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I didn't have a good experience with ERPNext. It is neutered and using it is painful to use unless you pay for professional help. They bundle everything in a vi

I didn't have a good experience with ERPNext. It is neutered and using it is painful to use unless you pay for professional help. They bundle everything in a virtual machine file (!!) and not standard Docker containers. The whole thing is horribly put together. I spent half a day trying to get it up and running and it was a nightmare. ERPs and MRPs are in a weird uncanny valley. 99% of the audience that need to use it are not programmers. Open sourcing is nice but largely only helpful to people that are going to forkit and improve it, not end users. Also, ERP is the brains of your business. If it goes down and has problems, your business comes to a halt. It needs to be rock solid and most businesses don't want to deal with this type of thing - happy to pay $300/month for small business ERP from Oracle, SAP, Microsoft or other platforms. I am complaining but its better than nothing, the fact that theyve put their code out for free is commendable.

0df8dkdf 6y ago
* They bundle everything in a virtual machine file (!!) and not standard Docker containers* Glad someone is mentioning this. Did not have a good experience with ERPNext. Why is it written on an obscure framework: Frappé, named after the programmer. If I'm using Python web framework, flask or Django.
- rushabh 6y ago
  Author here. This is wrong information. Not sure where you are getting this from. Also as I mentioned above, docker installs are actively supported. https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker
rushabh 6y ago
There are standard docker images available [0]. Not sure why you would you virtual images when there is an easy install script and a docker. While I agree it’s a complex beast (it’s an ERP system), there is a large community [1] and active forum. Also if you are happy paying $300/month for a proprietary product, why would you expect the same for $0 from an open source product? [0] https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker [1] https://discuss.erpnext.com https://discuss.erpnext.com
ies7 6y ago
Their VM is for testing and they have docker for production. I believe they've VM for testing before docker was known.

0df8dkdf 6y ago

* They bundle everything in a virtual machine file (!!) and not standard Docker containers* Glad someone is mentioning this. Did not have a good experience with ERPNext. Why is it written on an obscure framework: Frappé, named after the programmer. If I'm using Python web framework, flask or Django.

rushabh 6y ago
Author here. This is wrong information. Not sure where you are getting this from. Also as I mentioned above, docker installs are actively supported. https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker

rushabh 6y ago

There are standard docker images available [0]. Not sure why you would you virtual images when there is an easy install script and a docker. While I agree it’s a complex beast (it’s an ERP system), there is a large community [1] and active forum. Also if you are happy paying $300/month for a proprietary product, why would you expect the same for $0 from an open source product? [0] https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker [1] https://discuss.erpnext.com https://discuss.erpnext.com

ies7 6y ago

Their VM is for testing and they have docker for production. I believe they've VM for testing before docker was known.