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I love this kind of thing so much. One thing I try to keep in mind when doing my own simple file formats is knowing what I would have to do to convert it to a m
by jjice 6mo ago
I love this kind of thing so much. One thing I try to keep in mind when doing my own simple file formats is knowing what I would have to do to convert it to a more common format, if I need to for any reason. Knowing I have an "escape plan" if I need to get them to a different format for someone makes me feel good about it.
In your case, I bet you could easily convert it to a CSV that your accountant could tolerate.
- epistasis 6mo agoThat escape plan was my entire motivation. When I first started using QuickBooks I did a data export and it seemed like maybe it had everything. After a year with a disastrous UI change, spammy ads everywhere throughout the UI and by email for a product a pay a ton of money, I started to investigate alternatives and realized that QuickBooks export missed most of the work I had been putting into my books (receipts, invoices, and reconciliation). And once I knew that I couldn't use it as a primary data store anymore. Now that I control my data, all forms of transformation are almost trivial, as you say!