TurboCASH
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| Developer(s) | Pink Software |
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| Stable release | |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Accounting |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www.turbocash.net |
TurboCASH is an open source accounting software package, developed a project team headed by Philp Copeman, a South African. It has been continuously developed since April 1985, and was released under the GPL in July 2003.
The biggest TurboCASH communities are found in South Africa, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium, USA, Canada and Australia. It has been translated or partially translated into 23 lanuguages including Afrikaans, Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Indonesian and Spanish. Current user base is over 60 000.
It is aimed at the small to medium-sized business market, this places it between being a home finances package and being an ERP package. Its core function is a General ledger, posting transactions into accounts and procuducing financial reports. Plugin technology enables develoeprs to extend the system.
It integrates directly with osCommerce, CRE Loaded and Zen Cart. Being originally developed in Delphi, it only runs on Windows, although the developers are considering a Linux version. [1]
Commercial Alternatives
TurboCASH is an Open Source alternative to:
Quickbooks
Peachtree
Sage line 50
MYOB
Microsoft Accounting
Criticism
TurboCASH uses Paradox/BDE, and some developers have criticised this choice, suggesting rather using a more modern SQL database, as they claim that Paradox/BDE is out of date and slow. The TurboCASH developers, however, claim that in a network of one to five users, TurboCASH's target market, Paradox/BDE works well and has long record of stability and easy installation. [2]. TurboCASH version 4.0 is based on the Firebird database.[3]
TurboCASH has also faced criticism from some open-source advocates, as commercial applications are required to compile Turbocash. There is a sub project in place to remove these, as well as a sub project to implemenet the system in the Lazarus/Free Pascal environement.
Forks
In August 2006, the Dutch development team (which by some accounts was only one person)[citation needed] resigned, forking osFinancials from the project.
See also
- OsFinancials - a fork of TurboCASH
- Comparison of accounting software