Imperium: Open Source Accounting and Business Management Software

Imperium aims to be an all-in-one financial management software solution for small business seeking CRM, Work Order, Invoicing and Accounting features. Easily organize clients and contacts, provide quotes, track service orders and create invoices. The Accounting module provides bookkeeping functionality and reporting for small businesses — no need for QuickBooks. Imperium provides the "power to control" all of your business data with a client centric approach.

Features

• Quote and Log Parts and Labour with Work Orders
• Generate Invoices
• Track Contacts, Companies and Vendors
• Record Double-Entry Financial Transactions

Imperium is a pure XHTML/CSS and JavaScript web-standards based solution. Users can chose the workstation platform that's best for them. They are not restricted them to expensive operating systems or highly specific environments. Imperium can grow and advance with your business regardless of the desktop or mobile platform choice.

Imperium Online Demonstration

Our online demo is available 24/7, data in this system is flushed randomly and publicly visible so don't input any sensitive information.

• Imperium Zend Demonstration - of a recent version of Imperium

OpenSource

Imperium is released under the MIT license, available downloads are listed below. To install download file TGZ file and extract it some place nice, read the INSTALL file

cd /tmp
mkdir /var/www/localhost/imperium
wget http://imperium.edoceo.com/stable/latest.tgz
tar -xz -f imperium-latest.tgz -C /var/www/localhost/imperium

Downloads

• 2008-04-03 - Released Imperium #1000 - Many Bug Fixes, new Configuration options /djb
• 2008-02-10 - Released Imperium #940 - Completely re-written using CakePHP 1.2 /djb
• 2007-03-20 - Released Imperium #662 /djb
• 2007-02-26 - Announced Imperium on Freshmeat /djb

See Also

Other Open Source Accounting Softwares

• LedgerSMB
• Badger Finance
• Grisbi
• jGnash
• GFP
• PBooks - PHP Web-Based Accounting Software
• Open Systems Accounting Software - Open Source
• osFinancials
• GnuCash - Free Open Source Accounting
• TurboCASH - A world leader in free open source accounting software
• SQL-Ledger - Open Source
• XIWA - Open Source
• Wikipedia Open Source CRM Software List
• Wikipedia Comparison of Accounting Software

More information about Open Source Accounting Software

• http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2008/708/essentials/p67.htm
• http://linux.about.com/b/2005/05/28/open-source-accounting-software.htm

And evil competitors, who should be shaking in their boots!

• Microsoft Dynamics - Retail
• Peachtree - Retail
• Quickbooks - Retail
• Service CEO - Retail