[ic] Accounting?

[Dan Browning]

At 09:42 PM 8/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm curious to know how Interchange handles transactions. Is there any
>ledger type accounting included?

Interchange does a lot, but it doesn't try to do all the accounting (GL, 
AR, etc.) itself.  For Quickbooks, the extensions/quickbooks directory in 
the tarball has been around for quite some time.  More recently, Mike Heins 
has been working on a SQL-Ledger module originally written by Daniel 
Thompson <danht@callthenet.com>.  Checkout the latest 4.9 CVS to test that out.

>If not, how difficult would it be to
>integrate with a third party accounting system?  If anyone knows of any
>open source Perl Accounting scripts, please reply.

SQL-Ledger is written in Perl.  I highly recommend another open source 
accounting/ERP/CRM system, Compiere (http://www.compiere.org).  Compiere 
developers are interested in integrating it with IC (its about 50% down the 
TODO list), but it hasn't been started yet.  Another option available to 
you is engaging a competent IC consultant to integrate IC with whatever 
backend you want (i.e. already use).  There have been two integrations with 
MAS90, another via DBI::Proxy (forgot the backend name), and many others 
I'm sure done by various consultants.

Basically, the sky is the limit.  Cheers,

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