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ERPNext - cost-effective ERP solution

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  • F fmoeller

    #push

    There are a ton of great updates in ERPNext today and the Update rate is from beginning Version 13 quiet awsome... Please can you please please please consider adding ERPNext? This would be such a massiv impact in the Usecase of Cloudron for me...
    The service for the Frappeengine kills me so hard and Coudron is soo easy... i would fund some coins if this could speed up this topic!!!

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    girish
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    #19

    @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!

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        jagadeesh-s2104
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        #21

        I would love to have ERPNext on Cloudron!

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          JLX89
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          #22

          +1 This would be a great addition to Cloudron!

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            andreasdueren
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            #23

            Bumping this, unfortunately, espocrm is not an option for me since I need either Zapier or n8n integration

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            • andreasduerenA andreasdueren

              Bumping this, unfortunately, espocrm is not an option for me since I need either Zapier or n8n integration

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              jdaviescoates
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              #24

              @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/

              I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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              • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

                @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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                andreasdueren
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                @jdaviescoates Thank, I'll look into if that's sufficient

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                • D dcher

                  @girish The feature set is crazy for something that can run on a $20/mo VPS. I manage a commercial/industrial services business out of California and have replaced our proprietary accounting, dispatching, CRM and project management software with ERPNext. All of that cost around $1,000/mo

                  Here's a list of modules available:

                  • Accounting
                  • Asset management
                  • Customer relationship management (CRM)
                  • Human resource management (HRM)
                  • Manufacturing
                  • Point of sale (POS)
                  • Project management
                  • Purchasing
                  • Sales management
                  • Warehouse management system
                  • Student Information system
                  • Hospital Information system
                  • Agriculture Management
                  • Nonprofit Organization
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                  LoudLemur
                  wrote on last edited by LoudLemur
                  #26

                  @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.

                  https://flectrahq.com/compare-editions-flectra-vs-odoo?category=--all--&feature=--all--&odoo-ce=--all--&odoo-ee=--all--&fle-ce=--all--&fle-pe=--all--

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                    chrishthompson
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                    #27

                    @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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                    • chrishthompsonC chrishthompson

                      @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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                      Aizat
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                      #28

                      @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 šŸ™‚

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                      • girishG girish

                        @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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                        Aizat
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                        #29

                        @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. šŸ™‚

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                        • AizatA Aizat

                          @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. šŸ™‚

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                          andreasdueren
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                          #30

                          @aizat I second this, would lvoe to see it on cloudron!

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                          • andreasduerenA andreasdueren

                            @aizat I second this, would lvoe to see it on cloudron!

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                            andreasdueren
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #31

                            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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                            • andreasduerenA andreasdueren

                              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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                              JLX89
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                              #32

                              @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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                              • AizatA Aizat

                                @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. šŸ™‚

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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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                                • andreasduerenA andreasdueren

                                  @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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                                  jadudm
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                                  #34

                                  @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-compose files. 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 docker-compose up. Unfortunately, that is not the same as packaging things up to run under the Cloudron framework.

                                  I use Cloudron on a Dell 7040 I bought on eBay.

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                                  • jadudmJ jadudm

                                    @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-compose files. 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 docker-compose up. Unfortunately, that is not the same as packaging things up to run under the Cloudron framework.

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                                    andreasdueren
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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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                                    • andreasduerenA andreasdueren

                                      @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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                                      girish
                                      Staff
                                      wrote on last edited by
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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!

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                                        • girishG girish

                                          @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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                                          @girish Thank you, that makes it easier forme to decide on my next steps with ERPNext. I'll check out that guide.

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