Dolibarr ERP CRM is a modern software package to manage your
company or foundation's activity (contacts, suppliers, invoices, orders,
stocks, agenda, accounting, ...). It is open source software (written
in PHP) and designed for small and medium businesses, foundations and
freelancers. You can freely install, use and distribute it as a
standalon…
Dolibarr ERP & CRM is a modern software package that
helps manage your organization's activity (contacts, suppliers,
invoices, orders, stocks, agenda…).
It's an Open Source Software suite (written in PHP with
optional JavaScript enhancements) designed for small, medium or large
companies, foundations and freelancers.
You can freely use, study, modify or distribute it according to its licence.
You can use it as a standalone application or as a web application to access it from the Internet or a LAN.
You can use a web server and a supported database (MariaDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL) to install the standard version.
On GNU/Linux, first check if your distribution has already packaged Dolibarr.
Generic install steps
Check that your installed PHP version is supported see PHP support.
Uncompress the downloaded .zip archive to copy the
"dolibarr/htdocs" directory and all its files inside your web server
root or get the files directly from GitHub (recommanded if you know git
as it makes it easier if you want to upgrade later):
git clone https://github.com/dolibarr/dolibarr -b x.y (where x.y is main version like 3.6, 9.0, ...)
Set up your web server to use "dolibarr/htdocs" as root if your web server does not have an already defined directory to point to.
Create an empty htdocs/conf/conf.php file and set write permissions for your web server user (write permission will be removed once install is finished)
From your browser, go to the dolibarr "install/" page
The URL will depends on how you web setup was setup to point to your dolibarr installation. It may looks like:
http://localhost/dolibarr/htdocs/install/
or
http://localhost/dolibarr/install/
or
http://yourdolibarrvirtualhost/install/
Follow the installer instructions
Saas/Cloud setup
If you don't have time to install it yourself, you can try some commercial 'ready to use' Cloud offers (See https://saas.dolibarr.org). However, this third solution is not free.
UPGRADING
Dolibarr supports upgrading, usually without the need for
any (commercial) support (depending on if you use any commercial
extensions). It supports upgrading all the way from any version after
2.8 without breakage. This is unique in the ERP ecosystem and a benefit
our users highly appreciate!
At first make a backup of your Dolibarr files & then see
Check that your installed PHP version is supported by the new version see PHP support.
Overwrite all old files from 'dolibarr' directory with files provided into the new version's package.
At first next access, Dolibarr will redirect you to the "install/" page to follow the upgrade process.
If an install.lock file exists to lock any other upgrade process, the application will ask you to remove the file manually (you should find the install.lock file in the directory used to store generated and uploaded documents, in most cases, it is the directory called "documents").
(around 100 modules available by default, 1000+ on the addon market place)
Other general features
Multi-Language Support (Localization in most major languages)
Multi-Users and groups with finely grained rights
Multi-Currency
Multi-Company (by adding of an external module)
Very user friendly and easy to use
Customizable dashboards
Highly customizable: enable only the modules you need, add user
personalized fields, choose your skin, several menu managers (can be
used by internal users as a back-office with a particular menu, or by
external users as a front-office with another one)
APIs (REST, SOAP)
Code that is easy to understand, maintain and develop (PHP with no heavy framework; trigger and hook architecture)
Support a lot of country specific features:
Spanish Tax RE and ISPF
French NPR VAT rate (VAT called "Non Perçue Récupérable" for DOM-TOM)
Canadian double taxes (federal/province) and other countries using cumulative VAT
