PHPAGA is one of those Open Source projects that really fits a niche. Are you an independent contractor, sole proprietor, freelancer, or perhaps you run a small business? Then surely you need a system to handle your billing. PHPAGA not only fits the need, it will do much more and surprise you with information about your business that you may not have paid attention to.

Presumably if you're already here reading these docs you're already *SOLD* on the LAMP or LAPP framework. If not I'll say a word or two about that. If you're using a desktop application to do your finances you have to worry about licensing and upgrades, bugs & fixes. What's more you're confined to the desktop, can't share the information, accross the city when you're at various client sites, or across the world if you're sharing the information, exchanging ideas with colleagues or have business partners in other locales. A web-based application moves the data out of your office and into the datacenter, where it can easily be part of your regular backup routine or hosted by a hosting provider who upgrades the OS, monitors security, and provides backups and so on.