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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:14:49 +0000 Darren Foster <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering if anyone knows of any invoicing software for linux. > Currently using Microsoft Money 2006 on my laptop but i would love to > find an alternative for my Fedora Core 6 linux box. Have tried GnuCash > but really dont get on with it that well. So any other alternatives > welcome. It depends how much you want to do yourself and where your raw data resides. I'm working on a set of tools that will support various financial operations, including invoices. Currently, the emphasis is on obtaining invoice data from a PDA or Palm (because that is how my business operates) but the XSL and Perl support can be tweaked to work in the opposite direction, to take data from small utilities like gpe-expenses or calcurse and supply a few defaults to obtain a dataset suitable for an invoice. (Note: this is not my only - or even main - project right now so things happen slowly.) Invoices are not simple to handle in a generic manner - different businesses have very different needs when creating an invoice. If you want to work this way (rather than use some GUI that doesn't do it quite the way you want), you can send me a sample invoice layout and descriptions of where your basic / raw data currently resides (applications, platforms etc.) and we can see how the land lies. Note that it will require some scripting at your end, at least initially. For anyone else interested, the pilot-qof source includes three new sections, datafreedom-qsxsl, datafreedom-perl and datafreedom-doc. I'm still waiting for these packages to migrate out of the NEW queue in Debian but last time I checked, there were no problems building pilot-qof on FC5. You don't need pilot-qof to use the new scripts, you just need a way of converting existing data sources into compatible datasets, either using XSL or Perl. Examples are contained in the source. http://pilot-qof.sourceforge.net/manual/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/pilot-qof/ -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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