[ILUG] Accounting packages

[Colin Rooney]

Gerard,
do you actually require an accounting package or something to manage
you invoicing?
Most small businesses would have an accountant that they can hand
their customer invoices & purchase receipts to to do the actual
accounts.
But to create and manage the actual customers & billing you might use
something like vTigerCRM
There is a demo here
http://demo.vtiger.com/index.php?action=Login&module=Users

There are full blown ERP systems that include full accounting but I
think they are perhaps too complex for a small business, something
like vTigerCRM seems to do all the basics that you can had off to an
accountant to actually write up the accounts.

Colin


On 17 October 2011 19:38, Gerard Cunningham <lists at faduda.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 19:10 +0100, Michael Kennedy wrote:
>> Gerard,
>>
>> If you've not done so yet, maybe take a look through the recent posts
>> here referring to OpenERP, etc. Many book-keeping systems were mentioned.
>>
>> I'm assuming you'd prefer a *Nix-based system, and maybe FOSS? And you
>> mentioned VAT:
>
> Linux Mint Debian (64 bit) if that helps.
>
>>    - Many of the major systems clearly state that they do not support VAT.
>>    - Some suggest that their tax handling can be configured to handle
>> VAT - but that might be optimistic!
>>    - And, of those with good VAT support, some don't support the "cash
>> accounting" VAT schemes, and that eliminates some more candidates.
>
> Looks like I'm stuck with "silly old pencils", to quote the
> iar-thaoioseach
>
>> Mike.
>>
>>
>> On 17/10/2011 18:41, Gerard Cunningham wrote:
>> > Can anyone recommend a simple-to-use (I know, that's relative)
>> > accounting package for use by a sole trader, to handle Sales, Cash,
>> > Purchases, Debtors Owing and VAT for an impoverished journalist?
>> >
>> > Basically I need something that's a pretty straightforward
>> > metaphor/equivalent for standard double-entry bookkeeping.
>> >
>> > The ability to talk to bank accounts/Revenue online is not necessary,
>> > though if it can generate custom invoices as PDF that would be nice.
>> >
>> >
>> > On an unrelated note, has anyone had any success in getting Unbuntuone
>> > to work with a non-Ubuntu distro? Ironic that I can get a version for MS
>> > Windows but not for Debian.
>> >
>
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