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Somebody should step ahead and create a "cloud version" of it that would allow multiple users to collaborate from their desktop installed GnuCash. It's just an idea from an old user.


Gnucash can use a MySQL database. I wonder if your suggestion would be immediately possible by just putting the DB on a server.


That looks like it would be a bit clunky, and specifically says that its really only for 1 user: https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-files...

Concurrency and finance are difficult to mix, at least for some types of tasks.


With Prudent, you can combine multiple ledger journals from different users (maybe share the journal text files via Git) and obtain aggregated financial reports based on the combined ledgers.

https://prudent.me


I use Linux, so Prudent is not an option. And even considering its workflow, it would be impossible for my users to adopt it. I have a retail business in which I employ non-tech people.

But I appreciate your suggestion anyway. I think Prudent looks very elegant from a UI perspective -- 100x more elegant than GnuCash, for example. And it ended up stimulating me to think about a possible text/command-line based financial solution for SMEs. That would be great in many ways. For example, imagine something like IntelliSense working on top of a workflow.

>Create expense of $39.99 paid to Staples on 6/1/2019

>Show me expenses this month

Well, I believe design and implementation of such solution would be enormous given all the processes and situations that would have to be covered and forethought, but the end result would give so much agility to end users that I believe it would compensate the effort.


Prudent is macos only. Unfortunately, like a few others, I'm currently migrating away from Macs.




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