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Can anyone point me in the direction of setting up ledgersmb to handle
NZ tax? My accountant isn't very computer-literate. Even if someone
could provide me with a quote to customise it (or to tell me how, I'm a
web-developer and quite experienced with linux) that would be great...<br>
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Dave Lane wrote:
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<pre wrap="">We've been using LedgerSMB (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ledgersmb.org">http://ledgersmb.org</a>) which is a fork of SQL
Ledger. We started with SQL-Ledger in 2002, and transferred to
LedgerSMB (more secure, better development team, attractive development
roadmap) which is functionally equivalent (or better). It's a very good
system. For most businesses, it's more flexible but has less "hand
holding" for non-accountants. Unless you're a competent accounts
person, you'd probably want to have assistance from a professional in
setting it up (although I'd recommend that in any case). That said, the
LedgerSMB email list is very responsive and offers some good resources.
LedgerSMB is properly open source, it's client-server (uses PostgreSQL
as a back end), and it's moving towards a web-services interface. We
sent PDF invoices via email to our customers. It doesn't do direct
import of bank details (a la Xero) but it offers Point of Sale, Project
management, Quotes, Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, reconciliation,
inventory management, multiple currencies, and lots of other stuff that
other systems don't offer. Don't underestimate the value of proper
client server architecture (e.g. give your accountant a log-in and they
can watch your accounts securely without you having to send them a
spreadsheet or MYOB database each time) - also no user license fees, and
the ability to integrate into other applications... we're looking at
doing that now with Drupal.
We offer hosted LedgerSMB systems for some of the other companies in our
Effusion Group cluster (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://effusiongroup.com">http://effusiongroup.com</a>) and they've found it
very good. We're not offering it as a full-fledged commercial service,
but might be open for discussion.
I don't know much about Gnu-Cash, but my impression is that it's more
for individuals and not so much for business use, particularly if you
expect to expand to multiple locations, branches, etc. (which LedgerSMB
does support!).
Hope that helps someone.
Dave
Paulus Herewini wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello, I am in the process of setting up a small business. I am hoping
to be using entirely opensource operating systems and software. I am
almost there except for one part:
Accounting Software
I did some quick researched and (hopefully) found that GNUcash was the
better option for me. It looks like it needs some slight customisation
to enter/calculate NZ GST correctly, and anything else NZ-related.
I am enquiring as to whether anyone on this list has either setup
GNUcash (or any other opensource accounting package) successfully for a
NZ business or have seen an NZ-specific tutorial or article. I am
reluctant to ask my accountant for help with this as they aren't very
technically-literate and would simply say "Just get MYOB and install it
on a windows machine".
Thanks in advance,
Paulus Herewini
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