I wrote:
> Sounds like much larger companies than I'm referring to.
David writes:
> We are a small company (8 people) and we outsource payroll
As I said: larger companies.
> It is just so much simpler, and it's really not that expensive.
If I was to ever have employees again (I won't) I'd be ve
John Hasler wrote:
> Sounds like much larger companies than I'm referring to.
We are a small company (8 people) and we outsource payroll. It is
just so much simpler, and it's really not that expensive.
Regards,
David.
--
I don't know the american situation, but in Manitoba (Canada) it's usually
cheaper to hire a service to do payroll for you, up until about 20 employees or
so. Granted it's a close-run thing, QB's payroll data isn't *much* more
expensive, but the 4-person company I work for has Comcheq? Ceridian
Joshua D. Drake writes:
> I know many companies (mine included) that forgo the pain of payroll
> and have a service do it.
Sounds like much larger companies than I'm referring to.
--
John Hasler
jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:56 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> David writes:
>> This is why I do not think you should target the same market as
>> shrink-wrapped proprietary accounting software. I'm not trying to be
>> facetious, and I certainly don't mean to dismiss Free Software. I'm
>> just saying it
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 17:18 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake writes:
> > There is a large swath of users that (millions) that if built properly
> > that we open up LedgerSMB to.
>
> Only when it handles payroll (in fact there's a large swath of users
> that supporting payroll would open
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>> > We *need* at least as an option to provide simple, easy to modify,
>> > preferably from the browser, templates.
>> >
>
> Or is a book keeper for a small business.
>
Small Business as a market means many things to different people. I
w
> From: David F. Skoll [mailto:d...@roaringpenguin.com]
>
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Spoken like a true geek. This isn't hard folks. The web has the whole
> > print thing down as long as you are using a modern browser. Simple
> > web-pdf tools exist as well.
>
> Color me skeptical. There a reas
David writes:
> This is why I do not think you should target the same market as
> shrink-wrapped proprietary accounting software. I'm not trying to be
> facetious, and I certainly don't mean to dismiss Free Software. I'm
> just saying it caters to a different market segment.
I have an acquaintan
Joshua D. Drake writes:
> There is a large swath of users that (millions) that if built properly
> that we open up LedgerSMB to.
Only when it handles payroll (in fact there's a large swath of users
that supporting payroll would open LedgerSMB up to with no other
changes.
--
John Hasler
jhas...
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Color me skeptical. There a reason most small-business accounting
>> systems are *not* web-based.
> Quickbooks online
> Quicken online
> Microsoft Dynamics
> Netsuite
Yes, but how do they generate printed invoices? HTML+CSS or PDF that
bypasses the browser's rendering
> You just illustrated exactly why it needs to be done. A few steps up from
> writing postscript? NOBODY writes postscript.
> :D
Umm... I do. I do recognize that debugging Postscript isn't exactly a
mainstream skill, however . Nor do I do it more than once every four or
five years, nowadays.
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 17:17 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> >> If you are dreaming of a situation in which LedgerSMB is used *and
> >> customized* by "average" office workers, I'd say LaTeX is the least of
> >> your worries.
>
> > Spoken like a true geek. This isn't hard
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> If you are dreaming of a situation in which LedgerSMB is used *and
>> customized* by "average" office workers, I'd say LaTeX is the least of
>> your worries.
> Spoken like a true geek. This isn't hard folks. The web has the whole
> print thing down as long as you are usi
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 03:13 -0430, Walter Vargas wrote:
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> Hello from Venezuela
>
> About the intention to eliminate LaTeX, I think, you can have
> something like templates in XML or DocBook, and then convert to other
> formats, including LaTeX.
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 15:45 +, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake writes:
> > Lastly, for 2.0 we are moving to Git. We have already created the
> > repository and will slowly begin to populate over the coming months.
> >
> > http://github.com/commandprompt/LedgerSMB
>
> The migration to
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 02:08 -0400, Luke wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > 2.0 of LedgerSMB is going to branch soon. The primary goal of 2.0 is to
>
> Is there any intent to do a final release of 1.3, or will it continue to
> be worked on concurrently?
Yes. There will be
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:36 -0700, Gerald Chudyk wrote:
> Hopefully in the future there are enough templates to choose from, and
> at a sufficient level of completeness that Sue doesn't need to
> customize much. If she can create sophisticated spreadsheets from
> Excel templates and build Access d
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 18:08 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > Latex may be great for you but if I walk into an office and say, "Sue,
> > here is how you customize templates" and its tex? I might as well walk
> > back out, cause she will have none of it.
>
> If you are dr
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