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Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by donutshop »

nulbyte wrote: post #18
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…

> 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…

Interesting. I didn't realize they're behind the Argo project. Having second thoughts now.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by kyle_martin1 »

Element_ wrote: post #51

I use freshbooks for my small business (timekeeping, expenses, invoicing) and I just received notice my annual subscription fee will be increased from $270/yr to $324/yr. Not only have they not added any new features to justify this fee increase, but they have actually removed a few features that I depended on like multi-currency reports. I am actively looking for an alternative.

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Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by thestepafter »

Element_ wrote: post #51

I use freshbooks for my small business (timekeeping, expenses, invoicing) and I just received notice my annual subscription fee will be increased from $270/yr to $324/yr. Not only have they not added any new features to justify this fee increase, but they have actually removed a few features that I depended on like multi-currency reports. I am actively looking for an alternative.

I’m in the same position as you. They keep removing features and raising the prices. Been with them for 6 years. Biggest concern is moving all of my monthly recurring revenue elsewhere since I’m auto billing stored CC information (stored with CC processor only).

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by ShadowBanThis01 »

stbl219z8y wrote: post #77
moneywoes wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm a developer, and I find Discord to be a disorganized mess. I prefer a traditional support forum to Discord, and that's a pretty weak option.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by balaselvam »

hedora wrote: post #22
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…

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.

If the company is serious enough about competing with Quickbooks and solving a real customer problem, Discord is not going to cut it.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by atoav »

rkagerer wrote: post #79
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.

This is the issue with subscriptions that could be regular old software: When the other side of the equation changes you can be in deep troubles. With regular old software you are in control when to make updates, how to vet them and how to move on when no updates are coming.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by M_bara »

kolli_kumar wrote: post #59

Check out this : https://github.com/frappe/books - free desktop accounting software. https://github.com/frappe/erpnext - free if you host yourself or $10+ if they host it on their server. ERP Software Both are free. And they are pretty decent.

Yep, trying out a self hosted erpnext. It’s quite smooth and reliable especially when you compare it with Odoo. The cost for their cloud options is also way more economic to Odoo. Want to try out their integration with woo commerce.

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by guax »

balaselvam wrote: post #86
hedora wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If the company is serious enough about competing with Quickbooks and solving a real customer problem, Discord is not going to cut it.

I'm curious. Is this a criticism of their support. Real time chat in general or just specifically discord?

Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

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Post by sandGorgon »

If there are BigCapital devs here, could you please maintain compatibility with https://github.com/ledger/ledger

also i dont see mention of an API. Being able to provide an API to one's own accounting system is a super-power (and probably very incremental to the work you're doing anyway)

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