Recommendations on managing inventory

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

First, no, GnuCash doesn't have an Inventory system
Second, you probably don't need Scheme; most of GnuCash is in C
     (and we're trying to reduce the dependence on Scheme)
Third, if you wanted to work on something like this then I
     would recommend you build from SVN Trunk.

-derek

Shocky <shocky1 at users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> I need a simple FIFO perpetual inventory system for a home-based business. 
>
> Ideally, I would like it to be integrated with gnucash, since I'm planning to 
> use it for all the other accounting. Has anyone done any work in this 
> direction, even experimentally? 
>
> I'm an experienced developer, but not (unfortunately) in the free software or 
> open source areas. I have a lot of Common Lisp experience, so I think I 
> should be able to pick up guile easy enough, it it's possible to do most or 
> all of it that way (I don't know any of the gnucash internals yet). So I'm 
> considering building it myself, but if someone can give me a head start that 
> would be great. Everything I develop would be contributed back to the 
> community of course.
>
> Alternatively, can any one recommend a non-gnucash solution? It's not so many 
> transactions that I can't transfer the data manually, at least for now. Or 
> possibly generate transactions to be loaded into gnucash. I've considered 
> creating something myself using postgresql.
>
> The problem in all of this is that I've let is slide due to other priorities, 
> and now I have to pull it together by the end of June (tax filing deadling), 
> working on it part time. This is in Canada, so even for small businesses the 
> tax preparation itself is not onerous if you know what you're doing (which I 
> do), as long as all of the bookkeeping is up to date (which is where the 
> problem is).
>
> Any and all suggestions and pointers welcome.
>
> Shocky
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