We recently had to import some masterfile information from Pastel into vTiger for a client. Since a lot of SA companies use Pastel I thought I would write "how to" to help others to use vTiger and get a state of the art, open source, CRM system up and running.

This "how to" assumes a clean vTiger database i.e. a fresh vTiger install. It would not be hard to get the scripts to workwith a database that already has data. The scripts would need to be adjusted for the next crmentity sequence number.

vTiger 5 - Beta -- A much improved offering

We have decided to start testing the upcoming release of vTiger intermally and recently installed it on our servers. Besides being early adopters by nature there were a couple of reasons why we did this:

Jumping bean supports the vTiger and SugarCRM open source solutions for customer relationship management systems. vTiger and SugarCRM are extremely powerful, full featured customer relationship management applications.