Links

- [Project homepage](http://openpetra.org)

- [Source code](https://code.launchpad.net/~openpetracore/openpetraorg/trunkhosted)

- [ohloh](http://www.ohloh.net/p/openpetraorg)

## Technical

- C# [.NET, Mono]

- SQL [SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL]

## Preliminary evaluation

- [Started in 2009](http://www.ohloh.net/p/openpetraorg)

### Positive

- i18n, l10n

- Supports server-client deployments as well as standalone deployment.

- [Actively developed](http://www.ohloh.net/p/openpetraorg)

- [35 contributors](http://www.ohloh.net/p/openpetraorg)

- [Well-commented source code](http://www.ohloh.net/p/openpetraorg)

- [Extensibility is core](http://www.openpetra.org/organisation-benefits)

- Ledger-specific access control, three access levels.

- using fixed point arithmetic: System.Decimal data type for all money related variables (changed from Double to Decimal in end of 2010: [commit](https://github.com/openpetra/openpetra/commit/a1717237825a6c8f0d5e032c843241ed918e2344))

### Negative

- In BETA state, presently used by at least two organizations, one for accounting, one for contact management.

- [Decreasing Y-O-Y commits](http://www.ohloh.net/p/openpetraorg) <pre>2013-11-13 16:10:00     christiank      joar: I have checked for the source of increased commits in January 2011: It is a mixture of a huge bug-fixing spree and the result of a merge-into-trunk of a Sideline Branch, which then still needed more development</pre>

## Comments

    │15:48:14      christiank [\n]

    | In case you or bkuhn want to read up for yourself what OpenPetra will be  │

    | covering in its Finance Module when it is completed then you can have a   │

    | look at the Petra Finance User Guide                                      │

    | (http://www.openpetra.org/en/user-manuals). OpenPetra is based on Petra   │

    | in terms of functionality.      

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## Evaluation

<div class="alert alert-info"><p>Due to the instability of the OpenPetra linux client we cannot continue the evaluations. The linux client has not been a focus of the OpenPetra developers, and as of 2013-11-25 with the provided setup found in <http://www.pokorra.de/2013/11/install-openpetra-on-linux/> it crashes intermittently for various reasons.

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### Evaluation of [[Reporting|UseCases/GeneratingReports]] UseCases

- [[Trial Balance Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#trial-balance]]: Yes

- [[Bank Reconciliation Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#bank-reconcilation]]: Not sure. It provides an option to "Import GL[General Ledger] Transactions From Bank" which imports a CSV, other format file.

- [[Chart of Accounts|UseCases/GeneratingReports#chart-of-accounts]]: Has an editable, hiearchical chart of accounts. You can also export/import account hierarchies.

- [[Cash Disbursements Journal|UseCases/GeneratingReports#cash-disbursements]]: Not that I can find.

- [[Income Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#income-report]]: Yes, combined with the expense report

- [[Expense Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#expense-report]]: Yes, combined with the income report.

### Evaluation of [[Reporting|UseCases/GeneratingReports]] UseCases for Fund Accounting

Can each of these reports be generated, confined to a specific temporarily

restricted asset type?

- [[Trial Balance Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#trial-balance]]: FIXME

- [[Bank Reconciliation Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#bank-reconcilation]]: FIXME

- [[Chart of Accounts|UseCases/GeneratingReports#chart-of-accounts]]: FIXME

- [[Cash Disbursements Journal|UseCases/GeneratingReports#cash-disbursements]]: FIXME

- [[Income Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#income-report]]: FIXME

- [[Expense Report|UseCases/GeneratingReports#expense-report]]: FIXME

### Evaluation of [[Fund Accounting|UseCases/FundAccounting]] UseCases

- [[Fund-only View|UseCases/FundAccounting#fund-view]]

- [[Funds as part of whole org View|UseCases/FundAccounting#fundless-view]]

- [[Ignore Funds for operations|UseCases/FundAccounting#fundless-view]]

### [[UseCases/Collaborating]] evaluation

- [[Simultaneous Editing of Ledger|UseCases/Collaborating#simultaneous-ledger-edits]]: Yes

### Evaluation of [[Double-entry Accounting|UseCases/DoubleEntryAccounting]] UseCases

- Does the system implement pure double-entry accounting?

### Evaluation of [[TrackingDocumentation|UseCases/TrackingDocumentation]] UseCases

- Does the system [[link up to external documentation|UseCases/TrackingDocumentation#document-link-up]]?

- Does it have a [[the ability to explore transactions via documentation linkage|UseCases/TrackingDocumentation#document-link-explore]]?

### Evaluation of [[Handling multiple currencies|UseCases/MultiCurrency]] UseCases

- Does it support the concept of

  [[a single functional currency|UseCases/MultiCurrency]], while still

  permitting multi-currency entries?

### Evaluation of [[draft transaction|UseCases/DraftTransactions]] UseCases