Cayamanan 19.0

Cayamanan is free, open-source business software for Philippine teams. This manual starts with the daily work: selling, buying, moving stock, invoicing, and following payments. Technical deployment notes are kept in the Maintainers section.

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Important

Cayamanan does not make a blanket BIR certification or regulatory-compliance claim. Your organization remains responsible for checking its setup, documents, records, reports, and procedures with qualified advisers.

Choose a starting point

• What Cayamanan includes — understand the current release.

• Cloud or self-hosted? — choose who will operate the system.

• Quotation to payment — follow a sale from quotation to payment.

• RFQ to supplier bill — follow a purchase from RFQ to bill.

• Get help — prepare a useful support request.

Start here

• What Cayamanan includes
  • What “free” means
  • What it does not promise
• Cloud or self-hosted?
  • Choose self-hosting when
  • Choose managed cloud hosting when
  • Setup help is separate
• Use the fictional demo company
  • Useful records
• Install Cayamanan ERP
  • What you need
  • Prepare Python
  • Prepare PostgreSQL
  • Create the first database
  • Start a local test server
• Set up your first company
• Prepare master data
  • Start with a small list
  • Test before the full import

Daily work

• Quotation to payment
  • 1. Prepare the quotation
  • 2. Confirm the sales order
  • 3. Complete the delivery
  • 4. Create and post the invoice
  • 5. Record the payment
  • What to check
• Invoice to payment
  • Create and check the invoice
  • Record the payment
• RFQ to supplier bill
  • 1. Prepare the RFQ
  • 2. Confirm the purchase order
  • 3. Receive what arrived
  • 4. Check the supplier bill
  • 5. Pay and reconcile
• Inventory counts and transfers
  • Complete an internal transfer
  • Perform an inventory count
  • Receipts and deliveries

Administration

• Users and access
• Import business data
• Email and document layouts
• Back up and restore
• Updates and troubleshooting

Reference

• Supported modules and releases
• Philippine localization
• Release notes
  • 19.0 documentation launch

Help and community

• Get help
• Report an issue
• Contribute
• For documentation contributors
• Attribution

Maintainers

• Marketing website deployment
• Documentation maintenance