Parsley is a project to develop a free, open-source
accounting system for small and very small businesses,
community groups and individuals.
It will be a multi-user web application to make it
easy to employ book-keepers working remotely, and will
enable - but not enforce -
open-book accounting
Sponsor Parsley
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and sponsors.
Our Projects
These are projects, led by us, in various states of completion and activity. More
sponsorship of any project will encourage more activity.
- Parsley
- Parsley is a project to develop a free and open-source, cross-platform accounting system for very small, small and
medium sized enterprises and community groups. It will be a Java web-application
built on top of Boox, our open-source Java book-keeping
library and API
- Peersite
- Peersite is a suite of tools which can be used to build a social networking website
with a virtual-currency system
Project Parsley
Parsley is a project to develop a free, open-source, cross-platform
accounting and book-keeping system for very small, small and perhaps even
medium sized enterprises, providing a free realistic and practical (though very
different) alternative to Sage.
It is very much a work-in-progress, and is not yet suitable for real-life use
Parsley and Sage
Sage is a UK company producing first-class
Windows-based accounting software for businesses of all sizes. It holds a virtual monopoly* in this market, in the UK at least,
and is consistently profitable - as monopolies tend to be!
Parsley aims to challenge Sage's monopoly*, but Sage needn't be worried any time soon: their software works, ours doesn't.
| Feature |
Parsley |
Sage |
Rosemary |
Thyme |
| Works? |
Not Yet |
Very Well |
n/a |
n/a |
| OS |
Any |
Windows Only |
n/a |
n/a |
| Web-based? |
Yes |
No |
n/a |
n/a |
| Price |
Free |
£100 up |
n/a |
n/a |
| Payroll? |
No |
Extra |
n/a |
n/a |
* Well, it's by far the largest business operating in the market, but many organisations don't use it.
Lots of small businesses do their accounts on Excel, or the back of an envelope, and larger ones
tend to use products like Oracle Financials, customised for their operation, or their own legacy COBOL based systems
which are just too ingrained to change. Probably.
Peersite
Peersite is a suite of tools to build a social market network running on Java. It is divided
into a number of different libraries, each of which typically consists of three packages:
- a base package of interfaces and classes for plain old java objects;
- a custom tag library for use in java server pages
- a package of servlets to process the specific input from the custom tags
Peersite Functional Demonstration
For an (incomplete) functional demonstration of PeerSite, visit Quilpy.com
Peersite alpha release
Peersite has been released on Sourceforge.net. It contains the modules needed
to set up a basic social market network. You will need to write the front end - the
web pages and style-sheets - for your application, while the Peersite modules maintain
data and manage the database. Peersite-Basic handles registration and authentication, and
supports SMS membership confirmation as an alternative to CAPTCHAs. It also provides
group/friend, discussion, one-click payment and member emailing modules.
Peersite customisation
Platosys Technology can help you use Peersite to produce a custom website meeting your requirements.
Platosys can provide anything from a priority support service for your inhouse developers to a
turnkey package with full project management. Where practical we will operate on a fixed-fee
basis, with payment based on deliverables.
Prospect
Prospect is still in the early conceptual stages. It is a peer-to-peer contacts and
diary system - a PIM, if you will, based on the notion that only the data subject can edit
an entry about them. Thus, your entry in my address-book is editable only by you.
You decide whether I get your phone-number, and you can even delete it. The plus side for me
is that if I have your phone-number, I know it is always your current phone number.