gnucash

What do you like best?

What was most helpful about Gnucash was that it forced me as a user to use a zero-based accounting method to track income and procurements for the school that I was part of at the time. This was a completely different system than I had used, but it seemed to help me keep things straight when it came to accounting.

Additionally, the very simple interface allowed me to navigate to the most necessary parts of the software very easily and very simply. There was not a whole lot of distractions in the interface that got in the way of me being able to perform the work that I needed to perform with the software. For folks who are new into accounting and tracking, it seemed that gnucash was the ideal piece of software that would help me be able to track items in a very particular and specific manner.

What do you dislike?

The software was not cloud based so I was tied to my office computer when I was using it, which turned out to be a blessing in that it kept me focused on using it instead of knowing that I could be distracted by getting off task.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Be sure you know whether you need a cloud based system or one that can work only on a desktop computer.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Gnucash was very simple software that I used in order to keep track of our school's funding sources and what we were purchasing with the funding.