[GNC] Payroll - basic

J. Richard Herbert rherbert at caid.ca
Sat Aug 8 19:20:47 EDT 2026


Thanks William,

I have Payroll working using Employee Vouchers without needing to tweak 
anything program-ways... using off-the-shelf choices for reports and 
printing reports. I can share it, but each time I attach a file or paste 
in a snapshot, they do not end up in the Gnucash-user Digest. I have 
again pasted the pay slip and attached it as a pdf to this email - in 
case it gets through.

For those who can see the Pay slip attachment, the deductions and 
remittances are going to their Short Term liability accounts to later 
submit to the federal government. I put a pay advance deduction in to 
let people know that if you create a short Asset like Wage Advance with 
the employee's name, then having originally entered the advance as a 
positive item in a voucher or directly in a checking account, the pay 
advance can be deducted from the pay check using the same short term 
asset Wage advance account. This is something that most small businesses 
need to track as they give themselves drawings from their 
sole-proprietor business but then later need to balance it into a 
payroll for themselves.

I actually do not need to do inventory. However that said, I do not see 
a problem if I need to have a small amount of inventory items. After 
all, whether Sage, Quickbooks, or another program, they all run using 
the same basic bookkeeping principles with assets, liabilities, income, 
expenses, etc. But yes, there is no point in running a retail store's 
inventory with Gnucash.

Thanks everyone, Richard

    Wm wrote: "I think I should probably tell you sooner rather than
    later that although you can theoretically manage inventory using gnc
    I don't know of anyone that has managed to do it efficiently as part
    of a business.  If your inventory management and payroll issues add
    up maybe gnc isn't the software for you. Do you need something like
    Odoo as suggested?  Probably not, there is another tier below.  Let
    us know how you are getting on."

    Adrien wrote: "If you have other stuff on there, I think you are
    combing too much into one transaction. Were you including a
    screenshot there? If so, it did not come through. You can't paste it
    inline, it has to be an attachment. Please resend."
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