How to remove "Powered by ERPNext" from website

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That’s fine, but as someone prepared to finance the extension of the platform by paying for extra functionality that others then get for free, I don’t appreciate being chided with the suggestion that I’m in some way “doing the wrong thing” by not wanting my website to be an advertisement, however subtle, for ERPNext. I’m very unlikely to use the website feature at all, preferring something more specialised to that task and hosted with separate resources, and my only interest in this discussion is to provide a counterpoint to this forehead-knuckling.

I call it cultish ingroup thinking if someone absolutely refuses to acknowledge that there is any other perspective. I’ve made one clear - that it makes the website look like it’s doing things on the cheap and that can detract from user perception, which is a valid and important consideration - and you point-blank reject it. Well, good for you. You want to show appreciation but you don’t want to pay anything, and you sit there from that position making assertions that other people should be good little boys like you and show their allegiance to the team.

Doesn’t wash with me.

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Dude if truly you spend money on customizations then you will not be coming here to request for such a basic thing.

Like @flexy2ky said this issue is over flogged.

Let the programmers you claim to pay sort you out on this. We have more important issues to deal with here please

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Hahaha. But that’s the TRUTH.

I guess people here are appreciative of the commitment RMehta and the Frappe team are giving the open source community.

Everything is possible in Frappe / ERPNext since nothing is hidden and the code is there. If you want the site not to look cheap, you can change the look to whatever you want when you know how to do. Then it will not be cheap because you have done something that is not GIVEN free.

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Why would some one want to remove power by ERPNext? There should not be an option for this. Remember this is an ERP not an accounting system. When you sell the server of ERPNext your customer need to know this is a Software that have a Company with case study and policies and procesure. Your question should be how do you someone contribue?

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I couldn’t agree more :+1::+1::+1:

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How about… it makes your company looks clever? :smiley:
Instead of wasting money to get million bucks system, you choose what is work for you… which is free… Smart, right?

But seriously, it is open and free to get… instead of asking here for another free advice, get that million bucks to pay the developers to find a way to remove it. It’s not that difficult.

:v::ok_hand:

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I do not agree. IMHO, ERPNext and Frappe are brand names with name recognition which the Frappe Foundation has ALSO permitted the open source community to use, which deploying the Frappe / ERPNext software. Brand names usually require expensive franchise fees so you can use them for your purposes.

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I’m not the one who asked the question. It’s a forum, and I’m giving my opinion. Surely that’s OK. No need for the attitude.

And to repeat, my opinion is there is nothing wrong with someone wanting their website to ditch a footer unrelated to their brand, especially if that footer might make their brand appear cheap.

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What’s your opinion of people using @gmail.com email addresses? Does that make them look fancy, clever and special, because Google has a lot of brand recognition? Or does it make them look cheap?

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That sounds like an opinion, not a fact.

What’s your point?

No, I hate to break it to you but I have a mission already, and that’s to operate my company. I’m not a software developer. I don’t know anything about ERPNext, but I’m interested enough to find out, and that’s because it might be useful for my company. If it isn’t, I won’t use it and will keep looking for something else. I’m interested in whether it is a good fit for my company, not in my website having a footer telling the world what ERP software I use.

It’s moot anyway, as I will not be using ERPNext for my website. It’s a philosophical disagreement between someone who has a practical use for a piece of software, versus some people who are very much into the thing and who can’t understand why anyone else would ever have just a pragmatic interest.

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Correct. Frappe does not block you from doing this in code.

You have a point. For a public facing site, this could be an acceptable security considerations.

Best wishes. Also, in this forum, the community tends to strongly discuss divergent points of view. However, if you look close enough, the discussions - though strongly worded - are respectful.

Thank you for being part of the discussion and your opinions. You are always welcome to drop by.

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At the end of the day you have to understand ERPNext is give you this product free to use in your company. What they get back from the product is the brand awareness. this means someone will see your company ERPNext and like it and want to get a copy of ERPNext for their company. Even though you can remove the power by ERPNext and its allow by ERPNext; I thing you should not remove it or rebrand the ERPNext. In my opinion if you do that you are shame of the product you are using does not embrace the brand. if you are using SAP you would not ask them to remove the SAP brand or there is no option to remove it.

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You must keep the ERPNext name, read the licence

You’re liable for any abuse.

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I read the license and I think you are wrong.

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With the greatest of respect, from your link this is what the MIT licence says:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

I’m not a consultant and am only interested in possibly using the software to administer my organisation. But even for consultants who were looking to use the software for a product, they are not in any trouble in relation to the license as long as they include the same licence terms when they use/issue/sell etc.

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this is an open forum and as you said, although Frappe/Erpnext not explicitly request user to keep the logo or statement unchanged, so in this view argue of keep or remove is non-sense.

but I do respect the hard working of Frappe/Erpnext and release in open source, so at least keep in polient is a basic attitude.

you have right to ask, change, or even release code in github about your effort if any, but what I found is, you release such as “but I don’t see why there is resistance to removing it.” “Having that logo on there makes makes my company look cheap.”,

Cheap is a positive word in your world ?
you can’t see why not remove it mean it is useless and should not keep it in your world ?

this is what respect should keep, you can keep posting question and opinion as you like, no one can challenge you, but in my view at least, you haven’t place enough respect to Erpnext developers.

if you want to keep your company, your organization make values, or afraid someone know you are using open source product, the better way is developed it yourself, and use well-known products like SAP, this can prevent, or eliminate some guys to said “hey why you are using a cheap product ?”

I have an inquire that, if view source from webpage, large amount of keyword like frappe, erpnext do exists, so you not afraid such key word disclose you are using a cheap product ? so funny.

I do respect your opinion, but as said, you would better not use so disgusting word “cheap”, or non-sense reason. this will only make a result about fighting of keep or remove loop.

cheers.

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I think everyone here can agree that telling the world about ERPNext is a good thing for all of us. A larger community means more support and more ideas. But if you look at other successful products, you will realize that forcing a project’s name on a website is not the way. I already mentioned Magento, but there are other completely free projects that are world-class and don’t do this. To name a few: WordPress, Drupal, BigCommerce, Joomla,…

Personally, when I see a website I like and am asking myself how did they do that I go to something like BuiltWith or Wapaalyzer. And judging by the popularity of the services I am sure that I am not alone in that. You might say it’s a standard when researching services you will use.

And while cheap is a strong word, it does make a website look like it is on some kind of trial version. It’s like when you see “built with Wix . com”.

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So why not remove it yourself if it bothers you that much ?

Or pay for someone to help you remove it ?

Why come to the people who developed the system and ask them to help you remove it?

Do you understand the potential for irritation here ?

The matter is simple, not complicated.

If you do not like the powered by ERPNext …remove it …by yourself.

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If you don’t want your work to look cheap, you can as well contract a company to build a custom framework for you. Simple

It ask to keep license. Very simple

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Hi,
does any one know how to remove / change “frappe” that momentarily appears in the browser tab title while the page is loading?