ERPNext is a

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(ERP) software developed by an Indian software company Frappe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and is built on

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database system using Frappe, a

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based server-side framework. ERPNext is a generic ERP software used by manufacturers, distributors and services companies. It includes modules like accounting, CRM, sales, purchasing, website, e-commerce, point of sale, manufacturing, warehouse, project management, inventory, and services. Also, it has domain specific modules like schools, healthcare, agriculture, and non-profit. ERPNext is an alternative to NetSuite and QAD, and similar in function to

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(formerly OpenERP),

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and

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. ERPNext was included in the ERP FrontRunners List by Gartner as a Pacesetters.

Core modules

ERPNext contains these modules: *

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Asset management Asset management is a systematic approach to the governance and realization of value from the things that a group or entity is responsible for, over their whole life cycles. It may apply both to tangible assets (physical objects such as buildings ...

* Customer relationship management (CRM) * Human resource management (HRM) *

Payroll A payroll is the list of employees of some company that is entitled to receive payments as well as other work benefits and the amounts that each should receive. Along with the amounts that each employee should receive for time worked or tasks pe ...

Project management Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. Th ...

Purchasing Purchasing is the process a business or organization uses to acquire goods or services to accomplish its goals. Although there are several organizations that attempt to set standards in the purchasing process, processes can vary greatly betwee ...

Sales management Sales management is a business discipline which is focused on the practical application of sales techniques and the management of a firm's sales operations. It is an important business function as net sales through the sale of products and ser ...

* Warehouse management system *

Website A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Examples of notable websites are Google Search, Google, Facebook, Amaz ...

Industry modules

Manufacturing Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a r ...

- Manufacturing * Point of sale (POS) - Retail * Student Information system - Education * Hospital Information system - Healthcare * Agriculture Management - Agriculture * Nonprofit Organization - Non Profit

Software license

ERPNext is released under the GPL-3.0-only license. Consequently, ERPNext does not require license fees as opposed to proprietary ERP vendors. In addition, as long as the terms of the licenses are adhered to, modification of the program is possible.

Architecture

ERPNext has a Model-View-Controller architecture with

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tools that add flexibility for users to adapt the software to unique purposes without the need for programming. Some attributes of the architecture are: * All objects in the ERP are DocTypes (not to be confused with HTML DocTypes) and the Views are generated directly in the browser. * Client interacts with the server via

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data objects on a Representational state transfer (RESTful) supporting server. * There is ability to plug-in (event driven) code on the client and server side. The underlying web app framework is called "Frappe Framework" and is maintained as a separate open source project. Frappe started as a web based metadata framework inspired from Protégé though it has evolved differently. This architecture allows rapid application development (RAD).

Source code and documentation

ERPNext

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is hosted on

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, using the

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, and the contributions are also handled using GitHub. A complete user manual is available at the project website.

Software as a service

ERPNext is available both on user hosting and as a

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(SaaS) from their website. The product also received a funding of INR 10 crore ($1.3Million) from Zerodha and Rainmatter in June 2022.

Investment

In November 2020, Rainmatter incubator invested ₹10 crore ($1.3M) in Frappe Technologies PL, to support development of ERPNext, other open source products, and scaling plans.

Release history

FOSS United

FOSS United (formerly ERPNext Open Source Software Foundation) is a non-for-profit organization. The goal of the foundation is to provide a platform for the FOSS community of India to come together and build open source applications. Foundation also organises various events like conference and code sprints.

References

External links

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