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Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by xvilka »

theK wrote: post #66
xvilka wrote: post #29

There's also Plain Text Accounting[1]. The biggest problem of all open source solutions, accountants' experience aside, is the lack of banking and taxes integration, especially outside of US, e.g. for Asian, South American, or African businesses. The most promising FOSS solution for SME I was able to find is Akaunting[2][3]. [1] https://plaintextaccounting.org/ [2] https://akaunting.com/ [3] https://github.com/akaunt…

Just a word of caution on akaunting, the FOSS product is very much the SaaS product, so lots of buttons will lead to nowhere and you will get CTAs to enable plugins which you later find out only work on the hosted service. I’m my case I even need to patch their css to get invoices to render to PDF „somewhat“ correctly. I’m still sticking around to see if this is just a momentary lapse but it’s been more than a year n…

Thanks for the information, this doesn't sound good.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by mrtweetyhack »

burglekutt wrote: post #20

Has anyone tried https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii ? It seems to be under active development but it always makes me nervous when the vast majority of updates come from one person. (What happens to the project when that person isn’t working on it anymore?)

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Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by ComputerGuru »

revskill wrote: post #42

One question, why separate into different tables for each journal (expense, sales,...) . You could also have one journal table instead ?

It depends on how they classify them but in many systems sales is separate from the rest because you generate quotes and invoices and mark them as sold but reconcile that against the actual line items in your bank account separately. I.E. sales isn’t ( ecessairly) a subset of all transactions but entirely apart. In addition to sharing few fields and having more columns all to itself, it can just be semantically completely orthogonal to the journals.

But I say all this not having looked at this product and I don’t know if sales here works that way or not.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by FateOfNations »

smcleod wrote: post #39

Under https://docs.bigcapital.ly/docs/faq it has "Can I install SigNoz without Docker?" - maybe this was forked from SigNoz?

It looks like SigNoz is an open-source APM platform, so I doubt that it formed the basis of this. As someone else said, it might be just the docs...

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

there is gnukhata https://gnukhata.org/ that aims to be a free and open source alternative to accounting softwares.

it works self hosted and on desktop.

Currently only for indian tax markets but work is slowly underway for bringing internationalization. Feel free to check the demo on https://gnukhata.gitlab.io/gkapp and if interested, help on https://gitlab.com/gnukhata/gkapp

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by psnehanshu »

basilgohar wrote: post #50

I am really happy to see something like this. This is not a criticism of the project. Rather, I lament that more-and-more web-based projects document only a Docker-centered install process for self-hosting as opposed to the process of installing from source. This goes strongly against the spirit of self-hosting where you know what you're running and you see the steps and all the integrations that are needed, includin…

I disagree with your argument, but I won't reply to that as there are other replies I agree with.

However, where did you find the steps to install this with Docker? I can't find it.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by stbl219z8y »

moneywoes wrote: post #49
nulbyte wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

What would support be instead, a phone hotline?

I think if you’re targeting developers, then Discord is fine.

If you’re targeting businesses, then you’d want a contact-us form at the bare minimum.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by FateOfNations »

smcleod wrote: post #41

Looks like it's for USA only - https://github.com/bigcapitalhq/bigcapital/issues/123

It looks rather generic... rather than being customized to fit any specific country's regulatory system. From what I can tell, the author is not from the United States.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by rkagerer »

bratao wrote: post #2

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…

Wow, there's so much hate toward Intuit here. Makes me glad I stopped upgrading at QB2010.

Still using it regularly. No subscriptions, no cloud, no nasty surprises to contend with. I have custom code that automatically pulls exchange rates from public sources and injects into the appropriate UI fields. My accountant's still able to ingest the file for year-end. Will probably be on it for another decade.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by koili_ »

theK wrote: post #69
epgui wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This goes strongly against the spirit of self-hosting where you know what you're running and you see the steps and all the integrations that are needed, including any reliance on third-party services that may come back to bite you. Dockerized apps are typically just as transparent, so that's a bit of a non-argument IMO. Their main advantages are portability, reproducibility, and security.

This depends on whether the Dockerfile is available somewhere right?

Not necessarily. It is certainly easier to read a dockerfile, but there are tools like https://github.com/wagoodman/dive (im sure there are others) that allow you to inspect images themselves in a very detailed manner.
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