On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:22 PM Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am looking for an offline accounting package recommendation, please. >> I enjoyed using Xero accounting, but need something that's offline, >> and where the data remains my property. Having used Quickbooks on >> Windows in the past, I am looking for something similar. >> >> Any recommendations? >> >> -- >> Kind Regards >> Rudi Ahlers >> Website: http://www.rudiahlers.co.za >> >> > In the past (more than 10 years ago...) I had to work with Sql Ledger and > in its forum/mailing list often Quickbooks was cited. > I enjoyed it because of being GPL, using perl and PostgreSQL as a > background database. > It seems a still developed piece of software. Here the home page: > https://www.sql-ledger.com/There also was ledgersmb which is/was a fork of sql-ledger. Both got the job done at the time but ledger smb had some enhancements that at the time Dieter refused to add. Keep in mind, I have not looked at either one in about 4 years and have no idea what the current status is. My business needs changed so I moved on. Regards, -- Tom me at tdiehl.org
I have to say, GnuCash simply doesn't do it for me. As a tech, I don't have time to figure out accounting systems, and I really don't want to have this info on the internet in 3rd party's control. On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:09 PM <me at tdiehl.org> wrote:> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:22 PM Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am looking for an offline accounting package recommendation, please. > >> I enjoyed using Xero accounting, but need something that's offline, > >> and where the data remains my property. Having used Quickbooks on > >> Windows in the past, I am looking for something similar. > >> > >> Any recommendations? > >> > >> -- > >> Kind Regards > >> Rudi Ahlers > >> Website: http://www.rudiahlers.co.za > >> > >> > > In the past (more than 10 years ago...) I had to work with Sql Ledger and > > in its forum/mailing list often Quickbooks was cited. > > I enjoyed it because of being GPL, using perl and PostgreSQL as a > > background database. > > It seems a still developed piece of software. Here the home page: > > https://www.sql-ledger.com/ > > There also was ledgersmb which is/was a fork of sql-ledger. Both got the job > done at the time but ledger smb had some enhancements that at the time Dieter > refused to add. > > Keep in mind, I have not looked at either one in about 4 years and have > no idea what the current status is. My business needs changed so I moved on. > > Regards, > > -- > Tom me at tdiehl.org > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers Website: http://www.rudiahlers.co.za
On 22/06/2020 13:57, Rudi Ahlers wrote:> I have to say, GnuCash simply doesn't do it for me. As a tech, I don't > have time to figure out accounting systems, and I really don't want to > have this info on the internet in 3rd party's control. > > >>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:22 PM Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I am looking for an offline accounting package recommendation, please. >>>> I enjoyed using Xero accounting, but need something that's offline, >>>> and where the data remains my property. Having used Quickbooks on >>>> Windows in the past, I am looking for something similar. >>>> >>>> Any recommendations? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kind Regards >>>> Rudi Ahlers >>>> Website: http://www.rudiahlers.co.za >>>> >>>>Don't take this the wrong way, but if you're looking for an accounting solution, but at the same time you don't want to learn how to use a perfectly adequate accounting solution, then perhaps all you need is an accountant, and not a piece of software.