DOLIBARR ERP & CRM

Dolibarr ERP & CRM is a modern software to manage your organization's activity (contacts, suppliers, invoices, orders, stocks, agenda, ...).

It's an Open Source software (wrote in PHP language) designed for small and medium companies, foundation and freelances.

You can freely use, study, modify or distribute it according to it's Free Software licence.

You can use it as a standalone application or as a web application to be able to access it from the Internet or a LAN.

LICENSE

Dolibarr is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version (GPL-3+).

See the COPYING file for a full copy of the license.

Other licenses apply for some included dependencies. See COPYRIGHT for a full list.

INSTALLING

Download

Releases can be downloaded from official website.

Simple setup

If you have low technical skills and you're looking to install Dolibarr ERP/CRM in few clicks, you can use one of the packaged versions:

DoliWamp for Windows
DoliDeb for Debian or Ubuntu
DoliRpm for Redhat, Fedora, OpenSuse, Mandriva or Mageia

Advanced setup

You can use a Web server and a supported database (MySQL recommended) to install the standard version.

Uncompress the downloaded archive
Copy directory "dolibarr" and all its files inside your web server root, or copy directory anywhere and set up your web server to use "dolibarr/htdocs" as root for a new web server virtual host (second choice need to be server administrator)
Create an empty file "htdocs/conf/conf.php" and set permissions for your web server user (write permissions will be removed once install is finished)

From your browser, go to the dolibarr "install/" page

The URL will depends on choices made in the first step:

  http://localhost/dolibarr/htdocs/install/

  http://localhost/dolibarr/install/

  http://yourdolibarrvirtualhost/install/

Follow the installer instructions

UPGRADING

Overwrite all old files from 'dolibarr' directory with files provided into the new version's package.
If you're upgrading from version x.y.z to x.y.w (only third number differs), there is no need to run any migration process.
If you're upgrading from a beta version or from any version x.y.z to any other where x or y number differs, you must call the Dolibarr "install/" page in your browser (this should be done automatically at first dolibarr access) and follow the upgrade process.

Note: migration process can safely be done multiple times.

NEWS

See the ChangeLog file.

FEATURES

General features

Users and groups with finely grained rights
Localization in most major languages
Very user friendly and easy to use
Highly customizable: enable only the modules you need, add user personalized fields, choose your skin, several menu managers (can be used by internal users as a back-office with a particular menu, or by external users as a front-office with another one)
Works with PHP 5.3+ and MySQL 4.1+ or PostgreSQL 8.1. (See requirements on the Wiki)
Compatible with all Cloud solutions that match MySQL, PHP or PostgreSQL prerequisites.
An easy to understand, maintain and code interfaces with your own information system (PHP with no heavy framework; trigger and hook architecture)
Support for country specific features:
- Spanish Tax RE and ISPF
- French NPR VAT rate (VAT called "Non Perçue Récupérable" for DOM-TOM)
- Canadian double taxes (federal/province) and other countries using cumulative VAT
- Tunisian tax stamp
- Compatible with European directives (2006/112/CE ... 2010/45/UE)
...

Main modules

Customers, Prospects and/or Suppliers directory
Products and/or Services catalog
Bank accounts management
Customer and Supplier Orders management
Commercial proposals management
Contracts management
Invoices management
Projects management
Events management
Payments management
Standing orders management
Stock management
Shipping management
Interventions management
PDF or ODT generation for invoice, proposals, orders...
Agenda with ical and vcal export for third party tools integration
Electronic Document Management (EDM)
Foundations members management
Employee's holidays management
Mass emailing
Surveys
Point of Sale
…

Other modules

Bookmarks management
Donations management
Reporting
Data export/import
Thirdparties and/or products categories
Barcodes support
Margin calculations
LDAP connectivity
ClickToDial integration
RSS integration
Skype integration
Payment platforms integration (PayBox, PayPal)
…

Extending

Dolibarr can be extended with a lot of other external modules from third party developers available at the DoliStore.

FUTURE

These are features that Dolibarr does not yet fully support:

Double-entry bookkeeping (only bank and treasury management)
Multiple currencies
Multiple companies If you want to manage several companies or foundations, you must install the software several times (on same server or not) or use the MultiCompany addon module that allows to manage several companies in one Dolibarr instance (one database but with a logical isolation of datas)
Tasks dependencies in projects
Payroll module
Webmail
Dolibarr can't do coffee (yet)

DOCUMENTATION

Administrator, user, developer and translator's documentations are available along with other community resources on the Wiki.

CREDITS

Dolibarr is the work of many contributors over the years and uses some fine libraries.

See COPYRIGHT file.

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Follow Dolibarr project on:

ozit/dolibarr