I guess you're a faster programmer than me, then. I know I couldn't write something to duplicate the functionality of Pro Series in anything less than years.

"We had a client willing to pay for it because he had some special requirements."

That's always the key, isn't it? Heck, I'll write a Pro Series clone if someone wants to pay me for it. Well, that and an accounting degree so I know what I'm doing... :)

Do you have a web page? I see requests for apps for various industries on a VAR forum I'm on and could always send them your way if you have something that fits...

Michelle


>WE wrote our own and it has all of the pieces you mentioned except payroll which we have put on the back burner for quite a while now. When I sit back and try to add up the time it took, I will admit it was substantial but not years. We are just now completing a rewrite to move it into multi-tier architecture and the second time thru was pretty easy.
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>Why did we write our own? Several reasons:
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>1. We wanted source code
>2. We did not want to pay royalties
>3. We wanted consistent "look and feel" with the rest of our apps. Most of the accounting "foundations" out there at the time had the attitude.."here is our accounting, you may add your specific sales order screens"
>4. We had a client willing to pay for it because he had some special requirements.
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>For one, his company is really a conglomerate with several incorporated entities (TOTAL SALES > $400M). He concentrates in one industry but has several different companies, each doing different aspects of the industry. Because he has clients that are MEGA sized, they could not care less which of his companies sent him an invoice, they paid whichever of his companies they felt like. So his cash application module that we built automatically handles the correct inter-company journal entries for posting cash to an invoice from one company while the actual check deposit was made in another company.
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>5. It was fun. And now we sell a variety of apps, each tailored to a specific industry and/or functionality but they all have our identical accounting modules at the core.
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>Now on to that Payroll module!!!.
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>Ken