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Ask Soylent: Payroll Software on Linux

posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 08 2015, @06:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the give-me-the-money dept.

Gravis writes:

A client of mine does the payroll for his small business and has thus far used various versions of Intuit's Quickbooks. While he can manage to muddle around with programs and do things, computers are still very much magic boxes to him and he had the malware to prove it. I'm doing everything remotely, so I would like to switch him to a simple Linux desktop but the problem is Quickbooks doesn't have a Linux client and the web version of their app is unusable. I've looked into Linux financial software (e.g. gnucash) but I can't seem to find anything that does payroll and accounts for U.S. state and federal payroll taxes. Does anyone use payroll software for Linux that they can recommend?

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Appalbarry on Wednesday July 08 2015, @07:09AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Wednesday July 08 2015, @07:09AM (#206366) Journal

    I run Quickbooks inside Vista using Virtualbox and it seems fine. I honestly don't really like the product, but there's nothing comparable in Linux land so I stick with it.

    And yes, I spent a fair bit of time looking and trying recommended Open Source options - nothing came close.

    I'm only running an old dual core machine, and I found that moving to an SSD drive really speeded things up.

    If you're small enough not to need or want a bookkeeper to handle routine stuff like payroll (which, IMHO is nowhere near as complicated as people seem to believe) you may as well stay with Quickbooks, if only because every living accountant knows it.

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