multi users data merging? phone app data merging?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

John Griessen <john at cibolo.com> writes:

> Has anyone figured out a workflow where one person, (bookkeeper),
> can get busy doing reconciles, while sales and expenses are still being recorded?
> If so, what do you do to merge that data together?
>
> Supposing you could export data as a QIF, (Cash2QIF)...  How would you
> export only in a date range?  Or is it best to do that with some external-to-gnucash
> text processing?
>
> I would want to avoid outputting data from a phone app farther back than the date of
> the last QIF import so the import merge reconciling would be simple and quick.
>
> Does anyone send their data file to a bookkeeper, then merge it back in
> after doing more sales?

This is not really supported by GnuCash.

If your accounting "group" is large enough that you really need multiple
people entering in transactions then you have outgrown GnuCash and
should invest in something that is designed for larger organizations.

Good Luck,

> John

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-derek

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