[GNC] Sales items, Service items, Inventory items

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 7/19/2024 10:17 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> What you are asking for is not just inventory management, but point of 
> sale tied to it.
>
> GnuCash doesn't have either of those.
>
> You would need to use proper outside software for those functions. You 
> should then be able to export the accounting data from that system 
> into GnuCash for bookkeeping purposes.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien

A complete business system (for a business involved in selling things) 
would have a "point of sales" and "inventory" components and these would 
communicate with "general ledger" (what gnucash is) as well s each 
other. There might be other components, like "payroll".

A lot of questions here are of the sort "how can I get gnucash to do 
....." when this "to do" really would be a function of one of these 
other components. Note that one good argument for a modular "complete 
business system" is that any given business would only be using some of 
the components depending on what sort of business. No employees*, no 
"payroll", buying and selling, no "billable hours", providing 
professional services, no "POS" or "inventory", etc.  Then the 
developers of a "business system"  can announce things like "ready for 
businesses of types X and Y, Z still not complete"

Note that even developers of commercial complete business systems are 
often marketing products that handle only certain sorts of business 
(have the components needed for that sort but lack components for other 
sorts). But ALL business sorts would have a "general ledger" component. 
Making gnucash fully ready would be by adding a well defined process for 
receiving "feeds" (better than manual import) << AFAIK, "general ledger" 
has to receive feeds but does not send to other components. Some of the 
other components would both send and receive.

Michael D Novack

* partners, independent contractors, etc. are not employees








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