Accessing Your Demo Account

Congratulations! Your xTuple ERP demo has been activated.

As you may know, there are now five editions of xTuple ERP:

• PostBooks Edition is our entry-level offering, available completely free and open source, and suitable for small businesses of all kinds.
   
• Standard Edition is a midrange commercial offering, which adds advanced inventory control, warehousing, and other features to the core package.
   
• Project Edition is an edition aimed at companies with a focus on Project Accounting. It includes the features of the Standard Edition, plus additional features for managing projects.
   
• Manufacturing Edition is recommended for manufacturing companies in both discrete and batch process production; make to order, make to stock, or mixed-mode; even job shops and engineer-to-order.
   
• Enterprise Edition is our premium commercial edition, which includes all the functionality from the above four editions, plus additional modules for fixed assets, and more.

All three Editions use the exact same client software which gives you the option of connecting to a demo database at xTuple, or to a local database that you specify.

The demo database you connect to will have the full Enterprise Edition functionality.

ACCESSING THE DEMO
To access the demo account you will need to:

• Download the latest version of the PostBooks Installer from SourceForge.net. The installer is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Beginning with version 3.2.2, we're distributing the xTuple client binaries as part of the full installer package. You'll only need the xTuple client to access the Hosted Demo, so you may choose not to install the database and other components if you don't want them.

• Access your demo account on our servers. Here's how:
  • Once you have installed the xTuple ERP client, launch it.
  • On the Log In screen, select the button next to
    “Log in to single-user demo with my xTuple web user”
    
  • Enter the username and password from your confirmation email to access your account. (Hint: should be the same information you use to log in to this website).
     
  • Click the Login button.

If you have used an earlier demo, please take a moment to download the most recent version of the software. This will ensure compatibility with our hosted demo.

USING THE DEMO
Once you've connected to the server, we recommend you follow the online companion to the xTuple ERP demo. It will walk you through key business process flows for Inventory or Service businesses.

It also includes chapters on functionality outside the normal order-to-cash flow:  Customer/Corporate Relationship Management, Master Production Schedule and Forecast, Buffer Management, and Multi-Currency.

You can also check out the full xTuple ERP Reference Guide or our online videos.

NEW: WEB PORTAL DEMO 
Beginning with version 3.6.0, your Hosted Demo database is also accessible via the xTuple Web Portal. This includes Customer Support and Business to Business Sales functionality, which you can access directly from the xTuple website. The demo database has always been built around a fictional company called Pro Diem Toys; you can now login to the "Pro Diem Toys" website with the same xTuple.org username and password above. 

The Web Portal Demo Guide will walk you through all the steps of using the Web Portal modules on the ProDiem web site. The demo assumes that your website user is an employee of Tremendous Toys, Inc., a customer of Pro Diem (the toy truck manufacturer). You may report Customer Support issues, which will appear as CRM Incidents in your GUI client, and update the Incident in either the GUI client or the Web Portal. You can also use the B2B Sales module in the Web Portal to place an order, and review past sales and invoicing information for Tremendous Toys. Again, since you are connecting to the same database with multiple clients, anything you create in one place will be visible in the other. 

Your personal demo database account will be active for six weeks.  If you feel you need additional time to evaluate the software at the end of that period, please contact sales@xtuple.com to make arrangements.

We would also urge you to check out the xTuple community website, where you can find user-to-user forums, our bug/feature tracker, our new documentation wiki, and much more.  You may also access the site from the "Community" menu item in your xTuple ERP Client.

Please feel free to email us at this address, demo@xtuple.com, with any other questions.  Thank you very much for your interest in xTuple ERP.