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Gnucash is awesome even if not perfect. The problem to use it in France is that there is regulatory barriers preventing to use it officially. In theory account

Gnucash is awesome even if not perfect. The problem to use it in France is that there is regulatory barriers preventing to use it officially. In theory accounting solutions have to comply with rules that are complicated to follow with your own opensource solution!

nelgaard 3y ago
The same in Denmark from next year. What is missing in GnuCash is mainly some support for e-invoicing in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPOL Peppol] Is anyone working on something like that?
andrewflnr 3y ago
Is it just me or is that an honest-to-goodness commercial open source support business opportunity?
- greatgib 3y ago
  Maybe there is business for developing the missing features. I would pay for that. But there is also a requirement for certifying that the data of the software can't be altered, and you are not allowed to certify yourself. This is the bad catch 21 situation. Even if it was possible to ensure that data can't be modified on your computer, something like android protected storage, I guess most people would not like that because if you use open source it is to have control over your machine. So the only solution is the "cloud"/hosted solution by a provider, but again, if you use open source in the first place, probably it is because you don't want some external people to have control over your data.
  - andrewflnr 3y ago
    Oh, that's weird. I've never heard of anything like that in the US. In theory, a pretty simple scheme of publicly posted cryptographic hashes would prove to anyone you send the data to (presumably tax authorities? Auditors?) that you haven't altered data. Maybe periodically post a running hash of the list of transactions. Even if that works in theory, I'm guessing it's hell to get it actually certified.

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Gnucash is awesome even if not perfect. The problem to use it in France is that there is regulatory barriers preventing to use it officially. In theory account

by greatgib 3y ago

nelgaard 3y ago
The same in Denmark from next year. What is missing in GnuCash is mainly some support for e-invoicing in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPOL Peppol] Is anyone working on something like that?
andrewflnr 3y ago
Is it just me or is that an honest-to-goodness commercial open source support business opportunity?
- greatgib 3y ago
  Maybe there is business for developing the missing features. I would pay for that. But there is also a requirement for certifying that the data of the software can't be altered, and you are not allowed to certify yourself. This is the bad catch 21 situation. Even if it was possible to ensure that data can't be modified on your computer, something like android protected storage, I guess most people would not like that because if you use open source it is to have control over your machine. So the only solution is the "cloud"/hosted solution by a provider, but again, if you use open source in the first place, probably it is because you don't want some external people to have control over your data.
  - andrewflnr 3y ago
    Oh, that's weird. I've never heard of anything like that in the US. In theory, a pretty simple scheme of publicly posted cryptographic hashes would prove to anyone you send the data to (presumably tax authorities? Auditors?) that you haven't altered data. Maybe periodically post a running hash of the list of transactions. Even if that works in theory, I'm guessing it's hell to get it actually certified.