Replying to Avatar R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

Hey #AskFedi,

Is *anyone* out there using FOSS for accounting?

I'm struggling with Quickbooks desktop (which you can only get as a subscription now, unless you pay four figures for an enterprise license).

#Xero comes highly recommended to me, but I'm loathe to go "#cloud" for accounting. Very loathe indeed.

But while I want to try FOSS for my personal accounting, I just can't make the leap for business yet. I wish I could. But I was wondering if anyone out there already has.

#BoostPlease?
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dc60e963... 2y ago

nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 I feel this pain. I use Wave from H&R Block, but would love something that doesn’t feel like a loss leader for their real business.

I really wish there was a *ledger that had a nice UI for folks who don’t live in vi or emacs. Something like YNAB but using text instead of a database.

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R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: 2y ago

nostr:npub1uwcsjcuznw7556pukwqtzpe2np5uuvejcqahr4rwx6494fjl57wqrzc3lz

Honestly, while I love using plain text for my todos and time tracking (todo.txt plus some plugins/scripts as well as my own little bodgy front-end bash functions for more features), I don't really want to use plain text for business accounting. It's just... *so* mutable. I won't argue based on the performance of using a DB vs. basically grepping through a text file, but I just don't want my accounting data to be *that* easily changed.

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