Accounting Software A.

Name: PhreeBooks Date Created: Initial release August 2007, Stable release 3.0 / January 21, 2011 Functionality:
Highlights of the program include separate customer and vendor account information, full inventory management and tracking capabilities, complete financial general ledger accountability, check writing, bank account reconciliation, flexible import and export capability, XML Interface to E-commerce shopping carts, robust reporting and form capability, an expandable shipping manager, user level security, and a context sensitive pop-up help system (PhreeHelp).

Modules:

Accounts receivable Accounts payable General ledger Billing Stock/Inventory Purchase Order Sales Order Cash Book Debt Collection Electronic payment processing Expense Inquiries Reports

Implementations:
The program is written in the PHP scripting language with a MySQL database engine. The objective is to provide the small-business community with a multi-language end-to-end enterprise management tool to run in an Internet environment. PhreeBooks is intended to provide a no-cost solution for small business concerns. PhreeBooks is platform independent, browser independent, and can be translated into many languages. PhreeBooks is somewhat complex to the average user and if you need to use all the features, it has a steep learning curve. It lacks payroll abilities and some help pages are still under development. Currently available only in English, Spanish, Hungarian, Dutch and French.

Users:
PhreeBooks accounting program was developed as a free and open source web-based Enterprise resource planning (ERP) application which means that it can be downloaded and used by anyone with a computer and an internet connection.

B.
Name: Compiere Date Created:
Compiere was founded in 1999 by Jorg Janke and was a top 10 project in Sourceforge from 2002 for 4 years reaching one million downloads and 100 partners in 2006. Stable release 3.3 / March 24, 2009

Functionality:
Compiere encompasses ERP functionality, but in order to avoid the duplication of information and the need for synchronization, it's organized in a different way. Compiere modules are: Quote to Cash, Requisition-to-Pay, Customer relationship management, Partner Relations Management, Supply Chain Management, Performance Analysis, Warehouse, Double-entry Book-keeping, Work-flow-Management and Web Store. A manufacturing module is being developed within an independent project CMPCS

Modules:
Aside from the basic core and non-core modules such as: Accounts receivable, Accounts payable, General ledger, Billing, Stock/Inventory, Purchase, Order, Sales Order, Cash Book, Debt Collection, Electronic payment processing, Expense, Inquiries, Reports, etc., Compiere also contains a database independent to some extent. Compiere has long been criticized for not being a pure open source product because of its dependence on Oracle database but since version 2.5.2, this has changed.

Implementations: The Compiere is a Model Driven Architecture development, deployment and maintenance framework designed with the intention of following changes as business evolves. At any time, customers can change the information structure, adjusting to new information needs. Compiere provides multiple views of business information based on the detail of the actual transactions. This structure allows flexibility and integration of supplemental external information. And since information is presented as views (using Compiere's MVC architecture), they can be changed to meet the needs of the business. Compiere is entirely based on the concept of Active Data Dictionary (ADD). Compiere Data Dictionary contains definitions of a data entity (type, validation, etc.), how it is displayed (label on screens and reports, help, display sequence and position relative to other fields), and the display rules. It also contains security and access rules. Compiere has been developed with Java EE. Users: Examples of businesses that uses Compiere are Southern Book Company and EBuck
Mail.com.