How to setup Gnucash as a business software?

Allan Mwenda allanitomwesh at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 14:38:13 EDT 2014


I don't mind imputing figures,as long as the business generates them they
just need keying in anyway. Thanks for the heads up on cloud computing.


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Mike or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:

> Allan Mwenda wrote:
>
>  Thanks for the reply. I don't mind doing some stuff manually but i would
>> like to do the majority of the bookkeeping on the software,and maybe just
>> do printouts for filing and backup perhaps on the cloud or on an external
>> drive or something.
>> So,you say I can automate SOME of what I want to do,and using business
>> features i'll be able to automate SOME of the rest. I am still going
>> through the manual but if you could tell me what definitely is not possible
>> that would be great. I also noticed gnucash can print cheques,what type of
>> printer do i need for that feature?
>>
>
> Sorry if I am being unclear.
>
> By "manually" I do not mean using something other than computer software.
> Maybe it would be clearer if I took one of the things you talked about. Not
> necessarily printouts on paper. Those could be files you kept in a
> "reports" directory (maybe subdirectories for each year) and also backed
> up. BTW, I would suggest definitely doing your own backups (external
> drives, on copy perhaps kept in a different building) rather than trust the
> "cloud". I am willing to bet that the "fine print" in terms of use
>  includes no recourse if tomorrow they simply went out of business.
>
> In other words, by "manually" I meant perhaps having to type in the
> transaction rather than being automatically generated. For example, gnucash
> business features currently support some automation of invoices/receivables
> but as far as I know, not payroll. Nor does it do "inventory" much less
> "point of sales". Again, by "not do" I mean no AUTOMATED connection.
>
> Gnucash is NOT an incomplete bookkeeping system as long as you don't
> expect everything to have an automated shortcut. And you might likely find
> it faster/easier to export a generalized reports and then edit those
> outside of gnucash rather than to construct custom reports.
>
> Michael
>


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