While most of you here are familiar with ERPNext, we want to shed light on the exciting new offerings we have launched or are currently working on.
Over the past couple of years, our team has been working on expanding the Frappeverse - a suite of open source products to make you business simpler, and we are proud to announce that we have successfully moved all of Frappe’s internal operations onto these new products as of last year. Here’s a glimpse of what the Frappeverse has in store for you:
Frappe CRM - Our robust CRM solution for all your sales operations.
Frappe Insights - A powerful analytics tool to analyze and track your important business metrics.
Frappe Helpdesk - An efficient ticketing system to manage customer support.
Gameplan - A collaborative platform for team discussions and project planning - just like discourse.
Frappe Learning - An online tool for publishing lessons and courses for learning and certifications.
Frappe Wiki - A comprehensive wiki tool for all your documentation needs.
Frappe Education - A specialized solution for product evaluations and assessments.
Frappe Drive - A secure and reliable alternative to Google Drive for file storage and sharing.
Frappe Books - A desktop tool to manage accounting for micro businesses.
Print Designer - A designing tool to enhance your ERPNext and other print formats.
You can either try them on frappecloud.com - starting at just $10/month or install them locally.
We invite you to explore the Frappeverse and give these products a try. Feel free to leave your feedback and suggestions in the comments or GitHub, and share your story on discussion forums, social media, and other platforms on how these products have helped your business – we’d love to know.
Your insights and experiences shared across various channels will not only help us improve but also inspire others to leverage the power of the Frappeverse.
P.S. We have individual topics created on discuss.frappe.io for these products. You can visit these topics to raise your issues/feature requests and stay updated on the new features.
It would be really helpful if the maintainers named their branches according to Frappe and ERPNext (version-14, version-15, …, develop) and published regular releases on these branches. Otherwise, it’s hard to tell which one is the stable branch and what features are on there.
These products are designed to be independent of ERPNext and have their own faster release cycles hence makes no sense to pin to arbitrary ERPNext versions.
What should be the overarching marketing word for the apps? Frappeverse? Frappe? We use ERPNext in our marketing to really mean ERPNext, Frappe CRM, Frappe Learning, Frappe HR, Education…, but of late this seems very limiting, given the scope of solutions available.
Sure, faster release cycles are not an issue. Most of these apps are based on the Frappe Framework. Before using one of them in production, I’d like a release and need to know the compatible stable branch of the framework. How to find these is sometimes unclear.
Can already outline other Frappe apps or Framework itself (since it’s a valid Frappe app) as required dependencies with versions. ERPNext does it already and so does HR and Payroll.
Is the Gameplan app being maintained or upgraded by Frappe? I am deploying this application for customers but the app often crashes. I have reported bugs on github but have not received a response from the Frappe team.
I didn’t know about Drive!!! Very happy to see that there’s a nextcloud alternative for Frappe.
Just one question, the idea of storing and transfering a large volume of files on a running operating erpnext instance seems scary and hard to manage.
Is it possible to configure Frappe Drive to only manage users and permissions on the instance and transfer and store files on an external nfs for example?
Thanks. And about Frappe Drive, when will the final version of this app be published on Frappe Cloud? My team uses it for internal storage, but it seems incomplete. We’ve suggested many features on GitHub, but we don’t know when they’ll be implemented. Can you share more information about the app?
Drive is entirely independent. So it doesn’t touch existing files on a running instance and is a different DocType. Although it still uses /private/files/ each user gets their own folder so it’s /private/files/$user_a, for all files by $user_a in Frappe Drive.
That makes it easy to add it to an existing instance and see if it fits your workflow. Without disrupting any of the current files or data. Will add a way to move your current files over to Drive down the road, or make it the sole file handler.
This is not something that’s supported yet but isn’t difficult to add. Ideally the root path in Frappe Drive should be configurable so instead of /private/files/ you can just supply a root path.
Currently, Drive is prioritizing Frappe Cloud, but once that has stabilized I can have a look at another round of self-host/on-prem features that are sorely needed.
I feel as a non-technical user, this becomes more difficult for self-hosted environments.
especially installing, do in-app customizations, and connecting apps to each other,
If I may ask, why not make it modular like Odoo? @michelle@rmehta
. Frappeverse is the event name now!