It seems your already made your choice, moreover I guess you realized that posting your question on a FA forum, people will probably like FA (or hate it but are stuck with it) and don't know much about PB, so there are not necessarily the best person to ask.
Personnaly I choosed FA because I needed something
- OpenSource so I can modify it when something is missing
- Multicurrency
- Stock management.
- It also is super straight forward to use, I think at the time I chose iti, t was the only one I could grasp and use in seconds. (My memory might be lying).
Now, I'm still using it because I'm stuck with it, but mainly because of some extensions
I wrote for it (which I don't want to rewrite if I migrate to another system).
Now some comment on your DIFF
Rascal wrote:+ves to PhreeBooks
- the default transaction view is a 'one page layout' ... one transaction = 1 line (easy, informational view)
Not sure I understand
- OpenCart ($20) and ZenCart (FOC) connectors ... these are FULL integrations, not just order download. PB 'controls' the cart & listings.
I understand why it's appealing, however I did my own integration between FA and DrupalCommerce and I choose to NOT have a full integration between both because I want to be able to decouple them sometimes. Example An item might not be available neither in order but I don't wont to show it as sold out for different reason (
- it's in fact in order but I haven't had the time to enter the PO,
- I can create one from another one,
- the stock level in FA is wrong saying it's sold out, but I know I have some left but don't have the time
to do a stock check etc ...
- easy to convert a SO to a PO - 'one click'
With my FA module 'texcart' is 4 clicks
- faster order entry (am I right)?
Totally disagree, my FA module 'textcart' is the fastest way to enter an order (especially if you can touchtype).
- led by one man (primary dev = Dave Premo) with a vision (perhaps a +ve and a -ve)
Not very different from FA
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+ves to Front Accounting
- more vibrant community and I assume more active deployments
Don't assume anything ;-) It's active but their are not many people working on it (they are really helpful and reactif though).
- nice (powerfiul) P&L and Balance Sheet visibility options
Doesn't PB have that ? Don't use it then ;-)
I wouldn't say they look nice, but they exists.
- commercial interests providing and supporting commercial modules
???
- genuinely 'Open Source' in spirit
- ability to have categories in inventory and reports e.g. Ford Spares / Chrysler Spares / Fiat Spares etc etc
To be fair, I don't use Category in FA ... because I have thousands of items and the category system is not good enough. I use regexp at the moment. I'm planning to do this winter a Tag system.
You seem to know PB well have you already use ? If so does it has something missing so you are trying to find something else?
I couldn't recommend you FA or PB because I don't know what PB does but I know what FA doesn't but I also know its foundation are alright and I could implement myself what I miss.
Everybody have different needs to I guess the best for you is write a couple of standard scenario (stuff you do every day, and stuff you know that you definitely need) and see in both system how it works.
/Elax