[nycbug-talk] quickbooks alternative

[Jonathan C. Allen]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:01:59PM -0500, Josh McCormack wrote:
> Does anyone use an open source solution, ideally on a *BSD, as an
> alternative to QuickBooks?
> I'd like something that can handle my service based business, with various
> pricing, to track invoices, and perhaps do more, like accounting, even CRM &
> newsletters and such.

I've used GNUCash before, it is probably a good package for you
to start with:

   GNUCash
   http://www.gnucash.org/

Nice CLI double-entry accounting ledger:

   Ledger
   http://newartisans.com/ledger.html

jca