From bkuhn at ebb.org Mon Jul 13 15:18:05 2009 From: bkuhn at ebb.org (Bradley M. Kuhn) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:18:05 -0400 Subject: [software] Hello. In-Reply-To: <4A57927A.5030903@agliodbs.com> (Josh Berkus's message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:11:54 -0700") References: <594533.61024.qm@web84305.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <995F2F4C-04B4-48BF-9316-7FAF7C20C297@gmail.com> <87ab3r172q.fsf@ebb.org> <878wj9ooov.fsf@ebb.org> <4A57927A.5030903@agliodbs.com> Message-ID: <87y6qs4no2.fsf@ebb.org> Josh Berkus wrote at 15:11 (EDT) on Friday: > Also, the current SPI treasurer has some ad-hoc methods which are > working OK for him. I am also using an ad-hoc methods for Conservancy as well that have worked out quite well. For accounting, I use: http://wiki.github.com/jwiegley/ledger and the donations come in the usual way through Google Checkout and PayPal with comment fields. I have a few scripts that import them into Ledger, and I hand-enter any check donations. This wouldn't work if a non-hacker tried to edit the text files and commit them to SVN -- which is how I keep history -- but this works quite well and it is actually much more flexible and usable (from a software versatility perspective) than LedgerSMB or SQL-Ledger. I don't really need the functionality offered by CiviCRM, simply because I don't need to track donors in detail and do appeals on behalf of the projects. Long term, hooking up CiviCRM to some sort of accounting system would be a useful project, given the interest CiviCRM has, but in the short term, hobbling along seems the right answer for everyone... -- -- bkuhn