ERPNext vs. Munis

It is so flexible and configurable that it can be fairly easily adapted to most situations.

Munis is great for any sort of data keeping and accounting work. There are features of Munis that I am still not familiar with even after 6 years of use. Munis would not be very good for a point of sale sort of operation like a retail store because it just simply is not set up for that sort of operation.

Incentivized

• Locally hosted, so it is very fast
• Help documents are pretty good
• Lots of flexibility in configuration

• Excellent for the municipal Financial program. Completely paperless.
• Workflow is easy and easy to adjust.
• Very Very user friendly even for the non computer savvy employees.
• Windows based so easy to navigate.
• Excellent help desk.

Incentivized

• Random errors (seem to be related to python) can be very difficult to troubleshoot.
• Creating reports and print/email documents is very cumbersome and confusing. Needs to have a WYSIWYG editor.

• Submitting a purchase order requires lots of tabbing through fields
• The product has lots of features, but they require additional training to understand how to use
• Generating reports can sometimes be difficult

Incentivized

Overall good, but needs some training to get people to be proficient in the system.

Wanted something flexible and with the ability to self-host. Open source is also nice.

• Neutral, needed to find a new system as the current system is being retired.

• Munis has prevented our office from needing multiple software programs to house all of our information.
• All of our employees have access to the same information, on the same software.
• Munis has made day-to-day operations smoother for our office because we are not constantly flipping between programs or software.

Incentivized