On Monday 03 September 2007 09:48:14 Jenny Hopkins wrote:

Hullo there,

I'm looking for an accounting system that will run with the backend and the front on linux. Something like Sage, which takes care of accounting and payroll, also customers, jobs and invoices. Sage requires windows running on the workstation, however.

I've looked at gnucash but it's scary and unfriendly, with the customer and invoicing side not being what is needed. I'm after a system that can have multiple front-end users and a database backend in postgresql or mysql. Hard cash may change paws, it doesn't have to be free.

There is SQL Ledger:

http://www.sql-ledger.com/

Unfortunately its written in Perl. But on the plus side it uses a Web front-end and so is reasonably cross-platform, and it uses PostgreSQL as its default back-end. I had a quick glance through the "Features" page and I found something on invoices but nothing on payroll. It will probably require quite a bit of work to set up - describing all your accounts/ledgers and customising for British tax systems etc.

I did start writing one with a web front end, - the customer and invoicing part is okay but the more I do accounts the more I realise this is a mad, stupid thing to be doing.

Hehe. I'm always thinking of potential really LARGE free software projects. Accounting systems was one I was interested on years ago when I was little. My current interest is in library systems stemming, I guess, from my frustrations with the two library systems I deal with on a regular bases: Ex Libris' Aleph and Metalib systems (used at UEA) and the Norfolk Library's DServe system.

Cheers, Richard

On Monday 03 September 2007 09:48, Jenny Hopkins wrote:

Hullo there,

I'm looking for an accounting system that will run with the backend and the front on linux. Something like Sage, which takes care of accounting and payroll, also customers, jobs and invoices. Sage requires windows running on the workstation, however.

I've looked at gnucash but it's scary and unfriendly, with the customer and invoicing side not being what is needed. I'm after a system that can have multiple front-end users and a database backend in postgresql or mysql. Hard cash may change paws, it doesn't have to be free.

I did start writing one with a web front end, - the customer and invoicing part is okay but the more I do accounts the more I realise this is a mad, stupid thing to be doing.

Thanks

Jenny

Have you tried to get Sage running on Wine/Crossover?

Assuming it is capable of working (and there's an appdb entry which suggests it might be) it'll probably need as much tweaking as the alternatives, although since the potential payoff is sage itself, it may be worth a go.