[OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
This isn't really Linux-related, but I think there are a number of people on this list likely to have good answers. So: Anyone care to give recommendations in the small business/SOHO accounting product space? QuickBooks is very common, but also rather expensive, and in the past I've had horr

Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-10 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 05/10/2010 03:06 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > For this user, traditional software and web services are both > acceptable. maybe QuickBooks online then? > They've got just one computer, running MS Windows Vista, > so it has to work on that. If it works with Linux too, great > (seriously), but

Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Johnson
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 05/10/2010 03:06 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > > For this user, traditional software and web services are both > > acceptable. > > maybe QuickBooks online then? > I've had great experience with QBOE except for the pricing and the Windows o

Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > maybe QuickBooks online then? It's an option, but I don't expect it to solve the "expensive" or "Intuit sucks" problems. :-) > Postbooks has a Windows GUI and runs on PostgreSQL.  I've only run the > database on Linux ... How do you

Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-10 Thread Dan Jenkins
Benjamin Scott wrote: > This isn't really Linux-related, but I think there are a number of > people on this list likely to have good answers. So: > > Anyone care to give recommendations in the small business/SOHO > accounting product space? > I've used Open Systems some years ago. It worked

Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-10 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 03:06:40PM -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote: > Anyone care to give recommendations in the small business/SOHO > accounting product space? Gnucash is a reasonable double-entry accounting package. It'll do the basics to help you manage your finances, file taxes, etc. I haven't

Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: > Gnucash is a reasonable double-entry accounting package. I didn't state requirements. My bad. They need basic accounting (AP, AR, GL), with the ability to generate/print/track invoices and purchase orders. They also need very basic inv

Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-10 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Ted Roche wrote: >>  How do you find Postbooks? > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Postbooks&l=1 I meant: How does Bill find Postbooks to work? What's good, what's bad? I didn't mean, "Where is it?". :-) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-d

Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-10 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 16:28 -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: > > Gnucash is a reasonable double-entry accounting package. > > I didn't state requirements. My bad. They need basic accounting > (AP, AR, GL), with the ability to generate/print

Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

2010-05-11 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 05/10/2010 04:38 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > I meant: How does Bill find Postbooks to work? What's good, what's bad? I'm only starting to use it, really. I does do inventory, it's the baby sister of OpenERP. The GUI is pleasant, nicely done in Qt. AFAIK, it doesn't have a 'checkbook mod