Conversion from Quickbooks Pro

[Bob Brush 3]

I used this product:
http://synergration.com/software/accessbooks-realtime/ back when we had
quickbooks, to create customer profit reports, it was a life saver then,
the only down side was manipulating the data to get the reports to work
out, we had to manually tag the Cost of Goods sold to the job names.
Now of course we use GnuCash and the report is in the program
(>>Reporst>>Business>>Customer Summary) with no manual work, the Vendor
Bill already had a spot for the Customer name on a per bill basis.

I mention this because you might be able to export to a database and
then do various imports from there, it is a widely requested but nearly
impossible task because QuickBooks is a moving target, and has many
versions which aren't compatible with each other, once the immediate
need is gone, there is little reason keep working with it.  You might be
able to directly access the real quickbooks database, it is usually in
the system tray, but it isn't always easy to figure out what's what.  So
to some degree Synergration is offering better documentation for your
data and a shortcut to a more usable form, they use the QuickBooks dev
SDK, which is also available, but the agreements might be limiting, I
don't remember the extent.

Thanks, Bob


On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 09:27 -0400, gnucash at ware4.com wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>  
> 
> This is Mike, a small business owner from the Detroit, MI area. I'm spanking
> new to Gnucash - just downloaded it. I want to convert from Quickbooks and
> get away from that monopoly, but from what I've read, there's no automatic
> method to convert from Quickbooks Pro (2011) to Gnucash.or is there? I
> suppose that would be question #1 for all you Gnucash gurus. Question #2
> would be: is there anyone for hire that can do it for me? From what I read,
> it appears to require printing reports to Excel and post-processing the
> files, dealing with Journal Entries in a special way, etc.
> 
>  
> 
> I have the software smarts to do the import since I'm a former software
> programmer, but I don't have enough accounting smarts to know if the end
> result is correct and, importantly, what needs to be tweaked in the final
> files to make sure I'm using Best Practices. If there's no automatic import
> and nobody to help, then Question #3 is: is there a partially-finished or
> abandoned project that I can complete? I don't mind dusting off my 'C' for
> the greater good. But it needs to be done by May 31 - that's when my
> Quickbooks will stop downloading and they're going to force me to purchase
> QB 2014.
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  
> 
> Mike
> 
>  
> 
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