DataCollectPro is an enterprise-grade data collection platform designed for research organizations, NGOs, and consulting firms. It provides secure form management, real-time data collection, advanced analytics, and comprehensive user management with enterprise-level features.

DataCollectPro transforms data collection with enterprise features including:

• Multi-tenant SaaS Architecture - Secure organization isolation
• Advanced Analytics Dashboard - Real-time insights and reporting
• Smart Form Builder - AI-powered form creation with logic and validation
• Data Quality Monitoring - Automated quality checks and issue detection
• Team Collaboration - Shared workspaces, comments, and workflow management
• Enhanced Mobile Collection - Offline support, GPS tracking, and media capture
• Enterprise SSO Integration - SAML, OAuth, and LDAP support
• API-First Design - Comprehensive REST and GraphQL APIs
• Automated Reporting - Scheduled reports and custom export formats
• Compliance & Security - SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA ready
• White-label Solutions - Customizable branding for partners

This repository contains the core platform infrastructure optimized for cloud deployment and enterprise scalability.

If you are looking for help, please take a look at the Documentation Website. If that doesn't solve your problem, please head over to the ODK Forum and do a search to see if anybody else has had the same problem. If you've identified a new problem or have a feature request, please post on the forum. We prefer forum posts to GitHub issues because more of the community is on the forum.

We would love your contributions to Central. If you have thoughts or suggestions, please share them with us on the Ideas board on the ODK Forum. If you wish to contribute code, you have the option of working on the Backend server (contribution guide), the Frontend website (contribution guide), or both. To set up a development environment, first follow the Backend instructions and then optionally the Frontend instructions.

The master branch of this repository is a stable branch that users clone when they install Central in production. The next branch reflects ongoing development for the next version of Central. Note that this differs from the central-backend and central-frontend repositories, where master is the development branch. If you create a PR to this repository, please target the next branch unless you are only changing documentation like the readme.

In addition to the Backend and the Frontend, Central deploys services:

• Central relies on pyxform-http for converting Forms from XLSForm. It generally shouldn't be needed in development but can be run locally.
• Central relies on Enketo for Web Form functionality. Enketo can be run locally and configured to work with Frontend and Backend in development by following these instructions.

If you want to work on the Central codebase and don't want to setup dependent services like Postgresql, Enketo, etc manually then you can run make dev, which will start those services as Docker containers. This setup requires a local domain name, central-dev is a good choice. Add this name in the following places:

• Set DOMAIN=central-dev in the .env file.
• Add an entry in your /etc/hosts file for 127.0.0.1 central-dev.
• Create local.json in the central-backend directory and set the value of default.env.domain to http://central-dev:8989

This repository serves administrative functions, but it also contains the Docker code for building and running a production Central stack.

To learn how to run such a stack in production, please take a look at our DigitalOcean installation guide.

We aim to use the latest active LTS version of Node.js. This means that we generally update the major Node version used across all Central components once a year. Each time we do a Central release, we update to the latest version within the active LTS line. Node updates are done near the end of the release cycle but before regression testing.

All of ODK Central is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.