I have made a payment to a vendor, but entered an incorrect date, far in
the future. Consequently the payment does not show when I try to reconcile
the relevant bank statement.
How do I back-out the incorrectly entered payment?
Cash/Vouchers/Reverse Payment.
Then when you are done adding the payments you want to reverse,
approve the batch.
A lot of people are wondering how to manage their migration to LedgerSMB from SQL-Ledger. While there is no one simple answer that will suit everyone's situation, there is some general advice.
First thing to know is - you are among friends. LedgerSMB is built on a community of people who want to see the software and it's users succeed. Information is freely shared, and as long as you are prepared to have a go at helping yourself, we are happy to jump right in and help you do that!
We now have a mailing list, whether you are actively working on migrating to LedgerSMB or even if you are staying with SQL-Ledger for now and want some friendly community support, join up the User List to get SQL-Ledger to LedgerSMB migration help
The best course of action depends on your situation:
Is there a place where we could buy some consulting for LedgerSMB?
or a minimal setup according to our specs?
Take a look at Commercial Support
Yes, its open source. The tools we use (Perl, PostsgreSQL, Apache ++) are also open source.
Open source means that the source code of the software is available for free to everyone and you can modify the code and distribute it yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
Look for a place to contribute. This means not only programming, but also documentation, theme design, art work, or architectural design.
No, there is currently no REST api; however, one is planned.
Other APIs are not available, except for the Perl APIs the application uses itself.
Not out of the box. However, community member John Locke (from Freelock Inc) is doing it using a custom integration. He doesn't mind sharing his code.
Short answer: Yes
LedgerSMB can tie product sales to a tax class so that VAT can automatically be split off into the required VAT accounts on a sale, and when cancelling an invoice, automatically perform the reverse bookings.
Each product can be 'attached' to an account and the associated % will be applied automatically.
The LedgerSMB community follows the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.
Quite a few users find some of the terminology and accounting processes a little confusing at first. Some of the more popular small business accounting packages tend to hide these aspects of book-keeping from users for simplicity, so with the current user interface there is often some new ideas to grasp.
First step is the manual - the LedgerSMB manual is free and highly recommended reading.