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    • TikiWiki 27 - Accounting

    Posted by Sean posts: 5 Australia

    Hi

    I've had a brief play with this and there are a couple of things that make the current setup not very workable.

    The workflow assumes that a business creates a set of "Books" at a certain point in time and then creates a chart of accounts before entering transactions and then "closing" the books at some point in the future and restarting another set of "Books" for the next period.

    This workflow doesn't make sense for a couple of reasons.

    The chart of accounts is eternal, therefore they should exist outside of the periods of transactions and not setup every year.

    Also siloing transactions into time periods makes them distinct rather than occurring in a continuum.

    Appreciate that this is not meant as a replacement for Xero or QuickBooks, but the semantic model doesn't work as it is, at least for me.

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    Posted by Marc Laporte posts: 1644 Canada

    Hi Sean!

    Thank you for your message.

    Tiki Accounting was contributed in Tiki7 (2011). Since then, no one has worked on it seriously. There has been a bit of work here and there to update it to new versions of Bootstrap and PHP, but that's about it.

    A community Open Source project builds what the contributors want to build. I am still hopeful someone will step and modernize/expand the feature, but I think it's unlikely at this point. It is a candidate for Endangered features.

    I think it's more likely that we build a bridge with a project like https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr
    But of course, a tight integration will then be impossible.

    I use Trackers for accounting. So in effect a database of all the transactions. This has led to many enhancements like Currency Amount Tracker Field. It does the job, but it's not a true double-entry accounting system

    I look forward to your thoughts

    Posted by Sean posts: 5 Australia
    Marc Laporte wrote:

    Hi Sean!

    Thank you for your message.

    Tiki Accounting was contributed in Tiki7 (2011). Since then, no one has worked on it seriously. There has been a bit of work here and there to update it to new versions of Bootstrap and PHP, but that's about it.

    A community Open Source project builds what the contributors want to build. I am still hopeful someone will step and modernize/expand the feature, but I think it's unlikely at this point. It is a candidate for Endangered features.

    I think it's more likely that we build a bridge with a project like https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr
    But of course, a tight integration will then be impossible.

    I use Trackers for accounting. So in effect a database of all the transactions. This has led to many enhancements like Currency Amount Tracker Field. It does the job, but it's not a true double-entry accounting system

    I look forward to your thoughts


    Thanks for replying Marc.

    Appreciate all the work that has gone into Tiki Wiki by the many contributors. I suppose it is a risk of an open source project that people only work on the things that they find interesting.

    When I found Tiki Wiki I had the impression that everything was a lot more tightly integrated than it seems to be and there are a number of things that are not clear to me as to why something is in one place as opposed to another. For example the Admin Dashboard has lots of big buttons to add things, but many things (like the Accounting) are added via a completely separate features page. I suppose I am unclear as to the difference between a "feature" or whatever the other things are called.

    I've had a bit of a trial to get things to install (I've posted elsewhere about this). And it seems that I am unable to get the install to work correctly as there are a number of Packages that are required but then when added don't complete properly but then can't be removed using the Remove button.

    There are a number of items that once I've attempted to test (eg Quizes) that then have a little actions spanner to then carry on, but the spanner only works occasionally.

    Anyway enough critiquing, Tiki Wiki probably isn't going to fulfil my needs.