Setting up a Co-op

[Keith Bellairs]

A lot depends on your book-keeper's skills. If she is comfortable with
double-entry accounting (not Quickbooks-style mish-mash accounts) then
Gnucash is a great choice. Other than QB I have not used any of the others
on your list.

I have set up and been on boards of food coops in US, but that was before
Gnucash days. If your coop is going to track the purchases by members in
order to return rebates based on purchases, I don't think there is any
particular feature of GNC to support that. But that tails over into POS,
which you know is not in GNC. A system that recorded each member's
purchases at the POS would be cool, but may not be a requirement.

Keith
Guelph

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald <
malcolm at notyourhomework.net> wrote:

> I'm wondering if GnuCash is the right choice.
>
> As background:
> We are a small not-for-profit fruit and vege co-op
> We are based in Australia
> We have a book-keeper who has said that the choice of software is up to us.
>
> The co-op collects annual fees from members
> The co-op sells groceries. The big dream is to be a retail grocery outlet
> but at present we offer a mixed fruit-vege box
> The co-op purchases from distributors and producers.
> There are no wages or employees, at this stage it is all volunteers.
>
> I know that GnuCash is not a POS but we do need something to tracks our
> accounts.
>
> The list we are considering are:
>
> free - GnuCash <http://www.gnucash.org>
>
> $99 - Nominal <http://www.nominal.com.au>
>
> $189 - QuickBooks <
> http://home.quicken.com.au/Pages/ProductDetails.aspx?pcode=22>
>
> $239 - MYOB FirstEdge <http://myob.com.au/business/products-1258090781431>
>
> $450 - MoneyWorks Express <http://www.cognito.co.nz/products/?range>
>
>
> All comments welcome,
>
> Malcolm
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