ERPNext - cost-effective ERP solution
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@fmoeller I don't think anyone said no to anything, you just have to convince someone that packages apps to package this one. Someone that can't live without it would be the best ally, as they will be invested in keeping it updated too.
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@fmoeller I think you misunderstood. ERPNext is currently not packaged, so we try to keep all the ERPNext related discussions in this single thread. This page is simply just a place to express interest in wanting this app on Cloudron and having all interested parties in the same page (no pun intended).
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I also would LOVE to see ERPnext on Cloudron.
Please, please package the app! It would also increase my usecase for cloudron by a an incredible amount! -
I would love to have ERPNext on Cloudron!
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Bumping this, unfortunately, espocrm is not an option for me since I need either Zapier or n8n integration
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@andreasdueren said in ERPNext - cost-effective ERP solution:
unfortunately, espocrm is not an option for me since I need either Zapier or n8n integration
EspoCRM has web hooks you should be able to feed into n8n https://docs.espocrm.com/administration/webhooks/
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@jdaviescoates Thank, I'll look into if that's sufficient
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@dcher The Gantt Charts look nice.
Also consider Odoo Community Edition and its Freedom focused fork, Flectra, both of which have been requested in the App Wish section of the forum.
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@nebulon @girish ERPNext is looking good...I'd love to see it added officially as a Cloudron app! (I've decided to move our business to ERPNext.) Maybe they'd support adding an "Install with Cloudron" option on their GitHub page? That could bring more business customers to Cloudron I expect.
Quick notes:
- Their official docker image seems mature enough. https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker
- They also have a 1-click droplet app on Digital Ocean. (But I'd rather manage it through Cloudron...because Cloudron is beautiful and awesome.)
- There is an ERPNext integration for n8n.
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@chrishthompson Yes, totally agree. I tried several ERPs and this one really made me almost teary. Such a rich-featured ERP and they decided to make it open source.
It's a high quality made ERP. It has integration with WordPress and n8n.
Really wish it would be in Cloudron soon.
At the moment, I'm paying for a separate server just to deploy ERPnext. But it would lovely to have it in my Cloudron along with other apps I have here.
Cloudron team, please consider bringing it here
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@girish Any chance you will be able to have a look at their official package? I deployed their docker image for production in DO: https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker
— and it works like a charm.
Why I think ERPnext is a very beautiful project: Open-source at heart, with good developers behind it, highly supportive and very community-driven project. The project has been going on for almost a decade now. -
@aizat I second this, would lvoe to see it on cloudron!
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Are there plans to bring ERPNext to cloudron soon so I can use those resources or do I have to set up and pay for another virtual machine? Because my Time is kind of running out on this one and I would rather not migrate again.
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@andreasdueren said in ERPNext - cost-effective ERP solution:
Are there plans to bring ERPNext to cloudron soon so I can use those resources or do I have to set up and pay for another virtual machine? Because my Time is kind of running out on this one and I would rather not migrate again.
We're actually in the same boat, since it's a new year looking to move platforms and this would be a massive win on our side.
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@aizat Since the cloudron Teams seems to be unwilling to adopt the official docker image for the app store, do you or anyone else here have experience in installing custom docker images so I can get this thing finally set up?
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@andreasdueren I've packaged one or two things for myself on Cloudron, and I took a look at Frappe/ERPnext.
First, for the thread: Cloudron does not run Docker images "as-is." Or, if you prefer, simply because a project runs in Docker does not mean that it will immediately be runnable under Cloudron. A Cloudron app needs to be packaged up so that it will "play nicely" with the control architecture that Cloudron provides. Put simply, to get that friendly Cloudron experience, some work is needed when packaging an app.
In the case of ERPnext, it has a compose file that specifies many software services. Traefik is used for routing and load balancing (I assume); Nginx fronts the service; it seems like Frappe (the API backend) is written in Python (another service). There's worker processes of several flavors, a scheduling service, a Redis cache, MariaDB (which, for porting to Cloudron, we'd want to integrate with it's built-in DB add-on), the site creator service... and a large number of storage volumes.
Cloudron does not, to the best of my understanding, support running
docker-composefiles. As a result, to package this, we'd have to pull all of these services into a single container image. That would take some thinking, especially since Docker "likes" to have one process per container. Or, if there is another way/it is possible, I don't personally know how to package up a multi-container Cloudron application.The Cloudron team may have something else to say, but I thought I'd drop a note in the thread that helps explain why this app is a more complex proposition than others (perhaps) when it comes to packaging. Yes, it is open, and yes, it installs easily on a VM when you do a
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@jadudm Fair and not a problem. I'm just a little bit disappointed by the lack of communication. If it won't get packaged for a while then a short note would have been sufficient instead of letting people like me guessing whats planned next.
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@andreasdueren We are not working on packaging this. We try to leave a note when we start packaging an app. Currently, we are working on 7.1 - https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/5982/what-s-coming-in-cloudron-7-1 and there's also many existing apps that need to be updated.
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For future reference, I found https://github.com/frappe/frappe/wiki/The-Hitchhiker's-Guide-to-Installing-Frappe-on-Linux . Fairly complicated!
