An analogue of Access and OOo.Base for compiling a program for accounting?

Question

Electronic accounting

I really need help finding a good solution. There is a global task - to make a full-fledged accounting in the service center (accounting for repairs, spare parts, sales).

Now Access forms are used, but you need to expand, and Access is very crutch and buggy even for the simplest tasks. I tried third-party applications for services, but after I tried a dozen of them and even bought a couple, I found out that even in the best programs a lot was done wrong, some functions and settings were missing.
There are 2 options left. The first is 1C, but the cost, heaviness and abundance of unnecessary functions are amazing.
And the second is to write your application. It is best to do this on some basis, such as Access, where you need to invent a wheel less. I even tried Visual Studio, but it’s somehow not good friends with Word (you need to print all kinds of receipts using Word templates), and it’s complicated. Although I would not refuse a good example of such a program or an article (book) where it is written as best.

Answer 1

I think the easiest option is to take a student programmer for practice and give this task. Students write such programs in batches, some even try to endure such a diploma.
If you still want to do it yourself - again, the easiest way is to take Delphi and one of the embedded DBMS - Firebird Embedded, for example, use FastReport, RaveReport, MS Office for reports - there are a lot of code examples on the net, because a lot of students teach this.
The C# option also remains - you need to look at ReportViewer for reports and, again, an embedded DBMS.
The best option is to develop a web application, integrate it with the company's website, so that the same customers can see the repair status on the website. Students will also help here, there is an option to find a freelancer to develop PHP + Mysql applications, reports can be made in the form of HTML pages, PDF and RTF documents.