"It’s great that you’re able to do payroll by hand for your situation. I think
it’s unlikely that would be widely true of GnuCash users."
Thanks again John.
I cannot speak for other Gnucash users, but I started off as a small
business over 30 years ago and was forced to learn how to do payroll for
the 2 people I employed. There must still be small business owners in
Canada that have the initiative to look up payroll tables on the Canada
Revenue Agency website. If they cannot, would they be using a program
like Gnucash in the first place? So, almost every small business owner
who handles their own bookkeeping also needs to do payroll.
Thanks again John (and others who responded)
On 7/24/26 15:12, John Ralls wrote:
Richard,
It’s great that you’re able to do payroll by hand for your situation. I think
it’s unlikely that would be widely true of GnuCash users.
I made a Bugzilla account for you (credentials sent separately) so you can file
your enhancement request, but I’ll repeat once again that it’s not likely that
anyone will do anything about it, especially in the timeframe you seem to need.
Regards,
John Ralls
On Jul 24, 2026, at 8:38 AM, J. Richard Herbert<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks John,
My ability to code is ... underdeveloped. So, writing an RFE and submitting
that is a way to go for me. Thanks.
As for payroll, I have been doing payroll in one form or another for close to
30 years and can do a Canadian payroll for a small number of staff with Gnucash
- but being able to print a paystub after entering payroll into a voucher can
greatly simplify that process.. Having to, again, do payroll is something that
came up in an agreement to help a First Nation development group that is
floundering. The payroll is for me and others that I may need to employ in my
charity to help out.
Thanks again, Richard
On 7/24/26 10:39, John Ralls wrote:
The person who wants the feature (i.e. you) write the RFE by submitting an
enhancement request on our bug tracker (for which you’ll need to request a
userid). As Adrien pointed out, it’s not likely that any of the core devs will
take it up unless it really is simple, so the fastest way to get the changes
you want is to code them up and submit a pull request on Github; if you do that
then no enhancement request is needed.
As a general statement, though, payroll in most places is not at all simple,
and doing it wrong can get you into very serious legal trouble. You’d be much
better off switching to a project like Odoo that really is an all in one
business platform (GnuCash isn’t) or contracting it out to a payroll processor.
Regards,
John Ralls
On Jul 24, 2026, at 05:46, J. Richard Herbert<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for keeping this going.
What I see is that vouchers work great for expense vouchers, but the also can
work great for payroll while providing a paystub by using a saved report to
print the payroll voucher as a paystub. For the paystub to be a professional
looking, there needs to be a few minor tweaks to Gnucash so that a saved a
Paystub Report can be used with a voucher to function for payroll - including
using duplication of a previously posted payroll voucher to quickly handle
payroll. Large companies have dedicated payroll systems, but small companies
still use an all-in-one program [Gnucash] to handle their bookkeeping and
payroll.
Who does the RFE?
On 7/23/26 17:36, flywire wrote:
Michael
Novackhttps://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2026-July/121205.html
wrote:
How hard might depend on familiarity with "functional" computer languages as opposed
to "procedural" languages.
No. Based on Richard's explanation, my offer is to
usehttps://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Introduction "The focus is onenough
understandingto change (hack) existing reports."
I agree with Adrien
-https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2026-July/121197.html to set
up a RFE. I'm not going to do C++ code but with enough detail I'd look at
tweaking a report.
RFE needs:
1. Sample GnuCash book and instructions to generate report, especially
important for someone like me with no familiarity of this functionality
2. Requirements (as listed in posts)
3. Hopefully, identify specific report to change
Report Bugzilla link back to this list
Regards
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