Dolibarr
Encyclopedia
Dolibarr ERP/CRM is an open source
/free software
package for small and medium companies, foundations or freelancers. It includes different features for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP
) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM
) but also other features for different activities.
This software is free under GNU General Public License
2.0. It is a web-based application, and can therefore be used wherever internet service is available.
Dolibarr aims to offer free Opensource ERP and CRM features for people with no technical knowledge, by providing a simple solution.
Dolibarr includes all the important features of an ERP/CRM suite, excluding accountability. It is modular and is thus characterized by its ease of installation and use, despite the large number of modularized features
Main Dolibarr features include:
. It uses MySQL
databases.
It works with a wide choice of hosting services or servers. Dolibarr works with all PHP configurations (as described above) and does not require any additional PHP module.
Dolibarr is also available with an auto-installer for Windows and Mac users with no technical knowledge to install Dolibarr and all its prerequisites (Apache, MySQL, PHP) with just one auto-exe file. This version is called DoliWamp for Windows users, DoliBuntu for Debian or Ubuntu users, and DoliMamp for Mac users.
Jean-Louis Bergamo, started at the same time the foundation management module.
Version 1.0 was released in September 2003.
In July 2008, Rodolphe let the main contributor Laurent Destailleur (also author of the other popular OpenSource project AWStats
) to lead the project
A foundation and several user groups was also created in France (country where Dolibarr is the most famous).
Dolibarr is above all known in France to be a software package selected by new businesses but the software is available in more than 12 languages.
Open-source software
Open-source software is computer software that is available in source code form: the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, improve and at times also to distribute the software.Open...
/free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
package for small and medium companies, foundations or freelancers. It includes different features for Enterprise Resource Planning (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...
) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM
Customer relationship management
Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,...
) but also other features for different activities.
Features
There are several feature modules that can be enabled or disabled, as needed.This software is free under GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
2.0. It is a web-based application, and can therefore be used wherever internet service is available.
Dolibarr aims to offer free Opensource ERP and CRM features for people with no technical knowledge, by providing a simple solution.
Dolibarr includes all the important features of an ERP/CRM suite, excluding accountability. It is modular and is thus characterized by its ease of installation and use, despite the large number of modularized features
Main Dolibarr features include:
Main modules
- Products-and-services catalog
- Stock managementStock managementStock management is the function of understanding the stock mix of a company and the different demands on that stock. The demands are influenced by both external and internal factors and are balanced by the creation of Purchase order requests to keep supplies at a reasonable or prescribed...
- Bank-accounts management
- Contacts directory
- Customers, suppliers or prospects directory
- Foundation-members management
- Invoices management with PDF generation
- Payments management
- Donations management
- Commercial-actions management
- Commercial-proposals management with PDF generation
- Contracts management
- Orders management with PDF generation
- Standing-orders management
- Shipping management
- Support for TVA NPR (La TVA non perçue récupérable, or "uncollected recoverable VATVatVat or VAT may refer to:* A type of container such as a barrel, storage tank, or tub, often constructed of welded sheet stainless steel, and used for holding, storing, and processing liquids such as milk, wine, and beer...
– for French DOM-TOM) - Point of salePoint of salePoint of sale or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs...
- Emailings
- Reporting
- Canned reports of Dolibarr events inside Webcalendar
- Wizard to help to export data into text files
- LDAP connectivity.
Miscellaneous
- Multi-userMulti-userMulti-user is a term that defines an operating system or application software that allows concurrent access by multiple users of a computer. Time-sharing systems are multi-user systems. Most batch processing systems for mainframe computers may also be considered "multi-user", to avoid leaving the...
, with several permissions levels for each feature. - Several menu managers (i.e., a back-officeBack officeA back office is a part of most corporations where tasks dedicated to running the company itself takes place. The term "Back office" comes from the building layout of early companies where the front office would contain the sales and other customer-facing staff and the back office would be those...
menu for internal users, a front-officeFront officeFront office is a business term that refers to a company's departments that come in contact with clients, including the marketing, sales, and service departments...
menu for external users…). - Very user-friendly.
- Assorted skinSkin (computing)In computing, a skin is a custom graphical appearance achieved by the use of a graphical user interface that can be applied to specific software and websites to suit the purpose, topic, or tastes of different users....
s. - Code is highly customizable (very modular).
- Works with Mysql 4.1 or higher, experimental support for PostgreSql .
- Works with PHP 5.0 or higher .
Missing features
These features are not available in the most recent version of Dolibarr :- No accountancyAccountancyAccountancy is the process of communicating financial information about a business entity to users such as shareholders and managers. The communication is generally in the form of financial statements that show in money terms the economic resources under the control of management; the art lies in...
(banking management only - full accountancy support in development). - Manages only one currency at a time (mono-currency - can be expanded via a module).
- Manages only one company/foundation (mono-company). This means you need to install software twice (on same server or not) if you want to manage two different companies (note that you can find some external addons that enhance the software to provide a way to removed this limit).
- Does not support the double VAT (both federal and provincial) for Canada.
- No human-relations management.
- No Webmail (not to be confused with a mailing-list).
Architecture
Dolibarr is written in PHPPHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
. It uses 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...
databases.
It works with a wide choice of hosting services or servers. Dolibarr works with all PHP configurations (as described above) and does not require any additional PHP module.
Dolibarr is also available with an auto-installer for Windows and Mac users with no technical knowledge to install Dolibarr and all its prerequisites (Apache, MySQL, PHP) with just one auto-exe file. This version is called DoliWamp for Windows users, DoliBuntu for Debian or Ubuntu users, and DoliMamp for Mac users.
History
Dolibarr was started by Rodolphe Quiedeville, from scratch, and saved under CVS, hosted by Savannah, in April 2002.Jean-Louis Bergamo, started at the same time the foundation management module.
Version 1.0 was released in September 2003.
In July 2008, Rodolphe let the main contributor Laurent Destailleur (also author of the other popular OpenSource project AWStats
AWStats
AWStats is an open source Web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing data from Internet services such as web, streaming media, mail and FTP servers. AWStats parses and analyzes server log files, producing HTML reports. Data is visually presented within reports by tables and bar graphs...
) to lead the project
A foundation and several user groups was also created in France (country where Dolibarr is the most famous).
Dolibarr is above all known in France to be a software package selected by new businesses but the software is available in more than 12 languages.
Awards
- 2003
- 1st in the category "Management Company" at the Les Trophées du LibreLes Trophées du LibreLes Trophées du Libre contest is a free software contest whose goal is to promote innovative software projects and give these projects recognition and media coverage - recently also to motivate students and academic institutions with special prizes. The competition is international and it is...
contest .
- 1st in the category "Management Company" at the Les Trophées du Libre
See also
- Comparison of accounting softwareComparison of accounting softwareThe following comparison of accounting software documents the various features and differences between different professional accounting software and personal finance packages.- Free and open source software :- Proprietary software :...
- Other ERP/CRM software: OpenERPOpenERPOpenERP is an open source comprehensive suite of business applications including Sales, CRM, Project management, Warehouse management, Manufacturing, Accounting and Human Resources. OpenERP has separate client and server components...
, CompiereCompiereCompiere is an open source ERP and CRM business solution for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise in distribution, retail, service and manufacturing...
, OpenbravoOpenbravoOpenbravo is a commercial open source software company. The head office of Openbravo S.L. is located in Pamplona, Spain. A sales office is located in Barcelona. The company is responsible for the development of two products: Openbravo ERP and Openbravo POS. For the worldwide distribution and... - List of applications with iCalendar support