An anonymous reader writes: Hello, I am in a 3rd world country at the moment, and am helping out a small business with their accounting software. At the moment they use spreadsheets that dont add up each day and they make a new one each day...so over 600 files many of which are inaccurate and no way to do reports or such. I am looking for a web based app so that the owner can check in from overseas. I only have mdoerate programming skill, so can not do such an endeavor myself, and was hoping there may be a free application suited.
I have looked at many, such as mifos, phpbms, frontaccounting, phreebooks, sql ledger etc, and they all seem to have no free documentation or appear far to complex for my needs to easily customize.
The needs are quite simple. The receptionist must be able to enter in guests with arbitrary fields. Additionally when a guest purchases a service or product, that purchase can be tied to that guests record. The second requirement would just be that a different user, the manager would be able to generate reports, showing total expensive or income or comparing arbitrary time periods.
Can anyone recommend a piece of simple accounting software suited to what I need? Unfortunately hiring a programmer is simply not an option at all, so please only stick to suggestions that respect the restriction I have mentioned.
Thankyou