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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @09:01AM
The submitter stated that the client is picking up malware all the time so move to a more robust operating system certainly would help. The fact that the person in question is not very skilled with computers probably will only make the transition easier as there are not too many things to unlearn.
Clients often have ideas how to do something while they actually should be thinking what they want to do and leave the how part to experts.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2015, @09:41AM
Exactly. Accounting System + Malware = Easy To Manage Bank Balance Of $0.