Full Circle Magazine FR

When my company was looking at possible open-source program alternatives to Quickbooks seven years ago, there were very few options available. Luckily, we discovered Nolapro by Noguska and we have been extremely happy ever since. It is a full-featured accounting program for small businesses. Nolapro was offered initially as a self-hosted free program. It ran on a Linux or Windows server using Apache2, PHP and MySQL. It came bundled with all the accounting options to include General Ledger, Payables, Billing, Order Processing, Inventory, Shopping-eCommerce and Payroll. Companies can manage customers, vendors, employees and inventory in the system. It uses an ajax lookup feature that works very effectively when entering customer, vendor and employee data. Today, it is offered as a Cloud hosted or self-hosted program, and modules such as Payroll are paid options. We were able to initially import our Quickbooks data into Nolapro. This set up the chart of accounts and provided our opening balances. There were a few problems with the import back then that forced us to manually add some of the accounts. Also, we were not using Quickbooks for our payroll so we had to set that up manually.

Il y a sept ans, quand ma société envisageait des alternatives Open Source à Quickbooks, très peu d'options furent disponibles. Heureusement, nous avons découvert Nolapro par Noguska et, depuis, nous en sommes ravis. C'est un programme complet de comptabilité pour les petites entreprises.

Au départ, Nolapro était proposé comme logiciel gratuit indépendant. Il tournait sur un serveur Linux ou Windowsavec Apache 2, PHP et MySQL. Il était livré avec toutes les options comptables et comprenait General Ledger (grand livre), Payables (dettes), Billing (facturation), Order Processing (gestion des commandes, Inventory (gestions des stocks), Shopping-eCommerce (achats-commerce en ligne) et Payroll (paie). Les sociétés peuvent gérer les clients, les vendeurs, les employés et l'inventaire avec. Le programme utilise une fonction de recherche d'Ajax qui fonctionne très efficacement quand vous entrez des données client, vendeur et employé.

Aujourd'hui, il est proposé comme programme hébergé dans le Nuage ou indépendant et des modules comme Payroll sont des options payantes.

Au départ, nous avons pu importer nos données Quickbooks dans Nolapro. Cela a créé le tableau des comptes et nous fournissait nos soldes d'ouverture. Il y avait quelque problèmes avec l'importation à cette époque et nous avons dû ajouter certains des comptes à la main. En outre, nous n'utilisions pas Quickbooks pour la paie ; par conséquent nous avons dû la paramétrer manuellement.

You must begin with a chart of accounts that you import or set up manually. Sample charts of accounts for various business types are included in the base program. You can always add to a chart, after you start using the program. Included is a screenshot of my Chart of Accounts that we imported initially from Quickbooks. Nolapro is very user friendly so that business owners and non-accounting managers can use the system. It is accessed via a browser. It provides all the reporting that we have needed for our accounting firm to complete our corporate taxes and personal property tax filings. Our company is a staffing firm so we have many contract W-2 employees working each week. We have an enterprise back-office system that tracks employees, work orders, placements, hours worked, with integration to our time-sheet program and invoicing. We preferred not to have to enter data twice in the enterprise and accounting program so we had Noguska write an import program that uses a csv file generated from the enterprise app to import weekly payroll data into Nolapro. It has worked flawlessly for more than seven years.

The payroll module has enabled us to manage this difficult process in-house. It has a time-tracking program that we do not use, that allows for employee time capture. Paychecks and direct deposit files are generated from the system. A complete set of reporting for 941, 940 and electronic filing of tax deposits and year-end W-2 reporting is included. It uses a third party system that is accessed from within Nolapro. It is a paid system. My only problem with it is that it requires you to use a Windows system to electronically process and reconcile Federal and State W-2. I have complained for years about this but to no avail. It is used only once a year but it is still an annoyance. The Payables module produces ageing reports, vendor bills and statements, tracks credit card payments, and checks the status of payments. It provides an easy way to pay bills. It allows you to enter bills for later payments, manually pay bills, and manage your accounts payables with aging lists. Vendor files can be created in advance or when you are posting the first bill from a new one. The billing module is used to generate invoices, ageing reports and customer files. There are extensive reports and most reports have a drill-down feature for more details.

The General Ledger section provides P&L and Balance sheet reporting. You can also make individual entries in a ledger. Noguska has done an excellent job of providing updates and support. I estimate that there are about 6-8 updates each year. Support is provided on a pay-per-incident basis, or you can buy a long-term support agreement. Email support is free. Nolapro is a full-featured accounting program that offers all the features of Quickbooks for a small-to-medium size company.