moving away from gnucash

[Shane Litherland]

A late reply - but possibly the pro/con list could have been summarised best by "Pro for bought software= my accountant is too busy to figure out gnucash and likes to encourage buying program x" haha!
seriously - i did some reading around when i started with gnucash, have figured out ways that work for me for aust taxation, incl gst and grants, but i don't have to bother with payroll or some other points you made.
though for some, as you say, either time or code-savvy factors are limited and hence the purchased packages.
but, for others considering it in aust, with some tweaks it may still suit your small business activities...
cheers,
shane.
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:24:10 +1100
> From: musicman <datakid at gmail.com>
> Subject: Moving away from GnuCash
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
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> Hola,
> 
> We've been using GnuCash for two years, and I've really enjoyed
> learning how it works. We think it's great software and would like to
> keep using it.
> 
> Unfortunately, it doesn't really fit with our business needs here in
> Australia, and so we are moving to propriety software that does.
> 
> I thought I would send this list the text document that our book
> keeper presented to us regards Pros and Cons of GC and the software we
> will probably settle on, to give you an idea of why, and maybe help
> inform direction.
> 
> If I was a better coder with more time on my hands I would help out,
> but it's not the case.
> 
> I will continue to champion GC to my friends that are looking for free
> accounting software and I wish you all the best :)
> 
> thanks for the good times!
> 
> cheers
> L.
> 
> -- 
>      An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first
> one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter
> of a beer. The bartender says "You're all idiots", and pours two
> beers.
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> ?
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> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:34:58 -0800
> From: Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com>
> Subject: Getting GnuCash to work with banks that demand ClientUID in
> 	their	OFX transaction
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> Martin added the changes necessary for GnuCash to send CLIENTUID, so 
> I'll put down what I had to do to make it work.
> 
> Symptom: bank OFX log contains an error message that the bank 
> application doesn't support the user agent information that GNUCash 
> sends, whatever it sends. The bank says something silly like "This 
> application does not support Quicken for Windows 2007", which we know 
> well it does.
> 
> This isn't in a released version of GnuCash yet. Download the latest 
> pre-release of AQBanking, and get GnuCash and Gwhenhywfar from SVN. Make 
> sure to remove any old versions of these packages from your system. 
> Build the software.
> 
> Set up the account. In the OFX configuration page, under "Expert 
> Settings", set the Header Version to 103. This stopped my bank from 
> complaining about not supporting the client program. Fill in the 
> CLIENTUID with a long random number in lower-case hexadecimal, just the 
> digits, no leading "0x" or "#".
> 
> My number was generated by Quicken, and was 32 characters long, that's a 
> 64-bit number. I think you can put any number there THE FIRST TIME. 
> After that, you must send the same number each time. If you've already 
> used another program with this account, generate a transaction log using 
> that program and look for CLIENTUID in the log. The instructions on how 
> to do that with Quicken are at 
> http://fi.intuit.com/support/logfileslocation.cfm
> Otherwise, you will have to tell your bank to clear your OFX CLIENTUID 
> because you're using a different program than before (they may stop 
> helping you if you say "GnuCash", because they don't support it).
> 
> Once you've set up the OFX information, go through the same set-up 
> procedure as with OFX transactions that did not use CLIENTUID.
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
>     Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:19:46 -0800
> From: Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com>
> Subject: Setting currency of an expense voucher
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> Is there a way to set the currency of an expense voucher? It would be 
> best to be able to set it per item, but I don't even know how to set it 
> for the entire voucher.
> 
>     Thanks
> 
>     Bruce
> 
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