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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: 2) by M. Baranczak on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:09AM

    by M. Baranczak (1673) on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:09AM (#206751)

    Maybe have a look at Quickbooks for Mac.

    This was a long time ago, so I don't know if it still applies.

    I worked for a small company that used Quickbooks running on an ancient Windows machine. They wanted to get a newer computer (bear in mind, this was the sole computer in the whole place, not counting the cash register), and I convinced them to get a Mac. Well, imagine my surprise when I found out that the Mac and Windows versions of Quickbooks use completely incompatible file formats, and there's no way to convert between the two, so they'd have no access to their existing records. In other words, the chimps at Quickbooks did something so breathtakingly stupid that I didn't even think to check for it, and I was the one who wound up looking like a schmuck. So don't let it happen to you.

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  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:55AM

    by vux984 (5045) on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:55AM (#206829)

    Yeah, I know it once was too, but not sure if that's still the case, especially with the quickbooks online offering. But even if it is still completely incompatible and it is a big one time conversion... switching to mac may still make sense... for some people; if they jsut can't keep their PC clean. Mac's aren't immune... but a lot of crud still isn't targeting them.