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Banking integration
That's a helpful new feature, but they've held the market by the throat far longer than that was an offering.
IIRC, some features of the customer-facing interface to my credit union appear to be from Intuit.
I can't help but feel compelled to pause my current tasks and contribute wholeheartedly to this. My frustration with Intuit has reached its tipping point, especially after they acquired a Brazilian financial management software called Zeropaper, which my company heavily relied upon. Intuit then proceeded to discontinue the product and withdraw from the Brazilian market without offering any viable alternatives, leavin…
> I can't help but feel compelled to pause my current tasks and contribute wholeheartedly to this. That is interesting to me, because I had the complete opposite take after less than a minute on the website. I actively avoid QuickBooks because I despise Intuit. But there is no way I would take a project like this seriously when the 'support' link is a link to Discord. Competing with QuickBooks means competing for bus…
Support has been useless too.
As much as I don’t use discord at all, having a 50% chance of getting someone that understands internet banking to help troubleshoot internet banking would be compelling.
For people who use QuickBooks, what's the main barrier to a viable open-source competitor? Does QuickBooks offer a ton of necessary integrations or something?
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> I can't help but feel compelled to pause my current tasks and contribute wholeheartedly to this. That is interesting to me, because I had the complete opposite take after less than a minute on the website. I actively avoid QuickBooks because I despise Intuit. But there is no way I would take a project like this seriously when the 'support' link is a link to Discord. Competing with QuickBooks means competing for bus…
The last time I looked for quickbooks documentation, I just found some YouTube videos. Support has been useless too. As much as I don’t use discord at all, having a 50% chance of getting someone that understands internet banking to help troubleshoot internet banking would be compelling.
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Back in the day bank feeds were horrific to develop but these days I think there are aggregate feed services. Seems like you could just implement support for one of those?
Are there any feed services that would sell an individual (person or business) license? It seems like they all strive to be a backend for a SAAS.
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Are there any feed services that would sell an individual (person or business) license? It seems like they all strive to be a backend for a SAAS.
I haven't used it, but the team (person?) that makes Buckets ( https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com ) makes SimpleFIN ( https://www.simplefin.org ), which seems like it exposes exactly what you want: simple transaction data from arbitrary banks. Plaid offers transactions APIs ( https://plaid.com/products/transactions/ ), but I guess to your point these APIs are geared towards fintech companies, not personal use. EDIT: I…
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Are there any feed services that would sell an individual (person or business) license? It seems like they all strive to be a backend for a SAAS.
I haven't used it, but the team (person?) that makes Buckets ( https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com ) makes SimpleFIN ( https://www.simplefin.org ), which seems like it exposes exactly what you want: simple transaction data from arbitrary banks. Plaid offers transactions APIs ( https://plaid.com/products/transactions/ ), but I guess to your point these APIs are geared towards fintech companies, not personal use. EDIT: I…
I can't help but feel compelled to pause my current tasks and contribute wholeheartedly to this. My frustration with Intuit has reached its tipping point, especially after they acquired a Brazilian financial management software called Zeropaper, which my company heavily relied upon. Intuit then proceeded to discontinue the product and withdraw from the Brazilian market without offering any viable alternatives, leavin…
> I can't help but feel compelled to pause my current tasks and contribute wholeheartedly to this. That is interesting to me, because I had the complete opposite take after less than a minute on the website. I actively avoid QuickBooks because I despise Intuit. But there is no way I would take a project like this seriously when the 'support' link is a link to Discord. Competing with QuickBooks means competing for bus…
Discord is a serious thing now, I've seen enterprise products add support for Discord before Slack.
Many layers of the financial system for small and medium businesses are used to working with QB. It's a means of communication. You can hire people who know it. It integrates with every bank and every, well, everything you might need. You accountant --internal or external-- knows it and has a process to work with it. Etc.
While FOSS is great, it isn't always better. I think FOSS works well when you have a deeply committed, enthusiastic and dedicated community around a pain point or a need. There are great examples of this, GIMP, KiCAD, Krita and various 3D printer tools being examples of this.
Accounting software? I'll believe it when, one day, I walk into my CPA's office and he enthusiastically tells me how he is asking the firm's hundreds of customers to switch to a FOSS solution.
In case it was missed, that was sarcasm. I cannot possibly imagine an accounting firm with hundreds of clients both engaging in turning their entire practice upside-down and having their clients endure untold pain just to save a few hundred bucks on software that just happens to work just fine today and has for decades.