New user - Inventory tracking functionality?

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:37 -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 
> Hey, if some developer came by wanting to implement an inventory system
> he (or she) would have MY full support.....

What exactly would be invloved?  Are there (low-level?) API docs on how
one would do this -- i.e. what hooks are available for such a system? 
What language(s) could the code be in? (C/C++, scheme, ???).  Although
*I* don't have any partitular need for an inventory system I might be
interested in writing such a module.  The only gotcha is that I'm still
running CentOS 4 (4.5 at present) and don't want to upgrade to CentOS 5
at this time (lots of assorted reasons).  I'm assuming if I do things
right and code things in a properly modular way this should not matter.

> 
> -derek
> 
> Quoting "POWER,Daniel" <Daniel.Power at dewr.gov.au>:
> 
> > That's a shame, GNU Cash has been really good so far.  I've found a
> > couple of others though that seem to do what I want, so I might give
> > them a go.  Luckily we're still in the early stages of incorporating so
> > it's not like I have to do massive imports or anything...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Daniel Power
> > Business Analyst
> > DART, IT Planning and Interface Solutions Team
> > Employment Systems Group
> > Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
> > p: (02) 6121 8208 | m: 0432 840 668
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2007 15:19
> > To: POWER,Daniel
> > Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: New user - Inventory tracking functionality?
> >
> > At this time there are no plans to implement inventory in GnuCash.
> > You could attempt to do a small inventory system using the Stock
> > features, but that probably wouldn't give you quite the interface you'd
> > want.  No developer has shown up wanting to work on that.
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Quoting "POWER,Daniel" <Daniel.Power at dewr.gov.au>:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have just downloaded GNU Cash to run my sporting club's finances.  I
> >
> >> have no accounting experience but am lucky in that we are just being
> >> founded now, so I can pick it up as it goes along.  Despite my lack of
> >
> >> experience I've found it really easy so far to input all the
> >> transactions since the club opened a month or so ago.  One thing I am
> >> having trouble with though is inventory.  Our club runs a pro shop so
> >> to speak, and I would like to be able to track individual items and
> >> associate them with invoices etc etc.  I have searched the mailing
> >> list and found several (hundred) references to 'we are looking into
> >> it' but can't really see anything more than that.
> >>
> >> Is there a timeframe for the implementation of a basic inventory
> >> tracking system or should I continue to use the spreadsheet I wrote
> > up?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Daniel Power
> >> Business Analyst
> >> DART, IT Planning and Interface Solutions Team Employment Systems
> >> Group Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
> >> p: (02) 6121 8208 | m: 0432 840 668
> >>
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