Mon, 21 Mar 2005
I decided to
use Quasar to do my accounting. It's a
huge improvement over GnuCash. Almost all
of the fields have tab completion. For example, to create an invoice, I type
the first few letters of a companies name, tab, and it fills in the company
name and address. This works for accounts, tenders, and pretty much anything
that is stored in another table.
I'm still learning how to use everything, but it's very well thought out.
Initially, I didn't realize I could create a sale by entering the tender (Visa,
American Express, etc.) on an invoice. I was creating an invoice, then a
payment against the invoice, which took me a lot longer. I still need to
figure out how to make invoices default to Account type rather than Item.
The account reconciliation feature works great. It helped me track down a
transaction for which Authorize.Net
didn't send me a receipt email.
Quasar has a ton of features related to running retail stores. I don't need to
deal with multiple stores and cash registers, but it's great that it's there if
I ever open up that pub.
Some of the cool features that I'll actually use include:
- Customer Groups. You can put customers into arbitrary groups and then run
queries based on those groups.
- Cloning. You can create a copy of a journal entry, customer, invoice,
etc.
- Recurring billing. I haven't played with this yet, but combined
with the data import features, I'm hoping to automate the accounting of
recurring online transactions.
Quasar has a good chance of becoming the de facto accounting package in the
open source world.
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