Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
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Re: Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#2We have been using wave apps for the last couple of years. Do you have a comparison page?
Re: Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#3I tried to evaluate Bigcapital but it's kind of a mess to deploy via self hosting. The docker-compose setup is really hard to break apart, the stack is bizarre (mongo, multiple myql databases, and redis), and the way you do upgrades and migrations left me feeling very uneasy. Additionally, my accountant wouldn't use anything this thing exports from what I can tell. For now I'm sticking with GnuCash, but I have my eye on some open source ERP systems--they're extremely complex though, with every screen being customizable. All I want are HR and finance functions in one place without having a dozen Google Docs and Sheets floating around. I couldn't care less about the level of customization most ERPs provide.
Re: Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#4I tried to evaluate Bigcapital but it's kind of a mess to deploy via self hosting. The docker-compose setup is really hard to break apart, the stack is bizarre (mongo, multiple myql databases, and redis), and the way you do upgrades and migrations left me feeling very uneasy. Additionally, my accountant wouldn't use anything this thing exports from what I can tell. For now I'm sticking with GnuCash, but I have my eye…
What's the most important features in an accounting system in your
opinion?
Are they of a kind, or are there some killer features on expensive commercial tools that the free fare can't match?
Re: Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#5I tried to evaluate Bigcapital but it's kind of a mess to deploy via self hosting. The docker-compose setup is really hard to break apart, the stack is bizarre (mongo, multiple myql databases, and redis), and the way you do upgrades and migrations left me feeling very uneasy. Additionally, my accountant wouldn't use anything this thing exports from what I can tell. For now I'm sticking with GnuCash, but I have my eye…
The deployment is really easy to do and well documented with some FAQs you may face, yes there were some issues in setup before couple of months ago but we fixed them even the database migration now is automated. that is acceptable especially when you use a new technology. you can join to our Discord and the team will help you to deploy it on your machine.
Re: Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#6I tried to evaluate Bigcapital but it's kind of a mess to deploy via self hosting. The docker-compose setup is really hard to break apart, the stack is bizarre (mongo, multiple myql databases, and redis), and the way you do upgrades and migrations left me feeling very uneasy. Additionally, my accountant wouldn't use anything this thing exports from what I can tell. For now I'm sticking with GnuCash, but I have my eye…
I second this to how difficult it is to deploy the app.
My feature request is to be able to deploy sth like this on heroku or other paas and to string all of the dependencies with env variables.
Re: Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#7I tried to evaluate Bigcapital but it's kind of a mess to deploy via self hosting. The docker-compose setup is really hard to break apart, the stack is bizarre (mongo, multiple myql databases, and redis), and the way you do upgrades and migrations left me feeling very uneasy. Additionally, my accountant wouldn't use anything this thing exports from what I can tell. For now I'm sticking with GnuCash, but I have my eye…
Anecdotally, we've seen a number of larger "open-source alternative to X" projects posted on HN of late that are technically self-deployable, but require so much up-front knowledge that it's not actually accessible to those who might truly be liberated by such software.
I mean no slander or disrespect to anyone involved, but there was a DataDog alternative posted sometime in the last few weeks that had a docker-compose with like 15 containers in it. Required running a few different Typescript servers, a Clickhouse instance, Redis, MySQL, the lot of it. I'm sure it was a fully-featured service that made adequate use of those resources, but it also reminded me of why people pay out the wazoo for DataDog: nobody wants to manage all that stuff!
EDIT: the repo linked in the GP contains 3 instances of what you could call databases: MariaDB, Mongo, and Redis. There doesn't appear to be any explanation in the deployment docs for why all three are necessary.
Re: Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#8I tried to evaluate Bigcapital but it's kind of a mess to deploy via self hosting. The docker-compose setup is really hard to break apart, the stack is bizarre (mongo, multiple myql databases, and redis), and the way you do upgrades and migrations left me feeling very uneasy. Additionally, my accountant wouldn't use anything this thing exports from what I can tell. For now I'm sticking with GnuCash, but I have my eye…
The deployment is really easy to do and well documented with some FAQs you may face, yes there were some issues in setup before couple of months ago but we fixed them even the database migration now is automated. that is acceptable especially when you use a new technology. you can join to our Discord and the team will help you to deploy it on your machine.
> that is acceptable especially when you use a new technology
Not really when it's accounting software.
Re: Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#9We have been using wave apps for the last couple of years. Do you have a comparison page?
Wave looks really nice, though it’s a shame they only support US tax. For Australians the accounting package has to support “STP2” which is the governments API for reporting payroll and super, otherwise it’s borderline illegal to use.
Re: Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#10I tried to evaluate Bigcapital but it's kind of a mess to deploy via self hosting. The docker-compose setup is really hard to break apart, the stack is bizarre (mongo, multiple myql databases, and redis), and the way you do upgrades and migrations left me feeling very uneasy. Additionally, my accountant wouldn't use anything this thing exports from what I can tell. For now I'm sticking with GnuCash, but I have my eye…
Anecdotally, we've seen a number of larger "open-source alternative to X" projects posted on HN of late that are technically self-deployable, but require so much up-front knowledge that it's not actually accessible to those who might truly be liberated by such software. I mean no slander or disrespect to anyone involved, but there was a DataDog alternative posted sometime in the last few weeks that had a docker-compo…
Totally agree, nobody can manage that amount of containers, it doesn't mean if it was self-hosted would excuse the deployment is not necessary to be easy, always the deployment of self-hosted should be easy with sample CLIs. and also providing pre-configured instances on the most popular cloud services like on DigitalOcean to deploy the app with sample clicks (instead of CLIs) that would great additional for non-techincal people and that's what we're seeking for, in terms of 3 instance actually we used Mongo for Agenda.js but we want to get rid of it ASAP.