[GNC] Having trouble trying to use Gnucash instead of Aplos

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 9/15/19 2:19 PM, Daniel Wieberdink wrote:
> Thanks Mike. It's just that the expense of the Aplos subscription is a
> significant burden for our small church at the moment.
> I'm also not a fan of the cloud-centric approach. I much prefer having
> everything contained in one local file as Gnucash does
> and having it run from my PC rather than a browser.
>
> I just thought it would be nice to have the old data available. But I could
> live with closing out the books and starting fresh as you describe. That's
> kind of where I was going with trying to delete the mess of transactions I
> had created without losing the account setup. I see
> someone else has responded with how to export just the account setup. So
> maybe I'll try that. Someone else said GC will not
> handle records of individual donors/donations very well, so maybe this is a
> dead end anyway. We definitely need to track donations and
> generate year-end reports for every donor.


I don't use the business features.  Couldn't you setup the donors as
"customers" and "invoice" them (without sending invoices) for the
donations they make?

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