Accounting & Inventory Control Software - Any Recommendations?

[jimmybkk]

Can anyone recommend any software for Accounting and Inventory Control? Preferably free, and no problem if it is cloud-based provided there is an option for saving to disk.

I'm not sure if this would all be possible in one package but ideally it would have capabilities for:

Financial accounting

Producing Invoices, Delivery Notes, Receipts etc.

Inventory Control (hopefully linked to either the Delivery Notes or Invoices)

I am no computer expert and neither are my staff who will also be using it, so something user-friendly and simple would be preferable.

Any suggestions from personal experience would be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance.

[whybother]

http://www.infocommthailand.com/

Not free. You'd need to talk to them about price for exactly what you wanted, but they have Finance and Accounting, a full Warehouse Management and Inventory Management system and it can operate in English and Thai at the same time.

[jimmybkk]

http://www.infocommthailand.com/

Not free. You'd need to talk to them about price for exactly what you wanted, but they have Finance and Accounting, a full Warehouse Management and Inventory Management system and it can operate in English and Thai at the same time.

Thanks very much. Good suggestion, although to be honest their products look a little more complex than we require. I doubt if we would use much more than 20% of their features.

I don't suppose you (or anyone else) would know what a tailor-made solution may run to? I'm guessing we would need it to do the following:

Keep track of quotations we receive from suppliers

Be able to produce PO's to our suppliers

Assign a reference number to all products we sell

Be able to produce quotations to our customers

Be able to produce Invoices, Delivery Notes & Receipts to issue to our customers

Tally sales and inbound deliveries to inventory levels

Handle internal financial accounting

We are a very small company and at the moment I am doing everything on Excel spreadsheets, which is not ideal. I'm looking for a simple, low-cost solution that ties everything together.

Thanks again...

[dharmabm]

OpenERP. Can be as simple or as complex as you require and the software is free. Implementation costs depend on your requirements. PM me for details.

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[jimmybkk]

OpenERP. Can be as simple or as complex as you require and the software is free. Implementation costs depend on your requirements. PM me for details.

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Thanks - I PM'd you.

[whybother]

What is your budget?

I agree that the Infocomm solution might have more features than you need, but as with OpenERP, it can depend on what features you want.

What you've got listed there isn't really "tailor-made" though. It should be included in any ERP/Finance system.

Some things you need to consider when looking for a solution:

- Is there support / training in Thailand?

- What are the growth plans for the company?

- How many users will be using the system (now and in the future)?

- Does the software deal with Thai Accounting and Tax processes?

- How well do the different modules integrate?

- Do you need the system to operate in other languages?

If you've only got 1 or 2 users, have you looked at the likes of Quick Books or MYOB?

[Pinair]

Google for GLPI together with Ocsinventory best thing ever.

[dharmabm]

why bother makes some very excellent points above, and to clarify OpenERP has local support and training (aside from myself there are 3 major companies, one of which is a founding partner), it has Thai Accounting, and is multilingual (79 languages, including thai)

[dharmabm]

Google for GLPI together with Ocsinventory best thing ever.

i don't think that's really what the OP is looking for (although they are both excellent apps), he needs an ERP system (or at least a CRM)

[jimmybkk]

Many thanks for all replies. The reason I mentioned a tailor-made solution was not due to a lack of functions/features in an off-the-shelf solution, it was more about the off-the-shelf software having too many functions/features, and being unable to hide some of them. If (for example) all we ever need printed are Invoices, Delivery Notes and Receipts, I personally would rather not be confronted with a list of 20 options every time I press print, and I would also like to keep things as simple as possible for our staff. I am just curious to know what would be the difference in price between an off-the-shelf solution that does the job but requires a certain amount of "filtering", and something that is custom built.

I was planning on getting Quickbooks, and bought a copy at TukCom to give it a trial run. During the set-up procedure I found myself wishing there was a "Kinda" button as well as the "Yes" & "No" buttons when it was asking about the type of business we operate and deciding the best template for us to use. After that, any time I encountered a problem I kept wondering if maybe I wouldn't be having this problem if only I'd clicked.....

Despite this, I decided to bite the bullet and actually tried to buy Quickbooks online, but they wouldn't accept Thai credit cards and I subsequently started reading and hearing bad reports.

I will certainly take a look at MYOB. Thanks for the suggestion.

I took a brief look at GLPI and OCS Inventory and I agree with dharmabm, they're not quite what we're looking for. Thanks all the same for the suggestion.