Open For Business (OFBiz) is a suite of enterprise applications built on a common architecture using common data, logic and process components. The loosely coupled nature of the applications makes these components easy to understand, extend and customize.

The tools and architecture of OFBiz make it easy to efficiently develop and maintain enterprise applications. This makes it possible for us as the creators and maintainers of the project to quickly release new functionality and maintain existing functionality without extensive effort. It also makes it easy to customize and extend existing functionality when you have a specific need.

The architecture alone makes it easier for you to customize the applications to your needs, but many of the best flexibility points in the system would be meaningless and even impossible if the system was not distributed as open source software. OFBiz is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 which grants you the right to customize, extend, modify, repackage, resell, and many other potential uses of the system.

Apache OFBiz offers a great deal of functionality, including:

• advanced e-commerce


• catalog management


• promotion & pricing management


• order management (sales & purchase)


• customer management (part of general party management)


• warehouse management


• fulfillment (auto stock moves, batched pick, pack & ship)


• accounting (invoice, payment & billing accounts, fixed assets)


• manufacturing management


• general work effort management (events, tasks, projects, requests, etc)


• content management (for product content, web sites, general content, blogging, forums, etc)


• and much more all in an open source package!