[gadiyar]

Any users of GnuCash here? Folks recommending Excel may be missing the value double-entry accounting brings.

[somat]

As much as I dislike excel(mainly because of the weak data model), it can do double entry accounting just fine.

[mbork_pl]

Do you have any templates? Happy Ledger user here, but I'd be curious to learn how people do double-entry accounting in Excel.

[abdullahkhalids]

I do use it, and it's quite good.

The main problem is that I don't want to give a third party access to my bank accounts, so importing into gnucash is (1) download pdf statements from bank (2) use python scripts I wrote to convert to csv (3) use gnucash importer to import.

This is fairly painful stuff, more so because my bank statements are all generated on different days of the month. So I can't form a habit of doing this regularly enough to make the data useful.

[2pie]

Ouch, this is painful indeed. I thought all banks provided a way to download transactions in a machine-readable format.

[Andrex]

Just started using it last month. Used Mint until a year or two after Intuit bought it, then basically did no real budgeting until my recent GnuCash use.

A few YouTube vids made the interface less daunting and I read a few Reddit comments on how people use it themselves, and I'm applying what I can to my own setup.

If there's anything a new GnuCash user should read or learn, please let me know!

[2pie]

Their tutorial and concept guide is quite good, also to understand basic accounting concepts: https://gnucash-docs-rst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#

[bostik]

Yep, since about 2003.

For the past decade or so I record the transactions on the mobile version, and use desktop software to dissect the data in more effective ways.

[2pie]

Wow didn't know there was a mobile app. How do you sync?