Tomorrow ... Open ERP community meetings and partners day

Tomorrow, I will attend the OpenERP community and partners days...

The first day is dedicated to presentations.

The second day is organized as workshops. I still don't know which one I will take, probably  accounting and finance or community contributions. Except my own proposal I have not seen any feedback concerning a potential agenda.

The third day is only for partners and should cover the partners programs.

Finally they decided to organize the meeting in their offices... So I can already predict limited comfort for three days.

I have a lot of questions, expectations and fears, I will post  a summary at the end week.


FYI My proposal for the finance and accounting workshop



1. My ‘shopping list’

Basically, this is mostly extracted from a study done for a customer for which Open-ERP is a bit ‘short’ specially on international / multi-company scenarios.

Multi-company

-          Explicit multi-company operation.

-          Internal invoicing, cross-country selling (country x selling country y services)

-          Service localization

-          Sales commissioning – with contexts.

Temporary accounting statement

-          Deferred income / Revenue to invoice.

Invoicing plan

-          Be able to prepare future invoices for a project

Assets management           

2. Legal statement - cooperation

While the product is announced to be localized for many-countries (chart of account at least) it is not clear (at least for me) which country is fully ‘compliant’ or complete – at least Vat, legal statement for balance etc


It would be great to have a matrix per country of what is really done and with some maintainers – scheduling of changes per country.

For example, when I asked about the VAT statement in Belgium I got little reply so I think that either nobody is using OpenERP for VAT reporting or that the ‘community’ does not contribute back.

3. Blue prints I found on launch pad (I don’t pretend to be exhaustive)

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+spec/generic-accuracy-improvement

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openobject-server/+spec/multi-price-accuracy

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+spec/price-accuracy

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+spec/multi-company-account

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+spec/creditlimit

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+spec/creating-a-project-from-sales-order

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openerp-venezuela-localization/+spec/hr-salesman-commision-lines-update

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/account-banking/+spec/multiple-currency-bank-accounts

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openerp/+spec/changes-price-calculation

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+spec/account-balance-name-field

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/account-banking/+spec/account-banking-processing

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+spec/account-period-selection

One remark on the blueprints, I never had an issue on this at this stage, but accuracy is may be critical but it needs much more input.