The Linux General Ledger is a state of the art business application developed for use in small businesses either by in-house bookkeepers or outside accountants. It functions either as a complete, stand-alone, after-the-fact bookkeeping and write-up system or, as a General Ledger interfaced to locally developed Subsidiary Ledgers (e.g., AR, AP, PR, Inventory/Order Entry, Billing, etc..) The user has complete control over creation of the Chart of Accounts, Custom Report Creation, Journal Entries, and opening and closing of each accounting period. An interface for file transfer to Postgres is included as a standard feature.
The Linux General Ledger operates as either client or server, remotely via telnet or other terminal emulation, or as a stand-alone system. Remote access is available from any terminal supported by Linux. All screens are activated and deactivated by quick function key use for speed and ease of entry. Most input can be managed from the 10-key pad alone. There's no wasting time positioning and repositioning a mouse for entries. This makes data entry and moving around in the program much faster than mouse based systems.

For the ISV, VAR, and Developer the Linux General Ledger (LGL) includes Open Source to all files needed for interfacing to, and posting from, locally developed applications, as well as a utility for file dump into Postgres. And, with the Open Source file structure of the LGL it is a simple task to build a transfer protocol from Postgres to the LGL. Thus, by using the Linux General Ledger there is no need to waste time, effort, and money developing another general ledger locally. Whether you're developing with a programming language or with a database, such as Postgres, just write your custom accounting application and then dump the results into the Linux General Ledger (Why re-invent the wheel? Use your valuable time and knowledge where it's most profitable).

Source Code - The entire package is written in C/C++ and uses the ncurses library functions. It is easily integrated with other locally developed applications - especially when using our GENSCREEN C code generator, which is also included with source to the LGL. A special Open Source Class type for "MONEY" is also included with the distribution. Using this class (moncls.h) eliminates the problems of dealing with C types such as float or double when accounting for money amounts.

All OPEN SOURCE included with the Linux General Ledger is covered by the GNU General Public License.

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