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SeattleVet

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7. We started using the (free and open-source) GnuCash.
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 06:42 PM
Jan 2018

It has a somewhat steep learning curve, but there is excellent documentation and help available, and if you just want some very basic elements it is actually quite easy and simple to set up and generate reports.

Since we are both now retired we have been putting all of our finances into this, and it has been a great help in seeing where our money is actually going, and getting our budgets all arranged.

You can use it from the desktop, or you can set it up to get stock and bank account information online, if you wish. It can import and export to all of the popular formats, so your existing data can be transferred.

Extremely flexible in the way you can customize it for your own situation. Like I said, initially has a bit of a learning curve, but the documentation steps you through pretty well. When I first started using it I used some of their pre-configured charts of accounts, then modified them for the way we were actually using them.

Available for Linux, Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10) and Mac OS-X on Intel of PowerPC platforms.

http://gnucash.org

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