Hello Kirk On 25 Feb 2003 at 14:08, Kirk Ismay wrote:
> Finally, one thing I've been considering is to use SQL-Ledger > (http://www.sql-ledger.org/) as a core accounting system and re-write my > recurring billing and provisioning programms as add on modules. I can't > promise that I'd be able to do this, but if there are interested > co-developers / potential users email me off list. I'll use those as an > argument to not abandon our in house code and open-source the project. > Thank you all for your time and input. We are also looking at this route. Currently we run a Windows based system for generating recuring invoices and tracking customer payments. We use SQL-Leger to keep the "books". Monthly totals from the Windows system are carried across into SQL-Ledger manually. The SQL-Ledger replaced a commercial Windows accounting package. Since we changed, we have never looked back. In terms of usability and flexibility, SQL-Ledger is tops! Now we are rewriting the Windows stuff with a postgres back end and python cgi interface. This will make calls to the SQL-Ledger API to generate the recurring invoices. The invoices, statements and payments will be handled by SQL-Ledger. (Currently our Windows app does that). My guess is that everybody has their own specific requirements. Our focus is on the business market. We do not have a direct interface between our accounting system and our radius servers. We don't use traffic statistics to generate invoices and we do not have an "on- line" interface for customers. We also do not take credit card payments. So we wont be looking at any of these "features" soon. I suspect that we will be stretching SQL-Ledger's abilities, but I have every confidence that we can deal with any shortcommings that bother us. Development on SQL-Ledger is very active and most of the limitations are already being addressed. If there are others working on similar projects, I would be happy to co-operate. Regards Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Forbes ZSD http://www.zsd.co.za Office: +27 21 683-1388 Fax: +27 21 674-1106 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 46827, Glosderry, 7702, South Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
