On Thursday 29 Sep 2005 18:33, Dave Ashmore wrote: > Guess I'll chime in here. > I have used both quickbooks, GNUCash and tried MyBooks. > My opinion is GNUCash is quite excellent for personal checking and > tracking investments and such but for running a business and > invoicing it still has room to grow (invoicing).
Agreed - invoicing could be better. GnuCash is in the process of being moved to gtk2 (I hope I got that right) and many improvements that have been requested are being prepared for that environment rather than the current one. The only problem is that we have no idea how long it will be before the re-write is finished. It should be worth seeing, from the comments I've read on the list. > Quickbooks is ok and > it's format is accepted by most accountants. QB is a PITA, does not follow easily understood accounting rules and the support staff are rude and appear to know nothing about accounting. > A plus. I do however do > not like Intuits business practices. Once when I got a new hard drive > and moved all my programs over when I went to install Quickbooks I > could not locate my lic key. A call to intuit ended in them trying to > extort an $80.00 plus fee for support when all I needed was my lic > key. (ended up finding it in the registry free of course.) The company I was helping experienced that one, too. As well as being sold an upgrade that they were told they must have to meet government on-line reporting requirements. When the time came they were told that the update did not work and they must pay again the next year to get one that does. > I tried > MyBooks and while it is quite robust it left me with a little > desired. It can import quickbooks stuff but as far as starting from > scratch it seemed a little clunky. I think if they (MyBooks) had a > way to import categories and tax info as well as export in qif format > for an accountant it would be well rounded and server me well. > My MyBooks opinion my not be quite accurate but they do offer a fully > functional trial period and I suggest you try it and see what you > think. I'm always inclined to try something where the authors are willing to give you a free trial. It shows a certain confidence in the quality of their work. I'd agree - go for the free trial. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Mandriva hints & tips: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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