From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 28 23:10:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB0E16A407 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:10:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (www.unsane.co.uk [85.233.185.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC3713C463 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:09:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from [10.0.0.173] ([10.0.0.173]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBSMiATr010650 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:44:11 GMT (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <459448A2.1000106@unsane.co.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:43:46 +0000 From: Vince Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry References: <20061228190854.GA32742@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20061228190854.GA32742@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lipsey@msu.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Business port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:10:00 -0000 Jerry wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been rummaging through ports wondering if there might be > a utility or couple of utilities to handle bookkeeping for a > small membership organization. > > I know little of accounting and such, so don't know how to > interpret the scanty pkg-descr tidbits that accompany the ports. > So, some amplification would be helpful. > > It would need to keep records for about 500 members (say under 1000 > for good measure - more is, of course OK), including membership, > participation and official responsibilities (such as board oficer, etc). > It would also need to keep accounts, regular receipts from members, > non-members, services and payouts for expenses and also remissions to > an umbrella organization. The ability to generate regular reports for > the membership, plus year-end reports for tax purposes would be important. > The ability to cut checks and keep a record would be a significant plus. > > So, does anyone know of something good along this line in the open > source freeware world that would run on FreeBSD - whether currently > in the ports or not? > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > I cant promise its right for you but have you looked at gnucash? (finance/gnucash) (http://www.gnucash.org/) last time i looked it was about the best open source accounts package (that was a year or so ago though and i never really used it as my requirements can still be met with a spreadsheet ;) Vince > Thank you for any useful information you can provide. > > ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"