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An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
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Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#102I 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.
Can I downgrade to 2010 from the current version?
Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#103There'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…
Guys, all of this amazing text based accounting software are very interesting to me. Does anyone knows if is there any feature for automatic registering of depreciation? If not, how to do not forget to register and how to keep track of all assets that will depreciate? Separated file?
Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Free Slack tiers don’t allow searching beyond 10,000 messages so no one’s going to pick that over a free Discord server without such limitations.
Even this is no longer true - current free tier of Slack (as of a couple of months ago IIRC) is 90 days of retention, which for low-volume groups of users is even worse .
I think they retain it but you can't access it. One Slack I'm in activated the trial and everything was there and searchable.
Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#105Earlier 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…
> But there is no way I would take a project like this seriously when the 'support' link is a link to Discord I always felt that projects used discord-only as a way to signal that they don't want to deal with users.
Having interacted with Stripe's chat and email support, I have a similar feeling - their goal is to get me to go away instead of actually helping with my problem.
My first and only choice is their discord support, when that doesnt help I rather work around the problem than get stuck in their email limbo.
Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#106If you are going to self host , why not just selfhost a fullblown alternative such as ERPNext or Odoo , they all are much capable than quickbook.
https://github.com/frappe/erpnext
https://odoo.com
I prefer erpnext/FBook over odoo due to much better performance ,not gimped by freemium/opencoure model (ERPNext promise no freemium )
Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#107Why would one use this over GNU Cash?
GNUCash (which I also use btw) is a local install without multi-user web management. If you're a single person working on the taxes then GNUCash may tick all boxes (although another comment mentioned the need for inventory management which GNUCash doesn't support).
It looks like this offers more of a web approach without the need for a local install so it can be a bit more collaborative.
Also - and this is personal preference - the GNUCash UI feels quite dated.
Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#108Given that it's AGPL, are there contributor licence agreements that give bigcapitalhq any exclusive rights over your contributions?
If that's the case (if bigcapitalhq gets full IP ownership rights to your contributions), bigcapitalhq can dual licence the software other contributors made and profit of them.
Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#109If you are going to self host , why not just selfhost a fullblown alternative such as ERPNext or Odoo , they all are much capable than quickbook. https://github.com/frappe/erpnext https://odoo.com I prefer erpnext/FBook over odoo due to much better performance ,not gimped by freemium/opencoure model (ERPNext promise no freemium )
What you need is accounting, not a full-blown ERP.
Re: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
#110One 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 compl…
By looking at the db models, i guess they're using Sales Transactions in place of a Sales Journal.