KwaMoja now has a plugin architecture for third party addons

I have just pulled the plugin architecture branch of KwaMoja into the main develop branch. This means that KwaMoja now has the facility to use third party plugins for specific tasks.

These plugins can be open source, or they can be proprietary, and sold by the developers.

The KwaMoja project will run a service of approving plugins to ensure that they are not going to damage your system. This will be free of charge for GPL plugins, abut there will be an admin fee for commercial plugins. Plugins that have not been approved can still be installed, they will just carry a warning.

To test out this code, and begin writing your plugins you can download the code from here: https://github.com/KwaMoja/KwaMoja/archive/develop.zip and there is a demo plugin that has been written and can be downloaded from here: http://www.kwamoja.com/demo_plugin.zip

Further information and tutorials to follow shortly.

Munir Patel
Project coordinator
KwaMoja

Latest version of KwaMoja

The latest version of KwaMoja is 4.10.2 released on the 2nd March 2013, and can be downloaded from our download pages.

KwaMoja!

Welcome to the official KwaMoja web site. A new project from Africa, which hopes to give a fresh start to the webERP project that has been through so many problems recently. We very much hope, and indeed would be honoured if both Phil Daintree and Tim Schofield from the webERP project would join us and help to carry things forward. We just felt the project would benefit from some neutral and inclusive leadership.

Business Management Software

KwaMoja is designed to help you manage your business in a more efficient and profitable manner.  It combines your book keeping needs with all the tools to plan your inventory purchases.   It will let you know when your factory needs to start manufacturing parts in order to keep up with orders.  It will help you better manage your cash flow. All these and more will help your business become more efficient, and greater efficiency will equal greater profits.

Our Intentions

KwaMoja will also put in place a proper testing suite that was always been lacking in webERP. We intend to stick to the basic design principles while making contributing an easier and pleasanter experience than it was on webERP.  The coding guidelines will be observed consistently for all contributions rather than in the ad-hoc manner of the past.

What is KwaMoja?

KwaMoja is a Kiswahili concept, literally meaning "For Unity". In the context of an open source project such as this, it is intended to symbolise the bringing together of all contributors and users. To unify a project that has become fractured, due to the many squabbles and arguments that have occurred between the administrator of webERP and many of the developers of that project.

It is also intended to describe the idea of bringing all the various strands of a business together into one software suite. The term ERP has become much misused over the last few years, so we have tried not to use that term here. KwaMoja is simply a tool that helps brings all the aspects of a business together.

KwaMoja is a fork of the once popular webERP project.   WebERP has suffered in recent years with an increasingly abusive and dictatorial style of management,  which has seen the number of downloads go into decline. Many of us felt that the time was right to move the project on in a more open and community driven style.