As longtime users of the free and open source PostBooks® accounting solution know, we've recently started requiring a license key for users of the software. Our policy has been that anyone who requires just a single concurrent user can get that PostBooks® key automatically here . For more than one concurrent user, we've been asking you to fill out the same form , and we've been following up...
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Channel partners receive high praise for achievement in business development, technical expertise, product contributions, implementation success, and customer support and satisfaction
xTuple, a leader in technology-agnostic open source business management software, continues to...
Forrester Research recently published an evaluation of business-to-consumer (B2C) solution providers — IBM, Oracle, Netsuite, eBay, SAP, others — that serve large, complex organizations.
While there are many substantive differences between B2C and business-to-business (B2B) transactions, a topic for another blog post, there was a particularly insightful and useful breakdown of a good eCommerce solution that is applicable to both.
Forrester calls them the ‘four foundational pillars’ and we thought we’d pass them along.
Cash Commissions: This package created a report keying on cash receipts to determine commission payable. Logic was included to prorate commission based upon how much of the invoice was being paid and how much of the invoice was commissionable. Commission rates were assigned at the sales rep level with two (2) different commission rates based on product category. There was also the abilty to...
Cut Pieces is a package developed for a supplier of sheet goods. The package added functionality to the sales order line entry that allowed the user to calculate total square feet of an item by entering quatity, width and length of pieces to be cut. The total square footage was calculated for the sum of all the cut pieces required of the item.
The information is stored in a...
Our mission is not just selling software. Anyone can do that. It's to help you — and your company — successfully implement powerful and easy-to-use open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to grow your business profitably.
Take advantage of these affordable educational options coming up — from free webinars to live online training to in the classroom workshops.
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If you are just beginning to look at xTuple, you may be wondering where to start. Perhaps you've already registered for a Free Trial of xTuple .
Now what? This is where xTuple University can help you out.
I've pulled six videos from the xTupleU library which I think are well-suited to anyone who is just getting started.
After you watch these videos, you'll probably want...
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“Ant-Man,” the newest member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has inspired version 4.9.0 of xTuple’s flagship open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. This version is a “smaller, faster, and better product,” and includes fixes for 164 bugs and 75 new features. This is the third product release to coincide with Marvel Comics movies, following the open...
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State graduates 12 Virginia companies from two-year export business program
Open source business software leader xTuple graduated from the Virginia Economic Development Partnership’s (VEDP) Virginia Leaders in Export Trade (VALET) Program, along with other companies from across the...
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xTuple 4.9.0 sees usability and performance improvements, expanded functionality, and bug-fixes
Business software leader xTuple is drawing inspiration from “Ant-Man,” the newest member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Version 4.9.0 of the company’s flagship Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package makes xTuple a smaller, faster, better product, and includes...
If you're the type of person who has questions about accounting but are either afraid to ask or don't know what to ask, then you should consider joining xTuple's lead trainer Mike Atherton as he takes class members through the basics of accounting in his online course Accounting for Non-Accountants . This is your chance to learn how to read financial statements. To understand the difference...
We recently announced the 4.9.0 release candidate of xTuple ERP and the final release should be ready soon. You probably did not know that 4.9.0 is the first version of xTuple ERP that requires plv8 [ see below ] for all databases and clients.
There are a few things you must do to get ready for this change.
We've documented the steps to install plv8 on our GitHub wiki . In...
The features I'm most excited about in the upcoming 4.9.0 release are the updates we've made to the xTuple ERP user interface. (If you want to see those changes now, check out the Release Candidate .) Existing users shouldn't worry: if you like the application the way it is, you can keep it that way. But my guess is most of you will appreciate the modernized style. xTuple's new look begins...
ERP systems remain indispensable for distributors of all sizes and industries. Today’s quandary facing distributors, though, is that technology — and customer expectations — are evolving at such a pace that their ERP can’t keep up. History isn’t repeating; it’s accelerating at break-neck speeds. Disruptive technologies that came along once in a generation now occur yearly, driven by the global...
xTuple ERP 4.9.0 Release Candidate is now available for download, and we're very excited to bring you this milestone. There's great progress to report on the exciting xTupleCommerce Web Portal one of the only truly real-time integrated ERP-and-eCommerce website offerings in the world.
xTuple is always looking for interns in software development, sales and marketing, and information technology. If you have had exposure to small businesses struggling with business software, you are halfway here already. Coursework in relevant technologies or operations management is helpful. And, best of all, an internship with xTuple may qualify you for course credits in many college majors...
In large business-to-business (B2B) transactions, it’s fairly typical for a business customer to have multiple locations where they need to ship products. A good example is a construction company that has multiple active jobs and needs supplies sent to those jobs.
With xTupleCommerce, your customers can log into your eCommerce site and manage the shipping locations for specific orders...
It's 3AM... do you know what your server is doing?
You probably don't know. If you do know, you need to do something other than worry about your server.
In most cases, it's probably not doing anything more than when you left it at the end of the day. But, during the day, you have some external users connecting, querying your PostBooks or xTuple databases — All seemingly...
Let’s imagine that you are a manufacturer or distributor selling a range of products. You have a team of sales representatives that process orders on behalf of their customers or accounts. These sales reps may be your direct employees or other types of trading partners.
If you don’t have a Web-based solution for your sales reps to process orders, then they are likely meeting with their...
eCommerce is not the way of the future; it’s the way of the present. Consumers are now fully comfortable researching products and making purchases online. Even from their phones. Not only are people buying online, they are involving themselves in the entire shopping experience on the Internet.
This is a pretty straight-forward process for typical consumers. Let’s imagine that you want...