NYCPHP Meetup

[John Lacey]

Dn. Kirill Sokolov wrote:
> 
> Accounting
> Donor Management
> Bookstore (POS)
> Academic Records / Registrar
> 
> The glue that holds this all together in a relational database is the 
> contacts table.
> 
> I think that for our needs, one of the higher end Quickbooks 
> applications would do perfectly well for accounting; almost any donor 
> management program would be fine (e.g., Donorperfect or even the 
> nonprofitbooks program designed for Quickbooks).  POS and Academic 
> programs need only to share a contacts database.
> 

look into SQL-Ledger--it's an open source accounting system that uses 
PostgreSQL -- an Open Source database.  Postgres is a little more work 
setting up than MySQL (at least in my experience -- feel free to jump in 
listies).

link to SQL-Ledger:
http://www.sql-ledger.org/

There will probably be some other folks chiming in here with other 
suggestions for the other apps.

hope that helps,
John