Hey #AskFedi,
Is *anyone* out there using FOSS for accounting?
I'm struggling with Quickbooks desktop (which you can only get as a subscription now, unless you pay four figures for an enterprise license).
#Xero comes highly recommended to me, but I'm loathe to go "#cloud" for accounting. Very loathe indeed.
Edit: Thanks for all of the feedback so far, updates and clarification following in a reply...
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@RL_Dane Very happy with @simonmic's #plainTextAccounting with #hledger:
Infinitely customizable, ultra safe data format, git versionable, flexible tagging, budgeting and forecasting capabilities. Great community.
But only if the terminal is your thing. 🙂
@simonmic hands out 100$ if you find a regression, that much they value stability.
I'm all-in to plain text and CLI apps for personal use, but for this application, it needs to be usable by an "ordinary mortal." ;)
@RL_Dane @nobodyinperson isn't that what hledger-web (and to a lesser extent hledger-ui) is for ?
Or anyway a start on that use case. My non-technical spouse uses it..
I'll check it out, but I do worry about the high mutability of text files. They're terribly useful for most things, and I use todo.txt (plus some script/plugins and a few of my own front-end bash functions for extra sugar), so I do love CLI and plain text stuff, but having all my business accounting in plain text gives me pause.
That may or may not be a rational fear. ;)
R. L. Dane 
Yann Büchau 
Simon Michael