Back when I ran a VPS, I used weberp which turned into odoo. I’ve used vTiger as well. I have also used a custom erp tool that tied into my infrastructure accou

Back when I ran a VPS, I used weberp which turned into odoo. I’ve used vTiger as well. I have also used a custom erp tool that tied into my infrastructure accounting. This was 10+ years ago. These tools are great, they allowed me to see instant balance standing and allowed me to do forecasting on my reports. VTiger was really great because my costs were directly tied to project management which allowed me to predict costs way more accurately than my competitors. As great as that was, it could not ingest bills automagically nor was the format consumable by my accountant. Every month I would spend 8-16 hours updating bills manually. Every year end I would spend 20-30 hours to export my data into excel to send to my cpa. These hours shrunk by half before I sold the business but I never went back to a DIY/OSS approach for accounting again, instead I relied heavily on the OG Quickbooks desktop app. I don’t know what I would use today, likely salesforce or something similar