Re: [GNC] QUESTION: transaction classes (tags) like QuickBooks?

2020-06-23 Thread Adrian Yong
Thanks Liz.. Very valid point... I don't have much problems with GNUcash... On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 4:33 PM Liz Dodd wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:06:05 +0800 > Adrian Yong wrote: > > > As Gnucash is still under development, > > This is a place to point out a difference in view points. > >

Re: [GNC] QUESTION: transaction classes (tags) like QuickBooks?

2020-06-23 Thread Liz Dodd
On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:06:05 +0800 Adrian Yong wrote: > As Gnucash is still under development, This is a place to point out a difference in view points. Lots of software is still under development. Most commercial software is, so that they can sell you a new version, rather than just an offer

Re: [GNC] QUESTION: transaction classes (tags) like QuickBooks?

2020-06-22 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Zi, Welcome to GnuCash! The answer is ‘yes, sort of’. While it doesn’t have an explicit class facility, you can make up your own tagging and filtering system. Specific to your example, each transaction can have multiple splits, that isn’t an issue at all. Each split has a ‘memo’ line where

Re: [GNC] QUESTION: transaction classes (tags) like QuickBooks?

2020-06-22 Thread Adrien Monteleone
While there is no official ‘class’ or ’tag’ facility, you can still accomplish this somewhat. You can do searches on any text located in any text field, Description, Memo, Notes, Action, Num, etc. Thus you can create your own tagging system using # or @ if you like. (or any other symbol or

Re: [GNC] QUESTION: transaction classes (tags) like QuickBooks?

2020-06-22 Thread D. via gnucash-user
rogram. I heartily recommend it. David T. Original Message From: Zi via gnucash-user Sent: Sun Jun 21 15:18:25 EDT 2020 To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] QUESTION: transaction classes (tags) like QuickBooks? Hi I've used QuickBooks for years and am seriously c

Re: [GNC] QUESTION: transaction classes (tags) like QuickBooks?

2020-06-22 Thread Adrian Yong
Hi Zi, I was a QB user as well and have recently switched to Gnucash... I have tried splitting expenses claims like Quit Rent & Assessment as an expense claim but split into Quit Rent and Assessment as separate Expenses in P & L... The one thing which I have trouble with is the General Ledger

[GNC] QUESTION: transaction classes (tags) like QuickBooks?

2020-06-22 Thread Zi via gnucash-user
Hi I've used QuickBooks for years and am seriously considering finding a (*non*web based) alternative. GnuCash looks very promising, but here's the million-dollar question (and yes, I browsed the whole site, the manual, the FAQ, etc. trying to find an answer to this question!) In addition to