[Clug-tech] gnucash 2.0

[ct at turner.ca]

gnucash2 is the best open source package that I could find 
for my small business book keeping. I find the GUI cleaner 
and more intuitive than Quickbooks. The invoicing is much 
more usable in 2.x. I haven't had problems printing yet. 
(I normally print to pdf. Then if I need a hard copy, I 
print the pdf.) But I agree the interface for setting up, 
customizing and saving reports need more work. 
Unfortunately much of gnucash is written in the Scheme 
langauge which I have no desire to learn.

sql-ledger seems non-trival to setup, web based only and 
because they charge for the reference manual I didn't even 
attempt to evaluate it any futher than the web demo. But 
for a bigger business or a business requiring inventory or 
point of sale I would definately have a closer look.

Carl


On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:36:51 -0700
  Kin C Wong <kwong at csa-pdk.com> wrote:
> Thanks, all the things that I had issues with apparently 
>are still 
> there.  Just in case anyone is interested, I think that 
>the combination 
> of using gnucash for personal finances which includes 
>credit card 
> purchases for business goods and services (and for 
>stocks and bonds) and 
> flowing batch transactions into sql-ledger would work 
>nicely for a 
> business.  Personally I have not done anything with 
>sql-ledger yet, but 
> that is where I'm putting my money.
> 
> Nick Wiltshire wrote:
>> I was pretty disappointed in this for a 2.0 release. 
>>There's very few new 
>> things, AFAIK SQL support is still broken, the printing 
>>cuts off reports when 
>> printing direct to the printer, reports are not easily 
>>created (why they 
>> don't use an XML based template system is beyond me), 
>>the GUI is not 
>> intuitive at all, leaving search windows open all over 
>>the place...
>>
>> I'm really hoping someone comes out with a QT-based 
>>system. KmyMoney seems ok, 
>> if you are doing personal finances. It doesn't (and 
>>never will) do any sort 
>> of business function.
>>
>> Then there's SQL-Ledger, which is way over my head, 
>>ugly, and for some reason 
>> having it in the browser bugs me.
>>
>> I've actually been contemplating starting something, but 
>>keep thinking now 
>> (during a major re-write of a lot of KDE's underlying 
>>systems) is a bad time. 
>> Perhaps I'm wrong there.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Saturday 06 January 2007 03:13, Kin C Wong wrote:
>>   
>>> It appears that GnuCash 2.0 has been out for 6 months 
>>>already so I that
>>> maybe I should give it a whirl to see if it is any good. 
>>> The 1.x
>>> version has served me well however the available reports 
>>>are lacking and
>>> I am hoping that the 2.x will be better in this regard.
>>>
>>> I am having some difficulty just trying to locate a 
>>>binary to install.
>>> I have tried the gnucash.org site and google with no 
>>>success.  I keep
>>> getting the 1.x version.  My search has also lead me to 
>>>install
>>> automatix which is nice but did not help with my 
>>>objectives.
>>>
>>> I am ok with apt-get and installation of deb files -- 
>>>just can't seem to
>>> locate a binary.  BTW, I am running ubuntu with kde.
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated.  Thanks.
>>>
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