Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Proposed changes to make it easier to ship after billing

2013-05-27 Thread John Hasler
Chris writes: > However such an approach restricts you to accurate accounting > information on a monthly basis. It works the same way if you post the tranfers daily. Then it's just $.21918/day instead of $6.67/month. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmw

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Proposed changes to make it easier to ship after billing

2013-05-27 Thread John Hasler
debit cash $80 and credit prepaid income (a liability account) $80. It should then transfer $6.67 from prepaid income to income each month. In practice such a small transaction is likely to be treated as completed immediately, but if the amount were $800,000 you'd want to do it right

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Proposed changes to make it easier to ship after billing

2013-05-27 Thread John Hasler
Brian writes: > The real issue is: if the shipment is lost or damaged, who is > responsible? Whoever owns the goods at the time the damage occurs. In practice I've always found that it works well to arrange for the act of shipment to trigger invoicing. -- John Hasler jhas...@

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Proposed changes to make it easier to ship after billing

2013-05-27 Thread John Hasler
stomer receives the shipment from him at delivery. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application perform

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Moving the LedgerSMB.org website

2012-06-26 Thread John Hasler
r several years and been quite satisfied. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Add wiki page for Government requirements around the world and possibly build a testsuite from them.

2012-06-19 Thread John Hasler
eral) I deal with do not interest themselves at all in what accounting software I use. They merely require that I "keep records". This was also the case in Minnesota and Michigan when I did business there. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsg

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Sketching of Payroll

2012-03-07 Thread John Hasler
Michael Richardson writes: > If they were "exempt", then you'd never enter more than 40. > (and you'd probably create a recurring transaction, right... When I've worked on salary no hours were entered at all. -- John Hasler jhas

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Sketching of Payroll

2012-03-06 Thread John Hasler
is was at University of Michigan in the 1970s. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] The Great Licensing Discussion

2011-12-21 Thread John Hasler
cations but not to any portions of the original that remain unchanged. You cannot attach restrictions to code in which you do not own copyright (not may not: cannot). -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] The Great Licensing Discussion

2011-12-20 Thread John Hasler
abuse), unduly restrictive, overly complex, and nearly incomprehensible. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development.

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Tax account creation: how to 'detect' tax accounts?

2011-06-20 Thread John Hasler
lated in the future, in a spreadsheet download > if nothing else. That would work for me. "Apply tax automatically" would apply to most invoices. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- EditLive E

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Tax account creation: how to 'detect' tax accounts?

2011-06-20 Thread John Hasler
l taxes from a given customer for a given transaction. I cannot classify a customer as always taxable or never taxable. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most tec

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Features you would like to see in 2.0

2010-07-29 Thread John Hasler
as > been posted, you void it and create a new one. Yes. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Features you would like to see in 2.0

2010-07-29 Thread John Hasler
o1bigtenor writes: > I had filed a request to have at least 7 digits available for >accounts. That should enable a few sub-accounts! Unfortunately it takes more than that. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood,

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Features you would like to see in 2.0

2010-07-29 Thread John Hasler
Joshua D. Drake writes: > What features would you like to see in 2.0? Subaccounts. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Developm

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] FOSSExperts

2010-07-28 Thread John Hasler
Joshua D. Drake writes: > Captcha is pretty common. It isn't discrimination. It's common but it still discriminates against the blind. I don't know what else to do, though. Maybe ask the user to solve a simple word problem? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.c

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Outsourcing payroll

2010-07-26 Thread John Hasler
in (I won't) I'd be very nervous about outsourcing payroll. In any case I was just relaying what I've been told: for my acquaintance in Chicago (and for several other people I've suggested LedgerSMB to) lack of payroll is an absolute showstopper. -- John Hasl

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Upcoming 2.0 of LedgerSMB

2010-07-26 Thread John Hasler
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 Elmw

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Upcoming 2.0 of LedgerSMB

2010-07-26 Thread John Hasler
market segment. I have an acquaintance in the Chicago area who would love to move all his clients from QuickBooks to LedgerSMB. Both he and they would be quite satisfied to have him handle installation and customization and he is comfortable with Latex. He can't do it, though. They all nee

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Upcoming 2.0 of LedgerSMB

2010-07-26 Thread John Hasler
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 H

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Payroll

2010-06-19 Thread John Hasler
ns. If some sort of framework was in place (or at least explicitly planned) maybe support for the tax rules would be forthcoming. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDa

[Ledger-smb-devel] Payroll

2010-06-06 Thread John Hasler
I don't see payroll anywhere in the roadmap. Are there any plans? I have no need for it but I know a consultant in Chicago who would love to get all his clients off QuickBooks if only he could find a FOSS solution with payroll. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, W

[Ledger-smb-devel] USA 1099

2010-05-26 Thread John Hasler
Starting in 2012 USA 1099 requirements will be extended to all entities (including corporations) and to all goods and services. This means that a typical small business will have to deal with hundreds of them. Are there any plans for LedgerSMB to help with this? -- John Hasler jhas

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Proposal for 2.0: New monetary data types

2010-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Luke writes: > Is there any way to provide basic functionality similar to 1.2, and use > all of this as an [optional] LSMB module? I hope so. I have no need to deal with foreign currencies nor does anyone I know. Payroll, however... -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood,

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] List from: address changed?

2009-03-21 Thread John Hasler
address. It's where they want errors and bounces sent. -- John Hasler j...@dhh.gt.org Elmwood, WI USA -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Code of Conduct and IRC

2008-06-09 Thread John Hasler
;Access denied You are not authorized to access this page." -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just ab

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Urgent , We have a new taxes , I need a help

2008-05-16 Thread John Hasler
lex way for them to compute the price. Example: cattle dealers in the US are required to collect $1.00 per head purchased and remit it to the government [or did last time I sold cattle: this may have changed]. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Urgent , We have a new taxes , I need a help

2008-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Markus writes: > the difference between a tax and a tarrif is that taxes are a percentage > and tarrifs are a flat amount, also tarrifs are typically collected for a > specific purpose rather than general tax coffers. Taxes of this sort are common in agriculture in the US. -- John Hasle

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Proposal: License Change for Manual And Standardization of Licenses for Official Docs

2007-10-20 Thread John Hasler
that it can own a copyright. > All rights reserved. Under current copyright law this sentence has no legal significance. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Re-authentication proposal for LedgerSMB 1.3 (HTTP Auth)

2007-10-04 Thread John Hasler
se can be made that on Linux, the responsibiloity for > setting up the servers beyond some basic settings, should be the > responsibility of the administrator. It should be possible to set up a usable default configuration with at most a few debconf quetions. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] GPL v3? Other license options?

2007-08-19 Thread John Hasler
John Locke wrote: > I don't know enough about v3 to make an informed decision, so we're > sticking to v2 for the time being. It's presently under v2 or any later version. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] GPL v3? Other license options?

2007-08-17 Thread John Hasler
stitute copyright misuse. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-27 Thread John Hasler
Ed W writes: > One area though that I think is likely to drop out is that sales orders, > sales invoices and sales quotes are all special cases of the same object. Invoices are accounting transactions. Sales orders and quotes are not. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood,

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

2007-04-26 Thread John Hasler
ed to the user. I don't think that it is really necessary to allow posted transactions to be altered anyway, though. IMHO if you are doing that frequently there is something wrong with your work flow. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] E

[Ledger-smb-devel] 1.2.0RC3

2007-03-10 Thread John Hasler
<http://www.ledgersmb.org/> says that 1.2.0RC3 has been released but the download link takes me to 1.2.0RC1. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of I

[Ledger-smb-devel] 1.2.0RC1 Build test fails

2007-03-06 Thread John Hasler
Sysconfig.pm line 65 Compilation failed in require at /home/john/ledgersmb/ledger-smb/LedgerSMB/Form.pm line 37. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/john/ledgersmb/ledger-smb/LedgerSMB/Form.pm line 37. Compilation failed in require at t/02-number-handling.t line 8. BEGIN failed--com

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread John Hasler
d > have that information if we find that we should go this route. A policy-compliant Debian package could not do that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread John Hasler
Chris Travers wrote: > Currently the thinking is that we don't want to set the system up with > default passwords which would allow anyone a window into accessing the > applicaiton remotely. Making it "just work" on installation is > unfortunately at odds with that idea. On Linux that problem is

[Ledger-smb-devel] Manual patch

2006-10-30 Thread John Hasler
Here is a patch for the manual. In addition to doing some copy editing I rewrote the section on double entry and added references to some Web sites. patch.gz Description: manual patch -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] LedgerSMB rpm spec

2006-10-18 Thread John Hasler
reset it. Create a password on the fly during installation and mail it to root. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done

[Ledger-smb-devel] Manual clarification

2006-10-13 Thread John Hasler
name was not posted in the submitting form (or set via the form hash elsewhere in the scripts). What are you trying to say here? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Manual

2006-10-12 Thread John Hasler
Chris Travers writes: > For now, direct people with development questions to this list. I'll do that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Links to good double-entry explanations

2006-10-12 Thread John Hasler
Josh writes: > Gnumeric used to have one. Sure you don't mean Gnucash? They have a pretty good one. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Manual

2006-10-12 Thread John Hasler
t; More likely, the real solution is going to be the beginnings of a real > developer reference work including database schemas, API's etc. Yes, eventually we should split the manual up. Right now, though, I'm just doing some copy editing and bringing it up to date a bit. -- John Hasl

[Ledger-smb-devel] Links to good double-entry explanations

2006-10-12 Thread John Hasler
I'm collecting links to good explanations of double-entry bookkeeping for the manual. Suggestions? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, sec

[Ledger-smb-devel] Manual

2006-10-11 Thread John Hasler
The URL <http://www.metatrontech.com/ledger-smb-wiki?APIReference>, which occurs in the manual section on customizing modules doesn't work (unsurprisingly). What should I use instead? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmw