Managing without data import [LWN.net]

Managing without data import

Posted May 10, 2007 9:45 UTC (Thu) by Stephen_Beynon (subscriber, #4090)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's next project

It is some 3 years I decided that it was time to make the switch, as the
accounts package was the only non linux based software that I used.

Regretably I could not find any package that could import the data from
sage. The budget version of sage that I ran did not seem to have any easy
way to export the data either. The sage website seemed to indicate that I
could upgrade to a considerably more expensive version of the software and
export the data from that in csv format.

Eventually I decided that I would wait for my company year end, and start
the new company year using the new accounting software without importing
the data. For the first year after the migration I had to regularly boot
windows to refer back to old data. I still have the hard disk containing
windows, and sage in the cupboard, but it has been well over a year since
I have had to boot it.

I picked SQL-Ledger at the time, though the recent issues with SQL-Ledger
have caused me to take the Ledger-SMB fork.

I find that having given my accountant a restricted (read only) login to
the accounts web pages has considerably reduced my workload as I no-longer
get emails requesting information, and that I print out various reports
from sage, and post them to him.

Stephen

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Managing without data import

Posted May 10, 2007 12:22 UTC (Thu) by Klavs (subscriber, #10563) [Link]

I too use SQL-Ledger - and am thinking of switching (though at years end) to LedgerSMB.
I did start OpenLedger (an attempt to fork a cleaner SQL-Ledger version) - but then LedgerSMB came along - and as soon a they finish their new structure, I'll switch and begin adding the features I've written for SQL-Ledger (mostly script-based invoicing support - ie. perl modules that can create an invoice and other things) - to LedgerSMB :)