>> management application - just track how much each person has donated for end
>> of the year reports.
>> 2. inventory - small, maybe 100 items at most
>> 3. sales
>> 4. a/r
>> 5 a/p
>> 6. asset tracking - we run on a cash basis, so everything is expensed when
>> purchased. I just need a way to know which volunteer has which asset to keep
>> track of them. No depreciation or write-offs. Could probably do this in the
>> inventory.
>> 7. generate an end of the year income statement and balance sheet for the
>> IRS.
>> 8. reconcile against my bank statements
>>
>> I have been doing all this with spreadsheets, but it is cumbersome. I have
>> tried gnucash, but it does not have inventory management. Also, I have
>> several times messed up my debits and credits, so I am spending too much
>> time learning accounting fundamentals for it to be useful.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I looked at it and liked it. Bit as o was doing just a technical
>>> evaluation
>>> i didn't use it for very long
>>> On May 10, 2011 9:53 PM, "Mark Phillips" <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Does anyone have any experience with OpenERP? I am considering using it
>>> for
>>> > a non-profit company, and wanted to get some users' feedback on it.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > Mark
>>>
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