Crater is an open-source web & mobile app that helps you track expenses, payments & create professional invoices & estimates. You can learn more about Crater from the crater's official website and github repo crater-invoice/crater.

Bahmni is using Crater as a lightweight alternative to Odoo for invoicing & billing purposes, as a part of the Bahmni-Lite project. You can read more about it from this presentation. The development efforts are happending on the Bahmni fork of Crater Bahmni/crater bahmni-master branch.

Bahmni/crater-extensions is created to store the bahmni-sepcific customizations for crater such as roles, custom fields & translations, etc.

The crater-extensions project uses the bahmni/crater-php docker image with the tag:product (this will eventually be replaced with crater-invoice/crater once crater has the docker image published) as the base image and adds the bahmni-specific customizations to it. The github actions will then create a new docker image bahmni/crater-php with the current version as the tag and publishes it to the dockerhub.

The helm charts are also created as the part of the github actions workflow and are being published to use for creating the different environments. You can read more about the automation and workflow from the Bahmni on Cloud Wiki.

Two roles have been created for Bahmni, doctor and front desk. Both the roles have different permissions that includes view, create, edit, delete different customers, items, invoices, payments, and estimates. The doctor role has abilities to view the dashboard and financial reports.

You can create the roles and edit the permissions by updating the roles.json configuration. You check the Settings -> Roles for checking all the permissions available.

You can refer to this BAH-1559 ticket discussion for more information.

There are different bahmni-specific custom fields that are being used for Invoices, Customers, etc.

You can create the custom fields by updating the custom_fields.json configuration.

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