On 12/30/2011 08:27 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
Zack Williams<[email protected]> writes:
Every once in a while it comes up that ledger's commodity system isn't
suited for managing an inventory of items, for example, widgets being sold
at a retail store, as there's no unique tracking of individual items in the
system or ways to keep track of which items were purchased at what price,
which would sometimes be needed.
Ledger's lot-marking facility was designed just for this purpose. You can, in
fact, track items uniquely, or by purchase price, or even by purchase date.
That said, does anyone know of a a tool that would work with Ledger to
manage a physical inventory - say, manage a list of similar items, track
their purchase/sale price, other information (serial numbers, where
purchased from, etc.), do FIFO or LIFO queuing of items upon sale, and
generate appropriate ledger files when items move in and out of the system?
The LIFO/FIFO thing is not implemented in Ledger, but I'd be interested too in
seeing it implemented via some external tool.
John
Have you looked at GNU recutils?
http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
