Hey all,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm looking for some advice regarding accounting software.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've recently taken up the job of treasurer for a, hrm I guess it's kind of like a club, that I'm involved with. We have fees (every 3 months) that I need to issue invoices for, and we also have a fridge which has drinks in it at our den (or clubhouse) - I need to record when we buy cartons of drinks from the shop and how much money we end up making that I then put into our bank account.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We pay bills and from time to time will issue other invoices to members on top of the membership fees (eg. fees for a special event.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've had a brief look at some accounting software but it all seems to be very complicated and bloated for the simple task I want to achieve. I do intend to continue researching more software and learning how to use it but I thought I'd ask around to see if anyone else has any advice regarding this? Free as in beer is required, free as in speech is preferred (that means that I don't have the money to pay for the software, and would prefer that it was open source too.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If anyone has any experience with any software they've used to achieve similar tasks, I'd be interested in any recommendations you could make. Frankly, this is something I could achieve with a simple spreadsheet but I was hoping to have an application with a decent UI to make it even simpler - unfortunately the applications I've looked at so far have just made it more complex.

Quickbooks works well. I don't know how to set it up but I know how to do stuff like making checks and stuff like that and when you owe money, how to know whether you have payed it or not. Quickbooks is pretty good, look into it.

Thanks for your input Fadfdfd, but Quickbooks is not free in any sense of the word.

I may have misunderstood your question, but why dont you use plain old simple Excel. :anxious:

Earpy: Yah that's what I might end up doing...

Cameron, I've had experience of being a Treasurer for this and that and it really is best to customise your won spreadsheet system which you can also pass on to any successors too :) Could easily use form elements, some simple formulas and an invoice template in a separate sheet and some macros if you like to automate things for smooth running further down the road. Have fun :mrgreen:

Might as well post something I saw on slashdot a bit ago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GnuCash just reached 2.0

 

 

 

and Grisbi is another alternative

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(These might be the ones you've suggested are too complicated? I've never personally used them as I haven't had time to use Grisbi and GnuCash fubars my linux comp and doesn't have a windows port yet)