[GNC] Closing out QB Pro?!

[Jim DeLaHunt]

Hello, Dan, and welcome to GnuCash!

On 2024-11-16 08:48, Dan a1TNC wrote:
> ...I have not found or seen anyway you could export [from QBooks] then Import into GNUCash.
> If there is I would sure like to know how.

Sure!  You might want to start by reading the GnuCash Tutorial and Guide 
<https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=guide>, especially 
Appendix A. *Migration Guide*.

I quick search for "gnucash migration from quickbooks" also turns up:

Step-by-step instructions at 
<https://scrips.io/blog/dancingnumbers/transitioning-to-gnucash-from-quickbooks/>,
An article, "Escape from QuickBooks (with data in hand)", at 
<https://lwn.net/Articles/729087/>,
An awk script for data conversion at 
<https://gist.github.com/trolin522581/cd9b8d684b0f9e0c8aed8876b256e31e>.


> If anyone wanted to figure out how to do that under the free "open source
> model" there will be many more folks coming this way that will want to hire
> someone to pull and push their files....

As a solo freelance software engineering consultant, my business 
development department (me) is always interested in opportunities to 
earn revenue doing things I already know about. But the biz dev staff 
(me) are skeptical that people who are reluctant to pay hundreds of 
dollars to QuickBooks will pay thousands of dollars for bespoke data 
conversion, or hundreds of dollars for an app (which took tens of 
thousands of dollars worth of time to develop) to do standardised data 
conversion.

> ...Build it and they will come :-)

So despite your confidence, I have my doubts.

Good luck with your migration,
       —Jim DeLaHunt