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Purchase Order System for Linux?
trav3l3r asks: "Does anyone out there have any experience with Purchase Order software for Linux? Web based would be preferred. I am trying to set up a P.O. system for a small business (5 employees) in the area and trying to keep cost down for them. I have done the pre-requisite search on Google and Freshmeat and found very little. Any advice would be appreciated."
FDShopsite, as used by Fastdiscs.com?
We use an ajusted version of WebGUI in conjunction with our bookkeeping software Cash on our on-line shop.
It works quite well and we'll probably publish our changes to WebGUI on the dutch website about this beautifull Content Management System and Application Platform later this year.
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Someone else mentioned it, but I thought it worth a bit more verbiage.
SQL-Ledger is a full accounting system, and includes purchase orders, quotations, RFQs, sales orders, etc. It also handles general double-entry bookkeeping and most everything else you need to keep up with your money, your suppliers, and your customers. It has nice LaTeX templates for checks, POs, quotes, RFQs, invoices, etc. which are easy to modify if you know LaTeX and not horribly difficult if you don't, since there are instructions for editing with LyX.
I first tried it because of two years worth of failed attempts to make GnuCash work reliably (I've been told GnuCash is more stable today than two years ago when I last tried it), and I really needed to get out of the habit of doing no book-keeping until tax-time or until I realized a customer was late with payment. SQL-Ledger was a last resort because I thought I wanted a local GUI app, so I bounced around trying all kinds of things...and finally settled on SQL-Ledger because it didn't crash, lose data, or lack specific features I needed.
It's written in Perl, reasonably easy to modify, and support from the author is cheap. So, while it's not perfect, I don't hesitate to recommend it to folks who want something a little more flexible than QuickBooks (and the fact that it is web-based has been such a huge win for me that I'll never go back to local GUI apps for this purpose).
Anyway, it's not specific to Purchase Orders, but it handles POs very nicely, and I find I use the bits I understand and leave the rest for later (I'm not much of an accountant, but I learn more every day), and it deals well with working in that way.