How is this different to iDempiere?

(this is written by David Podhola)

I liked Compiere and all the open-source ERP initiatives a lot, and I think the iDempiere micro-service architecture "before it was cool" is great.

However, I feel the target groups for each system are different:

• it seems iDempiere is mainly chosen by consultants and business users looking for an open-source ERP that has almost everything ready after the installation and most of the task can be done by non-developers
• on the other hand, EolERP mainly focuses on software developers that want to take the open-sourced source code and improve it to better suit the business uses

Have a look at this example of how a factored invoice (and invoice that is going through the factoring process) needs to be put into the general ledger (accounts):

activity	the account	source document	amount
total amount (without VAT)	311/602	Invoice	82.645
VAT	311/343	Invoice	17.355
write - off of receivable	546/311	Contract	100.000
revenue from the sale of a receivable	315/646	Contract	100.000
commission invoice (without VAT)	518/321	Commission invoice	1.000
commission invoice VAT	343/321	Commission invoice	210
payment of part of the purchase price	221/315	Bank statement	73.790
balancing account balances via an internal document	321/395 395/315	Internal Document	1.210

Doing this with the buid-in products seems to be too much work that can be greatly simplified by a small enhancement to the SalesInvoiceService.