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Suggestions for a FOSS inventory management for a chemistry lab (self.opensource)

submitted 1 year ago by karet to c/[email protected]

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Hey, so we have a chemistry lab in our university. We were looking into keeping an inventory of all the chemicals and equipment present there. Initially the plan was to just keep a spreadsheet, but I was interested in something more robust . Some features that would be nice to have:

Cross platform: Linux, Windows, Android
Simple interface
Searching functionality
Invoice management
Tracking new orders of chemicals

All suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Grocy could be useful, it is essentially an inventory tracker. Meant for pantries but it scales very well I think. Depending on lab size of course but if you were considering a spreadsheet than it should be more than sufficient I think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not a pantry or a chemical lab, but I'm planning to spin up a container later tonight because this is going to make things so much easier.

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe Orson's scientific notebook (https://orsn.io) could work. For basic spreadsheets it's cryptpad.fr or bust in my book

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

HomeBox is neat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

HomeBox is another possibility.