12 thoughts on - Accounting Package Recommendations

• I have not explored this yet, but intend to do so:

  https://www.gnucash.org/

• From: Rudi Ahlers Sent: June 9, 2020 10:22

  GnuCash has been working fine for me for several years.

  HTH

  Regards, Hugh

• +1 for GnuCash Fred

• Yeah, GNUCash is a good accounting tool. my wife uses it for our personal fnances, investment accounts, etc.

  however, it is a double-entry accounting system (like professional accounts use, whether electronic or on paper), and may require you to commit some effort to learn the ins and outs thereof.

  Fred
  (Not the same Fred as above)

• Another option is to go toi this site and type in what you’re looking for? and then go through the results that shoiw up, there’s even a way to get specific, where you can specify whether you want an app that runs on Windows MacOS or Linux!!

  AlternativeTo – Find Alternatives To Any Program
  <https://alternativeto.net/browse/search?q=QuickBooks>

  Just my two cents on the matter! (Get it?…Quickbooks, two cents?…LOL!)

  EGO II

• In the past (more than 10 years ago…) I had to work with Sql Ledger and in its forum/mailing list often Quickbooks was cited. I enjoyed it because of being GPL, using perl and PostgreSQL as a background database. It seems a still developed piece of software. Here the home page:
  https://www.sql-ledger.com/
  I don’t know if it is too much for your needs. It offers also support in case of need. One useful page to compare accounting software functionalities offered could be this one too:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_software

  HIH, Gianluca

• There also was ledgersmb which is/was a fork of sql-ledger. Both got the job done at the time but ledger smb had some enhancements that at the time Dieter refused to add.

  Keep in mind, I have not looked at either one in about 4 years and have no idea what the current status is. My business needs changed so I moved on.

  Regards,

• I have to say, GnuCash simply doesn’t do it for me. As a tech, I don’t have time to figure out accounting systems, and I really don’t want to have this info on the internet in 3rd party’s control.

• Don’t take this the wrong way, but if you’re looking for an accounting solution, but at the same time you don’t want to learn how to use a perfectly adequate accounting solution, then perhaps all you need is an accountant, and not a piece of software.

• I have an accountant, but still need todo my part from the business’
  end. They don’t invoice my clients. Quickbooks works very well, but keeps me stuck in Windows land.

  It’s just as well saying I cannot drive a car cause I don’t want to learn how to overhaul the engine, or I cannot be a system admin cause I don’t want to learn how the electronics on the PC boards work.

• Depending on the complexity of your needs, you might not need dedicated accounting software.

  I own and operate a small business (movie theatre). I do all of my accounting on a spreadsheet. Today I use Libreoffice, when I opened my theatre I used Microsoft Multiplan.

  I print out my revenue and expenses pages for my accountant at the end of the year and he’s happy with that. When I need to generate an actual invoice (fairly rare as my theatre is almost entirely a cash business) I make it up with Libreoffice as well. I have an invoice template saved that I use for that purpose.

• +1 to the above, can only re-iterate, if you need your accounts to be auditable, and can’t get your head round accountancy software, then provide the information in any readable form to your accountant and let them deal with it.

  If you don’t need them to be auditable, or you are an accountant, then just learn how to use whatever accountancy software do it, and don’t let an emotional belief in to what operating system you use take control over what choices you have in this regard.