Accounting Configuration

Purpose and Benefits

Bahmni integrates OpenMRS with OpenERP which is a an open source ERP product. It is useful in Billing, Stock management. Any patient registered in OpenMRS is automatically synced as a customer in OpenERP. 

Steps

1. Configure OpenERP/Odoo.

2. Setup Syncing between Odoo and Bahmni.

3. Set up Fiscal Year and Period

This is required to be done on an annual basis.

1. Log in to OpenERP with Admin level privilege account.

2. Navigate to the “Accounting” tab. Click on the option “Periods” under “Configuration” from the left panel.

Navigate to Periods

3. Click on the “Fiscal Years” option.

Fiscal years

4. Click on “Create” button. Define the fiscal year as shown in the example below

Create a fiscal year

6. Click on “Create Monthly Periods” and it will generate the periods as shown below.

Create monthly periods

7. Click on “Save” button to save the periods and fiscal year. There should not be any error now while confirming the quotations.

Note that if the fiscal year and period is not set on an annual basis, users will get the error message below when confirming the sales quotation.

OpenERP throws this error because there are no periods defined in the system for this date. 


Error message

Error message shown while confirming the quotation

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