[ic] IC and book keeping

[Dan Browning]

At 03:45 PM 8/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello list -
>
>
>has anyone ever attempted to integrate Interchange with any kind of
>book-keeping/accounting packages?....
>
>i've ran across the 'freemoney' add-on, but it seems like it's still
>alpha. don't know whether it can be trusted to be reliable.
>
>any suggestions?

[I need to add this to the FAQ]

Yes.

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.

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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