Phpbms Glossary
phpBMS
General
Posting
The act of finalizing a document or record. Typically once a record has been posted it is no longer modifiable. Also, a non-posted record may not affect other areas of the program until it has been posted.
Sales
Invoice
A finalized sales order document. Full payment must have been applied in order to create or convert invoice since there is no Accounts Receivable currently. Invoices cannot be modified or voided.
Order
A sales order document that records an actual sale. Orders can be modified, voided, but do show up in sales reports.
Quote
A sales order document that does not affect inventory, nor an actual sale. Quotes can be changed, voided, and do not show up on sales reports.
General
AR
Accounts Receivable
BMS
Business Management Software or Business Management System. A system or softwaer that helps manage your business. We do not think of phpBMS as ERP (Enterprise Planning Software) as the term can be overly used to indicate any business level software which does two or more core business functions. phpBMS is also not CRM (customer relation management), as it does more than just track software, nor is it SFA (Sales Force Automation) as it lacks several core features of most SFA software.
LAMP
The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free software / open-source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. The original expansion is as follows:
- Linux, referring to the operating system;
- Apache, the Web server;
- MySQL, the database management system (or database server);
- PHP, the programming language.
Although phpBMS is designed to run on Linux Servers, it has also been tested and runs on MacOS, Unix and Windows Servers, and does not necessarily need to use Apache as it's web server.
For more information about LAMP, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_%28software_bundle%29
