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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nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 Over the years LWN has had a series of articles as they tried to replace Quickbooks too. They finally settled on a solution a few months ago.

https://lwn.net/Articles/925782/

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

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Ahh, thanks for this. Very good read.

Unfortunately, from the journey they have described, it looks like no FOSS desktop program would be very workable for me, because the process of importing data from the dreaded QB is pretty pear-shaped.

I think I will investigate Akaunting for now, as they have a QB import feature, and I'll try to avoid going to xero, but may end up going there if Akaunting doesn't work out.