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I, too, was looking at accounting packages. I'd narrowed
the list to SQL-Ledger and Nola. It turns out that Nola
is a pain to install (IMHO). They want you to compile
Apache, PHP, and mySQL to make sure the "right" pieces they
rely on are there and working. I could never get all the
dependencies correct so it never worked. If I'd
been willing to spend a couple of days I could have conquered
it but SQL-Ledger was so much easier that I simply forgot
about Nola.
What was your experience with Nola?
Eric
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:43:15PM -0500, Chris Beggy wrote:
> "Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com> writes:
>
> > The other Windows program that I find indispensable is QuickBooks.
> > GNUCash may or may not be a replacement for Quicken, but even Quicken is
> > not a replacement for QuickBooks.
>
> Consider sql-ledger:
>
> http://www.sql-ledger.org
>
> sql-ledger is a perl+apache+postgresql+latex GPL
> bookkeeping/accounting package with support available for a
> price.
>
> If you take a look at the recent mailing list archives:
>
> http://www.freelists.org/archives/sql-ledger-users/
>
> you will see that questions on the list run the range of "how do I
> handle currency translation and VAT in A/R" to "how do I add a user
> in postgresql." From that you can tell that some users are
> running businesses on sql-ledger and that the user base is
> growing with newbies.
>
> I've run household books for 6 months to evaluate SL. The results
> were good enough that I'm dropping QuickBooks and converting
> business books to SL for the next tax year. I evaluated Appgen
> MyBooks Pro and Nola in addition to SL. MyBooks Pro was better,
> but it's not GPL and doesn't have a published API. SL is GPL,
> and has been improving quickly enough that half of the things I
> used the API for (check writing and memorized billing) have been
> incorporated into the core since I started my evaluation.
>
> SL has more bells and whistles for manufacturing and distribution
> than it has for service and professional businesses, but that is
> changing, too. There's a user posse forming to add payroll and
> a cash ledger now as well.
>
> HTH.
>
> Chris
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