Hi.
I’m completely new to ErpNext.
Background:
The company needing it will probably not adopt the full accounting aspect of ERP until 2021.
In the meantime we need handle only: products, customers, invoices & delivery notes, suppliers and payments. This data will be exported to our third party accounting firm.
I’m an experienced software developer, with a very poor understanding of accounting. My role will be to develop some specialised CRUD for product management and be the in-house problem solver for ErpNext.
Question:
Even though we won’t be making use of the accounting side of ErpNext, there are tasks that won’t work properly unless certain settings are correct. For example, when creating a first stock item I get "Please enter Difference Amount ".
For that, Muzzy said “Make sure all the default accounts are setup in company before starting to upload/create any information. Go to Accounts> Company to fill it.”
So I looked into that and, at this point, after Googling a fair bit, I still don’t know which default account maps to “Difference Amount”, how to find that out or even what a difference amount means for a stock item.
Is there somewhere I can find, or would someone kindly provide, a list of the initially undefined default settings that will trip me up (as I evaluate ErpNext for our needs) and some suitable settings to use for them?