Hi folks,
I am still trying to find ways to turn OACS into a booking system for the travel industry. From what I have been reading, and trying, curent developments in logger, project mananger and bugtracker seem to offer an answer to most issues, although I would need some additonal features to be added. I won't bother you with these details right now.
Billing issues are mostly covered by the features in e-commerce, as well as statements of account. What we still lack is an integrated accounting package. I found http://www.twinfield.com/content/en/whytwinfield.asp to be a sollution that seems to be acceptable to accountants and bookkeepers. Because I am starting a business, I can't aford to wait any longer, despite the costs, I intend to open an account with them,to find out how this service could be interfaced with OpenACS.
I don't wan't to invent the wheel, and since accounting seems to be a pretty staight forward issue, but with essential features spread over diffent modules, using OACS as an accounting platform is rather complicated. question ... do we have folks in the network looking into similar solutions?
1. Who would be interested to join this experiment? maybe by joining forces we can come up with solutiosn, and create an OACS accounting platform, whre hackers cut and paste existing code into one package. That would create our own Twinfield.
2.Are there allready initiatives underway in this respect? I have a feeling if we would ofer a basic accounting package this would be benifical to the evangalism of Open ACS.