What Dolibarr Does

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Dolibarr ERP/CRM is a software built by modules addition (you enable only features you need), to manage small or medium companies, freelancers or foundations. We can say Dolibarr is an ERP or CRM (or both depending on activated modules).

It's an OpenSource project base on a WAMP, MAMP or LAMP server (Apache, Mysql, PHP on all Operating Systems). Dolibarr differs from other softwares on same category like OpenAguila, OpenBravo, OpenERP (Ex TinyERP), Neogia, Compiere, etc because everything was made to be more simple.

Dolibarr is also an "S3S" software, this means it is built to be :

• Simple to install
• Simple to use
• Simple to develop

This is a summary of main Dolibarr features

Main modules

• Products and services catalog
• Stock management
• Bank accounts management
• Customers, Suppliers or Prospects directory
• Contacts directory
• Commercial actions management
• Orders management with PDF generator
• Commercial proposals management with PDF generator
• Contracts management
• Invoices management with PDF generator
• Payments management
• Standing orders management
• Shipping management
• Support NPR VAT (for french DOM-TOM)
• Foundations members management
• Bookmarks management
• Emailing
• Can reports Dolibarr events inside Webcalendar
• Reporting
• Data export tools
• LDAP connectivity
• Donations management

Miscellaneous

• Multi-user, with several permissions levels for each feature.
• Several menu managers (can be used by internal users, as a back-office, with a particular menu, or by external users, as a front-office, with another menu and permissions).
• Very user friendly and easy to use.
• Several skins.
• Code is highly customizable (a lot of use of modules).
• Works with Mysql 3.1 or higher, experimental support for PostgreSql.
• Works with PHP 4.3 or higher.

Warning, following page describes features not provided (yet) by Dolibarr: What Dolibarr can't do