Re: Request for a complete guide to setup and use GNUCash for online seller

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 3/13/2018 1:53 PM, Souradeep Panda wrote:

Dear Sir / Madam,

I am a newbie online seller, selling my old stuff for some money. I
currently use MS-Excel for accounting and stock keeping but it's getting
very complicated and logical errors are popping up now and then.

I am willing to make a one-time donation if I can make GNU Cash work
according to my needs by watching your video guide and/or by reading your
ebook / pdf.

Thanks & regards.
Please explain WHAT you are doing with spreadsheets. In other words, are 
you simply using spreadsheets to do old fashioned pen and ink on paper 
double entry bookkeeping (using columns just like standard accounting 
paper)? In that case, the learning curve would be short (and of course 
your reference to errors understandable, as finding /correcting the 
inevitable errors the bane of a bookkeeper's existence in pen and ink on 
paper days)


OR -- have you not been doing double entry? In which case your first 
step should be to look at the tutorial to see if that provides enough 
basics << if not, get a double entry bookkeeping 101 type text, with the 
understanding that you will be ENTERING the data directly into the 
journal --- so see if it has examples of "cashbook accounting".


Michael D Novack

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of the grave.

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Re: Request for a complete guide to setup and use GNUCash for online seller

[Adrien Monteleone]

Welcome to GnuCash!

Unfortunately, everyones needs, even for a ’simple’ case of being an online 
seller are all very different. I put ’simple’ in quotes, because there is no 
such single thing as “online seller.” Each business is different. I have four 
e-commerce clients and each one is different from the other, and all four have 
inventory. I could not write a single setup guide that would be appropriate for 
all of them. There are just too many variables. Most of what they would need 
anyway, is not specific to GnuCash, but rather accounting entry questions 
specific to their business cases.

GnuCash is double-entry accounting software. It allows you to perform 
accounting on a computer using various accounting standards within the 
double-entry framework.

How you end up accomplishing this for your specific business is up to you.

I’ll point you to the Help Guide and Tutorial & Concepts Guide located on the 
GnuCash site. Read those first and get your software set up. As you are doing 
that, if you have any questions or trouble, ask us here on the list and we’ll 
try our best to help you along. These guides are the closest you’ll find to a 
one-size-fits-all guide you are looking for. The rest has to be handled on a 
case-by-case basis.

Before you proceed, understand that GnuCash can certainly handle accounting for 
you. It can help you track the *value* of your inventory. But it is NOT 
designed to help you track the *quantities* of your inventory. For that, you’ll 
either need inventory software, or continue to use a spreadsheet. (or another 
version of that sheet, if the current one isn’t up to par for you)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Mar 13, 2018, at 12:53 PM, Souradeep Panda  
> wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir / Madam,
> 
> I am a newbie online seller, selling my old stuff for some money. I
> currently use MS-Excel for accounting and stock keeping but it's getting
> very complicated and logical errors are popping up now and then.
> 
> I am willing to make a one-time donation if I can make GNU Cash work
> according to my needs by watching your video guide and/or by reading your
> ebook / pdf.
> 
> Thanks & regards.
> -- 
> Souradeep Panda
> (+91) 9475 540 220
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