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: 3, Insightful) by khakipuce on Wednesday July 08 2015, @01:57PM
Don't do it, a non-computer literate client he will see it as you putting something he understands beyond his control and that will probably make him feel more threatened rather than less, as others have said either persuade him to outsource all the accounts or sit down with him and resolve the big issues.