Issues faced ERPNext current version

[mithub_lin]

I have been trying to implement ERP for my own captive usage.
During the course of entering sales invoices I have faced following issues.

1. Customization to Invoice - while saving customisation, system says the customisation is saved but when I check the final output the customisation is lost. Its very frustrating. Only when I cleared the cache, the customisation is saved.
2. PDF is not working.
3. Backup takes too much time.
4. While entering data to customer form, is it possible to have drop down for country and state ? Every time the operator has to type country and state.
5. I could not find a way to enter regular expenses i.e. electricity, telephone, mobile recharge, traveling expenses. All the way I have to create party and book the expenses as purchase bills. This is very odd.
6. Submitted invoice - if any correction is required, its difficult. One has to reset naming series after deleting affected document. I am sure that there could a easy way.
7. While entering sales invoice, If the sales invoice date is different from current date, at the time of editing the date, some times due date is changed as per changes in date filed, at times, one has to enter manually.

Conclusion as of now : Excellent product but very sharp and rough edges.

Looking forward for some solution.
I am using ERPNext - docker version - edge [ updated up to 25nov, 2020 ] .

[walstanb]

@mithub_lin I might be able to help you resolve some of your issues

• PDF may not be working for you because you might not have wkhtmltopdf installed.

• If you intend to use the PDF generation functionality provided by frappe, you’ll need to install wkhtmltopdf. You can download a package from here.

For Ubuntu 18.04, the installation will look like this:

wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.bionic_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.bionic_amd64.deb
rm wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.bionic_amd64.deb

• You can link the Country doctype to a field, refer the Address doctype where this is used.

• For your query regarding expenses refer:

How does ERPNext want me to enter odd expenses?

How am I supposed to be entering non regular expenses? Something that is not from a purchase order or the likes. Say for example I register a domain name from GoDaddy? If I have a supplier setup for Godaddy and I enter a new payment entry then the only account available to debit is creditor. I am not able to make the debit into Expenses. If I have an account for “Licenses and Fees” under expenses I have to make the account type “Payable” first. The same is true if I do a journal entry and try t…

[revant_one]

@mithub_lin

I am using ERPNext - docker version - edge

Wkhtmptopdf is already installed

• frappe_docker/build/frappe-worker/Dockerfile at 47d7003a28cdb7d5d8c56ab120162887735985f2 · frappe/frappe_docker · GitHub
• frappe_docker/build/bench/Dockerfile at 47d7003a28cdb7d5d8c56ab120162887735985f2 · frappe/frappe_docker · GitHub