How to move from Quickbooks to Gnucash?

[David Gillam]

This sounds like a couple of RFEs for the developers... Add Quickbooks IIF import/export.

I have a customer who would like to try out Gnucash, but to do so, needs to get his Quickbooks data into it.  This way, he can do a direct comparison.  As a safety net, he also wants to ensure he can get back to Quickbooks with the new transactions, etc. made in Gnucash.

Without easy import/export with Quickbooks, I suspect many potential users will not even try Gnucash.

Thank You,

David
Gillam Data Services, Inc. - Computer Training, Consulting, & Service
dave at davegillam.com | www.davegillam.com | 214-543-2788



On Mar 4, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Eric Morey wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 08:28 -0600, David Gillam wrote:
>> I see the import options for Gnuscash 2.4.10 list various Intuit
>> formats, but not "IIF"--which is what Quickbooks uses, apparently. 
>> How do I move quickbooks data to Gnucash?
>> 
> It seems that there is no easy way. Gnucash does not support direct
> import of IIF. IIF is allegedly able to be opened with a spreadsheet
> program and saved to CSV or XLS. The CSV or XLS file can in turn be
> converted to QIF. The QIF can be imported to GnuCash. However, there is
> apparently no way to import your customer/vendor 
> database or Invoice/Bill lists.    
> 
> 
>> Secondarily, how would one move Gnucash data to Quickbooks/Quicken? 
>> The only export option I see is XML.  There is no QIF, QXF, IIF, etc.
>> export option.
>> 
> There seems to be even less information for converting back to
> Quickbooks or quicken.
> 
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