[GNC] Doing Payroll in Gnucash

[Glenn Fowler]

Yes we do have SS taxes but QuickBooks lumps that into the federal tax withdraw from your account so only one entry in GnuCash since payroll isn't being calculated there.

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From: R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at mac.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2025 7:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [GNC] Doing Payroll in Gnucash

I have a rather jurisdiction-specific perl script that I run on a csv file that captures the employees time sheet information.

And on top of that I have a piece of C++ code that does the necessary queries to get the year-to-date information needed in calculating the deductions, and spits out a second .csv file that is read by the above perl script.  The C++ code is subject to the possibility of breaking at a major release of GnuCash, but hasn’t so far (if the sqlite schema changes, it will break for sure).

So yes it can be done.  I won’t say it’s all that easy.  But without buying something or outsourcing it I know of no other way to get payroll right in our jurisdiction (Ontario, Canada, specific to rules that apply to farm workers).


I’m surprised Glenn doesn’t also have to deal with Social Security deductions.  Here we have EI, CPP, and the two taxes.  I thought I recalled when in the US having MC and some other kind of Social Security deduction.

> On Jan 1, 2025, at 12:39 PM, Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:
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> Hi ND,
>
> What I do is payroll in Quickbooks Payroll Core which is just payroll only and then I just manually add the 3 transactions into GnuCash (payroll check, federal taxes, and state taxes).
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2025 12:31 PM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: [GNC] Doing Payroll in Gnucash
>
> Happy New Year everyone!  Anyone using Gnucash for doing Payroll? I'd
> like to know the pros-and-cons of using GNC for payroll processing.  Thanks!
>
> ND
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