Your OfBiz site is functioning, orders are rolling through and everything is gravy, but occasionally an order needs to be found for a whole plethora of reasons. Luckily, there are a few different ways for an administrator or customer service representative to search for that order, from which point they can make the necessary adjustments (covered in other OFBiz tutorials).
To start, lets make sure that:
• The user has at lease the role of a Customer Service…Read more »
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OFBiz Tutorials – Looking Up Orders
March 25th, 2011OFBiz Tutorial: Charts of Accounts
February 9th, 2011A sometime misunderstood concept in OFBiz accounting is the account class of an account; this OFBiz Tutorial will provide quick notes to avoid errors.
During the setup of a Chart of Accounts in OFBiz, it is important to assign the proper account class to each of the accounts; in fact the account class determines:
1) if the account carries a debit or credit balance
2) the financial report in…Read more »
OFBiz Tutorials: Manage Suppliers for a Product
January 26th, 2011To continue on the various applications of the OFBiz Catalog Manager, today we will dive into the world of managing Manufacturers and Suppliers of specific products.
Many times there are more than one supplier for a product, so we will learn how to create a new supplier as a preferred or alternate supplier. Once that supplier has been set up and is available in the Catalog Manger, we can then associate the product or products with the supplier.
Create Supplier(s)
Let’s first…Read more »
OFBiz Tutorial: Assign GlAccount to Organization
January 5th, 2011Building off my last OFBiz tutorial, I will demonstrate how to Assign GlAccount to Internal Organization. Its an act of defining the Chart Of Accounts (CoA) for given internal organization. The same GlAccount can be assigned to one or more then one internal organizations. For example, the global CoA may contain 100 different GlAccounts but only 20 need to be used for your specific business. This means you need to only create assignments for GlAccounts you…Read more »
2010 Sign Off From HotWax Media
December 31st, 2010As we reach the end of 2010 I find myself spending a little bit of extra time reflecting on the past 12 months, and wanted to share some thoughts.
First of all, we’re extremely lucky to have an incredible staff of people positioned all around the world who work passionately day and night, quite literally. It’s these inspired individuals who consistently generate quality enterprise…Read more »


