How to move from Quickbooks to Gnucash?

[Johannes Kapune]

Am 04.03.2012 19:32, schrieb David Gillam:
> This sounds like a couple of RFEs for the developers... Add Quickbooks IIF import/export.

Isn't there the possibility to export to QIF out of Quickbooks?
>
> 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.
>
Best way is to use both programs quite a time parallel, so you keep your 
data in Quickbooks and see what's different in GnuCash. After a while 
you decide to one of them.


Johannes


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