![]() ![]() It’s quick, it’s elegant, and very user-friendly. From that screen users can quickly click on a button to open up the feature they want. But until multi-user is in place, the backend server is not going to happen.īetter home screen: If anything, Intuit did get the home screen right with Quickbooks. This feature couldn’t be all that hard – once the multi-user feature was added. And when you’re dealing with finances, you do NOT want those kind of mistakes haunting you. But when you do that you are going to come across Samba’s widely inconsistent file-locking issues. But I know there are some brilliant open source developers out there who could add this feature.īackend server: Right now the closest you can come to this is sharing the data file out with Samba. I realize this feature alone would take either a team of developers or an incredibly talented individual to pull off. Or you can have multiple users opening up the same data file, but not concurrently. Multi-user capability: With GnuCash you can have multiple users, but each user has to have their own data file. So…I thought I would fill in the blanks so that anyone who has the developer chops could pick up the open source GnuCash and roll up what could easily be a QuickBooks killer. But it lacks too many key elements to be adopted across the board. And that’s a shame because GnuCash is one of the few fully cross-platform accounting packages that can handle nearly every accounting need of either an individual user or a business. As good as GnuCash is, it’s not what the business public wants. GnuCash does not have a user-friendly GUI that contains one-click buttons to access nearly ever feature it offers. As good as GnuCash is (and I’ve been using it daily for a long, long time) it can not stand up to what QuickBooks users need. I want that alternative to be GnuCash, but it isn’t. I want to be able to tell clients “Why yes, I do know of an alternative that is easy to use, reliable, and open source!” Unfortunately I can not. Along with those complaints comes the question: “Do you know of an alternative?” The answer to that question is always, unfortunately, “No.” And I hear these complaints nearly every day. When it works it’s great…but when it doesn’t work, it’s a NIGHTMARE! It’s terribly sensitive to network hiccups, it isn’t smart enough to switch itself out of single user mode after a scheduled backup, it’s slow, it constantly can not find data files, it’s expensive…the list goes on and on. ![]() And, to be perfectly honest, QuickBooks stinks. In this open source blog entry he proposes the features that GnuCash needs to become that infamous Quickbooks killer. Jack Wallen has to regularly deal with the shortcomings of Quickbooks. ![]()
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