Reliability of Gnu Cash software

[David Both]

I have been using GnuCash since August 31 of 2000, for both personal and 
business accounting. I have been very happy with it for almost 14 years and have 
never lost any data or had any type of serious problem.

There have also been continuous significant upgrades to GnuCash and it has 
improved a great deal over the years.

I do not like the way it deals with invoices for A/R, specifically the format 
and I needed a little more flexibility in some discounting things. So I use a 
LibreOffice spreadsheet template that I downloaded from the OpenOffice Extras 
web site and heavily modded to meet my needs. I then enter the invoice amount 
directly into the A/R account.

I have looked at other Open Source accounting packages over the years, but have 
absolutely no intention of switching.

I hope this helps.


On 03/05/2014 08:22 AM, Jeff Earickson wrote:
> Richard,
>
> I converted from Quicken 2007 on Mac to Gnucash in the last month, and I am
> happy with the results.  The rounding errors I experienced in Quicken,
> which caused accounts to not reconcile, are gone in GC.  Other issues, like
> data export to csv format, were the reason I wanted to convert in the first
> place.  I could not do this in Quicken.  I use Gnucash for my home
> finances: bank, mortgage, stocks, mutual funds.  No business accounting.
>
> While the conversion wasn't painless, the documentation is very good and
> helped me thru the process.  Take the time to read the Guide and work thru
> the examples before attempting any real data conversion.
>
> Crashes or bugs encountered?  Zero so far for me..
>
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> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Richard Cooper <richtcooper at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm new to Gnu Cash software and would like to use as a replacement to
>> proprietary accounting packages.
>> However, before switching to Gnu Cash, I'd like to get an idea as to its
>> reliability/performance - could someone point me to any
>> recommendations/testimonials?
>> Many thanks for your support!Rich
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