NOLA is the open source PHP based program for business class accounting and inventory management. The programming language of NOLA software is PHP and SQL. NOLA is a free application produced under the GNU General Public License by Fostoria, Ohio-based Noguska LLC, a company that has been writing software since 1978.

The primary objective of the NOLA web based software package is to integrate the company’s accounting, inventory, point of scale, contact management, billing, purchasing and reporting. The NOLA business class accounting and inventory management system works with Apache, MySQL and PHP to create a web-based application. Both the server side and the client side of the software are multi-platform. The client side requires only a JavaScript capable Web browser. For printing with Adobe Acrobat Reader, .pdf documents are generated through the PDF library of the NOLA- web based software package. Since NOLA is web-based the accounting system it can be accessible from any network or Internet attached device that supports a Web browser, from anywhere in the world.

Moving one step ahead, NOLA updates the real time inventory quantity. The NOLA users are able to do anything from anywhere! The NOLA system is build around a secure, open platform. The operating system to run NOLA is independent and this software works in web environment. The Apache Web Server is used to serve more web sites and NOLA ships with the Apache Web Server.