I second the comments by Michael. While I use GnuCash to keep up with my
personal accounting, for my business I use commercial accounting
software which provides all of the modules described and quite a few
more. You can license as few or as many modules as desired -- at a cost,
of course. So, if you're doing only basic accounting you can license
only the general ledger module, which would be analogous to GnuCash. But
if your needs are greater than there are the accounts receivable module,
the accounts payable, module, payroll, inventory control, sales order
entry, point of sale, etc.
The only other open source software of which I am aware that would
provide you these types of modules is a product called SQL-Ledger which
you may wish to investigate:
http://www.sql-ledger.org/cgi-bin/nav.pl?page=feature/index.html&title=Features
At the very least looking at what SQL Ledger has to offer will show you
the kinds of packages available.
Otherwise, you're looking at purchasing commercial enterprise resource
software.
Hope this helps!
CMR
On 10/16/2017 05:04 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Michael:
Thanks for the reply. I have to say, I was thinking this would be a natural
function of business accounting software but I see your point about the bulk.
This is a function I am currently looking into for a non-profit. Basically, we
receive invoices for services which I’ve been inputing as bills into the AP
register. The invoices of course could contain any number of services, many of
which are common. What we’d like to be able to do is to create reports that
might say, these are the top 5 services that were preformed in 2016 and how
many of each there were. I’d prefer to only have to enter this data once, so I
was hoping that GC would have the functionality but I am finding out that this
might be outside the scope of any accounting type of software.
Would you be able to suggest an approach, a tool, that might compliment GC? Or
is this just going to have to be something totally different?
Thanks.
On Oct 16, 2017, at 9:17 AM, Mike or Penny Novack
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 10/15/2017 10:08 PM, DaveC49 wrote:
Hi,
The facilities you are requesting are likely to require an inventory
management system. At present Gnucash is an accounting package and currently
does not incorporate any features for inventory management. As far as i know
there are no plans to incorporate such features in the near future. To do so
would reuire a developer(s) interested in developing these features.
Similarly while it can handle the accounting specific side of payroll
management it does not handle the calculation of payrolls, deductions, taxes
etc. You may need to took at ERP software if you require these facilities.
David Cousens
I am going to point something out. Gnucash is an accounting package. A business
might need a number of OTHER packages that would interact with the accounting
package, but normally are separate parts. Why separate? Because which of these
other parts a business might want/need depend on the business. A unified
business application (including ALL the different possible pieces) would be
unnecessarily bulky, with a given business never using many of those pieces.
inventory -- only if the business HAS inventory that it sells
payroll ------ only if the business has employees (employees in the legal sense
of that word)
billed time -- only of a business deals in "billable hours"
POS --- only if a business does this kind of retail << point of sales not only
interacts with accounting but also inventory >>
etc. etc. etc.
Since I do accounting just for non-profits, I am aware of OTHER "pieces" that would apply to this specialty.
Just because I may be using gnucash to provide these pieces does NOT mean "part of gnucash" << I am
simply ALSO using gnucash to implement "virtual books" for those specific pieces >>
Michael D Novack
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