webERP is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 ERP

Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

 system for Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME).

Features

Selected Features:

• Sales Orders and Quotations
• Accounts Receivable
• User defined sales analysis
• Purchase Orders
• Accounts Payable
• Inventory Management
• Multi-currency bank accounts
• Shipment Costing
• Contract Costing
• General Ledger
• Manufacturing
• Multi-language
• Multi-currency, complex tax system support.
• Multiple inventory locations with serial number and lot tracking facilities
• Fixed Assets
• Full double entry accounting
• Sales orders support assemblies and kit-sets
• Supports Materials Requirements Planning
  Material requirements planning
  Material requirements planning is a production planning and inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes. Most MRP systems are software-based, while it is possible to conduct MRP by hand as well....
  
   (MRP I) functionality with a master production schedule and reports suggesting purchase and works orders.

Architecture

webERP is a web-based LAMP

LAMP (software bundle)

LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, referring to the first letters of Linux , Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and PHP , principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.The GNU project is advocating people to use the term "GLAMP" since what is known as...

 application with the goals being:

A light-weight HTTP/S interface suitable for both high and low speed Internet connections.
Scripts have been crafted to present as small a load as possible on the web-server, the internet connection and the browser. Javascript is used sparingly to ensure cross platform consistency and minimal bandwidth requirements.

Strong data integrity/security via innodb

InnoDB

InnoDB is the default storage engine for MySQL as of MySQL 5.5. It provides the standard ACID-compliant transaction features, along with foreign key support...

 database type, and a full history on all transactions.

Languages

webERP is available in the following languages/translations: Albanian, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese Big5, Chinese Simplified GB2312, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (South America), Spanish (Venezuela), Swahili, Swedish, Turkish

History

Selected release history (See the change log for a full list of changes.) :

Version 3.10.2 * Geo-mapping for customers and suppliers

• CRM functionality
• The inclusion of javascript to check the input on certain forms

Database Support

• MySQL
  MySQL
  MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
  
  

In July 2007, postgreSQL

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...

 support was discontinued from future versions.

See also

webERP has spawned several forks

• OpenAccounting
  OpenAccounting
  OpenAccounting is an open source accounting system written in PHP. Forked from WebERP, OpenAccounting was further developed by now defunct, KylieTech. In 2004, OpenAccounting was superseded by OpenAccountingJ , a rewrite in Java. Both products have since been discontinued.-External links:**...
  
   - now dormant became Front Accounting
• FrontAccounting
  FrontAccounting
  FrontAccounting is an open source accounting software package with enterprise resource planning elements targeted for small to medium companies. FrontAccounting is released as a web application accessible by any web browser with its database installed on a central server. The application has a...